Here are photos of my latest Japanese plane:
Mitsubishi A5M2a "Kansen"
IJNAF, 13th Kokutai
PO 1st Class Mori Mitsugo
China, Nanjing, February 1938
This is the old Fujimi kit # C-19/72040 first issued in 1996.
It's still useful for building a good A5M2a, but I found it necessary to make these improvements: pilot seat belts, drilling the exhaust pipes, reshaping the cockpit opening, and reducing the thickness of the wing trailing edges. Other small additions, the ignition cables on the engine cylinders and the pilot's climbing bracket.
Even the decal sheet, rich and well printed, still includes a hinomaru with a too light red and a slightly oversized "4-122" tail code. Two more sets of additional correctly sized numbers are provided, "0" and "1" through "9", but a pair of "2s" is still missing to reconstruct it.
- Fabio Balzano, Italy -
Mitsubishi A5M2a "Kansen"
IJNAF, 13th Kokutai
PO 1st Class Mori Mitsugo
China, Nanjing, February 1938
This is the old Fujimi kit # C-19/72040 first issued in 1996.
It's still useful for building a good A5M2a, but I found it necessary to make these improvements: pilot seat belts, drilling the exhaust pipes, reshaping the cockpit opening, and reducing the thickness of the wing trailing edges. Other small additions, the ignition cables on the engine cylinders and the pilot's climbing bracket.
Even the decal sheet, rich and well printed, still includes a hinomaru with a too light red and a slightly oversized "4-122" tail code. Two more sets of additional correctly sized numbers are provided, "0" and "1" through "9", but a pair of "2s" is still missing to reconstruct it.
- Fabio Balzano, Italy -
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