Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - And the winner is...

Let's see...

 

Jean Barby - 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 9.9, 10 Total: 9.7

Jakub Bratkowski - 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10 Total: 9.9

Michael Furry - 9, 8.5, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9.5, 9.5 Total: 9

Miro Herold #1 - 8.5, 9, 8, 7, 8, 8, 8.5, 8 Total: 8.1

                       #2 - 9.5, 9, 9, 9.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9, 9.5 Total: 9.3

Michael Thurow - 10, 8.5, 9.8, 9.5, 9.5, 9.9, 9, 10 Total: 9.5

Derek Cooper - 7, 8, 8.9, 8, 8, 8 Total: 7.9

István Tekler #1 - 10, 9.5, 10, 9.8, 10, 10, 10, 10 Total: 9.9

                        #2 - 10, 10, 10, 10, 9.8, 9.5, 10, 9.5 Total: 9.8

BaronVonRob #1 - 9, 10, 10, 9, 8.5, 9.5, 7.5, 7, 9, 10 Total: 8.9

                          #2 - 8.5, 8.5, 8.5, 8, 8, 9 Total: 8.4

Shimon Halperin - 8.5, 8, 8.5, 8.5, 9, 9, 8, 9.5, 9 Total: 8.6

 

Jakub Bratkowski from Poland and István Tekler from Hungary!!!

Congratulations guys! Different models, different scales, both brilliant! 

They both get a book and kit from our on-line store, free of any charge, courtesy of Arawasi.

Thank you all for your participation, comments and voting.

 

The theme for the next on-line model contest is "Japanese Night Fighters" and will start from October 15.

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - SHIMON HALPERIN

Here is my Sonia built from new Wingsy kit. The kit was all inclusive, with etch and masks. Most of the markings I preferred to paint. The excellent Arawasi book is a great reference and I made some small corrections in cockpit (removed second controls in aft cockpit - I built the bomber version and not the trainer)

Hope You like it!

 

- Shimon Halperin -

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - BARONVONROB

I humbly present the venerable Hasegawa/Mania Kawasaki Ki48-II Type 99 Light Bomber "Lily" 34th Flight Regiment (China 1943-44) depicted in 1/72.
Built all straight out of the box using Tamiya paint mixes, along with EZline for the radio wires, Albion Alloys brass pitot and dorsal radio loop.

- BaronVonRob-

 

  

  

  

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - ISTVAN TEKLER #2

My second entry is a Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-67 "Hiryu" (Peggy). This is a much better detailed kit than the "Donryu". As there is always room for improvement, I used an Eduard PE set and a few scratch built parts. This time the lower hatch of the nose was opened. I managed to cut it off without ruining the rest of the clear part. All the markings are painted.
This plane belonged to the 61st Sentai in 1945.
Thanks again for your votes.

 

- István Tekler -

 

 

  

  

  

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - ISTVAN TEKLER #1

I’m sending my first entry to the contest, Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima Ki-49 II "Donryu" (Hellen). I tried to improve the interior with some scratch built parts and structural details. Lacking references, Ki-21 and Ki-67 interiors were used as guidelines. To show the extra details, I wanted to open the hatch over the cockpit, so I cut this off. Due to the thick clear parts, it was quite difficult and ended up with damaged panels surrounding the open hatch. After a few days relax, I tried to replace the canopy frames with styrene strips and the clear panels with white glue. Finally it turned out to be acceptable.
I wasn’t satisfied with the engine exhausts, so cut them out and replaced with resin parts (1/48 Hayabusa exhausts - don’t tell anyone). Wheel bay doors were way too thick so these were replaced with scratched parts. The shape of the oil coolers below the engines were also modified, to look closer to the original ones.
This example belonged to the 74th Sentai and probably destroyed in the Philippines in the end of 1944. I wasn’t sure about the colour of the underside and painted it NMF, however they might have been light grey.
Thanks everyone for voting.

- István Tekler, Hungary -

 

  

  

  

 

Japanese Aircraft Online Model Contest 012 - DEREK COOPER

Here are some photos of my Mitsubishi Ki-30 "Ann" as captured and flown by the Chinese Communists (continuing my penchant for Japanese aircraft in non-Japanese markings). The kit is AZ Model's 1/72 offering, and the decals were included in the kit.
The kit is typical short-run and needs some work to achieve a presentable result. In particular, I added landing lights in the wing leading edges, navigation lights to the wingtips and hollowed-out the exhausts. Also, although not visible in my photos, I added a transparency to the bomb-aimer's window in the fuselage underside, which is simply left as a big hole in the kit. I did not find the cockpit transparency to be a particularly good fit, but that may just have been due to my lack of modelling skills.
According to Wikipedia, the Chinese Communists operated three captured Ki-30s as trainers, and Kecay's publication "Japanese Aircraft in Foreign Service - Volume 1" contains what is claimed to be the only known photograph of one. Not unexpectedly, the photo is of poor quality and it is virtually impossible to ascertain the exact pattern of the camouflage. This leads me to believe that the profile contained in that publication, and indeed the colour scheme proposed in AZ Model's kit, are best guesses and may simply be an indication of the general type of camo scheme that was actually applied to the aircraft. Rightly or wrongly, I decided to follows Kecay's example (with a few alterations) because it contains some nice weathering.
I did not know whether or not to put yellow IFF strips on the wing leading edges. Kecay shows these, but AZ Model's kit does not. I guess it depends at what stage the aircraft was actually captured by the Chinese. Given the early style of camo scheme, I decided to leave them off. I also chickened out of trying to stick the aerial mast to the cockpit canopy because it would probably have been very prone to breaking off. In any event, I can see no evidence for the presence of the mast in Kecay's photo (but I freely admit that this may just be wishful thinking!).

Derek Cooper - England