Hasegawa Kyushu J7W3 Shinden "Japanese Jet Ace"

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gorby
Looks very good Gary, it looks very believable. I also like 'what if' and 'Luft 46' subjects.

9 January 2017, 16:59

Gary Brantley
Thanks a lot Gorby! I sure appreciate your comments. I like those subjects too. In fact, my Ta-183 is in queue for a start soon. I just can't decide of which paint scheme to choose. 🙂

9 January 2017, 17:38

Holger Kranich
Hi Gary,

you surprise me again with a nice build! The chipping around the exhaust nozzle looks awesome to me! I didnt knew that a jet propelled version of the Shinden was planned, but i´m not deep in japanese aircraft of WWII.

9 January 2017, 17:53

Gary Brantley
Holger, thanks for replying to my post! I have another of this kit in the stash and maybe someday I'll get the radial-engined prototype built. I understand that the prototype did make three short test flights in the waning days of WWII.

9 January 2017, 17:59

gorby
I just missed out on an 'AMTech' Ta-183 on Ebay last week – it went for silly money. Have you got the AMTech or the Tamiya?

9 January 2017, 18:02

Gary Brantley
Mine is the AMTech issue. I did buy a resin nose for it, with a deeper intake trunk. It's a sweet little kit. 🙂

9 January 2017, 18:26

Holger Kranich
I just saw you are on SPA Modeler, too? Never saw ya there but i visit very seldomly there. Thomas M. is a good mate from me. He is here too;)

9 January 2017, 19:00

Gary Brantley
Yeah, I've "met" Thomas here already! He's an incredible modeler. There's a good little group on SPAModeler. I hope to see you there some day. Cheers!

9 January 2017, 23:58

Holger Kranich
In march i meet him again for a whole week of hardcore modeling! Cheers!

10 January 2017, 09:14

Gary Brantley
I found a couple pics of the conversion "in progress" and added those.

29 January 2017, 00:15

Ben STONE
Nice work. I've got the 1/48 Zukei Mura kit of this waiting to be started

29 January 2017, 01:19

Gary Brantley
Thanks for taking time to comment Ben. I really appreciate it! 🙂

29 January 2017, 03:10

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Well, how about another "what if" history project? I hope you don't mind. This started off as just a regular build of the Hasegawa Kyushu J7W1 Shinden. This aircraft had long fascinated me, with it's unorthodox canard design and sort of "Star War"ish appearance. I wanted to build the prototype which actually was test flown in the waning days of the war. The build was progressing along nicely when disaster struck. I was using a desk lamp to speed up the paint drying. I left the plane unattended for a few hours and when I returned, the lamp had dropped down several inches and had melted the upper rear fuselage. Yeah. Ooops! After much gnashing of teeth, a "fix" came to me. I could try to adapt the aircraft to turbojet power which was a long-term plan for Kyushu anyway had time allowed for this development.

I used body shop spot filler putty to build up the damaged area, deleted some features, added a few more and jumped whole hog into this conversion process. I used the canopy from some long lost P-47, cutting

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