Brengun 1/72 Kugisho Ohka

[BorgR3mc0]

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.

[LyleW]

Nice they gave some links for reference. Good stuff!

[BorgR3mc0]

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.

[jeaton01]

Small does not equal simple, does it!

[LyleW]

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

[BorgR3mc0]

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

[BorgR3mc0]

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).

[LyleW]

Well sprayed, well sprayed indeed!

[BorgR3mc0]

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.

[LyleW]

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