Ladder pedals. Paring the radios. Firewall. Coolant tank filler.(The smaller one) Remake the breather and change its position in order to avoid the interference with the strut frame. You can also see the gun-synchro units between the blasts. Hydraulic actuator for 20mm canon. Installed. Painting. Of course, in Yellow Green #7 for all. Starting to weather. Started the work for meter panel. What are these ? The backside of the meter panel !
Work for baffle plates. The kit’s one is straight but real one is warped. Very difficult build… The left is of the kit. Decided to represent ammunition cartridge bay. From “PacificWrecks.com “. Firewall panel. Ducts from 20mm canons. What the hell are these ??? Binded. Front hub for tubes.(Ki-61i) You can see the holes for coolant & oil tubes. Fuel tubes. Fuel cooler. ? Cartridge chute. Adhered.
Surfacing. Masking. Painting in Yellow-Green #7(Ki-Midori 7gou) on the frames. The inner panel remains in pale-blue, as an expression for bare metal just like the Ki-100 of RAF. Starting to weather. Painting the parts. The tubes for oil in yellow, and the ones for oxygen in blue. Fuel tank No.3 and water/methanol tank. You can see the radio thorough the access window. Access panel. Inertia handle can be attached like real one.
Work for the blast tubes for the 20mm canons’ barrels. The backside of the lower panel for engine. The upper panel. The base of the spinner. Different from Ki-61i, Ki-61ii has four holes in the front. Access panels for ammunition box and engine. The former is from Aires detail-up-parts but the latter is hand-made since has different shape of Ki-61i. Inertia starter work. Ki-61 wasn’t equipped with electrical starter. Here is a manual starter.(Thanks to Taizo Nakamura) Scratch built. Can you see slightly that through the access window ? Radiator work. The kit’s one’s proportion is wrong because the one …
Ho-5 20mm cannon. We don’t have any detail-up-parts for the barrels, so I used MG13K in 35th. Not bad ! The upper engine panel work. Made fasteners for the engine panel out of brass wire and nickel strap. Adhered to the fuselage. They are movable. Spinner. Too slender for Ki-61ii so have to be thicker. Temporarily install of engine. The lower panel. Made fasteners as well. Looks like FW190 D ? Exhaust pipe covers. The backside of the lower cover. You can see the coolant tanks on each sides of the engine.
The shape of the coolant duct is wrong, so customized it. Coolant circulation pipes. Plug codes work with wires and brass tubes. Cut the excesses. Planting. Fuel tubes were painted in red. Fuel injector Remake the engine shaft with brass wires around a pipe. Weathering Coolant pipes. Oil and fuel pipes. Engine completed !
