Weizenbrot
Airman
- 24
- Jan 12, 2023
Hi all, how is everything going these days? It has been almost half a year since my last aircraft model. This time please let me introduce you my most recent work Hasegawa's Ki-100 in 48th scale.
I started this work during the COVID pandemic. My idea was to simulate the stressed skin with help of sanding tool and real copper skins. The other reason was it really is a good way to kill time when work from home. I moved to a new flat recently and have a separate room for my workshop, so I decided to finish this work.
Before start, please give me some time to have a quick review of the kit. This kit was from 1990s. Hasegawa modified it from their older Ki-61. You can tell from the sprue, as it has many parts for Ki-61. Although this is not a new model, it is pretty sharp. Panel lines are clear, details are fine. The fitting is not as good as Tamiya, but you can still simply fix it with putty. Overall old Hasegawa did professional job on this aircraft.
Let's now move to the workshop. As usual, I went through all the panel lines and made all the rivets referring to a book.
With the rivet lines as a reference, I started to make the stressed skin effects. First I used a 10mm sanding head to roughly sand down a light groove. Then I turned to a smaller 4mm head to deepen some area there are usually more "buckling". I kept checking pictures of real aircrafts to understand the relationship between two panels (are they overlapped or bridged?) and make sure the skin looks nature.
After sanding with the tool. I used #400 sanding paper to smooth the edges of each skin "lattice". Trimmed until satisfied, I used 3M green sanding foam to finally remove scratches caused by previous steps.
I will be back tomorrow to update other metal work and cockpit modification.
I started this work during the COVID pandemic. My idea was to simulate the stressed skin with help of sanding tool and real copper skins. The other reason was it really is a good way to kill time when work from home. I moved to a new flat recently and have a separate room for my workshop, so I decided to finish this work.
Before start, please give me some time to have a quick review of the kit. This kit was from 1990s. Hasegawa modified it from their older Ki-61. You can tell from the sprue, as it has many parts for Ki-61. Although this is not a new model, it is pretty sharp. Panel lines are clear, details are fine. The fitting is not as good as Tamiya, but you can still simply fix it with putty. Overall old Hasegawa did professional job on this aircraft.
Let's now move to the workshop. As usual, I went through all the panel lines and made all the rivets referring to a book.
With the rivet lines as a reference, I started to make the stressed skin effects. First I used a 10mm sanding head to roughly sand down a light groove. Then I turned to a smaller 4mm head to deepen some area there are usually more "buckling". I kept checking pictures of real aircrafts to understand the relationship between two panels (are they overlapped or bridged?) and make sure the skin looks nature.
After sanding with the tool. I used #400 sanding paper to smooth the edges of each skin "lattice". Trimmed until satisfied, I used 3M green sanding foam to finally remove scratches caused by previous steps.
I will be back tomorrow to update other metal work and cockpit modification.