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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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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.
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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.

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Similar. They're for a tabletop war game I got into recently, and the army they belong to are called "Lizardmen." They're basically intelligent dinosaurs mixed with Mesoamerican mythology. Recently finished painting one of them, still got many left.
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In other news, I'm considering starting a P-61 Black Widow model kit. It's a few years old at this point and probably should be done already, but I'm anything if not a procrastinator.
 
Similar. They're for a tabletop war game I got into recently, and the army they belong to are called "Lizardmen." They're basically intelligent dinosaurs mixed with Mesoamerican mythology. Recently finished painting one of them, still got many left.
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In other news, I'm considering starting a P-61 Black Widow model kit. It's a few years old at this point and probably should be done already, but I'm anything if not a procrastinator.
Cool on the table top game, and as for procrastination, why do today if I can deal with it in ten years is my name.
 

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