Fuselage halves glued, and only the canopy and the gunsight to be added
Notice the chopped rudder, thinned the inner surfaces so that it will fit slight banked.
Also started an exhaustive riveting work, based on some plans. Only the lower surface of the wing structure is so far completed but later today I’ll be tackling the upper surfaces also. Hope you can see those tiny rivets on the pic
Although I made some background research about this kit before I started building, I erroneously assumed it to be a short nose version. Guess what? It’s not!
That portion between the wing and the lower engine panels is the nose extension of the last version Kawasaki produced for its 61 model.
This means that instead of building the 68 Sentai “Hei” model, I have a late war “Tei” kit in my hands.
The only decals/masks I have to build this version are 2 machines form the 244 Sentai ace, Major Kobayashi, both well know and made in innumerable models.
Anyway, between both
I’ll be doing the #7 olive green camouflaged Blue 62
Here’s an excellent drawing from Osprey artist, that diverges from Lifelike decals by showing a blue ribbon between the 2 white ones. I believe the real plane sported this decoration as so
let’s see how it goes, though this one is not as fancy as the initial 68 Sentai machine 🙁
