Hello everyone. This is the 1/48 Tamiya kit.  The model was built out of the box, except that I added photoetched seatbelts.  And the cannons were replaced for hypodermic needles.

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This is an old kit and I had some troubles filling some gaps, especially the  ones between wings and fuselage.  This was the first time I made a Japanese airplane and I was a bit afraid on how I was going to do the paint job. I used Model Master and Tamiya paints to finish this one. I used the post-shading technique to give the model a weary looking paint effect, but not too much.

The chipping was made using a small brush with Tamiya Aluminium. Decals were difficult to set in place but finally got it using Solvaset.  Thanks for looking!

Franz Galli

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