To be fair, sometimes it seems that we take ourselves far too seriously in this hobby. how many times have we heard arguments about the exact shade of RLM 83 and how many rivets are holding that widget onto the flange sprocket? Well, with these little babies it doesn't matter how many rivets, because we're not even sure they have widgets, let alone flange sprockets. Hasegawa of course have something of a history when it comes to the lighter side of this hobby, anyone remember the Egg planes' of years gone by? Marvellous stuff and the T4 Blue Impulse Junior set falls squarely in that fun' box. That's not to say that they are fictitious, far from it, these are fufly-fledged members of the Blue Impulse display team and used by the Japanese Air Self Defence Force for marketing and recruitment drives. The Juniors' are 50cc Honda Dio scooters, wrapped in plywood caricatures of the Blue Impulse Kawasaki T4's. Piloted' around air-shows and the maintenance bases, they delight of the crowds wherever they appear. Originally created by the servicing teams at the Matsushima air base they now follow the acrobatic team all over the world.
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