Ki-43-I Oscar simple build

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April 25, 2023
I little bit of flash and no interior detail. I will fit a pilot to hide most of the empty space
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April 25, 2023
Inside parts painted black just to be sure.
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April 25, 2023
I gave some parts a coat of interior green but this wasn't needed at all.
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April 25, 2023
The fit is decent for this old mold. It needs a little help to get the wing angle right.
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April 25, 2023
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April 25, 2023
Filler is needed on some of the connection points.
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April 25, 2023
I removed the molded gunside scope becauseit didn't look very good or in scale. I hope to make a now one or leave it of. I also recribed some panal lines after sanding. The raised rivit detial is unfortunately gone.
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April 25, 2023
The landing gear is glued in the up position. The kit doesn't give the option to display this plane in flight so I had to remove some material to make this work.
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April 25, 2023
Some parts are primed with Ammo one shot black primer.
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April 25, 2023
The pilot figure looks terible in this kit(right). So I will use on form the spare box. Its not a japanese piot but i will take it.
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April 25, 2023
Not to bad. I still need more practise on figure painting but i'm reasonably happy.
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May 1, 2023
Just a simple scratch build behind the pilot to fix the gap and add some detail.
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May 1, 2023
Everything primed black again.
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May 1, 2023
canopy and windshield are paintend blue green metallic as a inside frame colour before they and the pilot are glued inplace.
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May 1, 2023
Inside of the cocpit is also painted.
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May 1, 2023
The pilot fits great although it is not form this kit.
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May 1, 2023
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May 1, 2023
And again primed black for the 3rd time.
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May 1, 2023
Pre shading with white. Always some nice airbrush practise in this scale.
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May 1, 2023
Sky gray tamiya for the underside.
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May 1, 2023
IJN green Tamiya for the upperside. Not the correct shade but I like the look of it.
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May 1, 2023
The masking went great.
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May 3, 2023
The decals are unfortunately very bad.
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May 3, 2023
I don't mind that some are to long that is something i can fix. But they don't react well to decal solvent and break very easily.
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May 3, 2023
They also don't conform to the surface detail. The raised detail probably doesn't help
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May 8, 2023
I trimmed all the decals anf fixed some of them with paint in the best way i could. After that I gave it a clear coat. The upper side was give na wash of medium tan for ammo. This was probably a bit to much but I wasn't a focused anymore after the decal problems.
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May 8, 2023
the underside was given a wash a dark night for ammo
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
I painted the exhaust by hand with revell paints.
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May 8, 2023
I gave the model a light matte coat to keep a bit of shine.
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May 8, 2023
Silver chipping is added with a brush.
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May 8, 2023
I saw some copper details on other models of the ki-43 so I added it to the not very detailed engine.
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
I added de exhaust smoke with a mix of lamp black and burned umber oil paint. I also added some dust to the walk way and some with oil paint to the control surfaces to indicate other materials.
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May 8, 2023
Also some dust around the wheels.
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
The canopy unfortunately is ruined forn the inside. I didn't think thing true and the abcence of a cockpit floor and gear bay means that all your paint can enter the cocpit and hit your canopy for the inside.
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May 8, 2023
But I decently happy with the result for the very old and also fast build.
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
I made this model with the wheels up because I wanted to try and make a little display stand for common materials. I started with a few layers a thick packing paper.
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May 8, 2023
These are glued with super glue and pva. the size is 7cm by 7cm.
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May 8, 2023
I sanded the sides to get more even sides. I coated it with acrylic putty to give it some texture and side the paper layers.
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
I added 2 cottonbud sticks to hold the plane.
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May 8, 2023
Black primer.
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May 8, 2023
I painted the base white and added a red dot to one side.
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May 8, 2023
A light brown wash id added and a but af white dry brush with oil paints to fade the paint.
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May 8, 2023
I super glued the sticks in place and added this support piece to one of them.
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May 8, 2023
I dry brush with silver to finish it of.
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May 8, 2023
The fit is good.
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May 8, 2023
Final photos.
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
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May 8, 2023
The canopy is really unfortunate.
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May 8, 2023

Comments

8 25 April 2023, 11:57

Villiers de Vos
Following your progress.

3 May 2023, 13:50

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I saw this old kit at a hobby store and it looked fun ot build. I want to make it a fast project to work on.

The build was fast and I tested some new thinks on the stand I made.
Unfortunaly this kit is very old so some problems did occure during this build.

Problems:
- Very bad decals

The scheme options are very nice but the decals crack easily and they are translucent. some are also to big.

- no cockpit floor and gear bay

This sound like something that is common with these old kit but I ruined my end result because of this. I added the canopy before painting but that resulted I paint getting stuck on the inside of the canopy because the spray for the airbrush can hit the canopy form to wheel bay that also doesn't exist.

- Very bad pilot figure.

The pilot figure looks really bad and you need to add one to hide the empty void of a cockpit.

Ki-43-I Oscar simple build

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