By Garry Tobiss
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Garry Tobiss tackles Hasegawa’s superb new-tool 1/72 Kawanishi H8K2, with extra help from Eduard aftermarket offerings
ADVANCED BUILD KAWANISHI H8K2 EMILY
In columns from left to right – Eduard’s resin engine components, Hasegawa’s styrene equivalents, followed by the exhausts, and cowling and nacelle.
Eduard’s Brassin engine set (672158) also supplied a small PE fret with push rods and ignition coils, as shown here.
Developed to a 1938 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service requirement, and entering service in 1941, Kawanishi’s H8K (Allied codename ’Emily’) was the fastest flying boat to enter service in significant numbers during World War Two.
