1/32 Hasegawa Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

[doogsatx/]

Got the wings mounted tonight. Geez, what a bear. Had trouble getting the center underside to seat with the fuselage with solvents (it just kept lifting up), so I finally had to blunt-force it with CA and accelerator.

The wings themselves sat naturally with not-insignificant gaps in the wingroots. And in this position they also aligned poorly at the wingtips. So I taped the things into place over the barrel of the fuselage and used MEK to weld the wingtips, then the wingroots, then the leading and trailing edges. This worked out pretty well, believe it or not.







Also took one shot with the gear struts test-mounted. Nice, positive fit!

[bullardino]

Magnificent job

[doogsatx/]

Had some eyestrain-inducing fun with PE and wire last night. And some brain-numbing cleanup of ejector pin craters on the Hayate's gear struts.



One thing that I love about the Ki-84? The gear bays, gear struts and wheels are all the same color as the fuselage underside! So much less masking!

[venom1]

Bloody brilliant as usual Doogs!

Cheers,

Sam

[bbd468]

Fantastic hydraulic plumbage Doogs! Lookin fine bro.

[bullardino]

Gorgeous undercarriage, Doogs

[Deleted]

Great work Doogs, undercart is a kit in itself by the looks of things .

The whole airframe has a resemblance to an Fw190. Is the the aircraft that FW helped the Japanese fit the radial engine too? 

[doogsatx/]

Finished dressing the gear bays last night. The Eduard PE appliques really help provide some more visual interest to what, on the kit, are straight, unadorned plastic walls.

I ended up ditching the "wiring" Eduard included and went with some .3mm lead wire instead. It's a bit messier, but oh well.

Hoping to wrap up main construction tonight.

[doogsatx/]

Sept 19, 2013 15:13:48 GMT -5 @stevem said:

Great work Doogs, undercart is a kit in itself by the looks of things .

The whole airframe has a resemblance to an Fw190. Is the the aircraft that FW helped the Japanese fit the radial engine too? 

Yeah I think it looks kind of like a cross between a Fw 190 and a P-47.

The Ha-45 Homare engine in the Frank is actually a development of the Ha-25 Sakae (which powered, among others, the Zero), itself based on the French Gnome-Rhone 14K Mistral Major.

I believe the aircraft you're thinking of is the Ki-100, which took the Ki-61 airframe and adapted it from a DB-licensed inline to a radial.

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Sept 20, 2013 9:25:37 GMT -5 doogsatx/ said:

Sept 19, 2013 15:13:48 GMT -5 @stevem said:

Great work Doogs, undercart is a kit in itself by the looks of things .

The whole airframe has a resemblance to an Fw190. Is the the aircraft that FW helped the Japanese fit the radial engine too? 

Yeah I think it looks kind of like a cross between a Fw 190 and a P-47.

The Ha-45 Homare engine in the Frank is actually a development of the Ha-25 Sakae (which powered, among others, the Zero), itself based on the French Gnome-Rhone 14K Mistral Major.

I believe the aircraft you're thinking of is the Ki-100, which took the Ki-61 airframe and adapted it from a DB-licensed inline to a radial.

Ki-100 is the bird , cheers 

[bullardino]

Another progress, this one is getting closer to the paint booth

[deafpanzer]

Catching up here... excellent work!!!

[doogsatx/]

Cleanup complete. Moving on to masking and such ahead of paint. Fortunately the only thing I really need to mask on the Hayate is the cockpit (and canopy).

Of course...I still need to sort how I'm going to paint this thing. Between the chipping and masking I'm a bit freaked out!







One thing I love about Hasegawa kits is the quality of the plastic. It polishes up like nobody's business.

[Deleted]

Looking good buddy   I'm sure you're well on top of the paint but I don't blame you for a bit of trepidation 

[bullardino]

Great one, Doogs. I'm sure it'll be splendid in the end

[doogsatx/]

Painting - NMF chipping coat

Finally throwing paint around! I started with decanted Tamiya AS-12 Bare Metal Silver. As a metalizer paint, I'm not entirely sold, but as a bulletproof primer, this stuff is greatness.



After the first coat, I noticed that I had some more seam work to do.



Putty, sand, polish, AS-12 re-application, then I sprayed a coat of Alclad Duralinum and misted it with a very light coat of Alclad Airframe Aluminum.



Tonight I'll be overseeing some chipping prep and spraying the wing leading edges and home defense bandaids. Depending on how quickly things set up, I may be tempted to tackle the hinomarus as well.

[bbd468]

Thats some sweet paint work Doogs! I like that ya used the Tamiya AS-12 as primer....nice tip!

[doogsatx/]

Started with colors last night

[doogsatx/]

Hinomarus added last night.

[bullardino]

That's a real beauty

[fightnjoe]

stunning.




joe

[doogsatx/]

And now, we paint!

First thing's first. With the masking of all the home defense bandages, I had to go back and cover over any showing white/yellow/etc with Alclad. Done.



Next, I used liquid frisket (ammonia and latex, basically) to mask the chipping.



I've been a big fan of using a uniform black base coat on recent builds, but I'm going to give some layered shading at try here. First up, black on the panel lines.



Now to start filling in color. My plan is to use a lot of different-but-vaguely-similar colors (Nakajima IJN Green, RLM 70, Navy Blue and so on) to put a lot of tonal variation into the surface. This way, when the Nakajima Dark Green goes down, it'll have a lot of depth in it.

I only got to the IJN Green tonight...



More to come!

[Leon]

That is looking really sweet Doogs.Like where your heading with the paint.

[bullardino]

Nice progress, Doogs

[doogsatx/]

Pushed further last night, dirtying up the top shade with heavily thinned black, dark gray and navy blue.



On the underside, the Gray-Green is about 85% complete.

[bullardino]

Very nice progress, lovely

[doogsatx/]

And...Nakajima Dark Green is down, hinos and home defense band-aids unmasked!









Still have masks to play with on the cowl, tail, and wings, but the main paintwork is now out of the way.

[bbd468]

Simply gorgeous Doogs! Good stuff right there.

[bullardino]

Even better than what I thought

[fightnjoe]

looks fantastic to me. love the way the chipping looks.




joe