Ki-84 Hayate flown by shoi Karasawa, 57 Shimbu-Tai - May 1945 - From Hasegawa kit in 1:32 scale

[al49]

Hi everybody,
last February I saw a picture of Japanese WW2 fighter Ki-84 Hayate and I was fascinated by that plane, so I decided that, besides all other projects waiting to be completed in my cabinet, I had to make a model of her and I purchased (at a good price) the Hasegawa kit.
Here following is the profile I'm using to make my model.
The assembly started already in February, so very soon I will post some photos.
Alberto

 

[al49]

Here we are, starting from the engine that was made out-of-the box with the addition of some wiring:

 

[al49]

Then we have the cockpit where I used the Aires resin kit.

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking very good so far Alberto.

 

[al49]

Many thanks for your comments.
Next was a coat of aluminium on all surfaces followed by FS34087 Olive Drab on wings, tail planes and rudder as those I supposed were less inclined to wear.

 

[fubar57]

Moving right along. Great looking cockpit

 

[Wurger]

 

[al49]

For the following step, I decided to try to arrange wear areas by applying some masking fluid, see below.
The output was that it works well only where the masking fluid is thick, otherwise doesn't go.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Wayne Little]

Very Nice Alberto, I have 2, 57th Shimbu-tai Ki-84's on my waiting list to add to one already done...

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Alberto.

 

[al49]

Going on with the process, I had to ascertain that the masking fluid I applied was too thin, so very difficult to peel-off. The result is visible in the following pictures: too large areas.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[al49]

My next step was to check again photos to see how far the paint was really worn out on these birds and I found that, with some exceptions, the damage was not so bad, probably due to the short operational life ended by the end of the war.
Therefore I decided to keep only the small worn areas and to move on with painting, including sprayed on Hanomaru and walk-lines. Plus some decals, see below.


Next step will be to add some more small worn-out areas using a pointed stick and some aluminium paint.
More pictures should come in few days.
Alberto

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Looking good

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far!

 

[Bustedwing]

Top notch, looks like a great kit.