Bsyamato: Great work, as you said though after the A-Model kit this one should be easy! Looks like a very detailed kit, amazing to me the detail you can pack into 1/72nd scale.

Trey: Wow, you're almost halfway to finishing off your second model! And she looks good!

Here are some pre-shrunk badges:

BTW: Was thinking of adding a rank to the badges for those like Trey who complete more than one build:

1 build - no rank

2 builds- Samurai

3 builds- Hatamoto

4 builds- Daimyo

5 builds- Shogun

As before if you guys think it sounds goofy I'll drop it.

Hercmech, don't trust me, i could be wrong. I would eyeball it and see what you think.

Trey, I probably asked this before, but what are you using for the NMF?

Thanks Hercmech, got some silver base on it tonight

Nice progress fellows.

Great looking progress Bsyamato and nice fix sratching the engine frame work!

I'm moving along with the Hayate,nice touch are the supplied gear up doors thanks Tamiya!

some nate update

i glued and painted some piece

flashe actually removed

the cockpit engineering is a little complicated 

the whole glued structure (with machine gun, not yet gklued,  that fire through the engine cylinder )

need to be glued after the fuselage assembly. 

breaked a V structure piece for the engine castle i scratched the remaining too, and painted the cockpit walls with silver .The cockpit color is wrong on the instruction (really strange all the kits report even the right colors ..) 

after i paint it with dark blue/gray as finded on some reference site, and try to remove simulating chipping.

First thinned black on the engine

tht's all for now, returning this night to work on

Thank you for all of the help Tigerman. That is why i love the forums couldnt imagine how i would have figured it out

This may not help. I found the paint guide in the December 1998 FSM. The color could be described as a khaki-drab brown, I guess. Closest match might be Gunze H72, Polly Scale 505252, and Testors model master enamel 1702. I could be wrong about all this. It looks more red-brown to me.

Hercmech

 

tigerman:

 

I wish this were my build! LOL

I pulled this up off of Hyperscale. Isn't it kind of a faded red-brown? I'm not sure. I'll see if I can find more info. there is a good site to check out. 

http://www.j-aircraft.com/ 

There was a great article from Harvey Low in an FSM some years ago and it gave a paint breakdown. I'll see if I can locate it.

 

 

I thought that aircraft looked familar, I saw it eairler this week and knew that was the color I wanted to paint mine. I just figured you did it and posted it over there and got all excited that you had the secret decoder ring for the color.

LOL.

I'm working on my first real aircraft build, not just a throw together Monogram kit that I built when I was 8. I never painted them either. LOL

I once painted a Tony with a brush. Actually it wasn't that bad and the green swirls do look brushed on, at least on the box they did. However, this will be all AB'd.

I'll look later for that color, but brown is starting to ring a bell. 

great piece gamera want to see how judy grow up

Herchmech i tried to find something about the ki-46 colour but only founded bw pictures and scale drwings sorry

then the kits arrived today, a seabfat for another gb , the precious ki-27 , other suppies and .. no breguet 693

so, this is the kit

high detailed is this kit good options have, as the whole good reproduced engine with all opened option (sure i leave it opened) 

details are (unfortunately for me) as the real , not all recessed or positive panel lines, lots of micro extruded maintenace panels and so on. On the secont picture you can see the under cockpit wing part

ip , seats , rear engine bulkeads, all detailed at good level, finally i can say (at least before to start) to bild an oob!

the under wing to show the detail type

and an istant dry fit , not perfect but after builded an amodel kit nothing can fear me (only the airfix sm-79)

soon some progress, i just starting the plane now and probably i'll upload some wip pictures with the saturday rising sun

Hercmech thanks ,yea hope to score another ace badge here lol. Do'nt feel bad my building will slow way down soon ,the cool riding months are fast approaching and I'll be kneedraggin' more than building. Got beat to the punch on the color ref thats the same as the one I found for your Ki27

Nathan thanks, do'nt expect too much its gonna be a closed canopy gear up 'in flight ' build

Gamera looking forward to seeing some pics of your build, I was thinking it should be bigger than the Zeke heres what dimensions I found

Zeke span 39'4.5"                                                        Ki84 span 36'10.5"

          length 29'9"                                                                   length 32'1.25"

           empty weight 3,920lbs                                            empty weight 5,864lbs

heres a couple of comparison pics

the Ki kit has a actual span of 9.25" and length is 8" if I did my math right this would put the span at about 37' and the length 32' so it's not too out of sorts

tigerman

I wish this were my build! LOL

I pulled this up off of Hyperscale. Isn't it kind of a faded red-brown? I'm not sure. I'll see if I can find more info. there is a good site to check out. 

http://www.j-aircraft.com/ 

There was a great article from Harvey Low in an FSM some years ago and it gave a paint breakdown. I'll see if I can locate it.

