Author: Tets

Weathering the engine.   Paint the radiator and the baffle plates.   Inspection panel and foot step lever.   Both can be opened.   Coolant and oil tubes under the floor.   Work for the radiator flap.   Not known well, but radiator had struts against strong wind pressure.   You can see the elevator control arm through the center of the fuselage.   The radio inspection panel can be opened.   Turbo intake.   Bigger than Ki-61i.   Cockpit works. Throttle and propeller pitch controls(the white one).   Hydraulic accumulator fillers.   Tail wheel.   Weathering.

Started to paint the equipments of office.   I use Falcon’s Clearvax canopy. A good stuff but has a bit different shape from the real one. (too straight silhouette in the ladder part) So I cut apart and adjust.   Cover of the cannons.   Make slits on cover.   Masking the canopy.   Painting in silver. You can see the air intake on the left side.   You can see the meter panel cables.   Office floor.

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 !

Detail-up-parts for the office.   Ha-140 engine. Extending work for the attachment-frames is needed.   The lower cover of engine room as well.     Started to paint.   Piping.     Exhaust pipes.   Ha-140. Enforced based on Ha-40 (licensed DB601), but has rather different appearance.   Started scratch-build work on the details.   The backside of the attachment frames. The white ones are coolant tanks.   Engine shaft.   Representing the back side of Ha-140.   Oil distillator.   We can see coolant distillators in front of the engine. Generator. Installed.   Drain pipe.   Installed.

So many wonderful aircrafts in the world and so many wonderful aircraft models as well, but I still wanna build the one that I wanna see, and that I have never seen before. .. So it’s the time to go to the next one.Ki-61ii (Hien) -Kai with teardrop canopy, as mentioned before. As well known, Ki-61ii was planned and produced as the superior follower of Type1. But cause of the late providing of Ha-140 engine(improved DB601), the producing of Type2 had been stopped. So the Japan Army decided to cut off the nose of Type2s and to mount Air-cooling-engine on them for remaking them as Ki-100. Only 99 numbers of Type …