Hi everyone!
First, I would like to congratulate our Admin, Lieutenant @lis, for the creation and successful running of this wonderful GB!
My entry to this GB will be the Nichimo 1/48 B5N2 Kate, that I intend to finish as a Pearl Harbor attack bird.
More to come!

Aye-aye, Lieutenant @lis!

That's a kit that will really be in need of Spiros' Patented Magic Treatment Of Old Kits. 🙂

I came across my build of this kit from more than 25 years ago while searching for my Glencoe Duck. Dusty and the painted tape I used for canopy frames were peeling. It'll be great to see a new build of this in progress.

Starting off...

Thanks my friend @johnb! Nichimo is a Japanese company that made some very interesting kits of a variety of subjects in the distant past, a good effort at those years. The Kate has engraved panel lines, a well advanced feature at its time.
Probably Nichimo are not active lately.

Will be great that you will join this GB, my friend @tcinla, especially tackling the very nice Hasegawa kit (one of which you have already built and came up with your usual superlative result).
Thanks for kind words and looking forward to your entry!

Here is the cockpit in basic color. Instructions call for "bamboo green", whereas Hasegawa calls for "Nakajima cockpit color" (sort of beige-ish green) and the discussions on the definitive j-aircraft (but also elsewhere) talk, to my understanding, about a tan-ish/green-ish/beige-ish shade. A mystical experience by itself and by totally respecting all Researchers' outcomes, I went for Hu72 Khaki drill which dries to a light brown-green shade...