I thought that aircraft looked familar, I saw it eairler this week and knew that was the color I wanted to paint mine. I just figured you did it and posted it over there and got all excited that you had the secret decoder ring for the color.

I wish this were my build! LOL

I pulled this up off of Hyperscale. Isn't it kind of a faded red-brown? I'm not sure. I'll see if I can find more info. there is a good site to check out. 

http://www.j-aircraft.com/ 

There was a great article from Harvey Low in an FSM some years ago and it gave a paint breakdown. I'll see if I can locate it.

Eric & Big-Z: Well, I cut most of the parts off the sprue on this one but I've got the night fighter version and the radial engine as well. I'll post photos of one or the other this weekend.

Overall on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being perfect I'll give the kit a 7. Fit and detail are good but not really Tamiya or Hasegawa quality- I'd compare it to an Academy or older '80s era Hasegawa kit. Several sinkholes and injection pin holes need to be filled.

Don't think I'm bashing the kit, it's a solid model - it just requires a little more TLC than newer ones. I'd recommend it to anyone that wants a Suisei. 

tigerman

Did you see this Hercmech?

*edit* I misread your post. I thought you were looking for a different color, but I now see you found one.

Cliff, love the Judy. I did hear that this kit is not a shake-and-bake, so I'll be interested to see how it builds up. So far, no other choices in 1/48. 

That is the color I am after. What did you use?

Don't happen to have a spare control column do you?

Gamera

Bsyamato: Very cool! Looking forward to seeing her.

BTW: Finally got around to taking a shot of the box art for my kit. Still working on the cockpit, taking me a little longer than normal since I have to do the internal bomb bay at the same time.

G....got this on my Ebay watch list.....how is it??? would like to see a pic of its innards....Z

tigerman

Did you see this Cliff?

Wow, Eric that's awesome. Is that faded IJA brown?

Did you see this Hercmech?

*edit* I misread your post. I thought you were looking for a different color, but I now see you found one.

Cliff, love the Judy. I did hear that this kit is not a shake-and-bake, so I'll be interested to see how it builds up. So far, no other choices in 1/48. 

Bsyamato: Very cool! Looking forward to seeing her.

BTW: Finally got around to taking a shot of the box art for my kit. Still working on the cockpit, taking me a little longer than normal since I have to do the internal bomb bay at the same time.

Another great one started Trey

gamera i'll put on the badge.

The little icm ki-27 arrived with other supplies !!!!!!! finally i can start, i just had few minuted to take a speedy look on the new kits arrived , asap i'll post pictures but a thing is sure: the kit looks nice and ....is reeeaally a little plane

Great! I was worried it might not be readable. And I forgot to grab the kit instuctions when I headed out to work this morning.

Gamera

Herc: I checked my reference material last night but wasn't able to find many photos of the Ki-46 other than some grainy b&w ones.

Best I could find:

The restored plane may or may not be accurate of course. The decal instructions are from Empire City and should be pretty close though.

Thanks Brother Turtle.

That was exactly what I was looking for. FS30140 looks about right for what I am trying to cover. Now to find a paint that matches. I am lucky that I have the FS fandeck so it may mean a trip to Hobby Lobby to buy some craft paint to match.

Herc: I checked my reference material last night but wasn't able to find many photos of the Ki-46 other than some grainy b&w ones.

Best I could find:

The restored plane may or may not be accurate of course. The decal instructions are from Empire City and should be pretty close though.

Trey: Thanks- will update the roster.

BTW: not sure if you know but the Tamiya Ki-84 I've been told is closer to 1/50th than 1/48th.

Tamiya Ki-84 review

Probably not a big deal, I've used 1/32 and 1/35th armour together but you might want to be careful with the aftermarket decals since they may be a little large and need trimming.

Trey the Zero looks superb! the paint chipping effect worked great for you. Cant wait to see how the frank turns out! I gotta get building again. summer work has kept me away long enough!

Nathan

TREYZX10R

I did a dry fit of the major parts and it looks tight thankfuly

not much office detail tho

 Trey,

I have no doubt you willmake another of your fantastic builds. Are you on your way to ace status in this GB as well? I am envious because if I built as fast as you my stash would be decreasing in size instead of increasing in size.

troublemaker66

Hercmech:

I am in a quandary as to what color I should paint my KI-46. I have enough of the IJN/IJA green and want to paint it to match the box...which is a grey brown color. Do any of you have a good idea on what color it should be other than IJA Brown. I am looking at doing it Testors Military brown with a little white mixed in to lighten it. I have seen so many other built kits colors but I can't find a good color call out.

 

On a separate note I got the control column built. Not the best but passable I suppose. I will post pictures of my progress in the near future.

 

 

You know, the second you close up the pit, that control stick will be sitting right on your bench...

That is always how it seems to work out.

Battling with the PE for Oscars cockpit side walls......slow going.....

Good, quality Tamiya fit.

I did a dry fit of the major parts and it looks tight thankfuly

not much office detail tho