PhantomBigStu Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) Might be tempting fate as might find the kit has been sold in an hour or so, but in need of a mojo boost, and what better than my bread and butter, a single engined airfix new tool. One I've done before unsuccessfully back at the end of 2016 as part of the Pearl Harbour 75th set, was told the Kate should have a blotchy finish and I made pigs ear of it and it became a Kamikaze. This time it will be the simple plain green/grey from the regular boxing. Will post pics of the Zero and P-40B I did finish later, this won't be a Pearl Harbour one as thats also got a blotchy paint job. Edited August 7, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PeterB Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said: Might be tempting fate as might find the kit has been sold in an hour or so, but in need of a mojo boost, and what better than my bread and butter, a single engined airfix new tool. One I've done before unsuccessfully back at the end of 2016 as part of the Pearl Harbour 75th set, was told the Kate should have a blotchy finish and I made pigs ear of it and it became a Kamikaze. This time it will be the simple plain green/grey from the regular boxing. Will post pics of the Zero and P-40B I did finish later, this won't be a Pearl Harbour one as thats also got a blotchy paint job. Hi Stu, Certainly there is a body of evidence suggesting that the Kates at Pearl Harbor had a patchy camo scheme of green applied over their base colour which often was grey, perhaps the browner Nakajima version known as Ameiro. However there is also some evidence of the the base colour on at least some being silver/NMF. I built my second Hasegawa kit as a well known machine which took part in the campaign in the Indian Ocean just after the attack on Pearl It is difficult to know if the green was deliberately patchy or if, as often happened with Japanese planes, it was a thin single coat rapidly applied without due preparation and promptly peeled off - maybe even a combination of the two. I have never built the Airfix kit or should I say kits so I will watch with interest. Cheers Pete Edited May 13, 2022 by PeterB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 welcome along Stu, and a nice looking model you have bought along to. are the dreaded Mojo slump, we all seem to get it, but the good thing is it just takes one nice model to recharge the Mojo! Good luck with the build, hope this build is the one that does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the info @PeterB. In the end up I’ve just taken the digital patches for D1 and D2 green from Ak interactive website and compared to the greens to watch I’ve got and think I’ve got matches for both. Should be me done for questions now edit: maybe not just a confirmation on the Grey, is it the darker J3 SP or the paler regular J3? Got matches for both just only got the former in stock. Edited May 14, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted June 22, 2022 Author Share Posted June 22, 2022 Finally made a start, not sure I’m happy with the green I chose now it’s on the plane 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) Hi Stu, Just noticed your question about the grey - as I used NMF I cannot be sure, but the normally it was quite a light grey - I sometime use Tamiya IJN grey and sometimes Gunze for a change, and compared with the JAAF grey it maybe has a very slight bluish tint rather than green, but of course Nakajima used a brown/amber shade of grey on their Zeros and maybe on Kates as well. Having said that I have Just looked at an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling Vol 21 number 12 and they say that whilst Zero's and Vals definitely were grey all over (though some Vals may have had local variations on upper surface camo I think), it is hard to establish if the Kates were grey at all. Certainly many had green uppers, and in the cases of those on Hiryu and Soryu they may then have had patches of brown added, but their consensus seems to be that they retained NMF underneath. Meanwhile Scale Aircraft Modelling International Volume 5 Number 6 is adamant that the Kates were in a version of Ameiro that was almost a mustard colour, with green on the upper surfaces - so two totally different versions, the first from 1999 and the second from 2000 and both articles are specifically about Pearl Harbor! As to the green, then it is hard to tell in your photo but it looks a bit on the grey side to me. Go with what you feel happy with. Cheers Pete Edited June 23, 2022 by PeterB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) Cheers Peter, if I had actually bothered to look at the instructions I would have had it answered, is indeed J3 SP which I’ve got what I think is a decent version on this Dinah. Now to find a better green Edited June 23, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 I take it Airfix are still saying Hu116 US Dark Green over Hu168 Hemp? That would be pretty close to the SAMI take on it. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, PeterB said: I take it Airfix are still saying Hu116 US Dark Green over Hu168 Hemp? That would be pretty close to the SAMI take on it. Pete 116For the PH one, 195 for the late war one I’ve chosen over 168 for both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share Posted June 24, 2022 Well dug out my darkest and greeniest green, XA RLM70, still a bit greyish but google brought me to Stew Dapples excellent Emily build, painted with Colourscoats D1 which looks close to both. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235034393-172-hasegawa-kawanishi-h8k1-emily/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted July 15, 2022 Author Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) About time I actually do something to this, done some sanding this afternoon. Edit: bit more sanding and some paint on, gone with the Vallejo I originally chose Edited July 15, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 Back to it today, here’s how it looks currently, now to paint the green overhang and touch up the amber 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share Posted July 26, 2022 Bit more progress 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted July 27, 2022 Author Share Posted July 27, 2022 Main thing is almost decal ready, just to paint the pilots and pop the canopy on 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted August 1, 2022 Author Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) A little gang of pilots painted, now for the canopies Edited August 1, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 Canopies went on fine yesterday…for the two that don’t have a rapidly approaching deadline, load of hassle and the framings not actually done but least what went wrong has been corrected and I shall do the framing later once the decals and matt varnish are sorted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted August 4, 2022 Author Share Posted August 4, 2022 Decals on, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Wow great progress Stu, she looks great with the decals on, nice job. It should be a nice cruise to the finish line from here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted August 6, 2022 Author Share Posted August 6, 2022 Not much to do now, though tail wheels gone missing, think I just put that in my spares draw so should be an easy find 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted August 7, 2022 Author Share Posted August 7, 2022 And it’s done. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Well done Stu on completing her, just been looking at the rest of the photos in the gallery and she looks awesome, you must be proud of this build. You are part of the furniture in the GB's and it's alway a real pleasure to have you along for the fun, again well done. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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