Good detailed model kit of the Japanese naval interceptor!

Until mid-1942 the Japanese Navy and Army Air Force, the Japanese familiar only to very light, agile, extremely maneuverable fighters with then high gradeability and long range. The conditional wings with large span and high buoyancy factor, and relatively frugal engines up to 1130 hp. However, this often came at the expense of speed. By no later than the end of 1942 it became clear that something else was needed because the existing pattern through retrofitting with armor plates and improved, fireproof fuel tanks, thicker aluminum outer skin sheets, more powerful engines, including their higher fuel consumption and more difficult and become less competitive were. The attack height of the Allied heavy bombers they barely reached, and especially not soon enough!
The Army Air Force began then the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien "Tony" one, the Imperial Navy was the float plane Kawanishi K1N1 Kyofu converted into a heavily armed, land-based fighter, with great maneuverability and excellent climbing ability, which improves later definitively N1K2 Shiden "George" again has been!
But the planned final machine which had provided the leadership of the Naval Air for this task, since 1940 in planning, the first test samples were only tested from December 1942.
The Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was the stark opposite of all fighters, who had built the Japanese advance. With a relatively short span with laminar wing and high wing loading their agility and maneuverability were below average, but its geared doubly charged Mitsubishi Kasai 14-cylinder radial engine with 1850 horsepower provided by a compressor in conjunction with good aerodynamics and interior Schaufelräder- forced cooling for a enormous top speed of almost 660 km / h and a spectacular climb performance of nearly 23.5 m / sec., one of the highest in WW II at all, right up to 11430 feet! This pattern was not created for the classic dogfight, but simply for the rapid capture of high-flying bomber formations.
With 4 x fire powerful 20mm cannon was the machine against the 4-engined American bombers B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress very successful, but the overburdened Japanese industry managed to August 1945 did not produce more than nearly 500 machines, including test samples and more conversions.
Therefore, the success RECOURSE limited!
The kit is designed in the usual good quality Hasegawa-, although not quite as much detail as I had hoped. The injection-molded parts are absolutely free of burrs and precisely, the clear parts beautifully displayed transparently without streaks, the engine than 7-fold horizontal discs kit. Who wants relocated another 14 plug wire. As I said, Hasegawa standard flat!
In addition there is 2 pilot figures in 3 different poses as a gimmick and good decals. The only negative I would have wished that open maintenance flaps on engine and weapons bays in the wings, but so be it.
Since the model represents only a Hasegawa- J2M3 variant, with 2 long and 2 short Type 99-2 Type 99-1 20-mm cannon, I have of Quickboost a barrel set in Resin concerned with a J2M3- A four ballistically uniform long, graduated Type can be represented 99-2 cannons!