Yep, it was very nice for the time. It's still around, at a very reasonable price, although I've only seen it in JASDF version. The Kinetic (or Italeri, same kit) Sabre is a beauty, of course having the advantage of 'today's technology', so a little unfair to compare it to the near forty year old Hasegawa kit, and is reasonably priced, by current standards, for a 1/32nd scale kit, at around the £30 mark, or less.
I'm very tempted to get the Italeri box which is on the shelves in my local Model Shop........