77th Sentai Hayabusa

What I’ll be using for this project 

Wheel wells way too shallow 

Right well opened up 

Left well opened up 

Seat has “block” for pilot rump 

Block removed and lightening holes added 

Seat bottom replaced and lower back support added 

seat glued to cockpit floor 

wheel well ceilings added 

Intrior areas ready for paintin 

base coat of Tamiya Lacquer Flat Aluminum on fuselage areas, plus Tamiya Lacquer Light Gun Metal on engine 

Gunze Aqueous Aotake on fuselage interior areas 

Airwaves PE Seat Belt added 

Tamiya Cockpit Green painted onto cockpit area, engine crankcase painted in Vallejo Game Color Cool Gray, and machine guns for adding from spares bin painted Tamiya Lacquer Flat Black 

Base colors on in cockpit, cowl guns from spares and scratch made mount onto forward portion of IP 

Cowl guns weathere , Yahu IP items added, + final wash & dry brushing 

Better overhead view 

Yahu IP and cowl guns 

Seat & cowl guns 

Fuselage closed up and seam sanded smooth 

Close up into cockpit 

Wings glued onto fuselage 

underside gap & step needing to be dealt with... 

Horizontal stabilizers and engine added after rescribing lost detail 

Test fit of cowling and propeller… looking like a Hayabusa now! 

base coat of Tamiya Gloss Aluminum lacquer airbrushed on 

Next airbrushing session: Tamiya IJA Gray onto flight control surfaces, Tamiya Fly Black lacquer onto anti glare & wing walk areas, and Gunze Aqueous Deep Yellow onto wing leading edges 

masked off areas for touch up of overspray onto Aluminum areas 

mottle camouflage added to upper and side areas airbrushed on with Gunze Aqueous IJA Green. Propellor airbrushed with Gunze Aqueous Red Brown 

undersides gloss coated 

underside decals on 

topside gloss coated & vacuform canopy dipped in Future 

topside decals on 

Fixed upper left wing Hinomaru that was not laying down properly 

Homemade sludge wash applied to upper surfaces 

Homemade sludge wash applied to undersurfaces 

Wash cleaned up from upper surface 

Wash cleaned up from lower surface