What's on The Workbench (2 Viewers)

[Vic Balshaw]

Lot of nice work there Jesse.

 

[Viking1066]

Lot of nice work there Jesse.

Thanks. They really helped prepare me for the bigger kits.

 

[Donivanp]

Got these guys a few days ago, so far very complicated to paint but definitely worthwhile.
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Dragons?

 

[Donivanp]

Nice Jessie

 

[fubar57]

Flat coat with Winsor & Newton. Landing gear and wheels were just painted. This aircraft was flown to the East Coast and disassembled, created and shipped to Iran so no weathering

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Need to paint the lil bits and the tail wheel cover which I believe was O.D.. The antenna is a flush mount so I'm going to drill small holes, insert thin wire and mount

 

[Viking1066]

Love it!

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Jesse

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice one George.

 

[Kalakan]

Flat coat with Winsor & Newton. Landing gear and wheels were just painted. This aircraft was flown to the East Coast and disassembled, created and shipped to Iran so no weathering

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Need to paint the lil bits and the tail wheel cover which I believe was O.D.. The antenna is a flush mount so I'm going to drill small holes, insert thin wire and mount

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Very nice kite.....

 

[Viking1066]

Considering how old the Mania kit is, it builds up into a nice representation. This is a B5N1 of the 12th Ku. The aircraft has been kindly donated by the Tokyo Machine Works 'Houkoku 268' China 1938-1939. The decals are from Rising Decals. These have been either really good or troublesome.

 

[Viking1066]

I wanted a B5N2 from Midway, so I went with Tomanaga's aircraft. The decals provided by R.O.P. had the tail number in white, but everything I researched indicated red. The decals provided by R.O.P also had the tail marking as BII-310 which would have been incorrect as Hiryu and Soryu changed the BI and BII with each other as Hiryu become the flag ship of the division. I ended up having to go to some very old stash decals from the 70s. I found a 'red 3' and a 'red 0' to make it work. I also ended up borrowing the yellow double bars below the tail numbers from a different R.O.P set. It came out decent enough. The blue stripe was painted on and the white stripes were decals borrowed from a Rising Decals set since this wasn't in the R.O.P. set either. These are difficult decals to work with. I don't recommend them.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice work Jesse.

 

[Viking1066]

Thank you Vic!

 

[Donivanp]

Nice work Jessie.

 

[A4K]

Great work Jesse and Geo!