Another commission build of something you would not catch me buying for myself in a million years. A 1/48 Tamiya Mitsubishi Isshikirikko Type 11. Otherwise known as Betty. Its your typical Tamiya shake and bake wonder kit. Very little putty required, just the under fuselage. Building went rather quickly. Not all that many parts in the grand scheme of things.

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Only real hard part was masking the 4.2 million windows on this sucker. That took me a while. Lots of windows. Decals were truly awful. Complete with brown patches of mold on the sheet. Decals took half an hour in HOT water and then had to be pried from the backing paper with a scalpel blade. But that's the sheet the customer wanted so that's the sheet he got.

In the end the decals worked. But not without alot of tearing and patching up.

Innards are nice.....nice and simple. But certainly good enough that after market stuff is not required. Totally out of the box.  Paint scheme is also a nice departure from my usual modern greys.

Shawn

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