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Dragon Slayers and More from Rising Decals
Recently two new and very welcome sheets from the prolific Rising Decals for the popular Kawasaki Ki-45 Type 2 Two-seater fighter Toryu 'Nick' in 1/48 and 1/72 scales, together with a new 1/72 sheet...
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Season's Greetings
With Very Best Wishes to All Aviation of Japan Contributors and Readers for the Christmas Season and New YearImage credit: Atogoshita and Yabu Lane ('Snow in the City') No. 112 in the winter series of...
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Danilo Renzulli's 1/72 Kawaskaki Ki-61-I Tei Hien
Danilo Renzulli has very kindly shared these images and details of his impressive build of the RS Models Ki-61-I Tei Hien in 1/72 scale, looking splendid in the Italian winter sunshine. The model...
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Dr Hidemasa Kimura's 'Flying Fuel Tank'
This first hand account by Dr Hidemasa Kimura (1904-1986) of the development and flight of the Tachikawa Ki-77 under the project designation A-26, appeared as part of the 'Now It Can Be Told' series in...
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More on Dr Kimura
This snippet 'A Pair of Swallows' from the Modelling section of the October 1963 issue of Flying Review International magazine (Vol.19 No.2) mentions a visit from Dr Hidemasa Kimura, designer of the...
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Zegeye's 1/72 Kyofu 'Rex' Floatplane-Fighter
These kindly shared images of Zegeye's (Zbyszek Malicki) very impressive 1/72 Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu(強風 - Strong Wind), Allied code name 'Rex', built from the excellent Hasegawa kit of 1995 vintage, are...
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Ki-74 'Patsy' in 1/48 scale by John Haas ~ Part One
It is always a privilege to be able to share here the wonderful 1/48 scale aircraft models hand crafted by John Haas. His latest project to build a Ki-74 follows on from the Flying Review magazine...
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Zero Interior Colours
Way back in June 2008 a schematic of colours from reported values for Zero interior colours was blogged here and one of those, a rather unusual brush painted light tan hue seen in the cockpits of two...
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Alvaro César who in August 2013 kindly shared images of his superb build of the Tamiya 1/48 A6M3 Model 22 Zero, has now shared his accomplished and evocative pencil illustration of a pair of A6M2 Zeros...
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Kyofus at Surabaya 1945-46
In response to the recent feature on Zegeye's Kyofu Model and discussion of the Kyofus operated by 936 Ku and the 22nd Special Base Force in the East Indies, Jacob Terlouw has kindly shared these...
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Ki-74 'Patsy' in 1/48 by John Haas ~ Part Two
John Haas continues to share the kit-less creation of his prodigious, peachy and pioneering 'Patsy' in 1/48 scale (no less). Part One can be found here. In his own words then."First I would like to...
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Ida at Kemajoran
In the mid-1970s a letter from former Far East Bomber Command (RAF) Flt Lt A D Douglas was published in Air Enthusiast Quarterly Number Three (undated). The letter was in response to an article on...
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RS Models Announce 1/48 Ki-79 kits
RS Models have announced a forthcoming release of 1/48 scale kits of the Mansyu Ki-79 trainer in single-seater and two-seater configurations. Each kit offers three colour scheme and markings options....
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The Emperor's New Clothes ~ Imperial War Museum Ohka
Joe Picarella has kindly alerted me to the complete restoration of the Imperial War Museum's original Ohka c/n 1100 seen above and now on display at their Lambeth building in London. Joe provided began...
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Two-Seat Ohka in 1/48 scale
Continuing the Ohka theme, Dan Salamone has very kindly shared his in-box review of the newly released Brengun kit (BRP48005) of the two-seat trainer Ohka MXY7-K1 Kai in 1/48 scale. In Dan's own words...
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Ki-74 'Patsy' in 1/48 by John Haas ~ Part Three
Following Parts One and Two John Haas continues his awesome scratch-built Ki-74 project with the painting process. In his own words then:"With Part Two the general construction of the model was...
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David Walker's 1/48 Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden
The excellent 1/48 scale Japanese aircraft models of David Walker have graced the Aviation of Japan blog before, with his superb Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-kai showcased in November 2009 and his fine...
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Betty Off Malaya
Hat tip to Aviation of Japan's Texas correspondent Mark Smith for kindly alterting to the re-release of the venerable Hasegawa Mitsubishi G4M1 'Betty' in 1/72 scale. This time Betty is dressed for the...
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Dead Design Delivers The Goodies ~ 1/48 scale
The prolific Dead Design Modelscontinues the release of vac form canopies and paint masks for Japanese aircraft kits, new and old, in 1/48 and 1/72 scales. Beginning with 1/48 scale releases set...
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Dead Design Delivers The Goodies ~ 1/48 scale ~ Addenda
A few items were ommitted in yesterday's mega listing of Dead Design Models goodies. It is easier to include those in a new blog than add them to the existing one as formatting the spacing in Blogger...
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