I thought I would share my latest adventure in chipping.  I recently completed this Hasegawa Ki-84 "Frank" which I did in the markings of a 85th Sentai machine. It was flown by 8 kill ace Misao Okubo in the summer of 1945.

The Hasegawa Ki-84 is fantastic, perhaps their most underrated kit.  It's well detailed and goes together beautifully.  The only gripe I have is the grommet system for attachment of the landing gears. You essentially shove them into those little black plasic things (like props) and hope they stand correctly.  I see what they were trying to do to ease construction, but it's not very stable. It's the same deal for the drop tanks too, which did work a bit better.  I ended up gluing them all in place. 

I added an Ultracast seat, PE belts, wired the engine and gear legs.  Paint was my own concoctions of Tamiya paints, basically a little of this and that. It's basically XF-58 Olive Green with a touch of XF-49 Khaki to brown it up a bit.  The lower is XF-14 IJA grey.  All markings were painted on using Maketar masks.  Chipping was done with primarily the liquid frisket technique. I'm beginning to get the hang of it control-wise.  I weathered it heavily with Ammo Mig washes. 

I'm now working on Eduard's new Spitfire MK. IIa as a change of pace. I'll post pics of that soon.  

A few in-progress pics.