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FineMolds 1/48 scale Ki-43

Posted by Megan McChain
on Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Francois Wurtz
Bangkok, Thailand

A captured Ki-43 is pressed into service by the French air force in 1945 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Francois scratchbuilt a cockpit for FineMolds’ 1/48 scale kit, along with adding ignition cables, landing gear and a rebuilt propeller, then painted the plane in Japanese markings, weathered it, then overpainted French colors according to a file from the archives of Groupe de Chasse 1/7, he says, noting the project took him about 200 hours over four months. 

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