Tamiya 1/48 Mitsubishi Ki-46-III 'Dinah' 16th Dokuritsu Hikotai

[Stew Dapple]

Here's my third completion of the year, Tamiya's 1/48 Mitsubishi Ki-46-III 'Dinah' in the markings of the IJAAF 16th Dokuritsu Hikotai (Techmod decals).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a nice enough kit and goes together pretty well as you would expect of a Tamiya kit. It's a bit clunky in places, shows its age a bit but it's still (as far as I know) the only kit of the type in this scale. I used the two nicely moulded but inanimate crew figures, replaced the pitot with Albion Alloys brass tube and fabricated the R/T cable with Infini lycra thread. I used the ASK inside-and-outside paint mask set for the canopies and I was happy with how that worked out.

 

The colour scheme is wrong; I used a mix of the brown variant (Colourcoats ACJ22) of IJAAF #7 Ohryoku nana go shoku and white for the underside, but had to change my choice of aircraft when the kit transfers turned out to be shot and the Techmod replacement set specified the green variant of #7 for the uppersurface of the aircraft I chose. I don't know how accurate the Techmod instructions are but I do know that I couldn't be bothered to repaint the underside so I have inaccurate undersides and possibly topsides too. Anyway the topsides were done in Colourcoats ACJ09 - IJA #7 variant. Don't judge me  

 

Cheers, 

 

Stew

[ColinChipmunkfan]

Despite your worries it still looks an impressive model.

Colin