Hasegawa 1/48th Ki-100, 111th Sentai

Now they are some smashing markings, looks brilliant.

That’s a really colourful bird! Coming on well too

Looks like they’ve both been to hell and back. Good stuff. Now if I can get my zero to be half as good as yours.

Tommy, Joe----thank you.

The Ki-100 is finished.The Lifelike Decals went on fine and they really saved the day for this project. I weathered the decals as well with chips of silver and olive drab. I used Model Master Cobalt Blue for the spinner and this was almost a perfect match for the blue on the decals. The Squadron Vacu-form windscreen fit was horrible so I sawed off the windscreen from the Hasegawa one-piece canopy and used that. I used the vacuum-form parts for the hood and rear teardrop part. The model was given a flat coat of Vallejo Matt and I finished her off by adding the nav lights and antenna wire. The plane depicted is the mount of Major Yohei Hinoki, 2nd Daltai, 111th Sentai located at Akeno AB in July '45. Major Hinoki was an amputee aviator as he had one of his legs blown off by a .50 cal while flying a Hayabusa over New Guinea. He recovered and went on to fly Ki-100s and survived the war with 12 victories in the air. Letters from the Major were obtained from a model club in Japan and Lifelike Decals used these to research the markings for his plane. It was a fun build and thanks for stopping in. 

Superb is a good word to describe everything you done! Great bird!

Well I'd say it's ...... Stonkingly fabtastic

Outstanding result Ian, a great build that brings an interesting history to life

The paint wear looks spot on perfect.