Another Ki-61 Tamiya 1/48

[Plasto]

Hi,

 

Here is my finished 1/48th Tamiya Ki-61.

 

 Teruhiko Kobayashi was perhaps the most famous Ki-61 pilot.  He lead the 244th Sentai in defence of Tokyo during the B-29 raids of 1944-45 and was the youngest Sentai commander in the Japanese Airforce.  He survived the war ( and a ramming attack on a B-29) but was killed in a JASDF T-33 in the 50's when he stayed with the Aircraft to prevent it from crashing in a populated area...

Kobayashi, flew a number of Ki-61's and The Tamiya kit has marking options for at least one.  

 

 

The kit is simply one of the best 1/48 Aircraft kits on the market in terms of fit surface detail and ease of construction. It doesn't need any real after market. If your fussy a set of resin exhausts are the only real improvement along with Some seat belts.The cockpit OOB is fine.  I painted mine in Gunze Super metallics with a bit of Alclad here and there. The majority of the markings are masked and painted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

Cheers

John

Edited February 26, 2018 by Plasto

[Gazzas]

John,

    That looks great!  I just realized that the one kill symbol shows a Ki-61 going thought a B-29.

 

Gaz

[Plasto]

Yep, 

 

Ramming was surprisingly common with an even more surprising number of survivors...

 

Kobayashi's ramming victory was on the 27th January 1945.

 

Thanks for the feedback...

 

 

John

[Ohm-men]

Wow, That's an impressive model. Looks really good.

[mustang1989]

Awesome build John. Man that looks good!!

[kuky76]

Great result.Very well done. 

One note. This machine had removed the guns from the wing, becasue Kobayashi needed to improve the airplane's performance in the fight with the B-29. The holes were covered with a piece of metal.

Edited February 27, 2018 by kuky76