GB-59 1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-15 'Babs' - WW2 PTO V

[A4K]

User Name: A4K
Name: Evan
Category: 2- Intermediate
Scale: 1:72
Manufacturer/ Model: Hasegawa # B003: Mitsubishi Ki-15 ('Babs')
Extras:
DEAD Design Models # VM72 045: Ki-15 Babs Canopy Mask (for Hasegawa)
Yahu # YMA7292: Ki-15/ C5M Babs instrument panel

One of those kits I always wanted as a kid - got one nearly 40 years later in a job-lot on E-Bay
Kit is without box, and many parts are off the sprues.
Some interior detail will need to be scratchbuilt (as always), looking for reference photos for that.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice one Evan and your going to do some little detail, great.

 

[A4K]

Yep, just what's visible through all those little windows Vic!

 

[Wurger]

 

[N4521U]

Won't be too labor intensive.

 

[A4K]

Shouldn't be Bill...(famous last words? )

 

[A4K]

Kit as bought.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

 

[A4K]

Rest of the parts coming off the sprues.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice Evan, get stuck in mate.

 

[A4K]

Cheers Wayne. Parts all off the sprues now, just need to sand the spinner.

 

[A4K]

First phase done: all the grey bits off the sprues and cleaned up

 

[Vic Balshaw]

 

[A4K]

Dry fit.

Some gaps at the wing roots will need to be dealt with, and the tailplanes are thinner in chord than their attachment point. The canopy will need to be faired in. Other than that, not bad

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Sadly not an unusual problem with many kits.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]