Here are my first two AIM Ki-44’s.
These two are both form the 70th Chutai, in Japan, June 1945. The yellow tail marking is 3rd Sentai pilot 2nd Lt Makoti Ogawa. The blue tail marking is from Chutai HQ pilot Major Atsuyuki Sakado. Decals are stock Misc Mini with the addition of a thin red fuselage stripe which I scrounged up somewhere.
Both planes were base coated with my favorite metallic finish, Rustoleum “Bright Coat, Metallic Finish”. Great stuff. Tough as nails, and you can’t screw it up if you tried. I air brushed the white home defense bands on the wings and fuselage of Ogawa’s plan using the fabulous new Tamiya masking tapes. I used the regular stuff on the wings, and the white stuff designed for curved surfaces on the fuselage. Details were all with basic Vallejo Model Colors and canopies were tinted with Tamiya black wash. Also great stuff. I couldn’t bring myself to panel line and weather Ogawa’s plane because the white bands looked so nice. I weathered and lined Atsuyuki’s plane with the miracle product “Flory Model Wash”, grey. It makes it so even a mediocre at best modeler like myself can do even the tiniest panel lines in minutes. A game changing product if you like panel lines for sure. The grey is ideal for bare metal finish. It doesn’t stand out too much and make the plane look dirty like some colors might.
I am working on a couple more that I hope to wrap up tomorrow. Both are full camo and so far, look pretty cool to me.
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