1:48 ki-44 from hasegawa

[aurelien wolff]

Hello, I've already placed the engine on it and decide to take a picture before it's hidden beneath the cowling. That kit is lego even if a little puty was neccesary on some places. I detailled the set a bit even if not much is visible.

I plan to do yoshio yoshida plane from the kit box art with the red tail since it's what today research say on this plane.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Beauty

 

[aurelien wolff]

On the landing gear and tailwheel, is it fine to them metal color?
Thanks for your answers, I did the primer today.

 

[fubar57]

I would go with metal. That's how I did it

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[CATCH 22]

Agree wit Geo. Here are a few details I've been using as a guideline:

 

[aurelien wolff]

before making research, I actually thought the holes were injection pins, good thing I didn't removed them.

 

[CATCH 22]

There are two small doors behind the wheel well, covering some mechanism that comes out - in the photos I posted above it's in the right lower corner and how these doors work is shown on the left side. Those should be open when a/c is on the ground. I believe Hasegawa's model has these 2 doors as separate parts. I have the old Otaki-kit and those are molded closed, which is wrong.

 

[aurelien wolff]

if I'm using aotake , should I also paint the tialwheel bay in the same color? hasegawa gave nakajima interior green for the bay.

 

[CATCH 22]

if I'm using aotake , should I also paint the tialwheel bay in the same color? hasegawa gave nakajima interior green for the bay.

The instructions in the Otaki-kit are also for "army green" wheel bays for example. It is possible green was used in the earlier Ki.44-I variants. Hasegawa in their own instructions for 1:48 and 1:32 models gives "silver" or "aotake" for the wheel bays - check attached instructions. Not sure which model do you have exactly - they might have changed the instructions for their models at some point. I would go aotake.