Tamiya 1/35 Japanese Type 1 Ho-Ni SPG

GreySnake

The molds for the kit are pretty worn out

Seeing it brings back memories of building this one when it was new.  As in like 1977 or 78.  (A frighteningly long time ago).

Good to see it still builds up into a decent kit.

Looks great to me.

Much better than I'm capable of doing.

Real nice job on the camo,I got a Dragon Type 95 stashed away to do sometime

Nicely done! That's a great old kit. Don't worry about the camo pattern, as my understanding is that IJA vehicles were camo painted at the whim of the painter using the standard colors. There were no official standard patterns.

Here is a photo of a Ho Ni captured in the Philippines. The markings look close, but hard to say for sure

Grey, if you enlarge the photo, there is some colored marking in the center of the white circle. And as you can read the Signal Corps caption that was taken in June '45 on Luzon. I don't think that Signal Corps would be that far off for location & date.

Double post

Inner circle doesn't appear to be white, but there is a square in it.  Looks to be three different colors as well, just a wild guess here, but maybe the inner circle could be red, as that was the color for the hinomaru's.