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Hi Gents,

My entry for this group build.

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Started with cockpit assembly. Painted it with my mix of Mitsubishi Interior Green. After drying, I applied a wash.

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Excess wash removed and started to drybrush and pick out the details with enamel paints.

more later...

Tony

aka "achook-achook"

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Hi tony,

You are doing a great work here !

Just one thing to annoy you a bit ;) : I built this plane a few months ago and I remember painting the IP in green, following pictures from the book published by Revi.

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Hi Gents,

Thanks for the kinds words and encouragement.

Toniosky, thanks for the tip and I would also like to see the Revi reference as well. I just followed the kit instructions in painting the IP.

Cheers and more later...

Tony

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Some progress shots:

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Sub assemblies cleaned and prepped for painting. I am using resin wheels cast from the original (as I lost one).

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Painted the engines and primed props with white and then with yellow orange in preparation for masking the warning stripes.

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My least favorite part. MASKING.

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Used Humbrol mask to fill the parts not covered by the tape.

more later..

:unsure:

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Progress has been a little slow as I was out of town for business:

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After painting the yellow orange leading edge, fuselage white band and tail markings, they were masked using Tamiya tape.

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Undersides were painted with mix of IJA light gray-green using Gunze aquaeous paints.

Upper camo ready for painting. Just need to find the time. :rofl:

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Additional progress:

Started mixing a brown-green solution for the upper camo using Tamiya acrylics:

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Masked were removed to revea leading edge IFF and tail markings.

Next stop decals and weathering and hoping to finish this on the weekend.

:huh:

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Well here it is, just off the bench over the weekend:

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Ki-46III Dinah of the 2nd Hiko Sentai at Licanan Airfield in Mindanao, Philippines between May- June 1944.

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Althouhg built OOB, there were slight fit issues inside the fuselage and canopies.

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Tail marking of the 2nd Hiko Sentai were masked as well as the IFF leading edges and prop warning bands. Hinomarus were spares.

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Although a Japanese Army Air Force unit, the 2nd Hiko Sentai, was placed in Japanese Navy command to assist convoy escorts from the Philippines to Celebes and Borneo. Thus the unit was using a number of airfields in Mindanao (Licanan being one of them) from May - June 1944 when it was assigned this task.

Cheers,

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