Daniel Klink Tired of awaiting this one in 1/72 i decided to get a go with the Fujimi semi toy offering in 1/144.

Treehugger How do you solve the nose weight problem on such kits?

I screwed things up adding nose weight to this seaplane that is still pending completion, a year after I started airbrushing it. I made the mistake of forgetting to add nose weight into the nose itself, so.. I put the weigh into the two floaters.. Bad idea! The floaters are flimsily glued onto the aircraft, making things prone to snap and really weird to hold in my hand. Eventually I left the two floatters snapped and detached to be glued on later.

Rick Corts Following!

This thing would be a beast in 1/72 scale Daniel! Still hoping it will come out eventually...

Daniel Klink Hey treehugger. i use split shot "Schrotblei" in german . i use patafix oder whiteglue to fix it inside.

Daniel Klink @Rick welcome and yap it would be close to a Peacemaker in Dimensions
I think anigrand has one but this is waste of money and time.

Rick Corts You mean Anigrand has one in 1/72? I thought they had it only in 1/144.
Though Unicraft was working on one in 1/72 but i think that project is suspended :/

Greg Baker Bwahahahahha! 1/144! I'm in!

Marcel Klemmer Very intersting Daniel. I am in

Daniel Klink Welcome aboard Guys

Katya Hodgson Oh this is looking absolutely lovely, the paint is perfect.

Daniel Klink Thank you Katya much appreciated
I added props from the Ki.45 Hasegawa kit to see if they would fit. I think they do... What do you think Folks?
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Katya Hodgson They look pretty great to me! ^-^

I wonder if there is a kit of the Ki-83...

Cuajete @Katya: Mitsubishi Ki-83 (Special Hobby SH72157, 1:72)
Mitsubishi Ki-83 (MPM Production 72088, 1:72)

Maybe hard to find and hard to build.

Daniel Klink @Katya, yap i also think they are ok, thank you
@Cuajete. both, i tell you i got one on my shelf of shame in 70% built state, and one "new" of the MPM edition.
The Hitech version by special hobby is on my list and should be a bit of improvement to the older MPM kit

Cuajete Thanks, Daniel

Katya Hodgson Ooh lovely, i'll have to have a look at those. Thanks! ^-^

Roberto Rocat Those props look good from here.

Treehugger Very nice! I thought it was 1:48.

Łukasz Gliński Looks like a really battered one

Greg Baker Looking great! I really like the weathering. It's so easy to go overboard on that.

Rick Corts Looking great! Love your work on this!

Daniel Klink Thank you guys! Much appreciated
@Lukasz These squadron Machines were really battered, for they latest a while and weren't shot down immediately after commissioning
@treehugger that honours the result thanks
@Greg, yap once you started scraping it is hard to stop
@Rick Thank you mate

Greg Baker I'm curious how you accomplished that scraping weathering. Did you use the hairspray technique? I want to do something similar for my 1/144 Zero, but I not sure how to handle the hinomaru red dots. Any time there's more than one coat involved (red/green in this case) I'm never quite sure of what to do because the upper coat seems to protect the lower one from coming loose. In my case the layers are plastic/aluminum/Future/hairspray/red/green... so I can't get the red that's underneath the green to come off.

Do I just have to mask everything so carefully that all the paint colours sit on the same level? Do I need multiple layers of hairspray and future?

Spanjaard Chipping fluid?

Daniel Klink Hi Greg, spaanjard is right i used the Vallejo Chipping medium widely over the Alu..
But in some Areas it behaved not as expected and much more of the final color coat has been removed with it than planned. For smal areas like in panellines or canopy etc. I use the Prismacolor PC 753 metallic silver

Daniel Klink Thank you all for your nice comments. It was a ery difficult built indeed and there are a lot things i will do better next time with the version 1 of this plane.
Finally i did it but my skills and my patience aren't at the level i thought they were
You can make even this much better and cleaner, but i am alos quite happy with the result and that it seems to please the audition.
Thank you again mates

Cuajete Congrats, Daniel!

MoJo ich hoffe Du bringst die "kleine" mit nach Wilnsdorf

Tom Wunderbar geworden Daniel!

