Ki-45 Kai Koh Toryu 'Nick' (1/48th Hasegawa)

[pmarshall]

Started today - Ki-45 'Nick' from Hasegawa - this is a limited edition boxing with a special scheme



Lots of nice details in the cockpit for OOB, as is normal for Hasegawa



Laid down a base coat of Gunze Khaki thinned with Mr Levelling Thinners by 50% so that it sprays in very thin layers.





Picked out the details on the control column, using Vallejo Model colours, and a light oil wash



Picked out the base details in the cockpit, once again with Vallejo Model colour





Drybrushed the Instrument panel with white, then a black oil wash. Then used some Ammo Crystal Colour in the instruments, and pick out some of the switches. Followed by a light brown oil wash to start dirtying the whole cockpit.





Same procedure on the Radio, with the Liferaft painted Olive Drab, and the spare cannon magazine Gunmetal.



Finally picked out the details on the fuselage sides and gave a brown oil wash.





Peter

[DBMiller]

Very nice paint work on the interior. I've never seen this plane before, it looks pretty nice!

[SkEeZicks]

Nice paint work so far. Question, do you put the oil wash right on the paint or do you clear first?

Cheers Sean

[Les]

Great looking paintwork! That instrument panel looks great man. It looks like some nice detail on that kit; I look forward to seeing you build it up!

[rodrant]

Great coice and build so far , the painting job on that cockpit is amazing !

Will follow this one for sure !

[pmarshall]

Today's work - first completed the weathering in the cockpit - added some chipping with a Prismacolor pencil, some dirt with pigments, and some fuel stains around the filler cap.



Then joined the fuselage together - given that this is the fuselage halves, the cockpit, 2 insets and the bulkheads it required some 'help' to stay in place while the glue was drying.



Then on to assembling the nose section.



The gunner's position



Being an inset on a Hasegawa kit, it needed some Mr Surfacer to blend the nose in.



Build up the Nacelles - again insets abound, which makes this slightly tougher than normal.



Rubbed back the Mr Surfacer with a cotton bud moistened with IPA



Weathered down the Nacelle interiours with 'Engine Grime' and 'Engine Oil'



Fitted the wings - was left with a small gap, which was filled with Vallejo Plastic putty.



Finally fit the tailplanes and rudder mass balances, and run some Mr Surfacer 1000 along the upper wing roots.



Peter

[pmarshall]

Nice paint work so far. Question, do you put the oil wash right on the paint or do you clear first?

Cheers Sean

With Gunze paints, I normally just put the oil wash over the top, especially if thinned with Mr Levelling Thinner as they are pretty tough.

[planemaker]

Really nice work on that cockpit, Peter! Looking forwards to seeing more of your work.

[Aliktren]

inspirational work on the cockpit, I wish my painting turned out like that (it looks like that in my head!)

really looking forward to seeing this come together

[TonyCnyc]

Excellent work on that interior. Look forward to more!

[Thumboy]

Beautiful work Peter she is coming together very nicely

What colour scheme are you going for?

[rwsmith14]

beautiful!

i wish i could find a source for mr. surfacer 1000 in the u.s.

here is one.. I buy my all my Mr, Hobby products from here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mr-Hobby-Surfac ... 1310525548

[pmarshall]

Today's work - started with the Engines. First a coat of Alclad Steel, drybrushed with Metalcote Aluminium mixed with Raw Umber oil, Copper and silver on the ignition harness, and Neutral Grey on the crank case. Finally a wash of Mig Engine Grease



Then made up the cowlings, sprayed the inside with the Khaki interior colour and fitted the engines





Masked the canopies with Parafilm and fitted using GS-Hypo cement



Masked off the gunner's position with Blu-tac



Finally - chose a scheme, i'll be doing this one



Peter

[TonyCnyc]

Beautiful work on the engines. Nice choice in camo pattern.

[Aliktren]

Lovely work mate, engines look fab

[pmarshall]

i have to say, mr. marshall, that after seeing your work on the tamiya 1/32 spitfire, that you are my benchmark. as i'm working and think about what i want to accomplish, i just picture your stuff in my head.

do you do your detail painting with an optivisor on?

Yes - detail painting is Optivisor with a 10/0 brush time. I try and break up the detail painting into shorter sessions so you can have a break as well.

[Aliktren]

Interesting, looks like another thing on the list to buy then, what brushes are you using for the detail work ?

[pmarshall]

Today - Paint

First, Alclad grey Primer over the top of everything - a couple of touch ups with Mr Surfacer, but nothing major.



Preshading with thinned Black



Sprayed the Grey Green XF76



Finally spots - XF13 Green



Well that was a fun relaxing 2 hours of green spots

Peter

[ToddS]

Looking great.. Glad you could get by with Mr. Surfacer

[pmarshall]

Today - First a coat of Klear over the top of the cammo



While that was drying, made up all the parts for the Props and Undercarriage and Painted them.



Then the decals. Typical Hasegawa decals, thick, and quite brittle. Set down reasonably well with Mr Softner and Mr Setter, but did need to use some DACO Medium setting solution on the Hinoramu to get them to settle properly. Then another coat of Klear over the top to draw them down and protect them ready for weathering tomorrow.





Peter

[pmarshall]

Did a bit more today - first assembled the undercarraige



Then an oil wash - Mig Neutral Wash over everything, with some Mig Dark Wash over the control surfaces for some variation





Wiped the wash back with a little white spirit on a tissue



Finally sprayed a matt coat over the top, after fitting the Guns





Peter

[Aliktren]

superb, hope mine ends up looking a fraction as good as this

[rodrant]

Great Paint Job here !

Those spots in the camo were hand free painted ? They are so nice and perfect !

Great Build !