Ah no, not off the bottom of the page!

Guys, sorry I keep slacking on the Judy photos. Started to try to take them outside the other day and the wind blew away the poster board I was using for a base. Since then it's been dark and overcast every day. If things don't get better soon looks like I'll have to rig something inside.

LOL remember me when take pictures of harrier of gannet, the planes try to gain the sky.. risk to reach the bobbom of my house

Kevin, thanks for the information on the plane.

Hi Cliff ;

My appoligies on not having made any progress on my builds . My motovation dropped away for about a month or so but I'm slowly catching up again  , so hopfully soon , I'll post some more WIP's .

                  John .

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Hi Cliff ;

My appoligies on not having made any progress on my builds . My motovation dropped away for about a month or so but I'm slowly catching up again  , so hopfully soon , I'll post some more WIP's .

                  John .

John: Hey no big deal, nice to see you're getting more stuff done over on the Korean GB. As I said I really to get those photos taken even if Judy blows away. 

OK! Cloudy and overcast today but the wind died down and I got photos!!!

I think she looks better in photos than in person, you can see the canopy problems some here but but I think it looks rougher when I look at it. If anyone hasn't seen Femis's excellent build of the radial engine version he's using a vac formed aftermarket canopy- which maybe I should look into.

As I said I skimped on the weathering since these planes were either being quickly shot down or going on one-way suicide missions so I didn't figure they had a chance to get beat up much.

That is a great job on the Judy

Jason

Excellent build cliff ...

Despite the canopy issue's , she looks great and I like the pre-shaded panel lines .

BTW , is that your back yard in the back ground on photo 6 you posted ; I wish I had that area for my back yard  ...........(do you have a ride on mower) ?

                               John

Jason: Thanks man!

John: Thanks! Yeap, Very happy to live out in the country with a good sized yard. And a ride on mower, it would take forever to mow with a push model. We've gotten a decent amount of rain recently so things are still mostly green, normally we have a sorta brown Christmas

Cliff, in my Manny impersonation "I love your Judy and want to dive it into American carrier in a flaming ball of fire".

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Cliff, in my Manny impersonation "I love your Judy and want to dive it into American carrier in a flaming ball of fire".

                       ha ha

Cliff that is one masterfuly done Judy, it looks excellent.!!! I would'nt beat yourself up about the canopy it looks fine. I would be proud to have that in my display cabinet!

not understood the real problem with the judy canopy but even to me seems good, and again magnific finished judy

Gamera,

Very nice job on the Judy!!  I have 2 Fine Mold kits in my stash (in-line & radial versions).  One of these days I'm going to build one of them as one of the 2 'prototypes' carried aboard the Soryu at Midway.  I got interested in building an example after reading "Shattered Sword" by Parsall & Tulley.  They mentioned two Judy's being carried for long range reconnaisance, but one was somehow damaged during some manuvers by the carrier (maybe avoiding attack ? - I can't remember).  And I'm not sure if the other ever took off, but I believe it went down with the ship.

Anway, I thought it would be kind of cool to build one with the markings of the Soryu.

Once again - very nice build!!  Did I miss your mention of whaose kit this is?

Happy Holidays, kevin

Thanks guys, you're all too kind!

Kevin: Sounds like a cool idea, I've read about the two Soryu Judys but don't know much about them beyond what you stated. This is the 1/48th FineMolds kit. It's early D4Y1 version which would probably be closest to the prototype. Hobby Link Japan has it listed as out-of-stock which means they can get in a month or so. I didn't see a 1/72nd kit listed for FineMolds, I think someone here mentioned a kit from someone else though I can't remember who now.

Well since Sun is christmas and I feel like this is a present here are some wip pics

these are of 2 Hasegawa zeros both are type 52

this is an older kit

and this is the newer

The myrt is drying in the paint shop so I'll get more pics after the weekend

sorry they aren't the greatest will work on them and better ones up

Jason

okay here are the better pics

the first are of the older kit and now the newer

Jason

Lookin' great so far Jason!

Jason: Hey great jobs on both! Love the new kit, it's going together smooth as silk but the older kit ain't half bad either!

I hope Aaron doesn't bust me on this but I wanted to send all you guys a Japanese model for Christmas:

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Nice zero starting Jay

Cliff i like the santa claus modded version

AZKevin

  One of these days I'm going to build one of them as one of the 2 'prototypes' carried aboard the Soryu at Midway.  I got interested in building an example after reading "Shattered Sword" by Parsall & Tulley.  They mentioned two Judy's being carried for long range reconnaisance, but one was somehow damaged during some manuvers by the carrier (maybe avoiding attack ? - I can't remember).  And I'm not sure if the other ever took off, but I believe it went down with the ship.

Anway, I thought it would be kind of cool to build one with the markings of the Soryu.

One of the prototype Judys was launched to locate the US carriers at Midway. It found them but could not report their position in a timely manner due to radio failure. It returned to Hiryu to report their position via dropped message, just prior to Tomonaga launching for the afternoon torpedo strike on Yorktown. But the updated position of the US carriers was passed on to the wrong pilot and resulted on the second strike on Yorktown rather than on the undamaged Hornet or Enterprise. That Judy recovered aboard Hiryu after Tomonaga's launch and went down with Hiryu the next morning. Yes that would be a great build and addition to any Midway collection. Like a Midway Marauder, an aircraft rarely assocaited with that battle.

Gamera, your Judy is a beauty indeed! Very nice work all the way around on her.

Fear not cliff, I won't tell Aaron.

That is just Santa's helper from Tokyo (does Santa sing that Deep Purple song at Karaoke?) "My woman from Tokyo..."

And since she is a model, that makes her pic modeling related

Hey thanks guys!

SP: Thanks for the information, as I said I'd heard about the two Judies but well as Paul Harvey would say - that's the rest of the story!

Hmmmm.....I would ask questions about make, scale, price, and availabilty of this model, but that might come across as improper. 

Nicely finished model, however.

AZKevin

Hmmmm.....I would ask questions about make, scale, price, and availabilty of this model, but that might come across as improper. 

Nicely finished model, however.

Well as Stikpusher said: She is Japanese and she is a model so I suppose that does make her a Japanese model....

She's 1/1 scale and her name is Mizuki Horii, I can't speak to the rest of those questions

l  Ok now im onto salt chipping like trey (I only wish mine was as good) the base color was tamiya mica silver out of a rattle can, sealed with future and the top coat will be MM medium green. 

I've got a good start on the Kawanishi George. I drilled out the instruments and inserted individual dials punched out with a Waldron punch set.  It's a tedious process but a fun improvement for a plain IP.

I also used copies of cockpit placards to give some interest to the control boxes on the sides in the cockpit.  I touched them up with photo etch handles and levers from leftover PE frets.  Though not technically accurate, they will provide some color and visual interest to the office.  

I also painted up some thin masking tape and added bent wire buckles for some detail to the shoulder harness.

A tactic that I occasionally use is to attach the wing to the fuselage before joining the fuselage halves.  This method cannot be used on all models, but in some cases you just have a feel where this is the best way to do it.  It allows you to get a real tight fit on the wing join, preserving the dehydral. Imagine from the photo below, the control you have adjusting the wing into place and holding it firmly as the glue begins the welding process.

Wow that IP looks stunnig!!!! Very nicely done Sir!!!

Pretty cool IP!