The G' variant was a strengthened and modified version of the basic airframe, tailored to suit life in the harsher European environment, with improved avionics and restressed structures. The two-seat 'G' wasn't just a trainer though, it kept four of the five stores pylons and exactly the same radar systems making it fully combat ready (although it did lose the Vulcan gun in the conversion). With 137 being produced for the Federal German Republic Luftwaffe they became the biggest single user of this particular type, with production running from 1961 right up until 1966, although many other European nations also used the trainer types. Hasegawa have had Starfighters in Their box for a long time, in all sorts of scales, but it's taken them an age (six years to be precise!) to bring out the two-seat version in 1:48. and very welcome it is too. Many people prefer the lines of the trainer (my mate Dai for one) but to me it always looks a little bent' and out of shape, but not to worry, let's see what looking at it in three dimensions will do to change my mind.
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