I spent the past 4 months working on the Koster Nell kit. I bought it brand new in 2006, started it in 2021 and made a little progress, but restarted in late December 2025.
Tamiya acrylics, weathered with oils and AK pencils. Kit is vacform, with white metal and resin parts. I used a 500kg bomb from Ushi and the dorsal cannon is from Quinta, both 3D printed. Kit hinomaru, tail codes from generic sheets and the 901st Ku tail stripes were painted.
Main reference was FAOW #109, but also found online images of the actual aircraft in a wrecked state at Okinawa.
The kit itself was superb, and is my first full vacform kit completion.
- Dan Salamone -
