Japanese GB 2011-2012

amazing mottle

Jason

Fantastic trey!

TREYZX10R

Thanks Fella's, I'm half way done with the mottle and my eyes are buggin' outa me head!!!

TREYZX10R

Thanks Fella's, I'm half way done with the mottle and my eyes are buggin' outa me head!!!

Thanks Fella's, I'm half way done with the mottle and my eyes are buggin' outa me head!!!

Can't wait to see the mottle with the home defense markings.

Trey  Love the toning down effect with the mud

Helo love the trucks and well organized work area

Jason

Trey loving the nmf you have goong on. I will be waiting to see how that mottle comes out!

Trey i think the mottle is a great choice. Looking forward to it.

Jason no alclad ,just TS-30 silver leaf rattle can

Bsyamato thanks,Dude that is a great idea using coax shield wire, very nice!!! You're eyes must be going crazy after that fine wiring job,nicely done sir!!!!!

Okay painted the control surfaces Japan lt gray

Next was a good soaking wash of Citadel Devlan mud

then after the wash dried I scrubbed it down with a damp towel and 'Q' tips to get the excess wash off

The next step is the mottle I decided on this scheme

I'm not sure if if I'll brush it or A/B it ,although with the irregular edges the brush might do a more authentic job

bsyamato nice work on the engine wiring

Jason

i added the missing details on the engine

to avoid to paint the wires with silver (really hard when they are ignition wires in 1/72) i found between the cables i have this for tv signal, the extern mass have this wired mesh that is perfect!

with a needle i did a hole for one andglued with ca

is realy hard to see but now the engine have the ignition wires

then the lates piee needed are the bars between the cylinders (dunno the specific name in english )

drilled the holes with 0,4 pin 

and insert the metal bars (this just metal wires not from the cable) and cutted the exhaust terminals to allow the engine going on fuselage (instructions says to glue the exhaust ring by only a cilinder but was too hard in this way)

then glued the engine to the castle and glued the cooler (?)

Wow that's some great work going out

Trey did you use alclad?

Jason

Noah T

Thanks Rob. Are you going to put the motor in yours?

I don't know. Haven't decided. I have a few of those small motors from a bunch of the 1/50th scale Tamiya Japanese Aircraft kits.

I would really prefer to find the Dinah to build. It is a better quality kit.

Trey another excellent nmf  

Helo34 i'm envious of your ordered workbench

Nice to see a shinden on the gb Rob, 

I'm working on the engine details, at risk to ruin it

Thanks Rob. Are you going to put the motor in yours?

It's the same kit as the one I have. A fairly simple kit designed to use a battery powered motor with the batteries stored in the gray display base. The kit has maybe 30 parts. Mine did not include the motor, but I have several of them in other Tamiya kits.

Noah T

Damn Trey Bling Bling!

Is it too late to get in on this build?  It'll be my first group build so I'm excited!  I don't have a kit yet, but I'm going to the LHS today and it'll be some sort of WW2 Jap aircraft.

Thats funny I've been watching that  Shinden kit and this am I bid on it. Can you shoot some pics of the kit, the one i'm looking at seems to be in the same condition.

NM didnt finish reading, i see that the pic isnt what you actually have.

Digging through my old vintage kits, I came up with two possibilities for this build. I was actually looking for an orange LS Dinah trainer I know I have hidden in box soewhere, but found a Tamiya Moeki 1:72 scale motorized Shinden (J7W1) or a 1:48 scale Testors Oka.

I'm more partial to the Shinden; it looks more interesting. This is a photo of the box art. It's not my kit, mine is much nicer condition, but the same model.

Excellent NMF finish on your on-going build Trey ,

I managed to get a little done today ;

I cleaned up the parts of the Isuzu Fuel Truck and glued the the fuel tank pieces together along with the extra gasoline / oil drums . I airbrushed the chassie frame flat black as well as the suspension and axle parts .

The rest of the truck body and additional parts I'll airbrush Tamiya XF-49 Khaki ...

The starter truck got pretty much the same attention but I was able to glue the bonnet and side panels to the body and the dash board in place along with the tray sides and end gate . As with the Fuel truck the rest of the parts I'll airbrush seperatly first thing tomorrow .

I then airbrushed the interior cockpit pieces and fuselage sides of the  Ki-84 Hayate with some metalic blue green , I also re-painted the interior parts on the Zero as I had previously airbrushed it with Tamiya's XF-71 Cockpit  green , which didn't appear to quite the correct color . Then came some silver on the engines and I'll add some thinned black wash tomorrow to both engines ;

I'll start glueing the cockpit pieces together next and hopfully by tomorrow night I'll have the fuselage halves together and perhaps the wings as well .

Everything is moving along nicely ...

                                   John .

Thanks, I was afraid of that.

lol thanks Noah ya gotta luv da bling

Eric thanks and its Synthetic Lacquer

Trey, that looks great. I probably asked this before, is that an enamel?

Damn Trey Bling Bling!

Bsyamato that second coat did the trick! The canopy cleaned up nicely too! I like the samarai toothpicks thats awesome! LMFAO !!!

Len great progress ,hope the caulk works for ya, I find it so hard to not damage detail when sanding but I'm sure you'll pull it off!

John great score with the trucks!! I'm really looking forward to seeing them come together

I sprayed the NMF used TS-30 silver leaf as I did on the Zero. I had to go back over with a second coat as I missed some deep scratches and had to put pack some rivets and panel lines that dissapeared during sanding.

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Thanx len then need a drill on the head to simulate the glass opening  

the Emily really a pita, but i think they will pay you when finished

Helo: nice looking kits, I've never done a vehicle I'll be looking forward to see how those go.

AZKev I was looking at the Reefer Orange and thought maybe the MM "Int'l Orange" might be a tad closer to the box pics. I can't find a good pic of the Gunze 24 that was reccomended to me and there isn't a ton of it on ebay. I may get get all three and show the difs.... Lack of the color is having me looking at getting the heavy construction done and whatever else I can find to do.

Here is a pic of the resin parts:

Thanx len then need a drill on the head to simulate the glass opening  

the Emily really a pita, but i think they will pay you when finished

AZ i have the intention to get the mavis if i find it in some customer , what your opinion about the kit? i see some sprues picture and seems really old.

Thankss Gamera , yes the nate is the litter 1/72 ww2 fighter i never built (probably the ms-406 is shorter but the cockpit have a more human size) 

some little updates i did

the first red layer on front engine cover

after i passed the 2° and the 3° layer of gray on the whole surfaces, and with a miracle some details again i see

then i refined the canopy frames with good picktooths .. "Samurai" brand!!

Gray layer hope is enough

that's all, tomorrow need to choice which individual plane to do.