ROSTER:

Alex Shaw: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 - Finished photos page 37.

Astral: Tamiya Zero

AZKevin: 1/48 Nichimo B5N 'Judy'

                 1/32 Hasegawa Ki-84 'Frank'

Bsyamato: 1/72 D4Y3 Suisei 'Judy' - Finished photos page 5.

1/72 Heller Bf-108 - Finished photos page 27.

1/72 Fujimi Raiden: Finished photos page 47.

1/72 Fujimi B6N2 Tenzan

Canbycoop: 1/48 Nichimo Sonja

                       1/48 Tamiya Betty

Duiker2106: 1/350 Tamiya Yamato

                                   Egg Yamato: Finished photos page 17.

Eatthis: 1/350 Yamato or Musashi

Fjs3: 1/48  Hasegawa 'George': Finished photos page 31.

           1/48  Nichimo 'Sonja'

Gamera: 1/35 Company Unknown 81mm mortar and crew

                 ?/?? Hasegawa Zero Egg Plane

Jibber: 1/35 Tamiya Type 97 Chi-Ha : Finished photos page 47.

JMart: Rufe 

Lawdog114: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 Hayate 'Frank' - Finished photos page 14.

MSgtMJ62: 1/48 Tamiya Hyakushiki Shitei III Kai 'Dinah'

                     1/48 Tamiya N1K1 Kyofu Type II

Nathan T: 1/48  Hasegawa Ki-100 with an Aires cockpit -finished photos page 50.

Rigidrider: Tamiya Ki-84 Hayate 'Frank' - finished photos page 13.

SchattenSpartan:  Tamiya 1/32 A6M Zero

Stikpusher: Tamiya 1/35 Type 97 Chi-Ha: Finished photos page 45.

Son of Medicine Man: Revell 1/48 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero

Stickpusher: 1/35 Tamiya Chi-Ha

Stoutfella: 1/48 Tamiya Ki-84 'Frank' 

Surfsup: 1/350 IJN Yamato with full Lion's Roar PE set: Finished photos page 47.

Taxtp: Tamiya 1/72 Nanzan - Finished photos page 25.

Theuns: 1/48th Otaki N1K1 Shiden 'George'- Finished photos page 20.

Troublemaker66: TBA

Waynec: 1/35 Trumpeter JGSDF TYPE 96B - Finished photos page 28.

Winetanker: 1/48 Tamiya Raiden- Finished photos page 6.

                   1/35  Finemolds Type 97 Chi-Ha: Finished photos page 18.

Zvezda1980: Dinah- Finished photos page 40.

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Hi Cliff,

Excellent ! You've already got my entry. I like #5 Rising Sun in the fun badges, and #6 Tony (of course) in the serious badges.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks Tony and lol - the Ki-61 for you is a natural

Got you down and ready!

Glad you're doing round II Gamera. I missed the first one due to too many commitments. I should be able to knock one out here though. Put me down for a  1 48 Ki-100 Hasegawa with an Aires pit.

Nathan: Great - got you down, looking forward to seeing how she comes out, love those Aires cockpits but generally I'm too cheap to spring for them.

Well lucky for me the kit was on ebay for around 18 bucks and included the Aires pit! I think the ki-100 and ki-61s are one of the coolest Japanese a/c so I sprung for it.

Wow, congrads! Usually the Aires cockpit sells for more than 18 bucks just by itself.

Im In!!!

I will get busy with a 1:48 scale Hasegawa "George" for starters.  

I also have a Nichimo 1:48 scale Sonja that I had been working on so I will restart that baby too.  

This is gonna be great!!

Freddie from LI

Thanks Freddie- got you down now.

Have not done a Group Build here before so as there are no Shippys listed, I will be doing Tamiya's 1-350 Yamato with the full Lion Roar set.....Cheers mark

Mark: Fantastic! I've drooled over the new Yamato ever since I saw her released. I don't have the PE skills to really do her justice though. Looking forward to seeing how you assemble her with all that Lion Roar goodness!  

I dont know if you have seen these images before, but they are by a Japanese wartime artist, Shori Arai

Count me in. And if this GB is open to armor put me down for a 1/35 Tamiya Chi Ha

Thanks Gamera. I only have the old Yamato Kit not the new one but will have fun building her with the bells and Whistles.....Cheers mark

SP: Sure! I did have aircraft in the rules left over from the last GB but I'm open to anything as long as it's Japanese so I went back and changed aircraft to subjects. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the old kit. And those are some great paintings there, really give you the impression of what it must have been like to be there. If everyone would rather use one of them as a badge it's fine, I just grabbed some photos off the internet just as examples. We'll just have to settle down with two or so before someone finishes the first model, which if Trey joins us as fast as he builds will be about a week or two from the kick-off date.  

Mark: Ah, my mistake still the older kit with all those Lion Roar bells and whistles is going to be a killer model!

Cliff 

Cool! I really want to do that Chi Ha to take a different tack on my latest armor builds. I built that kit once before nearly 40 years ago, the Ho Ni SP gun almost 25 years ago, and then the Shin-hoto Chi Ha about 15 years ago or so. The basic kit is certainly one of Tamiya's better kits from that time

Those paintings are just fascinating to me and the detail and obvious Japanese style really capture the moments. I have always been most fond of the bottom one where the crew is waving farewell to the departing Val.

Really cool SP, nice work on the complex camo and the rusted tread links.  Looking forward to 'The Return of the Chi-Ha!'

Thanks! Would you believe that was all handbrushed? On the next one I have a Gunze paint set for IJA tanks and will be trying out silly putty for masking in my first use of that stuff.

I'm in...but I'm not sure which kit I'll build yet...

Sure, you' ve still got a month till things kick off!

Stik, I used blue tac for the first time in my recently completed George. I'm sure we all know that it's different stuff, but the concept is the same. My advice would be to use thin rolls of it, I though mine were too thick which left the demarcation a little too soft. My rolls were about pencil thickness.

I'm sure you'll make it work really well.

cheers

Tony

I've used both the Blue Tack and Silly-Putty. Both of them seem to work really well. The SP of course stretches and sticks slightly better and the BT is easier to get off. Otherwise they both seem to be pretty similar.

I also picked up the Gunze set for Japanese AFVs, it's a lacquer based paint, and I found it annoying since if you don't get the paint/thinner ratio perfect it tends to create long strings of paint shooting out of the airbrush almost like Silly String. Weird...  

OK this is going to be my entry into the GB.....Cheers mark

Hey CXliff... Thanks for doing another GB! These are good subjects and as far as badges... I like Zero in clouds #1 and Geisha with flowers #15. Also, Stick has some good looking prints! We had a guy in our rifle company in Viet-Nam who would sit a draw every chance he got... Quite the artist.

Count me in for the sequel please. The first one was a great experience for me so I would love to join in again for 2013. I'm not quite sure when I would start though but I'll be in it at some stage. I have a Hasegawa Ki-61 in the stash right now but I might do something different if my collection was to increase at some stage.

I would also warn against using cheaper versions of Blu tak for masking. I used some recently and it left an oily stain on my paintwork.

in i am!

B6n2 Tenzan, 72 from fujimi!

Cliff, if allowed i have a special to put in, the heller Bf-108 that want to finish in japanese markings

the little plane is in? 

Great stuff guys! I'm on the phone right now and find it hard to edit posts so I'll get you guys posted when I get on my pc with an actual keyboard!

sign me in for a couple unbuilt  Japanese planes in my stash

Nichimo 1/48 sonja

Tamiya    1/48 G4M Betty

maybe more...

cast my vote for #5 fun badge & #8/#9 serious badge