phantom II
Master at Arms
Hello everyone ! I find this a klunky sort of story but I'll have to give it a shot anyway, so I hope that at least someone will enjoy it.
This story is about an airplane that is not modeled a lot. As a matter of fact there were not that many produced. Less than 500 for all variants.
I spent quite a bit of time in books and on the internet but there are not that many pictures that I could turn up. Which serves to explain why the old build never suited me. The scheme came from a old Donald Thorpe book. Might be accurate ? But boring.
So, I striped it ! ! !
As I said before this airplane must have lived in the shadows. It was first delivered to the Japanese Army in 1937 and served till the end as a Kamikaze plane.
A bit plain in this profile so I continued to look.
When I finally started digging through the Aviation of Japan Webb page I found that other planes like that were deployed to the Sino Japanese war had three tone paint jobs I thought that it could be fun. The KI-27 Nate and the KI-23 Mary sported these paint schemes , so I though maybe ? ? ?
The color combinations are still disputed but the Webb site seems to believe that the Army tanks used these colors and the airplanes were repainted to match the terrain colors.....I'm just gonna have fun with it !
The original build was the Hasegawa kit which is quite good but while searching Pandora's box for some spares I came up with this old Mania kit which proved to be identical hmy:
The plan has just changed The interior is nearly OOB. Just added a few ribs in the fuselage and some wiring for the radio gear.
Some stirrups for the rudder pedals . Improved the camera which I found out latter is the wrong color .
Hope you guys enjoy this. I surely have. Avery interesting little airplane. It was all metal and which in itself was saying a lot for the time period. It set speed records and flew distances that Europe could not touch for sometimes .
It was the fastest recon plane the Japanese Army had until the KI-46 Dinah came into service much latter.
Cheers, Christian
This story is about an airplane that is not modeled a lot. As a matter of fact there were not that many produced. Less than 500 for all variants.
I spent quite a bit of time in books and on the internet but there are not that many pictures that I could turn up. Which serves to explain why the old build never suited me. The scheme came from a old Donald Thorpe book. Might be accurate ? But boring.
So, I striped it ! ! !
As I said before this airplane must have lived in the shadows. It was first delivered to the Japanese Army in 1937 and served till the end as a Kamikaze plane.
A bit plain in this profile so I continued to look.
When I finally started digging through the Aviation of Japan Webb page I found that other planes like that were deployed to the Sino Japanese war had three tone paint jobs I thought that it could be fun. The KI-27 Nate and the KI-23 Mary sported these paint schemes , so I though maybe ? ? ?
The color combinations are still disputed but the Webb site seems to believe that the Army tanks used these colors and the airplanes were repainted to match the terrain colors.....I'm just gonna have fun with it !
The original build was the Hasegawa kit which is quite good but while searching Pandora's box for some spares I came up with this old Mania kit which proved to be identical hmy:
The plan has just changed The interior is nearly OOB. Just added a few ribs in the fuselage and some wiring for the radio gear.
Some stirrups for the rudder pedals . Improved the camera which I found out latter is the wrong color .
Hope you guys enjoy this. I surely have. Avery interesting little airplane. It was all metal and which in itself was saying a lot for the time period. It set speed records and flew distances that Europe could not touch for sometimes .
It was the fastest recon plane the Japanese Army had until the KI-46 Dinah came into service much latter.
Cheers, Christian