My local club has a group build going on for next month's meeting, and although it's a late start (only 3 weeks away), I thought I would contribute something. The theme is WW2 in the Pacific. Originally, I had planned to build a P-38 Lightning, but given the short time available I reconsidered and selected this kit from my stash instead:
Japanese aircraft are not my forte -- to be truthful, I've only built one before in my history of modeling (Tamiya's beautiful 1/72 KI61 "Tony"), which I posted here a couple years ago:
Let's take a look at the ClearProp kit.
138 parts (including the photoetch) on five sprues:
Surface detailing is excellent:
Lots of little fiddly parts to contend with... For example, these are the instructions for the cockpit:
Decals are provided for four aircraft. I plan to use the markings for the box art version:
There is also a small set of masks for the canopy.
More to come!