I plan on attending the special showing of Tora, Tora, Tora at the USAEC in Carlisle PA this coming Tuesday. There will be a collection of period card models on display for the event, and although I have quite a few WWII American and Japanese aircraft models already built, I have nothing that is Pearl Harbor specific. Then I remembered that I had downloaded Kancho Iliev's Nakajima B5N2 (Kate) years ago, so I decided to build it just for this event.
The file contains several versions of the Kate in different liveries, and one of them is of the plane that led the first wave of Japanese warplanes in the strike on Pearl Harbor. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, sitting in the observers position of this 3-man aircraft ordered the attack, after confirming that complete surprise had been achieved.
Kancho's models usually have an atypical construction method and this one is no exception. The skin is very nice, featuring exhaust and oil stains, and shading on the wings and fuselage. I'm really not happy with the precision or neatness of the build, but I've run out of time, so it'll have to do. The paper base is eyecatching, and I'm hoping it'll draw the viewers attention away from the flaws in the model. I used a maple wood grain, and copied an image in comic book style from the web of who we have to assume is Fuchida calling out "Tora, Tora, Tora!"
As I'm typing this, I just realized that haven't yet installed the antenna and pitot tube, so after this posting it's back to modelling for me.
The file contains several versions of the Kate in different liveries, and one of them is of the plane that led the first wave of Japanese warplanes in the strike on Pearl Harbor. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, sitting in the observers position of this 3-man aircraft ordered the attack, after confirming that complete surprise had been achieved.
Kancho's models usually have an atypical construction method and this one is no exception. The skin is very nice, featuring exhaust and oil stains, and shading on the wings and fuselage. I'm really not happy with the precision or neatness of the build, but I've run out of time, so it'll have to do. The paper base is eyecatching, and I'm hoping it'll draw the viewers attention away from the flaws in the model. I used a maple wood grain, and copied an image in comic book style from the web of who we have to assume is Fuchida calling out "Tora, Tora, Tora!"
As I'm typing this, I just realized that haven't yet installed the antenna and pitot tube, so after this posting it's back to modelling for me.
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