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Hi All, I must have bought this kit about 35 years ago, no idea why. Something about it just appealed. However every time I pulled it out of the stash I would just look at it and put it back; not this time! The painting and decaling instructions are two pages of badly translated text with no pictures so I think it represents a machine from the 83rd Sentai based in Borneo in 1945 but with a little artistic licence thrown in regarding the colour of the spinner, tail markings and fuselage band. Any IJA experts feel free to correct me but understand I was working with Google and the kit instructions, so I know it's not perfect. The kit was another matter. Despite it's age it went together like a modern kit with only a little filler required. Interior detail was pretty good too. I only had to add seat belts, scratch built instrument panel and a pilot's seat. The wings were another area where it's age showed, fit was almost perfect but the landing and navigation lights were moulded solid so I had to replace those and the wing guns were replaced with aluminium tubing. The tail control surfaces were also separated and repositioned along with the tail wheel to add a little life. The decals were an absolute pig and I may have gone a little overboard with the chipping (my Wife's opinion) but I think it's not too bad. Anyway, I hope you like it and feel free to offer tips and advice for the next one. One more thing, can anyone recommend a model club in the Falkirk area? With COVID restrictions relaxing it would be nice to meet other modellers in person. Cheers. Who knew it was common for IJA pilots to only have lap belts?
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This started as serious build, but when I put the plastic up against scale plans, absolutely nothing lined up and I wasn’t sure what Mark it was. Usually I’m not a rivet counter, but it was the rivets that threw me off. Bazillions of over-scale rivets(Notice the starboard roundel). Back in the box she went for a few years until I happened upon a photo-shop site that was having a contest “What if zebras were in charge of painting” Along side the zebra striped White House, Pyramids and such was a zebra striped spitfire. Once built and painted, my youngest daughter fell in love with it and wanted it. A new snag hit when the clear parts wouldn’t fit and so it sat for about 4-5 years. In the spares box I found a canopy that would kinda, sorta fit, another model gave me the windscreen(wrong type) and I sawed apart the Nichimo clear parts for the rear piece. May I present a fictitious South African squadron hack, coded ZB⦾A. In hindsight, darker decals should have been used My muse
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#12/2020 After a bunch of German stuff this year it´s time to move to another Axis Power. Nichimo kit, first released in 1975, detail is nice and fit is good, only the canopy didn´t fit so well. Thinned down the thick pilot seat, drilled some holes in it and added Eduard seatbelts. Painted with an old selfmixed blue and Tamiya XF-14 JA Grey. EZ Line use for the antenna wires. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235068804-banzai148-mitsubishi-ki-51-type-99-sonia-imperial-japanese-army/ Model shows an aircraft of the 49th Independant Flying Group. DSC_0001 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0004 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0012 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0013 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0014 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0015 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0016 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0017 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr -
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Been looking at this thing for a while and then a decision has been made. It was originally designed to be battery operated with a wired controller powering 2 electric motors driving each track separately (no longer required to work). The model itself was essentially complete except for most of the hull details and most of the parts had been given a nice coat of green paint (origin and type lost to the mists of time) Dust mostly cleaned off and box with sprues dug out of the stash. In between working on the Tamiya M3 Stuart I have been adding many of the small details that can remain on when paint applied. The plastic seems to have gained a hard surface coating (not the paint) which needs to be scraped with a scalpel before glue and detail is applied. Tamiya Extra Thin soon knocks some sense into it. Progress and current box shots... I'm thinking of going for the 3 colour NATO scheme The (now redundant) motors and gears. Turret stuff, had to disassemble (break apart) the turret to adjust the gun mount as it was sitting too far forward leaving a HUUUGE gap behind the mantlet. Grab handles aren't too bad for injection moulded although they did need some cleanup I'm guessing this is the IR lamp or is it the laser range finder? (my ignorance is shocking ) Nice weathering I hear you say? Naaah! that's shelf dust, many years of it, and a pathetic attempt to clean it off Close up of some details added. I'll leave the lights, mirrors, tools and cables off until the camo is painted Thanks for looking Cheers Phil- 27 replies
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The Mitsubishi A5M Claude is best known as the predecessor of the A6M Zero, but it was a very capable plane in its own right. I've always liked its looks, especially the curves of the rear fuselage are a thing of beauty. I picked up the Nichimo kit for a few quid while on holiday in Japan a few years back. I had never seen it before, and it was being rereleased at that time. It's an old kit, but it has some modern features. The flaps are separately molded, and the kit has recessed panel lines. Fit is ok, I needed some filler in the usual areas at the wing roots and rear wing to fuselage joint. Quite a few of the parts had extensive mold lines and flash, this was particularly an issue on the propeller, which was left a bit thin after all the carving I had to do on it. The main challenge on the kit was the windshield; it had a lot of flash, and after cleaning it I realized some of the flash wasn't in fact flash - this left a huge gap between windscreen and forward fuselage, which required filling. I used white primer, followed by red on the tail and locations of the hinomarus, subsequently masking those off, resulting in nicely sprayed markings in those areas. However, I forgot to do the hinomarus on the fuselage, and used the decals for those, which luckily had a similar shade of red. The rest of the kit was sprayed with Games Workshop Runefang Steel, which is my favorite NMF paint now; it hardens very quickly and doesn't pick up finger prints. I gave it wash with some dark grey water colors. All in all a relatively easy build, and one that looks pretty good next to much more modern kits.
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