Mitisubishi J2M3 Raiden "Jack" - 1/144 Fujimi - Little Diorama

[Lucke.stz]

Hello Guys,

Here is my current project.

Lets to kit:

The box comes with two kits, on Ki-44 the post about it is here
, this box was released on 1995 to Celebrate te 50 years to end of WWII

The idea about these little diorama, is to make the Raiden, crash landed on a beach in some place on the Pacific, this will be my first job on these subjects.

I did small holes on the fuselage, to simulate the enemy machine guns shots

I cut away the ailerons an the elevator, to put in a more real position

 

[Lucke.stz]

I cover the model with Tamiya Chrome t help on wheatering

On the shots holes I use Maskol

Detail about hte instrumet panel:

Decaling and paiting:

The Micro Sol an Micro Set, helps a lot to aply decals, the result is paint like...

 

[Lucke.stz]

I start to build the diorama base, so I did some Coconuts Trees

I use Piano wire 1/16" and Tamiya masking tape to make the thr trunk.

So with Tamiya XF-52 and a weathering the result was this:

The leafs I did with paper, I don´t know how these,paper is called in English, here in Brazil we call it Papel Vegetal, it was used to thechnical drawings.

The tips of the trunks I did with epoxy and the coconuts too

Each Coconut Tree have around 3,5" and 4" tall, and the leafs about 1".

So, as it is difficult to control the curiosity I made a dry fit.

thanks to see

 

[Lucke.stz]

Some model updates and weathering..

 

[Lucke.stz]

I did the base with plaster, and with the model on plastic film, I did the marks.

So, here is how these little dio will be...

Soon I´ll post more progress...

Thanks to see...

 

[Crimea_River]

Great stuff!. Love the palm trees. Very ingenious.

Reminds me of this painting:

Warbird Photo Album - Beach Head Strike Force by Robert Taylor

 

[Screaming Eagle]

Great progress!

 

[muller]

Excellent work!

How about 2 Corsairs flying past like that painting?? 8)

 

[Wayne Little]

All looks pretty good so far!

 

[Airframes]

Very good work! Looking forward to the finished diorama.

 

[Wurger]

 

[marek]

Great! Waiting for whole diorama to be redy!

 

[Lucke.stz]

WOW !

That painture looks like my diorama ! Sooo nice !!!

Now I´m thinking on a possibility to add some litlle Corsairs too....

Thanks for the cumpliments guys, this is good to keep on work !

In time a friend tell me the paper name that I used to make the Palm Trees, on the USA it is called Vellum and could be get on roll or sheet by Hobby Lobby....

best regards to all,

 

[ccheese]

Looks good.... Are you going to "damage" the plane ????

Charles

 

[Catch22]

Excellent work!

How about 2 Corsairs flying past like that painting?? 8)

I like the way you think!

Looking good!

 

[Lucke.stz]

Looks good.... Are you going to "damage" the plane ????

Charles

Yes ! I´m going to do this

Thanks !

 

[Lucke.stz]

Hi, I´m again,

Some news...

Today I paint the little pilot:

And here with a One Dime coin:

Here a idea about the size model:

I did a damage to the prop too ( I do not do the weathering yet)

The pilot on the plane ( I put it by side, to simulate that him was injuried trying to escape of the plane)

The base is almost done, I put the Palm Trees (not all yet) and add some sand, and grass, I add too a abandoned boat.

Here looks like, almost done, I have to do now a lot of details to make it more realistic..

by now is this....

Thanks to see...

 

[GrauGeist]

Wow!

That J2M3 is alot smaller than I first thought!

You're doing an excellent job, thanks for posting the progress!

 

[Maglar]

Simply ace my friend.. making me want to do 1/144 scale just to make nice little dioramas. Keep going, eyes locked on this.

 

[rochie]

great job