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Post by Paul B on Jul 30, 2024 14:01:52 GMT
Jeff, Steve, sorry for the late reply chaps, I thank you both muchly . Today I added the unit marking bands .
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Post by Robbo on Jul 30, 2024 14:05:27 GMT
That's nice and neat
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Post by Paul B on Jul 30, 2024 14:33:34 GMT
Muchly appreciated Ian dude
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Post by JEFF on Jul 30, 2024 15:05:54 GMT
Fantasmic,Bud. Paint or decals?
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Post by Paul B on Jul 30, 2024 15:15:05 GMT
Cheers Jeffers-mucker . It's a mix of Vallejo blue colours, 71.004 Blue and 71.089 Light Sea Blue. I missed two spots with the masking and they need covering with the Grey Green again, but nothing annoying
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Post by JEFF on Jul 30, 2024 19:57:39 GMT
Well,then I shall say excellent mixing and masking 😎
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Post by Ian H. on Jul 31, 2024 9:58:18 GMT
That blue trim looks great! Air Group from IJN Hiryu?
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Post by jabbly on Jul 31, 2024 11:40:40 GMT
Cheers Jeffers-mucker . It's a mix of Vallejo blue colours, 71.004 Blue and 71.089 Light Sea Blue. I missed two spots with the masking and they need covering with the Grey Green again, but nothing annoying Where’s the fun of masking unless you have, oh I missed that bit :-) It’s something that took me a bit of getting used to, things don’t always go perfect and most of them can be easily fixed. The other thing I learnt, no I don’t need to buy a PE set for every kit I buy!
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Post by Paul B on Jul 31, 2024 12:55:52 GMT
Jeff, Ian, Jabbs, cheers muchly chaps . Jabbs, you'r right there, on both accounts Ian this is the aircraft of Lieutenant Fusata Iida, BI-151, IJN Soryu, 2nd Carrier Div. I suspect that you know who he was, but for those don't here is what he became. Here's a quotation from this site: www.mcbhawaii.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/538924/fusata-iida-wwiis-first-kamikaza-pilot/Fusata Iida: WWII's first 'Kamikaza' pilot By Sgt. Alexis R. Mulero | | December 7, 2001MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii --Ten months after being commissioned, U.S. Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, was one of the first locations on Oahu to be attacked by Japanese forces on Dec. 7, 1941. Minutes prior to its attack on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed NAS Kaneohe Bay. The attack on Kaneohe was designed to disable the military's long-range reconnaissance capabilities by knocking out the PBY Catalina seaplanes stationed here. There were three squadrons of PBY airplanes: VP-11, VP-12 and VP-14. Of the 36 PBY Catalinas here, including four moored in Kaneohe Bay, 27 were destroyed and six others were damaged. Only the three Catalinas that were out on patrol escaped attack that fateful morning. Departing Japanese Zero aircraft attacked those three. One returned with 81 bullet holes in it.The Kaneohe Klipper Monument, located by the base flagpole, is dedicated to the 18 Sailors and one civilian contractor killed Dec. 7, 1941 at NAS Kaneohe Bay. Also included in the casualties was the attack force's highest ranking officer, Lieutenant Fusata Iida, commander of the Japanese 3rd Air Group. As the Japanese aircraft were marshaling to return to their aircraft carrier, 28-year old Iida signaled to his wingman that he had sustained machine gun damage to his wing fuel tanks and was unable to return to the carrier. His intentions were to make a kamikaze run on Hangar 101, the base's primary hangar facility in 1941. But, some say he thought there was a fuel storage under Kansas Tower.Ground fire ripped Iida's plane apart. The plane overshot the hangar and crashed. Iida was buried at the Heleloa burial area, near the mass burial site of the 18 Sailors and one civilian killed in the attack. Their remains were later disinterred and returned to their respective homes in the U.S. and Japan.The Iida marker may be the marker on a U.S. military installation dedicated to an enemy soldier. (The Iida marker is located along Reed Road across the street from the Armed Services YMCA, just down the hill from Kansas Tower.)Every Dec. 7, representatives from the Japanese Shingon Sect Mission, along with other Japanese religious organizations, gather here to pay tribute to Lieutenant Iida with a small, solemn ceremony which is repeated later that afternoon at the Kaneohe Klipper Memorial.
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Post by Armorguy on Jul 31, 2024 18:01:32 GMT
Razorsharp masking, better than a decal my friend.
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Post by SteveM on Jul 31, 2024 19:06:36 GMT
Nice neat work as always Paul, it's not proper modelling without a masking mishap either
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Post by Ian H. on Jul 31, 2024 23:09:35 GMT
Thanks for the info on the aircraft and pilot, Paul!
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Post by karih on Aug 1, 2024 16:56:23 GMT
Paul, brilliant work (as always)! Glad that you had that Hinomaru issue sorted out (and glad that I am not the only one struggling with these modern paints ).
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Post by Paul B on Aug 8, 2024 15:05:52 GMT
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Post by bwilt on Aug 8, 2024 16:14:19 GMT
Goodlooking stickers 👍👍
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Post by Paul B on Aug 8, 2024 16:41:49 GMT
Cheers Bert-dude
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Post by Armorguy on Aug 8, 2024 17:57:12 GMT
My goodness those decals add so much life to it!!!🤩🤩🤩
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Post by Paul B on Aug 8, 2024 18:12:06 GMT
Guy, cheers muchly mucker . The sticker stage is always hit or miss for me . Usually something goes wrong, normally with something like the mirrored walkways, but this time it went okay
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Post by Boots on Aug 8, 2024 18:46:18 GMT
That looks real purdy mucker.........top stickerage ondeed
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Post by Paul B on Aug 8, 2024 18:59:10 GMT
Cheers muchly Boots-meister
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