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KI-46 III Dinah - Completed

Re: KI-46 III Dinah

looks challenging Christian,

Have you considered using the PE as a template and scratching the details out of styrene sheet and rods?
 
Re: KI-46 III Dinah

yes, but no . This is only the beginning. Lot of other things to go in the pits . You realize this is 1/72 right ?

I'm gonna be as lazy as I can get away with :rotf Not gonna let a piece of tinfoil get away with this :fencing

Cheers, Christian B)
 
Re: KI-46 III Dinah

Hello everyone. I have mafe a small bit of progress.

Moving at a speed comparable to that of a glacier, but at least I can start detailing this tomorrow once the Future is good and hard.

KI-46_interior_001b.jpg


The major PE is installed and base coated.

Now, for paint and the rest of the tidbits.

Cheers, Christian B)
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Looking good Chris. I'm just starting my nightmare now with Eduard.
James
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Looking good Chris. I'm just starting my nightmare now with Eduard.
James.

Are you speaking of the SBD James ? Probably the worst of the worse about Edwards for me is how they switch their drawing around or turn them upside down.

Who ever wrote a landing gear manual with the gear sticking towards the sky ? Confusing ! :S

Cheers, Christian B)
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Hey Chris,

Beautiful job whipping that PE into shape! I had forgotten that this on was 1/72!

Keep it up!
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Hi Guys . Thank you for looking in and for the words of encouragement .

The PE is further along right now but there are some bits I'm still thinking on :hmmm

I'm gonna take a few mental health days and opene up this Spitfire box.

Cheers, Christian B)
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Just a bit of progress to report . Made a bit of headway with the office.

Dinah_office_001a.jpg


Added some plumbing and make believe components to make it look more busy.

Dinah_office_002a.jpg


Need to start putting some of these components together and it will start looking like something

Cheers, Christian B)
 
KI-46 III Dinah

Hello everyone. :cheer: I just dugout the KI-46 and this will illustrate why I don't like having more than one build out at one time . Namely , one of the console has gone AWOL :vmad .

KI-46_cockpit_002a.jpg


So, here I am trying to fashion out a couple new ones from sprue :blink

This is going to be an incredibly busy week so , just maybe I can get this think closed up :idonno

Cheers, Christian B)
 
KI-46 III Dinah

While I was here basically idle , I discovered that I had in fact a book on this bird.

FAOW.jpg
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This proved to be helpful as there are several cockpit pictures here that I have not found on the Webb sites.

office_03a.jpg


Since the interior parts were falling out as fast as I could glued them back in, I closed the fuselage and made my final modifications to the cockpit .

office_improvements_001a.jpg


For some reason, Hasegawa and Eduard both left off a lot of the details.

office_improvements_002a.jpg


However , try as I might it is above my ability to squeeze in all the detail of the real thing.

The canopy is now ready to be installed . I also just realized I am holding the wrong mask for this beast. This is a Dinah III, not a Dinah II :bang head .

I might just get this thing finished in time if the Sprue Bros get the mask in the mail soon :facepalm

Cheers, Christian B)
 
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