Subject: Re: LS 1/72 Nakajima Ki-43 I-Gustavo Antonelli
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Gustavo Antonelli" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 01:18:11 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gustavo Antonelli 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:59 PM
  Subject: LS 1/72 Nakajima Ki-43 I-Gustavo Antonelli

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  "LS 1/72 Nakajima Ki-43 I" 

  by Gustavo Antonelli

  Please include your ARC Discussion Forum Name with your submission 
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  This kit is a very old LS (1963 I think) I found in a military and historical book store in Buenos Aires. Old model kits belonging to those days are not very detailed. This one has a very nicely detailed wings, fuselage and control surfaces, but there are not  any detail in the cockpit and wheel wells. In this sense, it only gives a quite slim pilot figure, that was quickly discarded.

  So, I decided to scratch build the cockpit, following some old pictures and diagrams that I found in the net. 

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  I  used streched plastic, some bits of plasticard and other bits from the spare box to build both cockpit sides,  instrument boards, control stick and pedals, and the seat. I made the seat belts with Tamiya masking tape. I also filled the wheel wells, taking my Hasegawa Ki-43 II as a model.

  The kit had no decals, so I got some Hinomarus and I cut other small decal  pieces from the spare box. I chose to represent an a/c from the 1st Sentai, and, may be from the 1st chutai, but not really sure about that.

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  I chose a three colours camouflage schema: dark green, brown and IJA green gray. I wanted to get a heavily chipped effect, so I applied the hair spray method combined with the salt method to achieve this. I painted the whole kit with Revell silver, I gave then an acrylic gloss varnish, and when everything was dry I gave two coats of hair spray with my airbrush, dropping some salt grains on the areas where I wanted to be more chipped. Then, I followed the usual steps to finish with the painting and weathering according to the above mentioned methods.
  Best regards,
  Gustavo Antonelli 
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  Just delete any of the boxes below you don't need.....it's not important to include them.....they are there to give you an idea of the finished article.  It is best to limit your article to no more than 60 or so photos, so the finished webpage won't take too long to open.

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  Photos and text © by Gustavo Antonelli