Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Nice work, my friend. . . as usual..
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Thank you Lyle :) theres more updates but not yet posted :(
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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going on

aotake on the inner cowling

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engine on

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Glued tail surfaces and cowling and sanding time.. also carved the landing lights housing

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gears on, the MG is not glued

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cut out the windscreen to remove the gunsight gap

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I cut the gunsight support and painted the upper cockpit parts, after i added a second support for gunsight with documentation consulting

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first version of new windscreen..

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the second and final version of new windscreen, also decided to cut the rear part of canopy to show opened

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then glued

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the new rear pieces thermoformed

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heated clear sprue with lighter and pressed onto landing lights housing, then removed, holed to simulate the cone , painted the inner with silver, then glued with CA glue and refined

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now the sonia is ready for the enamel painting session :)
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Nice stuff! Keep it coming.
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Very nice!!!
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Bsyamato always has something interesting on the bench! Looking good - can't wait to see you start laying the paint down!
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Two pictures only for updates... a full thinned layer of humbrol 147 and on the bottom the same 147 with a touch of 78, a layer for now, suspect that he need about three layer to see something :)

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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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OMG lots of updates i forget to put here :oops:

After complete the bottom grey layers, starting to paint the white stripe in the middle end of fuselage instead to use decal, also starting to put the green, i choose under advice of friends to use the pure 102 green humbrol

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a test colour was done on the card to show the green humbrol variety i have

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Propeller with a red dark brown (own mix) and metal parts on the flap inners, the base for the aotake clear (homemade too)

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Postshading and highlights on the green parts

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on the bottom too, to otain darker parts just used the same mixed colors for gre green/grey but put a major percentage of humbrol 78, for the highlights on the center panels used a pure white 34

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notice the semiglossy effect that the drybrush action had on the surfaces, before these steps i did a new layer of botto grey and don't waith a safe time to let the paint completely dry :)

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yellow stripes painted with 154, about 4 thinned layer needed .. i forget even to paint these details before main paints :mrgreen:
Also painted the aotake

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The sonia after 2 layers of glossy coat for decals, after a third layer was done and today put on decals but not yet took pictures

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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Looking good, sir. Nice paint work. I am still in awe of your brush skills.
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Re: Ki-51 Sonia Hasegawa 1/72

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Thank you Lyle but i think i've exagerated with highlights in the propeller.. will try a correction after the final flatting touch

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Decals on

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Now the problems are to fit the thermoformed rear sections of canopy, they don't fit good in the original pieces :geek:
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