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    December 2021
D3A1 VAL Pearl Harbor Attack
Posted by GreenTerrorz on Saturday, December 23, 2023 1:48 PM
This D3A1 VAL is part of a 3 model kit that Hasegawa released a few years ago. The other two planes are an A6M2 Zero and an B5N2 Kate. All 3 planes presented in this kit took part in the initial attack on Pearl Harbor, and were launched off Imperial Japanese Carriers. I have already completed the B5N2 Kate which is featured in some of the forced perspective photos which were taken on a 1:48 replica of the IJN carrier Hiryu (24”x36”). Next up is the A6M2 Zero! 
 
Carrier deck photos:
 

White background photos:

 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Saturday, December 23, 2023 5:04 PM

Fine models, especially fine photos, Keith!

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Saturday, December 23, 2023 6:48 PM

Beautifully done and superb photos! Yes Yes Yes

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Saturday, December 23, 2023 10:17 PM

I like! I like! I like! Beer

Stay safe.

Jim Captain

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

  • Member since
    December 2021
Posted by GreenTerrorz on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 4:52 PM

Thank you all! 

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 6:49 PM

Brilliant finish Keith!  I need to practice the mottled airbrushing - I rely too much on Flory washes to add depth to my builds.

Thanks,

John

  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Katy, TX
Posted by Aggieman on Thursday, December 28, 2023 1:38 PM

I like it, nice weathering and paint job.

When I was a kid, this was a model that I wanted badly, but unfortunately none of the usual manufacturers that I had access to at the various retail stores (Monogram, Revell, Aurora, Lindberg, Airfix) kitted it.  When I got back into the hobby in the mid-1990s, I discovered a now-gone shop in SW Houston that was pretty good and always had a good selection of kits from many more mfgs than I knew of.  I spied this Fujimi 1/48 Val.  These were the days before I had discovered FSM and did not know of terminology such as "stash".  And since I was newly returned to the hobby, my stash was maybe 1 or 2 kits still left over from the initial purchase I made (spurred by another kit that I had never built but had always wanted, a Revell 1/32 Beaufighter).  So it wasn't long before I had that Val on my workbench.

This is the first kit I tried to do some weathering, which as I recall was nothing more than using an architect's pencil to highlight the panel lines.  The airbrush I was using in those days was one of those cheap Testors single action models, but I was able to give it a light coat of whatever color I painted the Val with to knock down the harsh panel lining a bit.  Sadly, that kit did not survive a shelving collapse a few years after this picture was taken.

That shelving collapse gave me a reason, and #1's blessing, to buy a bunch of replacement models, and I picked up Hasegawa's kitting of the Val.

 

This one was built as a Pearl Harbor bomber.  I didn't think those birds would have been heavily weathered, so I kept that to a bare minimum, and ended up with a good looking Val.  That I still have in a display cabinet.

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