Daniel Klink Thank you Mates
@Axel ich denke schon. Nach etwas feintuning Vielleicht schaff ich auch noch den Vorgänger mal gucken die zwei nebeneinander ..hätte was.
@Tom Danke Dir

MoJo super, freu mich drauf

Daniel Klink Ich mich sowieso

MoJo

Olly And another one ! No plain green colour this time but a nice camouflage. Very nice. (the blue line is a little puzzling)

Neuling Interesting camouflage pattern, very well implemented!

Roberto Rocat Beautiful aircraft, and I like your work

Daniel Klink Hi Guys, thank you very much für your nice comments.
@Olly yap i built this 5 years ago and i didn't coated it as far as i remember. I think i could enhance the look by giving it a little washing and coating sometime. Thank you mate
@Neuling Yap the Kobayashi Field Camo is one of the most colorful and attractive schemes of WWII planes in my opinion. Thanks
@Roberto Thank you very much Mate

Sören Reifert Really nice looking Hien!

Daniel Klink Thank you Sören! This was my first built in getting back to serious scalemodelling Japanese Aircraft again
after a several years break

Cuajete Very nice Rufe. Hasegawa?

Miro Herold That's real moddeling! great job! Only I think the cocpit fuselage under the canopy should be painted black. And the Instrument panels more Mitsubishi interior green than aotake.
But in endeffect, I like the both excellent planes. Looking forward to the finishing.

Daniel Klink Hey Miro, glad that you like it.. you are right... The Aotake is just the first coat.. It will become an Tyreblack finish. But the PAnels were in early A6M2 Aotake overall, especially the units aboard ships. Unluckily the filter of the CAmera makes the plane look white. But in reality its very lightendes Blueish grey.
And the plane is not ready at all. There is still a lot of washing and shading and lining to do..

Thanks Cuajete.. Yes it is the Hasegawa, simple but quite correct and overall good details.

Miro Herold Thank for the info about cocpit painting Daniel. I have got my Rufe in my stash and the yours is for me great inspiration now.

Rick Corts Woah, Gonna follow this, got 2 H8K's staring at me, now i can watch you build 1 first. Maybe i learn something.

Daniel Klink @Miro pleases me to read this. and for the colours.. do not mention it. Glad if i could help.
@Rick thank you for your very kind words. And as i see you are quite young enough to watch my building progress and then build your own

Roberto Rocat Massive project, great work so far. I'm following

Daniel Klink A warm Welcome Roberto

Stefan Schacht Hallo Daniel, cool idea and nice model. Cheers Stefan

Greg Baker I love WHIF projects and this one is sweet. Looks fabulous.

Jean-Michel Tilquin Very original, and well done indeed!

Daniel Klink Thak you all Guys! The many positive Reaction let me feel really good

Lee Fogel That's a FABULOUS idea for a 'whiffer'!

Daniel Klink Thank you very much Lee

Ekki Great work!

Daniel Klink Thank you Ekki much appreciated This is my first "Soldering Lamp" for many years.I thin i'll do 2or 3 mor of them in the future.

bobinspokaloo huh? a bee?

Daniel Klink oops wrong pic )) It is a Hornet btw.

Olly Time to go to bed, you said ?

Ben M Is it a super hornet or a gee bee?

Robert Hall Dodge Super Bee ? AMC Hornet ? LOL !

Mike Daniels Looks a bit big to b a b. ?

bobinspokaloo u do need yur sleep, daniel

Neuling Biological weapons are banned by international law!

Sören Reifert Looks interesting

Tom Oh its so perfect art.

Roland Sachsenhofer Would you tell us it´s scale?

Daniel Klink 1/144 it is a japanese Giant Hornet A super hornet indeed

Kees Kleijwegt Following

Stefan Fraundorfer I'm in too. The wood effect ist very nice.

Holger Kranich Oh cool! Yep, the wood effect comes nice!

Daniel Klink Welcome Guys and thank you for the nice Words
I am looking for some figures, seamen and Merchants of this era..Any idea?

Kees Kleijwegt Yes, try Berliner zinn figuren, www.zinnfigur.com
One of my favourite shops and they also have a large range of small scale figures.

Hecker&Goros has a special Kogge crew set, but I think you can find and combine a crew quite easily
https://zinnfigur.com/Vollfi..search&searchparam=Kogge

Daniel Klink Thank you Kees found there what i needed