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Hasegawa 1/48 Ki-43 I

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Michael Turner said 3 months ago:

G’day Woody (@wkubacki),

Looking at the black and white photo of this aircraft in the book, it is evident that the colour is not as dark as the green of the one above.

The contrast with both the red and the black anti-glare panel is more than for the green above, but not so strong that it looks too light.

There is also reasonable contrast with the white, too.

Also, “light blue” is a relative description - compared to US Insignia Blue or Sea Blue, say.

Add in fading and the light at that lattitude and colours will look lighter than on a sample card.

So why paint the aircraft blue, anyway?

Perhaps it was for operations over the sea, as they did undertake a lot of convoy escort ops.

I think your choice of 6-2 is more likely than the light 6-3.
George R Blair Jr said 3 months ago:

I love an unusual paint scheme on a model, Woody (@wkubacki), and this certainly qualifies. Really nice airbrush work. I have also read about some Japanese planes with a blue finish on them, but have never seen one done. This will be a really cool model in your display case.
Woody Kubacki said 2 months, 4 weeks ago:

I'm back, after some self inflicted wounds. After painting the plane blue, I went over it with highly thinned C72 Intermediate blue. Then I started on the chipping... and after all was said and done... I didn't like it. While the wings of the plane are not very visible in the photos I have, the starboard fuselage was, and it had moderate chipping. My mistake was to combine chipping from various Oscars captured in theatre, making for an overly chipped plane (mostly on the fuselage. So out came the sandpaper and primer and I sanded down the areas I wanted to redo. None of this I really wanted to do, but since there were photos of the plane in questions, I really had to make is similar to the real thing
6 attached images. Click to enlarge.
Woody Kubacki said 2 months, 4 weeks ago:

Once the plane was ready for paint, I painted the same mixture of C35:C72 2:5 using my PS-270 with the crown cap off, and then with C72 thinned 95:5 with Rapid thinner. I can't help praising the PS-270 enough, it's a $115 (CAD) brush but performs like a brush twice its price.

Next up is some cowling chipping, and then some fading of the red on the rudder, elevators and hinomaru.

It was a good save, not perfect, but good enough.
3 attached images. Click to enlarge.
John vd Biggelaar said 2 months, 4 weeks ago:

A nice correction on the chipping, Woody @wkubacki
All looks very realistic.
Spiros Pendedekas said 2 months, 4 weeks ago:

Great save indeed, my friend @wkubacki! Looks excellent!
Louis Gardner said 2 months, 2 weeks ago:

Woody Kubacki (@wkubacki)
Incredible ! This plane looks outstanding, and you can't tell where the repairs were made. Well done.

The bare aluminum base looks excellent. Many years ago I did something similar with a 1/48 scale Tamiya Ki-84 Frank.

I used the original kit from the 1970's but it turned out pretty good, so I entered it into a contest. It didn't win any ribbons,

but it was photographed and put into the Fine Scale Modeler magazine.

But mine pales in comparison to what you are doing here. I sincerely mean that. The Blue color used over the bare metal is something that I have never seen before.
Woody Kubacki said 1 month, 2 weeks ago:

Wow @lgardner, being published is an amazing feat, congratulations! I think the paints out now really help the modeller create the models that they have in their minds.

Well I have ben away for a while, mainly working on another Oscar as I was dreading starting the weathering. I never know how to start it seems, so I start on the part of the plane least viewed, the undersides. Usually by the time I get into the groove I am ready to start the upper sides.

I started with a Tamiya panel wash of dark brown and black and then moved on to oil stains and leaks with oil paints (black, dark browns, some greys and creams, and thinned with lighter fluid). Bare metal is such a challenge for me to weather, but I think I have done a decent job here. Next up are the upper sides which will be more fun and be similar to the last Oscar.
3 attached images. Click to enlarge.
Spiros Pendedekas said 1 month, 2 weeks ago:

Undersides weathering looks superb, my friend @wkubacki!
John vd Biggelaar said 1 month, 2 weeks ago:

Weathering is nicely done, Woody @wkubacki
Woody Kubacki said 1 month ago:

Finally completed! I really dragged my a*s on this kit, with long breaks without any progress. Overall I'm pretty happy with this build, there are some areas that I missed that I could improve upon, and I will do so for the next Oscar build (in progress). Thanks for the kind comments and encouragement along the way gents, it's really nice to have a supportive and like minded work to share by builds with.
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Spiros Pendedekas said 1 month ago:

Congratulations, my friend @wkubacki!
Yet another wonderful result!
John vd Biggelaar said 1 month ago:

Very impressive result, Woody @wkubacki
Great achievement on the painting and weathering.

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