Subject: Re: Submission: Tamiya 1/48 Dinah
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "rai isdeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:36:26 -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: rai isdeman 
  To: ARC Models 
  Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:00 AM
  Subject: Submission: Tamiya 1/48 Dinah

    
  "1/48 Tamiya Mitsubishi Ki-46 Hyakushiki Shitei III Dinah" 
  by "Rai"
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  Greetings from Singapore!

  The Mitsubishi Ki-46 Hyakushiki Shitei (Type 100) Command Reconnaissance, Allied codenamed 'Dinah', was one of the very few machines that were used by both the Imperial Japanese Army Air Forces and Navy. Considering the rivalry between both services were as intense as the war with the US, it was quite remarkable that the Dinah found itself into both. It was a glowing tribute to the design and capabilities of the Dinah. This was a fast plane that can cover very long distances. The Dinah virtually flew at will in the early stages of the Pacific War, nothing in the Allied inventory could catch it. Even with the introduction of the P-51 Mustang and F4U4 Corsair later in the war, the Dinah was still hard to catch.
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  I had this kit for some time now and finally came around to building it. I just loved how the Dinah looked. Even when stationery, the Dinah looked fast! Out of the box quality was very good with recessed lines, fine moulding and good quality overall as expected from Tamiya. The kit fit togather without problems except for the wheel well which had a bloody difficult seam to fill. I did some cockpit detailing by adding Eduard IJN Seatbelts and drybrushing the control dials. I used my wife's draughting and design pens to add some colors into the cockpit controls. Sure beat having to paint them with a brush!
          
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  Painting was as recommended by the instructions. The kit depicted 'White-88' from Hiko 10th Sentai of the 1st Chutai. (somebody explain to me what this means!) Tamiya paints were used throughout, XF-11 IJN Green for the top and XF-12 IJN Grey for the bottom fuselage. After paint-chipping by the blade-peeling method, the kit was sealed by 3 coats of Future. Weathering was done by degrading the paint quality with the Tamiya Weathering Master 'B' - Snow and Soot. The panel lines were then highlighted by using a 0.05-tip draughting pen before a fine spray of Tamiya X-19 Smoke mixed with the XF-11 IJN Green was applied to accentuate the 'old paint effect'. Hope you guys liked it.
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