I pulled this one from deep in the stash for a club group build. Been doing tough (very) short run and garage kits for so long, that the ease of putting together this Tamiya kit was almost scary! Hehe
Lots of detail to paint! I painted items lighter than called for, but still couldn't see much inside the 1/72 cockpit...
One version you could build was a cutaway version. Didn't want to do that but Tamiya had a ball bearing weight planned for inside the first cylinder. Plus I thought there was a possibility of seeing it thru the cockpit (you couldn't).
Vallejo paints are notoriously weak when coming to oranges and reds, so I actually bought the Tamiya Orange called for. Then I saw it was to be 8 part Orange, one part Transparent Red. No Tamiya red, but the Vallejo Transparent Red worked just fine.
Getting it all together and with all the pitot tubes etc... I decided to glue to to a base. I created the tarmac with a piece of plastic For Sale sign.
Thanks for looking.
that were big in the mid 30s to mid 40s had aircraft designers that were definitely on all sorts of hallucination pills with the stuff they came up with. A lot of those crazy designs never made it past prototype or even off the design board. Those are the crazy ones I build.
