drdjp11 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I have this one ready to go. I have it because I love the history of the very early jets, and this one has a bit of a bizarre history that can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Kikka 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Welcome along with a great choice!!! I was just looking at this model online last night, as I have the old full resin one from Raccoon Models. It is an interesting aircraft and I am glad we have one in the GB..... in a moment of madness (a common thing for me) I was thinking of building mine later too, but I may have something else in mind now. Good luck with the build, I'm very interested to see how this model builds up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 32 minutes ago, trickyrich said: Welcome along with a great choice!!! I was just looking at this model online last night, as I have the old full resin one from Raccoon Models. It is an interesting aircraft and I am glad we have one in the GB..... in a moment of madness (a common thing for me) I was thinking of building mine later too, but I may have something else in mind now. Good luck with the build, I'm very interested to see how this model builds up. I'll do a sprue by sprue photo shoot so you can see what it's like before the starting gun. I've heard great things about FineMolds. so really looking forward to this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 OK, here are some pix of the box contents. The wing pieces: Nice detail. The plastic looks very soft. And the fuselage (don't worry the other piece of the horizontal tail is loose in the box). There's more flash on these parts than I'm used to seeing, which is a bit of a surprise. And the rest of the major pieces: And finally, the transparency, the decals and the nice hefty bolt for a nose weight (provided in box). 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 thanks, that is a nice looking model, FineMolds do turn out some nice models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 3, 2022 Author Share Posted July 3, 2022 Matchbox GB over, other stuff to do, let's see if I can get this one done in a month. Nice cockpit detail, and a giant nut and bolt provided for nose ballast. Very nice. And a close up of the cockpit side wall interior detail... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 6, 2022 Author Share Posted July 6, 2022 A little progress. Nose gear bay in place with nose weight firmly glued on. Cockpit put together and IJN cockpit green applied. The good thing about this kit is there isn't much need for weathering, given it only made two flights, the second of which ended in ignominy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 That's good progress mate, she's looking good Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 7, 2022 Author Share Posted July 7, 2022 Lots of bits ready for assembly. Interior painting done, as much as makes sense. Nacelles almost ready to go together, wings together, RATO units assembled (minus exhausts so far). Should go together pretty quickly, then we'll see about seams etc. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 good to see this one continuing, am looking forward to seeing her finished, as there is no way my resin one will make it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 More progress on this. Major assembly done. The fit was OK, but not great, and the locating pins for the fuselage halves were surprisingly useless. The fuselage joins around the cockpit are a little ragged. it doesn't look like much from this angle, but lots to fill on the wing/body join. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 you don't realize how much smaller it was when compared to the Me-262 until you see it with the engines fitted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 So, as I was just starting to get ready to drive this to the finish line, I discovered that I was missing one of the horizontal tailplanes. It came off the sprue early on and I was sure it was in the box, but nope. It will be lurking somewhere, but I decided the only way forward was to make a new one. Here's where plastic card comes in handy. It might be a little tricky getting the detail on there, but at least the airplane will be able to fly straight (not that the Kikka did much of that - one 20 minute flight, followed by a rocket assisted takeoff that ended with a nose gear collapse.) Still a little trimming and shaping to do, but looking pretty decent. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 It's a shame about the missing tail, your's is not the first build here in which the carpet monster made off with bits!! Hopefully this didn't slow down the build too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedburt Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Nice job !! especially on the new horizontal tail.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedburt Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) Just wanted to mention in case anyone is interested. Back in 2003 Fine Molds made a Kikka kit with metal engine parts. I don't have a link to the picture with me, but you can look it up. The Catalog number for that version is FB10SP. If anyone finds it, and wants to sell it, let me know please.. I'm interested in it. Ok I found the picture. Edited November 15, 2023 by nedburt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedburt Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) Ok here is the finished model with the engine http://hsfeatures.com/images/kikkafs_5.jpg and http://hsfeatures.com/images/kikkafs_1.jpg Edited November 15, 2023 by nedburt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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