Hi everyone, here's
another model in 1/48 scale, the B5N2 "Kate", personally I find
beautiful all the Japanese airplanes, and the Kate is not the exemption.
This model
represents the alleged Kate that sunk the USS Arizona in Dec 7th 1941, flown
by Warrant Officer Sato Haruo (pilot), Airman First Calss Kanai Noboru
(observer), and Airman Second Class Hanada Yoshikazu (radio operator), from the
carrier Soryu in the first attack wave.
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images below to see larger images
The model is
built completely out of
the box, except for the gunsight in the rear gun. The colors used were Alcald white
and dark aluminum for the lower part, and Testor's IJN dark green with dark
earth spots for the upper side (Im always wanted a mottled Kate), I added
also a thin layer of white thinned paint, to "fade out" the upper
paint, and some touches with silver color to "peel out" the
paint. The kit instructions says that the bomb to be painted Green Nakajima,
which is not correct, the Imperial Japanese Navy painted all their bombs light grey, unlike the Japanese Army
which painted their bombs black. I have a very
interesting document that describes very well all the weapons used by Japanese
Navy in Pearl Harbor and the colors used, to everyone interested in that
document....e-mail me and I will gladly send you the document.
Hope you liked it and we
are in contact! :-)
Alfredo
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