1/72 J2M3 Raiden

[EasyEight96]

So this is my entry to the rising sun Gb. I'll be using both kits supplied.

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This my progress so far on the twins
This kit has tones of FLASH!!!
Here is the the cockpit before and after sanding ( left is sanded while right is not sanded yet)


Both cockpit glued up awaiting for some paint


The fuselage has now nasty flash at the side where you place the canopy


This is how it looks like after sanding


I'll post more photos once I get some more progress tomorrow

[Les]

Looks like some work is needed with clean up, but you got it well in hand! The parts seem to have cleaned up nicely. The fuselage on these look fairly detailed and I like the body shape of these planes. I will look forward to your updates to see how they fit together.

[ToddS]

I hate injection marks....... Nicely fixed...

[EasyEight96]

Looks like some work is needed with clean up, but you got it well in hand! The parts seem to have cleaned up nicely. The fuselage on these look fairly detailed and I like the body shape of these planes. I will look forward to your updates to see how they fit together.

I hate injection marks....... Nicely fixed...

Thanks for the support guys I'll be posting my update tonight so keep an eye ya

[EasyEight96]

Update

Primed up the cockpit parts and the fuselage using Vallejo's black primer and painted it with XF-71. Wings also now glued up with a lot of flash again and glued up the fuel tanks too. I will start doing some detailing tonight

[EasyEight96]

Did some weathering on the cockpit and side walls this morning and now all is glued up and join to the wings





I had to drill a hole on one of the sidewall to fit this in any clue why did this particular aircraft installed this??


Twins are now looking more like the raiden now

[panzerman]

Double the fun on this build....2 Raidens....cool.
Are you adding the pilot figures?
Keep up the good work.
Bill.

[EasyEight96]

Double the fun on this build....2 Raidens....cool.
Are you adding the pilot figures?
Keep up the good work.
Bill.

Thanks Bill I tried putting in the figures but I cant fit so I left it. So I did the most horror job of all on the raidens the CANOPIES!!!!
not only the raised lines on the canopy is gone it had a very bad fitting too. Anyway I did manage to kill them and one canopy took an hour to mask up so total is 2hours aiyayayieeee

First canopy


Second canopy ( was in progress )


Both canopies glued to the twins after much swearing


Now the two amigos are ready for paint

[Porta]

Sometimes model building is a agony. They start to look good! Are you going to make them very weathered? ( classic look of these Japanese plane's) Good luck and have fun!

Gr Porta

[EasyEight96]

Sometimes model building is a agony. They start to look good! Are you going to make them very weathered? ( classic look of these Japanese plane's) Good luck and have fun!

Gr Porta

Thanks. I'm planning to weather them as it's the first I'm doing I'll do it in a smaller amount to avoid disaster

[EasyEight96]

So after a long break I started it back by giving em a coat of silver and I manage to screw up the second one but it's repairable so stay tuned


I'll be applying maskol over the places that always have heavy chipping on it

[Aliktren]

awesome, excited to see someone use that technique!

[Homerlovesbeer]

I'm following with interest. Nice so far.

[EasyEight96]

So..... after leaving it aside for a longggg time I've decided to finish it before the dealine

The photos of the step by step of applying the maskol chipping on one of the raiden has mysteriously when corrupted so all photos of it are gone
Here is the photo of both raidens all painted up



So once it's dried I used a stiff brush and removed the maskol on the raiden the second one will receive my normal sponge chipping which I'll do it later