**** DONE: GB-58 1/48 Kawasaki Ki.45 Hei - Night Fighters all Eras

[CATCH 22]

Thanks all. The whiteness undercoat for red and yeller. For some reason I have two and a half bottles of Tamiya Lemon Yellow. I added .2ml of Tamiya Red to the half bottle and this will be my ID Yellow for those pesky British/Japanese leading edge markings. Other colours to be sprayed after the Jays game

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George, does your bird still carry the belly cannon or not? I don't remember anymore.
Can you show the underside of the a/c (with or without cannon)?
Cheers!

 

[fubar57]

Camera battery charging at the moment but here is a section of the instructions showing the insert. Versions 1 & 2 carry the cannon and 3, which doesn't carry the cannon has you install a plug in this area. Not sure if this is an early or late version of cannon

 

[CATCH 22]

Camera battery charging at the moment but here is a section of the instructions showing the insert. Versions 1 & 2 carry the cannon and 3, which doesn't carry the cannon has you install a plug in this area. Not sure if this is an early or late version of cannon

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Thank you! So you have version 3, right?
As for your question: This is one of the late configurations (Hei): 37mm in the nose and 20mm ventral.
See here.
The 37mm in ventral position is the earlier configuration (Otsu) and has bigger cover of the cannon breech.
See here.
The "early" or "late" type in Hasegawa's model is the same 20mm cannon with different muzzle ends.
Cheers!

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far George!

 

[destrozas]

geo, COMING NOW!!!!

 

[fubar57]

Sprayed Vallejo Semi Matt Aluminum. Green to go on after the Jays game

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Go Jays.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice smooth finish George.

 

[Wayne Little]

Nicely done Geo...

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far George!

 

[rochie]

that is nice

 

[fubar57]

Painting done, masks off. A black base attempt, improvement needed. No touch-ups or bleed under

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[rochie]

very nice

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Karl

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice looking scheme and well done so far.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Used my circle cutter to cut some masks from Oramask Stencil Film

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Gotta remember to wear glasses when shooting photos on manual setting

 

[Totalize]

Excellent stuff Geo. The paint work is really nice.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys