Hey Everyone,

I have started to work on Nichimo's 1:48 scale Ki-45, "Toryu".  It's an older kit, and she definitely needs a little help in the detail area, especially in the cockpit and wheel wells. 

I got my hands on a couple Lone Star kits for the model; wheel wells and a cockpit.  I am also going to use an Aeromaster set for the decals, and True Details for the main wheels. 

Anyway, one area the kit is NOT lacking in, are the engines.  Very well done with nice detail. 

Now it's on to the Lone Star parts, and trying to get them to conform.  They are a little rough fit wise, but they are spectacular with the detail!!

Fjs   Great kit! A tad sparse in the pit area, but over all I'm sure you'll like it. Many folks look past the Fujimi and Nichimo and such kits, over all there pretty nice. A bit of scratch, and some PE really would help though...

OK, I have a bit more progress to share...

Shes really going very smoothly.

Virtually no gap issues, the dihedral is already engineered in and other then a very minor step between wing root and fuselage which was easily filed down, No complaints!

had to scratch the front of the filter housing due to this originally being a trop and coming with a sand filter, and shes on her legs.

And the paint begins, the 75 is now on. This will be the standard day fighter Luftwaffe scheme for the time period (74, 75, 76) with heavy 75 mottling on the fuse sides.

Well That's all for now... More in a day or two. Take care all!

Doug 

A lot of great work here!!    I just started on my entry, a Nichimo 1:48 scale Ki_45 'Toryu'.  

Great work everyone.

They look good Bsyamato- I am still amazed how you get that cool pre-shading effect with a brush.

Great looking builds so far everyone.

Perfect finished buildings guys :)

Also lots of updates there , great!

Here's my few updates:

On the Kate sratchbuilded a sort of gunsight and the radio antenna

Then painted some cockpit parts with black

On the ki-55 painted cowling (and gears but no pictures) with dark brown 

Also glued the central section of canopy

That's all for now, at the next

Really cool John!

Falconmod, Nice well used Oscar, like it!

Goldhammer... good point, I hadn't consider that angle.

Well I got a little more work done on my 1/72 Oscar.   I couldn't stand the closed canopy that came with the kit so I sawed it up so I could show off the interior.

both front and back pieces should be painted by the time this gets posted.   here it is with masking on it ready for paint.

John

I wonder and kind of suspect the 109's didn't have the range required of the PTO.

In good hands they more or less held their own throughout the war from what I know.

flyerduke

Well shoot.  I can't find the control stick for my Zero.  Anyone know how to go about ordering a replacement from Tamiya?  I should probably make my own.

Hey Fly,

 I had great service from Tamiya on getting replacement parts. I dealt with a gentleman named Gary. He found the parts I needed from a kit that was already gone thru and sent them to me at no charge. See If you can get him.

Hey some great looking things going on here. I need to work on the base for my zero. I may start that tomorrow. I have four figures that came with the kit and thought I might try and do a flight deck of a Japanese carrier. Not sure on how I going to do it but I will come up with something. Any suggestions welcome.

My grand kids came home from their mothers tonight and the two year old is real sick to her stomach. Throwing up and all. Gonna be a long night I think.

Doug

Goldhammer, Ken, RR Doug: Some fantastic looking cockpits going on there guys!

Btw: The Type-74 would be done but somehow the smoke dischargers got knocked off on the left side and I can't find them (shhhhhheeeeeesssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh)...............

I'll see if I can find or replace them. I think I need some spray adhesive to stick the snow to the base, still in the home stretch in any case.

So many varied and cool looking projects going on... and its still early in the build time frame. Well I finally got to start mine this weekend. I'm (after talking with Gamera) going to do one of the 5 Bf109 E-7s that were shipped in U-Boats from Germany to Japan for testing in 1942. Not sure why the Japanese rejected the 109 (all but the engine, which they built under license to install in their Ki61) But the inference I think was they felt the 109 was already out dated by 42 maybe? Any way, the Kit I'll use is a Hasagawa 1/48 scale 109E7, and it doesn't look like it will take too long to complete.

Even though its been in stash for awhile, its still a good liking kit in detail...

All the office parts, not terribly plain, but not overly detailed either, I'll try to dress up just a bit.

All assy, and some "Airscale" instrument decals applied. As I said, not terribly detailed. 

And installed in the fuselage with the wing components laid out to clean and assy. That's about it for now.

Take care all!

Doug 

Hi Everyone,

A little more progress on my Zero.  I attached one of the seat belts to the seat using "Gator's Grip Hobby Glue".

I will let this dry overnight before attempting to bend the belt to conform to the seat.

I also painted the handle on the control stick black.

Ken 

Couple of new pics of the office before the new canopy went on.

goldhammer

Tamiya customer service- 1-800-826-4922, give them the kit number, sprue number and part number you need.

Thanks.  I'll give them a call.  Depending on the cost, I still may make my own.

Tamiya customer service- 1-800-826-4922, give them the kit number, sprue number and part number you need.

Well shoot.  I can't find the control stick for my Zero.  Anyone know how to go about ordering a replacement from Tamiya?  I should probably make my own.

Craig- yeah looks like you're ready to rock and roll!

Terry and ajd - Your builds look sharp.  Well done!  You guys can really detail a model.

OK.  You see that clear work space?  That means I'm done with my F-107 and I'm ready to put 100% of my time and effort into the Zero.  If I can get going on the cockpit, the rest should fall into place.

Craig

Nice work, she turned out fantastic Terry! I'll get her posted this weekend.

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Gamera I'm calling my Type 1 75mm SP Gun finished. Thanks for a great GB again.

Great looking aircraft!

Ajd: Just posted you to the front page and again- kudos sir!

AJD: Very nice work there! I'll get you posted this weekend.

bsyamato

Well done on the speed build zero Doug :)

Thanks bsyamato.

Looks good Josiah, I've never used stretched sprue either but I like the look of the results you got there.  

ygmodeler4

Well I certainly haven't mastered it yet...I believe it's plastic junkie that I got it from

For gaps l, stretch some sprue to the appropriate size, I dip it in tenax which melts it to the two sides so it looks like a weld seam. Since its plastic, when you sand it down it won't look like putty. I have never been able to sand putty on a significant seam to where it's unnoticeable.

interesting.  May give it a try on my test model.  Thanks.