War In The Pacific Group Build 2009 - 2010

Jason, I've never built the Hase 1/48 Raiden, only the old 1/72 kit, however having had a look in the box last night, I know I'm in for a treat.

Sim, both 1/48, so should fit into my burgeoning collection of 1/48 Japanese warbirds.

Karl

jay12472 wrote:

Kj the ki-44 looks great! was wondering about the pit.

Karl I was kind of wondering that myself, how are you going to paint it?

KJ200 wrote:

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.

I think he means smearing some paint in there and then giving it a shot from the AB. Or the black and green shots from AB?

"Lucy, you got some splainin' ta do!!"

I've been doing the vacation thing this week, so i need to catch up on this GB...great progress pics so far. Carlos and Mo: great stuff.

Less forum time and more bench time for me...off to lay some paint on the Claude.

mucker wrote:

I've been doing the vacation thing this week, so i need to catch up on this GB...great progress pics so far. Carlos and Mo: great stuff. Less forum time and more bench time for me...off to lay some paint on the Claude.

darson wrote:

God I used to love those old Monogram kits with all the moving do dads. I remember having a SBD-4 Dauntless with retracting landing gear, connected dive brakes, spinning prop and best of all a small trigger under the fuselage that releases the center bomb, sigh...

They're not that rare, build one and have fun with it again.

Hello all,

Was wondering if I could jump into this group build? I am currently looking at my stash and have but 2 choices: Hasegawa A6M5b type 52 Otsu or a Fine Molds "Shisei Kikka" (Orange Blossum).

What would you Gents like to see The Late Zero or Lil Jet?? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Konnichawa,

Jason

darson wrote:

jay12472 wrote: Kj the ki-44 looks great! was wondering about the pit. Karl I was kind of wondering that myself, how are you going to paint it?

The pit is just a tub with a seat molded into it, no stick, no pedals, no point due to the thickness of the canopy.

I've already sprayed it black, so all the recesses are black. All I'll do now is apply the Nakajima interior green sprayed straight down, so that the recesses remain in shadow, then just dry brush the edges with a lighter colour.

The only other additions to the pit will be tape belts and a head rest cushion on the pylon behind the pilot.

I sprayed the airframe Tamiya Nato black last night to get an idea of any imperfections as this is going to be an NMF finish, which I rarely do.

Having done that, I remembered I'd knocked off both of the inner flap actuators, and needed to replace them.

I tried a couple of things, but settled on filing a slot in the wing, then inserting some strips of plasticard to represent the actuators. This resulted in a strong attachment, allowing me to sand them to shape.

Once I'd one this I applied a coat of Tamiya gloss black which has shown I still need to tidy up the actuators a little, however the rest of the seams look good.

Karl

Karl, great progress!!! You must be preparing for an Alclad finish I presume? Looking forward to it!

Jason, glad to see you here!!! The Nikka certainly would be something different, but have to wait for the CO's word on that one. The Zero, well, you can't go wrong there. Always love to see a good looking 0!!!

Jason, meant to say, go with the Kikka.

Think it would be a good example of too little too late.

Sim, I'm using Gunze's metalics for this one. 

I've never used Alclad, though did toy with the ide, but the cost put me off as I already have a selection of Gunze metalics.

I've used Tamiya acrylic metalics before now, but they are a bit on the coarse side for 1/48, let alone 1/72.

Karl

KJ looking good is it going to be staight nmf or have the green blothches to

JASON I too would love to the kikka

Jason

Jason, straight NMF is the game plan.

We'll see how the NMF turns out though!

Karl

Hello here are some pics of what i gotten done

I also have the cooling ring painted and just letting it dry. Let me know what you think

Jason

 Karl, the Ki build is shaping up nicely. I noticed u used an acrylic black as a base, is this for preshading? One other question, how well does the black bond? Looking forward to updates.

 Jason, the detail painting of the pit is amazing. I really like what you've done with the kit pit. Really nice work. It may just be the photo, but from what I see, You may want to consider adding a few more shadow washes to the engine to help bring out more of the recessed detail.

 I've picked up the Hasegawa SBD-4 off of Ebay for a cool price. All this talk about the old Monogram kit brings back some memories. Man, the flight time logged on that kit was astronomical. I built that one way back. anyhow's I'm waiting for the Dauntless, and enjoying all the fantastics builds, everyone.

 Mo

Jason, the pit looks spot on.

Mo, the black is as a base coat for the metalic top coat, it just makes it look better.

I've never had adhesion problems with either Tamiya or Gunze acrylics, and generally use Tamiya's Sky Grey as my standard primer.

Applied another coat of gloss black to the entire airframe this afternoon, which I'll now need to leave to harden for a couple of days.

Karl

Jason, the office looks great!!! I agree with Mo on the mill, just add a thin wash of flat black and it will look great. Just needs something to make the molded in detail pop out!

Karl, would love to see a pic of the Tojo in gloss black anyway! In my book on Japanese aircraft of the pacific war, there is a profile showing a Tojo that was painted in overall flat black that was used in the defense of Japan itself. Would be an interesting scheme!

Sim, I'll definately be posting a pic of the Ki-44 in all it's gloss black glory once it harded off.

Karl

Karl, Jason...looking good!

I've got mine painted and Futured...now I need to decal a bit.

KJ200 wrote:

Dropped into my LHS yesterday to see if they had any Tamiya thinner, and found these at a 1/3 off.

I have the same problem, Karl...items just fall into my cart when I'm at the hobby shop.

Karl, Jason, looking good fellas!

E. Herc - the Kikka would be awesome.

Nice, choices, Stu. My unsolicited vote goes for the Jill...it's one you rarely see built. The Avangers are always worth building...both great kits.

Is there any way someone with phot-editing skills can take some of our builds and re-arrange them in a single photo? It would look nice to see the entire fleet when we're done here.

Stu, I myself wouldlove to see the Jill for it's rarity, however, the sheer size of the Trump 1/32 Avenger would be awesome to see come together!!!

Mucker, don't know about arranging all in one photo but I have seen where there is a slideshow of all finished builds. Don't know how to do that myself but it can be done that way I know. Not all forumers puters/servers/etc. can handle such things though. A gallery page for the GB would be an idea!

Thanks everyone I did add antother wash to the engine.

stu I agree with everyone Jill and trumpeter avanger.

Jason

Alrighty guys, some WIP pics of the Claude. Still not all decaled. I'll try to seal the decals in with Future before bed tonight.