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"George" is the name of my New Year's baby 2023: Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden /"George"

by Roland Sachsenhofer on January 22, 2023 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

The fingers of one hand are enough to list the representatives of an extremely rare group of aircraft: those that have been converted from a seaplane to a land plane! If one narrows this group even further to those constructions that have [...]

Tamiya N1K1 Kyofu / 'Rex', 'Japan's Purpose-Built Floatplane Fighter'

by Harvey R. on November 13, 2022 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

I've built a lot of clean models this year, and what better excuse to make a beaten up bird than a Japanese subject? I ordered this while waiting for some supplies for other projects to arrive and have had fun beating up this big 1/48 [...]

1/48 Hasegawa N1K2 Shiden-Kai Prototype Number 3

by Erik J Kidd on April 13, 2022 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Here is the old 1/48 Hasegawa N1K2 Violet Lightning-Improved (Increased) straight out of the box. Made the tail decals for prototype #3 in Illustrator and, for some reason thought the 3rd prototype was the first with the larger but thicker [...]

Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden by Otaki

by Bob Dudolevitch on April 27, 2021 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

The Kawanishi N1K1/2 was numerically, the second most important fighter of the Imperial Japanese Navy, behind only the Mitsubishi A6M. 1435 were produced, representing just under 10% of all IJN fighters. For Japan as a whole, only the [...]

Hasegawa 1:48 Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden (Violet Lightning) “George”

by George Henderson on April 16, 2019 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

This model represents an aircraft of the 343rd Fighter Group, flown by Leading Airman Ikuji Matsumura. A very nice kit. I added the RB Model Brass 20mm Japanese cannons Type 99 Mk. 2. I bought these for the soul reason that they were on [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 "Captured" Kawanishi N1K2-J

by George Henderson on March 21, 2017 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

This was is a great build for an old kit. No filler used at all, even the pesky fuselage/wing join. I used Rising Decals "Dying Sun Pt.III and they worked great. For chipping I first laid down some Tamiya Flat Aluminum and the painted [...]

1/72 Tamiya N1K1-Ja Kawanishi Shiden

by Geoffrey Abreu on March 8, 2017 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Just finished this one up today. It is painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered a bit with silver pencil, oils and pastels. It is pretty much OOB. I drilled out the gun barrels and added an antenna wire from Uschi super fine rigging [...]

Hasegawa 1:32 Kawanishi N1K2 Shiden “George”

by Ulrich Schütt on August 20, 2016 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Hello, It has been a while since my last post, almost one and a half year. I had a very rough time the last 1,5 years... in a nut-shell; burn-out, divorce, got sacked after 17 years... but I'm doing very fine right now. Well this is my [...]

1/48th Tamiya Kawanishi Shiden N1K1 “George” PTO WWII

by Chuck A. Villanueva on July 4, 2016 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

An excellent fighter in the hands of a skilled pilot. A design that has it's origin from the Kyofu seaplane. Kawanishi saw the potential in it's performance on paper and with that and without the authorization of the Navy decided to [...]

Tamiya 1/48 N1K1-J Shiden "George"

by Thomas Harper on October 4, 2013 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

This was an enjoyable build start to finish. I built the "George" with only photo-etch harness straps for cockpit detail. My Paints were Model Master enamels and I weathered using pastels and a Prisma color silver pencil.