Battle damaged Mitsubishi G4M1 'Betty' in a 1/48 dio

[A4K]

One word: Beautiful!!!

 

[Airframes]

Excellent work - love the map and magnifying glass on the Nav table.

 

[Wayne Little]

Agreed....excellent!

 

[Torch]

Very nice!!!!!

 

[Catch22]

Superb!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Now that's stunning!

 

[gbr-22]

Hi everybody!!Thank you all for your nice words..
Some more progress with the Betty which I'm afraid will start counting her wounds from now on!!..

So that's the latest progress of the Hamaki

As you can see from the photos this Betty will take the form of a battle damaged aircraft, so a lot of work has to be done yet..
Thanks a lot for looking..
Cheers,
Panagiotis.

 

[gbr-22]

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[Catch22]

Looks great so far!

 

[A4K]

Is there a problem with the pic loading? Just see big empty spaces where the pics should be.

 

[gbr-22]

Now that the problem has been fixed I can go on with the update...

The simplified tailgun mechanism was improved and in the Vector Kinsei engine(there's no Kasei engine aftermarket available yet), the pushrods and some o rings were added at the back. A lot of detail work has to be done here!!..

The port engine will be shown separately as the Vector Kinsei is too small for the Tamiya kit..As Mr Tagaya very kindly informed me there'll be some changes and corrections on both nacelles to depict a late 11 production model..

Finally, some experimenting was done to show some damaged panels much later in my diorama..A liquid called acrylic medium makes aluminum foil stick very well onto plastic..(Sorry for the Greek)!!..

Thanks for your time!!
Panagiotis.

 

[gbr-22]

Now that the problem has been fixed I can go on with the update...

The simplified tailgun mechanism was improved and in the Vector Kinsei engine(there's no Kasei engine aftermarket available yet), the pushrods and some o rings were added at the back. A lot of detail work has to be done here!!..

The port engine will be shown separately as the Vector Kinsei is too small for the Tamiya kit..As Mr Tagaya very kindly informed me there'll be some changes and corrections on both nacelles to depict a late 11 production model..

Finally, some experimenting was done to show some damaged panels much later in my diorama..A liquid called acrylic medium makes aluminum foil stick very well onto plastic..(Sorry for the Greek)!!..

Thanks for your time!!
Panagiotis.

 

[A4K]

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

[Airframes]

Very, very nice work !

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely!

 

[TimEwers]

Man looks good as is I'm generally happy if I can just get one done.

 

[Shinpachi]

Very skillful artwork.
I frankly admire

 

[Wildcat]

Amazing work!

 

[B-17engineer]

holy god...

Fantastic!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent!