Erik Leijdens Looking good. Fantastic dio

Daniel Klink Thx for the kind words guys! Makes me kind of proud

Daniel Klink @Spanjaard Thank you... it makes sense that way..

Hoodlum90 Wow! Nice Plane and Base!

Moritz Fentzahn Nice diorama, Daniel what kind of gras tufts did you use on the base?

Daniel Klink Hi Moritz, thank you much appreciated... Love your works. The tufts are from Silhouette mini nature https://mininatur.de/de/klei..tbueschel-Fruehling-741.html
Cheers Daniel

Daniel Klink Thank you Hoodlum..

Scott Dutton Great work, good to see patchy ground/ grass, looks very realistic

Spanjaard I have never used a pre-cut mask yet, but one like this one would certainly make think about it....

Daniel Klink Hi Guys,
@Spanjaard, yes nearly 140 single patches to fo fix... But except of the ones for the fusealge windows, they are included in the kit for the 1st release edition. It makes things definetely much easier with this flying greenhouses from Japan, France etc...
I wish i had those for the Renzan.
@Lukasz Thank you very much and welcome
@Alec Yes once upon a time when frames were mainly brushpainted
The Canopy fits that perfect i just needed 4 spots of Micro Lristal Klear (white glue) to fix it....

Spanjaard 140? holy..... yes, enough to get you insane

Alec K Nice. Thanks for the info Daniel.

Daniel Klink Hi there, the mask from the kit weren't mainly of the correct fit, so i had to cut new ones of my own and now i am stisfied with the result.
It cost many time but now i am in the mantal state again to continue the detailwork For this Emily will be the beached one i started with the "legs"
. Tonight i will practice some soldering of etched parts, because toglue the Maintenance platforms would be insane to do.
Best regards Daniel

Stefan Schacht Hi Daniel, nice start, i take a seat. Cheers Stefan

Hoodlum90 Nice work on the interior!

Daniel Klink THank you Guys....
@stefan yes but it is a slow start.. guess it will take 4-5 years to finish this project....

Cuajete Looks very well. Congratulations!

Daniel Klink Thank you

Alec K Excellent work

JOHN THOMAS Very nice work

Michel Wingard Very good, thought it was larger scale from the first picture. Now I need to up my game on mine.

Daniel Klink Hi there, many thanks for your the compliments Alec, John and Michel

Spanjaard interesting

Stefan Schacht very nice

Dave Flitton I like it, its your dipole antennas that got my head spinning. They need to be all at the same angle.

Daniel Klink Thank you Stefan .
Hey Dave! At first.. Great that you like it. And you are right. The Antennas are not correct and the red-White stripes are missing. And the markings are in the wrong order and colour. The antennas will be fixed soon. The wrong Decals are a failure of the kit (not the only one) but i overlokked it.
Cheers Daniel

Spanjaard nice resurrection project!

Daniel Klink Thank you Guys... refills my Mojo for this woderful Hobby..
Iam still looking for a alternative canopy .. Pavla is not the thing and Falcon nearly not to get.
And even the Sword Kit of the Shoki-II is not available any more to use the Canopy of it.. Any idea?

James C Only thing that I can think of would be to try and obtain a cheap second hand kit in 1/72 to use as a donor?

Alec K How about the Rob Taurus canopy? Looks like it's available.

Daniel Klink Hey Alec, thanks a lot... Just saw it and did some short googling to find out that they have nothing in common with the Pavla products .. They are part of the OWL company. And they have a nearly full range in every scale...wow.
How could i miss that..? Thank you mate I will give it a go. You can order zhis directly in the owl-shop

Choppa Nutta Very nice

Alec K

JOHN THOMAS Very nice work

Johne 69 Top

Cuajete Sometimes it's good to give a second chance to the old kits. Watching

Daniel Klink Thank you all very much Gentlemen... Much appreciated... still some way to go but it will be finished with a new Base and some additions soon...
Added some Pics of the progress.. My Gosh 2 Years nearly ...Time is a bitch

Treehugger The fourth photo looks stunning imo. There is all this detail in the canopy glass, and then the depth, and then the different scales to things with the large airplane and the smaller things around it. And the dark shadow under the plane and the bus is a very nice touch.

