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ajd3530
Airman
Small progress. Painted and assembled the power plant. Not much going on, but it will be buried in the cowling behind the spinner, so certainly good enough.
The airframe required more filler than I had originally anticipated, and my time away from the hobby is showed when I tried fill some gaps.
I've masked the canopy as well. Now this is the first time I've masked a Hasegawa kit. While I very much appreciate their very fine molding, the super fine framework made masking this thing a nightmare. I spent the better part of 2 hours trying to mask it, and it still looks pretty rough. I was pretty much cutting using dead reckoning, and it shows. But it's as good as I'm going to get it. I certainly hope the newer Hasegawa kits have more prominent frame work than this older tool kit. I couldn't begin to imagine trying to mask a large greenhouse canopy like on a B5N Kate or C6N Myrt with such subtle frame lines like this kit has.
Still trying to figure out exactly which manufacture made this particular plane. The kit instructions show it as Nakajima airframe, but most research I've done shows it as being a Mitsubishi produced plane.
The airframe required more filler than I had originally anticipated, and my time away from the hobby is showed when I tried fill some gaps.
I've masked the canopy as well. Now this is the first time I've masked a Hasegawa kit. While I very much appreciate their very fine molding, the super fine framework made masking this thing a nightmare. I spent the better part of 2 hours trying to mask it, and it still looks pretty rough. I was pretty much cutting using dead reckoning, and it shows. But it's as good as I'm going to get it. I certainly hope the newer Hasegawa kits have more prominent frame work than this older tool kit. I couldn't begin to imagine trying to mask a large greenhouse canopy like on a B5N Kate or C6N Myrt with such subtle frame lines like this kit has.
Still trying to figure out exactly which manufacture made this particular plane. The kit instructions show it as Nakajima airframe, but most research I've done shows it as being a Mitsubishi produced plane.