1/72 Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate', ICM

[atvd1020]

This is the ICM 1/72 Nakajima Ki-27b 'Nate' built for the Less Than a Tenner Group Build, painted to represent the aircraft of Lieutentant Hyoe Yonage, 24th Sentai 2 Chutai, stationed at either the Philippines or China in December 1941:

The kit was built out of the box but the decals used were from a Print Scale sheet on the Ki-27. This particular camouflage scheme was available as part of the kit decals, but they were not very good. The kit was painted with Humbrol and Revell enamels, and Lifecolor Acrylics.

The three-colour scheme for the Nate, especially the indigo caught my eye and chose the colours based on this blog post by Nick Millman:

http://www.aviationo...sen-part-7.html

Consensus holds this kit to be the most accurate Nate in outline, with fine-too fine for a brush-painter like me-surface detail and some unusual engineering choices for assembly. These can be best characterized as 'interesting' and must have worked like a dream for the first release of the kit.

Here it is compared to a 1/144 model of the same subject from FE Resin I built last year:

For the record, the kit cost me 6 pounds 50 from Hannants. More information on the build (and what I thought of some of the engineering choices) can be found on the progress thread here:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234955850-icm-172-ki-27-finished/

Thanks for looking! Comments are welcome.

[MikeR]

Very nice indeed!

Mike.

[Learstang]

Nice build! I do like that paint scheme, a lot. I have the very same kit, but I plan to do mine as a Khalkin-Gol/Nomonhan* Ki-27 with a very boring grey scheme.

Regards,

Jason

*A small border war between the Soviets/Mongolians and the Japanese that ended with a crushing Soviet victory that may well have kept Japan out of a war with the Soviets during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). History lesson over.

[atvd1020]

Thanks for your comments, guys!

@Learstang: I wouldn't say the overall grey-green scheme is that boring; I had a good time mixing greys and Sky to get a good match.

[HOUSTON]

MY that is AWESOME..