Airfix 1/72 B5N2 Kate CarDiv5 Shokaku WIP

This is coming along nicely there, Steve. I may have to think about adding one to the stash.

BK

Thanks Chris,

I worked on the seams tonight, painted some grey to check for smoothness and sanded a little more. I then went over the panel lines to remove the Mr Disolved Putty and I think that should do it.
Tomorrow night I'm spraying silver for a base for some chipping. Japanese aircraft weren't as worn out and chipped as they were at the end of the war but there was some. I also sanded and smoothed the torpedo. I'm not going with the Type 91 modification 2 Torpedo which was used at Pearl (adding the wooden fins) because I'm building this as a May 1942 time frame. The kit is awesome enough to include the wood fins for the Mod 2 torp, but doesn't seem to include instructions to add the modification to the kits torpedo. 

Really nice work Steve,

Your interior work looks great - on top of what seems to be a very nicely detailed kit.

Chris

I did that on my old Monogram 1/48 SBD.

I might have to try that on the Hasegawa kit.

stikpusher

 

modelcrazy

Thanks Mustang, I'm not either but in this case Airfix didn't leave me much choice. The IP was a flat piece of plastic.

Thanks for following along.

 

 

 

 

well you can take a piece of this sheet plastic, drill it and cut it to match shape and location of instruments, paint it up, then install over the decal... 

 

modelcrazy

Thanks Mustang, I'm not either but in this case Airfix didn't leave me much choice. The IP was a flat piece of plastic.

Thanks for following along.

 

well you can take a piece of thin sheet plastic, drill it and cut it to match shape and location of instruments, paint it up, then install over the decal... 

modelcrazy

Thanks Mustang, I'm not either but in this case Airfix didn't leave me much choice. The IP was a flat piece of plastic.

Thanks for following along.

 

Thanks Mustang, I'm not either but in this case Airfix didn't leave me much choice. The IP was a flat piece of plastic.

Thanks for following along.

Another good lookin' 1/72nd scale build. Looks good so far Steve. I'm not a fan of decaled instruments but I've gotta say that if I were to build such a small scaled aircraft that I would probably do the same thing. Watching................

I'll take another look at YouTube but haven't had much luck finding it full length.

I would also really like to find The Eternal Zero. I have see clips of it in YouTube and it looks good. Of course it will show the dogfighting a little skewed but did you see Red Tails? talk about a little skewed.

Continuing on with the Kate. I attached the fuselage to the wings and vert stabilizers to the fuse. The only complaint I have with the kit, which is easily remedied with a little trimming and sanding, is the attachment point of the wings and stabilizers to the parts tree. The attachment points are big and invade on the surfaces. But like I said these are easily remedied.

If you decide to build this kit, be aware of the gauge at the bombardier's position. The panel it is attached to came loose while installing the fuselage because the gauge slips into a slot on the fuse. This was easily fixed bit reinstalling the panel after the fuse was on.

The gaps at the wings and stabilizers are very small and the fit is tremendous IMO.

I really like this kit. Good on ya Airfix!

There is a Japanese "mall" near my home that has a good stock of Japanese movies. Some I originally learned of thru a hobby shop, now closed, that used to show all sorts of war movies during business hours. Or I ran across them on YouTube or IMDb.   

Where do you find these movies?

Yamato... Yamamoto... the Yamato movie is just that. And yes, they had quite the set. The CGI of the aircraft in that one is not quite as good as the other movies. But it's worth watching. That one I do have in my movie library . 

stikpusher

 

 

tigerman

Great work Steve. Unfortunately, all that great work will be hard to see once the canopy is attached.

Stik or anyone else, what was that movie about the yamato? I've seen some trailers and it looked pretty well done. Sorry to hijack your Kate Steve. I love the subject and will try to stay on topic.

 

 

 

 

japanese war movies are within six degrees of separation of the build topic... Lol!

The Yamamoto movie is called "The Admiral". I think that is next one that I need to find for my movie library. 

 

No, I was thinking of the movie about the last sorte of the battleship Yamato. They built a pretty awesome replica of her if I'm correct and the death scene gave me some incite to how badly outnumbered the IJN was at the end of the war.

Modelcrazy, the Kate looks outstanding.  I keep hearing more and more great things about Airfix's new kits.  

I have to see these movies.  I've never heard of them, and I know I'm missing some good stuff.  

tigerman

Great work Steve. Unfortunately, all that great work will be hard to see once the canopy is attached.

Stik or anyone else, what was that movie about the yamato? I've seen some trailers and it looked pretty well done. Sorry to hijack your Kate Steve. I love the subject and will try to stay on topic.

 

japanese war movies are within six degrees of separation of the build topic... Lol!

The Yamamoto movie is called "The Admiral". I think that is next one that I need to find for my movie library. 

Thanks Tigerman.

You haven't hijacked anything. I enjoy a little diversity and off topic in my WIP build threads. It keeps thing moving and interesting and keeps people coming back. 

Great work Steve. Unfortunately, all that great work will be hard to see once the canopy is attached.

Stik or anyone else, what was that movie about the yamato? I've seen some trailers and it looked pretty well done. Sorry to hijack your Kate Steve. I love the subject and will try to stay on topic.

I can't hardly believe the details in this tiny kit. Such nice work there, Steve. Love it.

BK

The IJN in 1942 was indeed a formidable force. In the first six months, with one notable exception, they vanquished all navies that fought them. After Midway, they gave as good as they got, if not more in nearly every action. They just could not replace their losses as quickly as we could after that point. Yamamoto's prophecy of running wild for six months to a year and after that no promises, was very much on target. 

Midway will always be a tough one. The elements of the battle were spread about as far apart as one could imagine.

That trailer was pretty intriguing. I've heard of that movie before, but never have seen it.

It provokes a pretty clear picture that the IJN certainly was a pretty formidable operation, and it was a pretty fine line one way or the other how June 4-6 would go.

The Japanese made a series of fundamentally risky to poor choices, and those came back to hurt them.

Probably first and foremost was trying to both launch a surprise attack and project overwhelming force at the same time. That in turn required risking irreplaceable resources.

Well the effects are nowhere near as good as the recent CGI stuff in "The Eternal Zero" or "The Admiral" as far as the battle stuff goes. But considering the time when it was made, they are typical. Tora! pushed miniatures work about as far they could go for ship & sea type work. Now if they could only get the storyline and script work right for a Midway movie.

The special effects looked mixed. One has airplane taking off and a second or two after another plane. A bomb slash literally is as big as the entire ship. LOL. Tora Tora Tora some 10 years later really raised the bar. Still, I might want to check this movie out.

It was not a bad movie. Definitely worth a viewing.

I love it!! I must watch this movie!

I saw one scene in the trailer where they even used AT6's as Zeros LOL.

"Storm of the Pacific"... here is the trailer...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQbFDjMYmw

I'd like to see if I can find that, maybe clips on YouTube.

I noticed, back in the 70'swhen it first came out, that Midway barrowed several scenes for other movies. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Tora!Tora!Tora! and apparently this one.

When it was released in Japan it was called Hawaii Midway Sea Battle, or something like that. It was dubbed into English and released as "I Bombed Pearl Harbor". Most of the Japanese carrier scenes in Midway, are lifted from this movie. Most of the rest are from "Tora!Tora!Tora!". It mainly centers on Hiryu from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Toshiro Mifune plays the role of Admiral Yamaguchi. I was able to get ahold of an original Japanese DVD copy for rent a few years ago.