Spanjaard great to have the extra pics

James C That dio is looking fantastic mate.

Dave Flitton Nicely done!

Es-haq Khosravi Great dio!

Mike Daniels Brilliant dio.

Cuajete Fantastic!

James C Very nice build mate. I'd not seen or heard of it before either.

Łukasz Gliński Great build, really nice

Cuajete Well done! Congratulations!

Daniel Klink Thanky ou Gentlemen...much appreciated... In my opinion it is a very elegant Design for it's size... And if Hasegawa or someone else would do a new moulded Rita.... I woul surely give it another try... Without the sanding and rescribing and modern Clearparts of course..

Spanjaard very nice Daniel

Roland Sachsenhofer Great build of a seldom seen plane, I really like the outcome!

Dave Flitton Massive! Beautiful! Where do you put it?

Daniel Klink Hi, thank you Guys much appreciated...
@Roland I like the outcome too, although i shortened a lot especially the rescribing of the panellines.
It should have been ten times more on the plane and less deep and wide...
But the sanding and filling took nearly all of my mojo with this one

@Dave it has a good place in a wooden Showcase in my Mancave

Spanjaard excellent Zero. beautifully done

Daniel Klink Thanks Mate ..

Holger Kranich Very nice and subtle weathering!

Sören Reifert Really nice work Daniel!

Daniel Klink Thank you Holger and Sören..... But it is a thankful and fantastic kit....

Choppa Nutta Very nice

Cuajete Looking very well so far. Watching.

Cuajete Very nice. Congratulations!

Daniel Klink Thank you!

Redcat I like it!!!!

Spanjaard very nice job.

Markus Antonius how was the build? do you have a comparison to hasegawas old moulds?

Timothy Heimer Nicely done!

Daniel Klink Hi, Thank you Folks Highly appreciated...
@Markus yes, I built them simultaneously, and i have to say the fit of the Sword kit is not state of the art, even for a Short run kits. Of course the overall surface Detail is better done, but kind of soft and not as crisp as seen before and after from that Manufactor. The decals have also some colour issues.
But if you want to do an early Tojot his is the only game in town.
The much older Hales Kit was the easier and more straight build.
Cheers Daniel

Markus Antonius Thank you Daniel for the information! So i will just wait for Tamiya to take care of a 1/72 scale shoki (they did the Hien recently, so not all hope is lost

Sören Reifert Really nice work so far

Daniel Klink @ lukasz 2 and 3 are the latest pics

Łukasz Gliński Thx, it looks bit weathered already, but I assume that was the intention. Apart from that I think it looks good after sanding (my sanding usually screws things up much more)

Stefan Schacht Hallo Daniel, nice weathering. Cheers Stefan

Cuajete Hi Daniel. I see it quite well

Daniel Klink Hey Guys, recent Pictures show the sanded and recoated surface of my Shibdeb.. Some wathering added (and yes the japanese Navy Planes often looked that battered even with only some hundred Flying hours completed ) There are only some areas of the engine cover that needs to get a hand on.
Nex step is to paint the yellow frontstripe on the wingroots and the Guns, the Exhaust "stripes" .. . then some postshading with thinned smoke and Kawanishi green along the panels.... I am quite satisfied with the result so far with this oob Kit .. The new Gunze Coat cans will disappear in the dark ede of a drawer

Alec K Looking awesome Daniel . Too bad about the Gunze product. I use them, so made myself a note.

Christian Bruer Well done with the weathering

Vinny Panda Love it, great idea and superb diorama.

Daniel Klink Sorry for my late reaction.. Thank you very much for your kind words Vinnie