Subject: Re: Tamiya Raiden article with updated pictures
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Nick England" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:54:09 -0700

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

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nick England 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:34 AM
  Subject: Tamiya Raiden article with updated pictures

  Hi Steve,

  Here’s the updated Tamiya Raiden article with the new pictures. I hope you like it.

  Best regards to you and the family,

  Nick England

  "1/48th Tamiya J2M3 Raiden" 

  by "Nick England"
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  I bought this kit purely on the basis of it looking like a mean little street fighter, and the Raiden’s involved in Japan’s home defence at the end of WW2 certainly saw some fighting. 

  The Raiden got its primary use during the defence of the Japanese home islands. Its good performance, powerful armament, and armour protection made it perhaps the best bomber destroyer employed by Japan in the latter stages of the war. It had a good high-altitude performance, and was one of the few Japanese fighters able to reach the high-flying B-29 Superfortress. Its armament of four 20-mm cannon was sufficiently heavy that it could do major damage against B-29s.

  However, I won’t go over the history of the aircraft, but will just focus on the pictures! As my first Tamiya build, I really enjoyed the ease with which it went together, and there’s a build thread on this in the ARC forum (by Dylan the Rabbit) and that pretty much gives you a detailed breakdown of the trials and tribulations of building this aircraft.

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  The paints used were a mixture of Tamiya and Citadel acrylics, and Revell and Xtracolour enamels, and the panel lines were highlighted with a black chalk wash, and the whole lot sealed in with a coat of Xtracrylix satin varnish.

  I used a turnbuckle provided by Bob Booth (ideally used for rigging WW1 planes (www.bobsbuckles.co.uk) for fitting the aerial wire (hair) to the tail, and that’s it!

          

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  I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.

  Cheers, 

  Nick

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  Photos and text © by "Nick England"

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