This is my attempt
at the , as stated by Tamiya “best one of all Japanese fighters appeared in
the pacific war” It was a great
build, as expected of Tamiya, but I went the extra bit to weather the paint as
seen in the pics in the Osprey series.
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I hand painted the
unit colours on the fin of the 3 Chutai, 11 air fleet at Phillipines in 1944,
otherwise its OOB. I initially
sprayed silver where I wanted to show weathering and then the JAAF green.
Once almost dry, I stripped the green off with tape and then sprayed
thinner to remove the green and merge the borders with the silver to simulate
sun and rain effects. Some random scratching with the back end of the knife and a
touch of pastels finished the job.
Polly
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