Hasagawa, B5N2, Type 97, Model 3, Carrier attack plane, or ”Kate”

Started by Frederick J Seitz III · 24 · 6 years ago
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    Rick Wilkes said 7 years, 1 month ago:

    Hi Freddie, I'm pretty sure that everything I have posted here on iModeler, was painted either with Model Master Enamels, Tamiya rattle cans, or my then dwindling stock of Polly Scale/Warbird aryclics. I started the transition to Tamiya paints about 6 weeks ago, in fact the kits I'm building for this Group Build will be the first where I use Tamiya bottle paints.

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    Frederick J Seitz III said 7 years, 1 month ago:

    This will be cool then! I can not wait to see your finished projects!

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    Louis Gardner said 7 years, 1 month ago:

    Your Kate is starting to really look like a plane now that you have the flying surfaces glued on... Great progress !

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    Bernd Müller said 7 years, 1 month ago:

    Great build so far, the paint job in the cockpit looks fantastic.
    Well done !

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    Bernard E. Hackett, Jr. said 7 years, 1 month ago:

    That is a nicely painted cockpit. I hope I can do as well.

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    Frederick J Seitz III said 6 years, 11 months ago:

    Well, she's done! Hasegawa's 1:48 Scale B5N2, Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane, Model 3.

    Flown from IJN Hiryu on the morning of 4 June, 1942 by Lt. Tomonaga Joichi, for the morning strike on Midway itself. He also flew this American aircraft carrier for one of the afternoon strikes on the American carrier, USS Yorktown, from which he would not return, shot down by Lcdr James S. "Jimmy" Thatch.

    9 attached images. Click to enlarge.

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    Ryan Boerema said 6 years, 11 months ago:

    Dang! That's lovely!

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    Louis Gardner said 6 years, 11 months ago:

    Beautiful work Freddie. Your Kate turned out awesome ! We have a little less than two weeks now for the reveals... Great work my friend.

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    Tom Bebout said 6 years, 11 months ago:

    That Kate looks really nice Freddie, outstanding job.