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They are indeed tiny.

The Kamikaze version is going to be two shades of grey. Brengun shows two interpretations of the camo scheme: one shade of gray or two. I want to build I-18, it is a wel documented aircraft and there are original colour photographs available. I have those in an excellent article in a German magazine (FliegerRevue X).
Further there is also a good article on Aviation of Japan that supports the two shades version. And Brengun also refers to an article on J-aircraft. I think it is a good gesture of Brengun to show the sources and the discussion about the interpretation of the colours.

http://www.aviationofjapan.com/2011/09/ ... 1.html?m=1


The trainer has two options: grey/green (like a lot of Japanese aircraft) or grey/orange. I am going for the latter because I already have a few grey/green Japanese aircraft so that would be boring.

Currently I am masking the canopies. There are eleven window panes on each canopy so that is a surprisingly large amount of work.

Nice they gave some links for reference. Good stuff!

Yes, only disadvantage is that I keep finding small thing that I need to improve. I have added these small air intakes, drilled out the rocket exhaust and added a hook to which the Ohka was attached to the Betty. Latest addition, I am trying to make counter balance weight. You can see this in de second picture. I have used copper wire with a drop op white glue.

The canopies have also been masked. There are eleven panes on each canopy so that toke some time.

Small does not equal simple, does it!

My eye fell out. Now, where did it go?

I started the painting, black base with Mr. Surfacer 1500 black. It went on like a breeze.

First layer of paint is the on. Japanese army grey, a greenish grey for the fuselage of the kamikaze. The wings will be light grey (as will the underside of the trainer).

Well sprayed, well sprayed indeed!

Loads of pictures in this post. My wife is gone for the day and my son has a friend over to play so I had two hours straight to do some modelling! That is a rare occasion.

I did two airbrush sessions.
First Japanese Navy Grey (Tamiya). On the kamikaze the contrast with the Japanese Army grey is less then expected/dependent on the angle and lighting.

I then masked the trainer using the box art (which was to scale) as a template to cut the masks. To protect the box art I first put on a piece of wide cello tape. The home made mask was cut into three sections (nose to wing, wing, wing to tail) to ease application.
I then sprayed the orange (Humbrol 82 and 69 in a 50/50 mix). Everything was thinned with Mr self levelling thinner.

Very nice work on the masks. Nice that the box art was in scale, too.