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Argh! Don't get me going on Jap craft! I know less about them than I do about Navy birds, or the PTO!
I don't know why, but Japanese WW2 aircraft have never held my interest, and consequently, I've ignored them. I personally think they all look a bit bland. I try not to build models of subjects I don't know about, and prefer whenever possible to have either first hand experience, in some form, of the real thing, or many years experience of studying, painting and modelling them.
In fact, until now, I've never strayed further than Europe, or, at the most, in rare cases, the Middle East, i.e. North Africa. Don't even think I've ever touched a WW2 Russian bird, and certainly not a Luftwaffe East Front crate.