modelcrazy

I'm done with the Kirishima. I must say it was quite the kit. For 1/700 it had outstanding detail and a very large sheet of PE. I placed it in my usual water base for display and after having my eyes crossed by the PE, rigging and the very small decals I completed it tonight.

I hope you enjoy.

BTW Gam, I didn't see the Ha Go on the wall.

Steve

 

falconmod

So how do you do the white foamy water next to the hull?

Cotton and acrylic gel. It's more that I wanted but needed to fill the gaps between the flat bottom, since this was a waterline kit, and the base. I prefer a full hull to put into a seascape.

Steve: Just posted both of your models. I did crop the Type 95 a little to get a larger photo. 

Again my apologies for missing you.

If I missed anyone else please yell at me to fix it!!!  

Excellent work guys!!

TJ: Sounds good, looking forward to the photos.

This is going to add some color to the display

Looks fantastic TJ!

And much as I hate painting yellow leading edges the idea of painting the whole dang plane yellow gives me the willies...

Since I am halfway or more through the Hasegawa 1/48 Shinden can I get it added to th roster? Started on it Sunday.

Hey John, sure! 

Welcome aboard! 

The Hasegawa 1/48 J7W1 Shinden.

This one is a nice fitting older kit that will be some company for my Collect-Aire XP-55.  I just did a simple cockpit and let it go at that, and will close up the canopy to keep the lines clean.  The panel was pretty well molded so some silver dry brushing followed by Future on the dial faces took care of that.

An older kit but what you've got there looks good John. 

And neat idea on building the actual test plane instead of a hypothetical operational version. 

A couple of progress photos.

She's coming along great John.

I was going to ask, did you mask and paint the hinomaru? I really like your results.

Yes, they are painted.  Much easier than decals.  I just finished putting the detail decals on, some red borders and no step stuff.  Not much in the way of stenciling and since it is all dark red against dark green not very visible to me.  Drying now.  The masks for the meatballs are on the sheet I posted earlier.  My Cameo likes dxf files so that is what is used to do the cuting, not the jpg used to post here.

John, that is pretty neat work on this one.

Excellent use of your vinyl cutter - I have wondered how thick the vinyl - is it like what other manufactures use for their pre-made masks?

regards,

Jack

That turned out nice John.  The gear angles look strange. The mains placed forward like that and with such a long nose wheel strut just makes it look tail heavy, but I guess not.

John: Great job! Just got you posted. And wow, I can't get something built in six months.

The Japanese had plans to upgrade the Shinden to a jet engine which would have allowed them to ditch the silly over long landing gear.

Thanks, all.

Jack, I am using Oramask 810.  I think it is thinner than the material Montex uses, and it works around curves better.

I have a 1/48 Tamiya Rufe if craossovers are allowed

Theuns

Great Theuns, you're more than welcome. Just put you down. 

Actually, thanks for bringing this up! I did want to point out if any of you want to join TheWaggishAmerican's Aces on the Wrong Side GB I have no issues with crossovers if he doesn't. 

MC - your Kirishima looks fantastic. As always your water effects are spot on.

John - I like your Shinden, and good idea with the scheme.

Cheers

Tony

This will be a very simple oit the box build, nothing special.

I added maskingtape belts and gave it all some shadow with a pin wash.

IMG_20180405_153658 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20180405_153741 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

I also sanded down the raised detail on the float and re-scribed.

IMG_20180405_154005 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Sofar the dryfit of major parts is not bad atall for a kit of 1970's era

IMG_20180405_155841 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Hey Theuns, looks pretty darn good to me! Really nice work on redoing the detail on the float. 

Ta, with my tamiya scriber, trumpeter "riveter" and dyno tape it is not to hard.

I will add rivets to the rest of the plane aswell.

Theuns

Nope, not hard but it's still a lot of tedious slow work.

Kudos sir! 

The surface detail was a little bland to my taste, even for a simpe quick build 

IMG_20180406_190717 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

So I added rivet detail.

IMG_20180406_190829 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20180407_150245 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Got the IJN grey on, shading just about bleeding through.

It is a tad greener than in the pix

IMG_20180407_180032 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

@John,

Your Shinden looks outstanding! Great job!

@Theuns

I like the detail you have added. Very well done.

I've progressed on the I-400, I got the hull glued together, but, I had to add some braces to the bottom half.

Then I primed the hull

Then I decided that I'm going to make this boat float. I need to get some foam and I'm going to put this in the water. It will be my first attempt at a water scene, and I'm kinda looking forward to it. 

Hopefully more progress to show soon.

Cliff, If you don't mind, would it be ok to post progress pictures of my Type 4 here as well? Since it is a Japanese Tank.