Hello friends, I've had at going on lately and haven't been around much. I hope you all had a great Christmas. I thought I would share my latest adventure in chipping. I recently completed this Hasegawa Ki-84 "Frank" which I did in the markings of a machine from the 85th Sentai, flown by 8 kill ace Misao Okubo in the summer of 1945.Truthfully I don't know much about IJA squadrons.
The Hasegawa Ki-84 is fantastic, perhaps their most underrated kit. It's well detailed and goes together beautifully. The only gripe I have is the grommet system for attachment of the landing gears. You essentially shove them into those little black plasic things (like props) concealed in the lower wing and hope they stand correctly. I see what they were trying to do to ease construction, but it's not very stable. It's the same deal for the drop tanks too, which did work a bit better. I ended up gluing them all in place.
I added an Ultracast seat, PE belts, wired the engine and gear legs. Paint was my own concoctions of Tamiya paints, basically a little of this and that. It's basically XF-58 Olive Green with a touch of XF-49 Khaki to brown it up a bit. The lower is XF-14 IJA grey. All markings were painted on using Maketar masks. Chipping was done with primarily the liquid frisket technique. I'm beginning to get the hang of it control-wise. I weathered it heavily with Ammo Mig washes.
I'm now working on Eduard's new Spitfire MK. IIa as a change of pace. I'll post pics of that soon.
A few progress pics.
1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
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1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
Can you fly this plane and land it? Surely you can't be serious? I am serious, and don't call me Shirley
Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
Masterbuild !
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Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
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Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
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Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
You.....are in a different league. Another awesome Japanese build. Definitely waiting to see the Spitfire
Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
man, is this true! Wow........
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Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
You sir, are one master modeler. That looks superb! This is one war weary looking machine.
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Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
Every detail of this build is amazing!
March as one, Don't look back
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
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Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
Absolutely incredible work!! Very nice!
Mike
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Re: 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
You're just showing off now.
Fabulous work in all seriousness.
Fabulous work in all seriousness.
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