Tamyia IJA KI-46 Completed

Very nice what color is that brown.

Nice work.  The Dinah is such a pretty airplane.

Very very very nice!!!!!

Can you tell me how you made the Hinumaru's.  I always paint them too (airbrush), only  the ones without the white outline around it.  I tried to paint Hinumarus with the white outline, (see /forums/t/142250.aspx).

The ones you made look awesome! So if you can tell me some tips and tricks....... thanks!

Hi,very nice building,beautiful aircraft and the hinomaru are perfect.....Bravissimo!!!!Enrico

Excellent build Herc!   I almost picked up that kit, the canopy looks challenging but your's came out great. 

Very NICE, Herc!  I'm always impressed with the craftsmanship of your models as well as those of others on here. 

I'm about to start on my Ki-46-III soon - hope it turns as good as this.

Ditto on all the very nices...your build turned out great. It's obvious you paid lots of attention to details! I too have this one in the stash, and will use yours as a goal to reach for when I break it out.

Mike

Thanks everyone your kind words it really means alot to me.

I will try to answer your questions as best i can. I am updating from my tab so i cant go back to see who asked the question but here goes:

The upper color is vallejo 825 German pale brown camo (which is supposed to match the correct shade) the bottom was vallejo primer gray. The upper was supposed to be a match for the original color but the bottom just looked right to me. I am sure it is not 100% accurate but it is good enough for me

I painted the hinomaruas using a circle template/ stencil. FirstIi sprayed the white then went down a circle size and sprayed the red. The ones on the side i did the same thing but for them i layed masking tape over the cirlce template/stencil and cut out the tape then layed the tape with the hole on the side and sprayed it like the top. I got a little overspray on the bottom ones but not too bad.

I dont know if that makes sense or not but that is how i did them

Again thanks for all the kind words it keeps me motivated

Shameless plug...in case you missed it over the weekend, here is my long sufffering KI-46 that gave me fits but came out ok in the end.

I forgot to add this picture and since I can not find the thread I started asking about how to do lights here is the result I got using Fermis suggestion of heating clear sprue and shoving it in the void then sawing,sanding and polishing the blob to make a light.

Magnific work even on the cockpit!! 

Thanks bsyamato

Nice job! not my kind of subject though.

Hercmech

Shameless plug...in case you missed it over the weekend, here is my long sufffering KI-46 that gave me fits but came out ok in the end.

I forgot to add this picture and since I can not find the thread I started asking about how to do lights here is the result I got using Fermis suggestion of heating clear sprue and shoving it in the void then sawing,sanding and polishing the blob to make a light.

lights came out great....which method did you finally use??? actually the whole build came out great!!

carsanab

Hercmech:

Shameless plug...in case you missed it over the weekend, here is my long sufffering KI-46 that gave me fits but came out ok in the end.

I forgot to add this picture and since I can not find the thread I started asking about how to do lights here is the result I got using Fermis suggestion of heating clear sprue and shoving it in the void then sawing,sanding and polishing the blob to make a light.

 

lights came out great....which method did you finally use??? actually the whole build came out great!!

Thanks for the kind words...to make the lights I cut out the ones that were molded on the wings, then I added sheet styrene and painted it silver. I heated clear sprue and shoved it into the gap where the lights would be.

This left a huge blob of melted sprue that I sawed down to a close shape then sanded and polished it to being clear.

The lens was painted with Humbrol clear blue...the other side is red but I dont have pictures of it but it came out just as good as the blue

modeler#1

Nice job! not my kind of subject though.

Just move away from the dark side...it's just so much fun masking canopies.