Revell H-102:600 Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu

[ausf]

Sweet!

I hear you regarding building over collecting. I've been buying a bunch of OOP kits lately, latest was a Wolfman that I paid way too much for. It was listed with box grading, I had it glued together within 12 hours hours of receiving it.

Collect books, models are made to be put together.

 

[moon puppy]

Looks good Warren

 

[Paulw]

A guy in the club had one of these for show and tell this past Tuesday. Get going, Warren

 

[sharkman]

Thanks guys and thanks Christian! I've been looking at that site a bit. Decided I'm going to leave the rivets on, even though they are out of scale (I really don't want to re-scribe this). I am having trouble deciding what the little openings are on the trailing edges of the nacelles? Are they some sort of exhausts, vents??? anyone know?? Might have to post it on Arawasi to find out.

You can see them on these two pics.

Anyway, here's the update I should have had last weekend. The family have been sick all week so progress has stalled a bit.

I made an update to the exhausts and drilled them out, then put a piece of tubing behind.

Then I added some ribbing and detail to the wheel wells with styrene and spares

Then began the long, arduous process of masking this tiny greenhouse nightmare!

More to come!

 

[Iron Mike]

 

[razordws]

Nice progress Warren.

My guess is that those are landing gear indicators. I've seen them on other aircraft though I can't remember which ones at the moment.

 

[moon puppy]

I doubt exhausts, I wonder if it wasn't some waste gate air vents.
Looking good Warren

 

[phantom II]

Good question Warren . I have no idea but like Dave said, they are in a good place to indicate the status of the gear , although they stike me as over kill ( size wise )

Good detail on the gear bay

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[sharkman]

So, I had forgotten about this kit and did a bit of work today! Should be able to finish before the deadline with just over a month left.

FINALLY finished the masking! Why I torture myself with these little kits with extensive greenhouses I don't know!

There's more underneath too!

And almost have the nacelles ready to attach, just need to paint the insides Aotake!

 

[phantom II]

Cause you like windows ? Looking good Warren

If only they had figured out how to make decent exhaust for these kits :idonno

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

That looks like a whole lot of fun.

 

[Rhino]

You want exhausts? Better P/M Master Mike!!
Sogai so far!!

 

[lupanzer]

Great masking job!...a challenge

Luiz.

 

[sharkman]

Thanks guys!

Camo!!

I was playing around with a couple ways to do the camo on this thing!

First try, I used some MicroMask. Painted the 1st coat Japanese green , applied the MicroMask and then grey/green

Pulled that off after it dried and it was a disaster!

So, painted it green this time and then tried another approach!

Some adhesive putty (or blue tack)

tried both colours!

This one worked better, but still wasn't quite the desired effect i was looking for. You can see on the right side of the wing that I tried just airbrushing some spots free hand too.

 

[sharkman]

I painted the wheel wells aotake and then covered them with some scraps from a foam filter

Painted the plane overall grey/green and then a little pre-shading

covered the areas for the Hinomarus with some cardboard

I decided to just airbrush the spots on for now, I don't think it turned out too bad. Masked off the nose and nacelles for the anti glare too.

I need to mask off the yellow ID stripes and paint them, then I can add a gloss coat and decals. This will be a Ki-49-II from the 2nd Chutai, 7th Sentai, New Guinea, 1944

I found these designations on another site

JAAF
Kokugun = Air Army
Hikoshidan = Air Division
Hikodan = Air Brigade
Sentai = Air Group
Chutai = Squadron or Company
Shotai = Flight or Section (3-4 aircraft)

IJNAF
Kokutai = Air Group
Hikotai = Squadron
Buntai = Group (two Buntai per Hikotai)
Chutai = Flying group of 3+ Kutai
Shotai = 1-3 Kutai
Kutai = Division or Flight (4 aircraft)

Shinbutai (I've also seen Tokubetsu Kogekitai, or Tokkotai for short), is the designation for Special Attack (Kamikaze) units.

 

[phantom II]

Looking good Warren

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Paulw]

Great progress, Warren. By the way, that UHU tack won't work for the Ki 49. It is meant for the He 219.

 

[lupanzer]

Very nice Warren!...great free hand camo job

Luiz.

 

[sharkman]

Thanks Chris and Luiz! I think I will need to invest in an airbrush with a finer tip! If this was 1/48, it probably would have looked better.

Great progress, Warren. By the way, that UHU tack won't work for the Ki 49. It is meant for the He 219.

Ha! good one Paul!

 

[Old Dog]

Looking good Warren, Spotted finishes like that are my nemesis, I have a couple of kits that have been waiting years for me to master the technique and a paint mule that looks like it has pox from all the practice attempts !