Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - And the winner is...

...I have no idea! This is a very close call so I'd like to hear from you all this weekend. Leave a comment below with your choice for the winner of this competition. Mine would be Mike Terre.

Contributors to the contest can also comment, just don't chose yourself!

Thank you all for the weekend feedback. Would you agree to have two winners this time too; Mike and Danilo?

OKAY! Kiri said she liked both equally but would go for Mike's because it was more eye-catching and interesting as a subject. So the winner of our 3rd on-line modelling contest is MIKE TERRE.
I would like to congratulate Mike and Danilo for their chivalry and all the other contestants for the very interesting models. Rene's "Babs" presentation was fantastic and it was great to see Carlo's passenger 747 and Cameron's glider! Not to forget Derek's brave and very good looking effort with the old LS kit.

It seems to me though there was not so much variety of subjects as I would have expected. So, since we are going to have a contest with the same subject next year, I would like to take this chance and make a list of all the kits and decal sets available in any scale for Civilian Japanese aviation subjects. I would very much like to have feedback from everybody since I'm not that knowledgeable about kits of non-Japanese planes.

For decals there are the three sets from "RISING DECALS" in 1/72:
1 - 72-031 J-BIRDs Japanese Aircraft in Civil Service
with markings for:
Tachikawa Ki-9 "J-ABTQ", belonging to the Miyakonojo Aviation School
Nakajima Ki-27 "J-AJTR", belonging to the Matsudo Central Aviation School
Hansa Type "J-BAWI", belonging to the Sakai City Schoolchildren´s Flying Association
Beechcraft C-17E "J-BAOI", flown by Nihon Koku Yuso Kabushiki Kaisha

It's a very good decal set with interesting options. I started building the "Nate" but Danilo beat me to it. Also started the Beechcraft with the Sword kit and I think I will have it ready for next year. There is unfortunately a mistake in the decal instructions; J-BAOI didn't have hinomaru. Perhaps some time later they were applied but there are no known photos to show how they looked like.
Although the RS Model kit for the "Spruce" is not bad I think this decal set would be much better in 1/48 where we have the great Mania/Hasegawa kit for the "Nate" and the splendid kit for "Spruce" by Nichimo. Check here for two amazing Beechcraft and Hansa models in 1/48.

2 - 72-039 J-BIRDs Japanese Aircraft in Civil Service Part II
with markings for:
Fokker F.VIIb/3m "J-BBZO", flown by Nihon Koku Yuso Kabushiki Kaisha
Mitsubishi Karigane II (Ki-15-II) "J-BACL", belonging to the Domei News AgencyNakajima Ko-3 (Nieuport 24) "J-BAFC", Osaka Mainichi Shimbun

This is also a very interesting set but I have no idea if there are and good kits except for the old but always great LS kit for the "Babs". Ofcourse Mike did a splendid job with his Nieuport 24 but are there any suggestions for the Fokker Tri-motor? And how about in 1/48? There is no "Babs" kit in that scale but how about a Nieuport 24?

3 - 72-062 J-BIRDs Pt.III
with markings for:
Doglas DC-2 Dakota "J-BDOL", "Kashiwa", Dai Nippon Koku Kabushiki Kaisha
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth "J-APAE", "Hayabusa", Kwantung Provincial Police, Manchuria
Junkers F-13 "J-BAZG", "Dai Nana Giyuu", Nippon Koku-Yuso Kenkyujo

I'm completely lost with this decal set. Your thoughts and suggestions?

All images from the "Rising Decal" site, here.

To be continued...

DON'T FORGET!
Our 4th contest starts from March 15 and the subject is "Hayabusa".
Excuses like "I haven't or don't want to build any "Hayabusa"" are unacceptable.

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Danilo Renzulli

The subject is an OOB Nakajima Ki-27 "Nate" RS Model kit in 1/72. The interiors arranged with photo etched parts provided in the kit are difficult to see once the canopy is closed. Decals by Rising Decals - the only details I added were the pitot pipe made of metal wire and a small plastic rod and the navigation light (wings' tips and top of rear fuselage) made by drilling a small hole filled with a tiny drop of Cristal Clear and a drop of Future mixed with some water based acrylic color.
I tried to imitate the elusive green-grey finish typical of these aircraft using a mixture of Humbrol colors. That's all!

Danilo Renzulli - Rome, Italy

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Mike Terre

I'd like to offer the following entry to the contest. It's the 1/72nd scale Roden Nieuport using Rising decals "J-Birds" sheet. The wire wheels are from Toms Model Works with stretched sprue used for rigging. Tamiya paints used throughout.

Mike Terre - Milton, Delaware, USA

 

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Cameron Lohmann

This is a 1/72 Profiline kit Let L-13A Blanik. The kit says it's from the the F-Air Flight School Aeroclub, Benesov in the Czech Republic 2008. So apparently it doesn't have much to do with Japan but for the paint job. I wanted to try some different modeling techniques and used this as my experiment. Something different just for fun.

 

Cameron "ArchFluffy" Lohmann - Florida, USA

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Carlo Reita

The kit is the Hasegawa 1/200 787-8 in ANA first livery. It is 28cm long  and the wingspan is 30cm. I built it out of the box and is an easy build like most of the modern airliners. The kit is well designed and given the scale there is not much that can be done to detail it. The white and the grey are from the specific ANA colour set by Gunze. The only real difficulty is to correctly place the huge decals without breaking them and then take the time for all the stencils. Looking back at the pictures actually I built it over one year ago, time flies ....
 I bought the kit in Tokyo (one of the model shops in Akihabara) during one of my trips in Japan. It was my first flight on the type and I noticed that the kit allowed to do the same registration I flew on in the morning.
Carlo Reita - France

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Derek Cooper

Here is my humble entry for the current on-line model competition, namely the well-known Mitsubishi Twin-Engined Transport J-BACI “Nippon” which undertook a goodwill round-the-world flight in 1939. I used the Arii 1/72 scale kit which I found to be quite acceptable, considering that it is a re-boxing of the old LS kit dating back to the 1970’s, although the surface detailing is a little heavy. Although not visible in the photos, I used Eduard’s etched set for the Hasegawa G3M to add some detail to the cockpit, and also scratch-built some details for the undercarriage wells. The model was hand-painted using Xtracolor Gunmetal, which I find produces a nicely subdued metallic effect.

Derek Cooper - England

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003 - Rene de Koning

Attached are my entries for the Civil Aviation competition.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-15-1 Kamikaze and Asakaze
Platz 1/144 C-46 Commando, Everts Air Fuel and Everts Air Cargo

Rene de Koning - Melbourne, Australia

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 003

ARAWASI would like to invite you to our 3rd online model contest.

Theme: Civilian Aviation

Submissions: Send as many photos as you like of your model and accompanying information to contact@arawasi.jp or arawasi_g2@hotmail.com. At the very least please send: your name and country, model scale and kit maker. Your entry will be posted within 24 hours. You can enter the contest with more than one model in any scale.

If you decide to start a model for our contest you can send work-in-progress photos.

 

Voting: you can vote for each model from 1 to 5 either by leaving a comment on each entry or by sending an email to the above addresses. No anonymous votes will be taken into account (nicknames are ok). The model with the most points wins.

 

Deadline: March 1st  

 

Prizes: The winner (or winners) will receive a copy of the book "J-BIRD", here, free of any charge, courtesy of Arawasi.

 

The theme for the next online model contest is "Nakajima Ki-43 "Hayabusa" (Oscar)" and will start from March 15.