"Tony?" ..."Hien!" - Kawasaki Ki-61 Id

[The Spadgent]

Brilliant finish G. As for the glue error, you really can’t tell in the pictures, she looks stunning. I picked the box up in the LMS yesterday. £39 😮 so I put it back again. 🤣 

I’ll be content with my stash for now. 

As for the jet I was going for the Fiat. Alas.

I’ll look forward to it regardless my friend.

 

All the best.

Johnny. 

 

[giemme]

Worth every penny of it, Johnny.

 

18 minutes ago, The Spadgent said:

 As for the jet I was going for the Fiat. 

You should be able to guess it right, more than others....

Here's another clue: this aircraft is also flown by other countries...

 

 Ciao

[Gene K]

1 hour ago, giemme said:

Here's another clue: this aircraft is also flown by other countries...

 

Eurofighter Typhoon, obviously.

 

Gene K

[Sturmovik]

5 hours ago, giemme said:

Then, as I anticipated much earlier in this thread, I put together the engine assembly, with the intention of using it for a future C205 build - it basically is a DB605 engine, after all

I thought the Ki 61 was powered by a DB 601 though.

[billn53]

Excellent Tony -- oops, I mean, Hien!

 

I'm finding the comparison between Tamiya's 1/48 kit with their smaller (1/72) version to be very interesting.

 

(I recently completed the 1/72 version, RFI is here: 

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235053440-mojo-restorer-build-tamiya-172-ki-61-tony-oob/ )

 

-Bill

 

[keefr22]

8 hours ago, giemme said:

I said I'm going Italian, K ...  

 

Where? Must have missed that. Or subconsciously ignored it....!!

 

Typhoon it is then.

 

K

[giemme]

8 hours ago, Gene K said:

Eurofighter Typhoon, obviously.

 

Gene K

There, we have a winner!

 

6 hours ago, Sturmovik said:

I thought the Ki 61 was powered by a DB 601 though.

Correct, my mistake. It was a Japanese "improved" version of the DB601. My plan of using it for a C205 is not to show the whole engine, but to at least use the back part, since it's very visible from the main wheel well and almost identical to the DB605

4 hours ago, billn53 said:

Excellent Tony -- oops, I mean, Hien!

 

I'm finding the comparison between Tamiya's 1/48 kit with their smaller (1/72) version to be very interesting.

 

(I recently completed the 1/72 version, RFI is here: 

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235053440-mojo-restorer-build-tamiya-172-ki-61-tony-oob/ )

 

-Bill

 

Thanks Bill!  The smaller version is incredibly well detailed, and you did a great job with it 👏

3 hours ago, keefr22 said:

 

Where? Must have missed that. Or subconsciously ignored it....!!

 

Typhoon it is then.

 

K

Exactly!

 

Ciao

[basket]

Another beautiful model !

Congrats .

[Giangio]

Just read the complete wip, well done Giorgio. As a big fan of Japanese stuff i'll have to buy this Tony sooner or later  🤔

Saluti da Torino 👋🇮🇹

[giemme]

2 hours ago, basket said:

Another beautiful model !

Congrats .

Thanks basket!

1 hour ago, Giangio said:

Just read the complete wip, well done Giorgio. As a big fan of Japanese stuff i'll have to buy this Tony sooner or later  🤔

Saluti da Torino 👋🇮🇹

Grazie Giangio!  Buy this kit, totally worth it!

 

Ciao

[giemme]

Hi everybody; I started the Typhoon WIP here:

 

All welcome to come over

 

Ciao

[Cookenbacher]

Fantastic Giorgio - can't wait for the RFI!

[giemme]

3 hours ago, Cookenbacher said:

Fantastic Giorgio - can't wait for the RFI!

Thanks Cookie - RFI should be on tomorrow 😉

 

Ciao

[giemme]

Alright guys, RFI posted here:

 

 

Ciao