Made some solid headway on the Ki-44 this week, so that it now looks like this.
I've drilled out the hand holds/cooling slots on the top of the forward fuselage, and replaced the plastic antenna post with a piece of flattened brass tubing that I am less likely to knock off!This still needs filing to shape though.
The fuselage to wing fit was not great, so I installed a spreader bar in the forward fuselage, but even then had to add a very small shim to the front edge of the joint on the starboard side. Having said that, have only used a smear of filler, and some Mr Surfacer on all the seams.
As you can see I haven't painted the pit yet, as there is precious little in there I'll apply a base coat of black, with a downward sprayed coat of Nakajima interior green to give a hint of cockpit colour.
Being an older kit the wheelbays are open, so I took some thin plasticard and boxed them in. A minor upgrade, but it stops the inside of the fuselage being visible from the wheel bays!
Dropped into my LHS yesterday to see if they had any Tamiya thinner, and found these at a 1/3 off.
Looks like I might have picked up at least another build for this GB!
Karl