JOCKNEY Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 To replace my non-compliant Willow, I will start on this one instead The box actually contains 2 identical kits one which can be built as either military or civil versions. Because my instructions are all in Japanese I will need to research where and when this aircraft saw service and the appropriate colours for it. As hasegawa also released this kit I am hopeful that their instructions may provide the answer ! Parts above showing it to be unstarted, the other kit is moulded in a silver plastic which would better lend itself to the civil version. Annoyingly I have just noticed the other kit has the clear parts missing, which is very disappointing as I was hoping to pass it on to another person to build. I don't think you can get canopies for this aircraft but would love to be proved wrong. This is the version I'm planning to build, any idea which Humbrol colours are applicable ? Below is the posh looking civil versions and some other presumably prewar versions, going on the grey painted finish. Finally the instructions, good job there are pictures ! cheers Pat 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 and here he is....finally! Welcome along Pat with an interesting subject....though I know you're still a bit sad over the Willow not being allowed. But it good to see you've made up for that with something quite interesting and looks to be quite a nice model as well. As far as schemes go, I trawled though all the available models on Scalemates and that wasn't really any help at all! All the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service schemes (which would be the more appropriate) are Grey and they don't provide location details. The nice coloured scheme and the green ones were either used in China or by the Imperial Navy. I did find out that they were used in Burma but from what I can gather those were Grey as well. There's a great book on the subject call "Japanese Army Air Force - Camouflage & Markings WWII" by Donald W Thorpe. It may be a bit hard to get but it goes into great detail all the different colour schemes and markings used. Your aircraft was in either Scheme O1 or O2 (C4 was used in China only, it was the camo scheme you have). O1 is Light Grey (A9) allover and O2 is Light Grey Grey (A5) allover. That's about al Il have, the actual tail markings I'm not to sure on, maybe someone knows. Good luck with her. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 I've had a chance to think about my Babs ( steady ! ) and as I really want to do the Manchuria markings. So the choice is do this one in "Groovy Grey" or change the aircraft, so it's onto build number 3 ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 ........attempt #3! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 Third time lucky ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 or unlucky!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 H[ Pat Now one can go civil Martin H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hi Jockney, I'm just getting caught up on some GBs – excellent choice here, but I gather you didn't get to do a Willow! Regards, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 6 hours ago, Dazey said: Hi Jockney, I'm just getting caught up on some GBs – excellent choice here, but I gather you didn't get to do a Willow! Regards, David Hi David Yes not only was the Willow a no go, so was this one as I couldn't do the colour choice I wanted.... Muppetry on my part ! cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 1 hour ago, JOCKNEY said: Hi David Yes not only was the Willow a no go, so was this one as I couldn't do the colour choice I wanted.... Muppetry on my part ! cheers Pat Hello Pat, I hadn't read the entire post when replying, although I gathered as much when I saw your Vengeance entry. I look forward to seeing that one built! Regards, David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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