Recent content by al49

Nice books. I have at least one book on the subject in my library and very likely I will purchase those as well.

In facts, the sleep was much longer! My model landed again on my desk only in January 2024, when I decided that it was the right time to complete the decals job and add some weathering..

OK, these are pictures taken in April 2021. For some reason that I don't remember I had to clean and repaint the area in front of the windshild. Deacals I used were "wet Transfers" form HGW. In my opinion they are quite good, but something went wrong with the "29". Fortunately, those scratches...

Hello, during last months I did some progress on this built that was sleeping on on shelf, I just need to organize pictures I took and I will poste them.

Very nice job so far! Keep going!

Many, many thanks!!! If I had had these photos four months ago, probably I could have tried to do something different, still in relation with my abilities.

After a few days, it was time to spray the Nakajima Green in a random way so to give the impression of rush painting. Decals followed. I hope you like my job. Better pictures will be taken as soon as possible. Alberto

Following to what said on post 12, I completly changed my mind and I took as a reference the artwork concerning aircraft EI-311 boarded on carrier Shokaku on which aircraft's upper surfaces were painted green shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbour and the job was done in rush an not very...

Back on my model, before painting the Nakajima Dark green color I had sparyed a layer of MIG 2010 chipping fluid, so my next step was to remove here and there some of the green paint. Unfortunately two things stopped my work, first I was unable to find a picture of the real bird to copy and...

Personally I agree and I found on the web people who filled in some way those "valleys", but I did nothing because I thought it was above my capability.

To end for today, pictures of the Dark Green paint job that was done lsat November.

Next step was to choose: wings open or folded? The kit offers both options but, unfortunately, in my opinion, doesn't provide a strong folding mechanism. Folded wings will be glued to the fixed portion only with very small contact points and will be supported only by very fragile braces, so I...

Assembly in progress with same parts already primed and painted.

Some other pictures from the w.i.p. Most of my job concerned the cockpit.

My first step was to try to understand the size and the level of detail of the final product, with special interest for the cockpit.