1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 85th Sentai "Okubo"
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:18 am
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.
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.
