This is Hasegawa’s great 1/32 Scale Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate kit. It’s a simple and well-engineered kit that builds easily. Mine is out-of-the-box with masked and painted markings for an aircraft of the 29th Sentai operating from Formosa in 1944–45. I used Tamiya rattle cans for the natural metal finish.
- Bill Weckel -
Nice! I like the NMF, and the weathering is good. It may need a touch more oil stains on the bottom, but over all, it's well done. 4.8 (What colors were used, by the way?)
ReplyDeleteI love machines from 29. Sentai. Such personal deviation. Really good bit.
ReplyDeleteI give 5 points!
Well built and great silver shine (not too chrome-like)! The weathering of the anti-glare area looks great, too. I have some doubts, however, about the colour of the no-step warning lines - red on NMF factory-delivered aircraft? 4.8
ReplyDeleteD.C.: This was my first attempt at a NMF (at least since brush painting as a kid.) The base is Tamiya AS rattle can, then I picked out some panels with Alclad.
ReplyDeleteJan: Thanks for the compliment.
Toryu: I saw a Japanese modeler in one of my Model Art magazines do the warning markings in yellow. I'm sure I just further propagated his mistake. Now that I think about it, I've never seen a decal sheet print them in anything other than red. I'll get it right next time!
I like it. No to the yellow warning markings, no to the yellow drop tanks and no to the kill markings. In that big scale I would have liked to see a detailed ockpit and perhaps some panels opened with the engine or cannons showing. But other than that a very nicely finished model. 4.6
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