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[No.1]

Ki-45 completed

[Second Air Force]

 

[draken35]

  Sweet!!!

[Sall]

Perfect job!

[No.1]

Thank you

[Profa]

Nice work, No.1!
What has happened to your camera? Some pics are blurred, like you took them using mobile...

[No.1]

Strong headache last days so in few moments my hands shaking much... sorry

[Second Air Force]

Headaches are never any fun --hope you're feeling better!

The Val now has the landing gear, modified oil cooler scoop, and bomb crutch installed. Then I pulled out my 25-year-old Gunze pinstriping roll (worked perfectly) and masked off the stripes on each horizontal stabilizer.

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Once the canopy is figured out this one will be ready for final painting. The radio/gun cockpit aft canopy sections of the -2 are quite different than the -1 so there will be some scratchbuilding and vacuforming to be done in that area.

[No.1]

I am afraid that it is too late for use of this image... 

[Second Air Force]

It's never too late for more reference photos! In fact, I'll be revamping my bomb racks using this picture as a guide.

Notice the very thin white outline on the hinomaru--usually the underwing markings seemed to be only the red disc.

[No.1]

This is why I prefer archive images as direct source for modeling- you always found some details not seen anywhere else.

From my side I will continue with Kawanishi E7K kit, my sample is the Hasegawa old kit i 1/72 scale. Here you are image of the parts and there is more parts for catapult.

[Sall]

Yeah...One more build in this topic! Great!
@Scott
Good job so far!

[Second Air Force]

Thanks, Sall. No.1, the Kawanishi looks like a great project!

The belly of the D3A got its grey paint this morning after I updated the outboard bomb racks with the help of Srecko's photo. I'd hoped to spray some of the NMF on the Zero but ran out of time.

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[No.1]

Good detail mate I have prepared some reference material to support my build, here you are resized samples...

[Second Air Force]

Another nice morning for coffee and airbrushes......

The second step of the NMF for the Zero was applied after masking the flight controls. I created a small setback during the masking/unmasking in that a bit of the sealer came off with the masking on the left side of the rudder. I will do an addition to the NMF sticky to show this mistake and how to repair it.

While painting I mixed up my "propeller brown" and sprayed both props and spinners in the appropriate colors. The brown prop with grey spinner is for the Val, the other for the Zero. The fuel tank will find itself under the belly of the Val one day.

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