Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu

Arne Greve
Hello Ben, he looks fine. But have you fotos of civilian Kyofus?

Ben STONE
No Arne. I was just going to make it up.

Arne Greve
A fantasy flyer. 😉

Ben STONE
🙂 Maybe I'll put unicorns and rainbows on it. 🙂
Seriously though, I was looking at it late last night and thought that it doesn't actually look all that war-like.

Arne Greve
You forget Tinkerbell and her friends. ;-D

Paint it glossy red and make some white stripes on it.

Ben STONE
Tinkerbell 🙂 may as well add Gandalf.
Red and white did come to mind as did a mid blue and white.

Arne Greve
By Tinkerbell, I thought of my daughter. She has the age and the movies on DVD to be a fan of this little fairy. ;-D

Hm, mid blue and white is a little bit better, I think.

Es-haq Khosravi
Very nice! I'm in!

Gustavo Antonelli
I love this floatplane, the Rex. It should be dark green over green-gray... 🙂

Jay Dubya
It's starting to look like something from Porco Rosso II -"The pig's post WWII retirement to the mid Pacific" - Ha Ha !!!

Ben STONE
I saw the Porco Rosso film but is there a sequel?

Jay Dubya
Of course not - I just made that up !!!

... but ... such a sequel could also star a unicorn, the entire cast of Peter Pan, Gandalf ... the possibilities are endless ...

PS beautiful work btw Ben

Arne Greve
Hi Ben, is it Silver and Black?

Kerry COX
That must have been a huge aircraft in it's day. Totally uncluttered lines Ben.
Have you got a paint job in mind ?
This will be a gem to see ben.

I am comfortable here mate.

Now entertain us. 🙂

Ben STONE
🙂 JW, great film though and there should be a sequel.
@Arne. It's a mix of Humbrol aluminium 27001 & 27002, Humbrol Copper 12 and Humbrol Clear Orange 1322 in varying amounts as to what I thought I wanted. I'm really just playing with it and trying out styles and methods. The other striped colour is an enamel mission brown I bought from a hardware store mixed with a bit of black gloss. I'll add a black satin band alongside the brown on the wings near the fuselage. I'm sort of happy with where it's going, I'm learning, we never stop learning and sometimes you need to give yourself space to learn and experiment.
Kerry, kind words, thank you. "Clean lines" are indeed what she has, very elegant. I've been looking at the speed race planes of the 30's lately and been awed at their elegance which is what I see in this plane. She's beautiful. As a shipwright by trade I love clean lines.
Anyway, I'm having fun.
😢

Kerry COX
A chippie too !!!!. No wonder your models look so good. 🙂