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The Nichimo A5M4 built in 2019 is okay, but not as nice as the Fujimi one. The propellor is a real irritation as well. The first one is a Mitsubishi A5M4 IJNS Hosho 1941-1942. Decals are from Rising Decals and they were quite adequate. The IJN really had cool schemes early in the war, but that obviously changed as the tide of the war progressed.
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The next 2019 Nichimo build is another A5M4 (yes I went crazy building those) is a Mitsubishi A5M4 'BI-32' 381st Ku Tebrau, Malaya August 1945. This one had the antenna and gunsight removed. IJN Deep Dark Green over IJN Grey. Rising Decals were used and went on like a dream.
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The Ki-15-I from 2019 also finally has it's decals!! I used my Rising Decals set that I was fortunate enoigh to snag last year for this one. This is a Ki-15-I 18th Dokuritsu Chutai China April 1939.
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Finally another Fujimi Ki-36 with the special decals of the set released in 2005. It was more trickier than I thought it was going to be with this one. I do like the end result. I looked for the unit in the Hikoki book, but didn't see a match for it. Instructions indicated pre October 1942, but box art indicates 1943. I went with the October 1942 version.
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P38 H update before my beautiful instrument panel gets covered by the dash!
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I can see why new pilots felt intimidated when the first sat in a Lightning cockpit. Lots of levers! I'm told in the Pacific they get new guys scared stiff of flying her as they heard all of the P38'S woes in the ETO. Thomas Lanphier (I think it was him) said they'd go up and have the green horns do some aerobatics, feather an engine etc and they'd come back down a lot more comfortable with the Lightning. Lanphier even went so far as to say that any American kid could learn to fly a 38 and that it was in fact no harder to fly than any single engine aircraft.
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Almost the last of the 2019 and 2020 builds needing decals. I had to do some minor adjustments and replace items, but easy to do at 1/72 scale. This is an Airfix Mitsubishi Ki-46-II 82 Sentai 1942. I have read it isn't the best one available due to it's inaccuracies.
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