Kawasaki Ki-10 “Perry” Two-Seater

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice. But so clean...

[Old Wombat]

 

[strobez]

Well, she's done.

I used some steel wire for the rigging as I was really just too lazy to try anything else - especially after I burned myself trying something tricky with some monofilament line and ended up with a blob of plastic napalm on my thumb. It would just about be perfect for 1/48 scale though... if I was in to that sort of thing...

All things considered, I'm pleased with how it turned out.  I'm not sure I like the grey nose, but that's how Herge drew it, so that's what I get I guess.  The scratch--built canopies (well, windscreens) don't quite sit properly and I seem to have no luck with CA glue anywhere near clear parts... they're like magnets for mistakes.  The thing I'm most happy with though is the tail.  That red/white rising sun emblam pops next to the green-grey fuselage colour.  Too bad it's got such a negative connotation associated with it...

[zenrat]

Clear parts look OK in the pics and while the rigging is too thick it is a cartoon aircraft.
I think it looks great.

[loupgarou]

The aircraft looks very good. Sorry for your thumb! 
Have you tried using white glue for sticking clear parts?

[Old Wombat]

Nice!


Let's just call it "engineered for extreme structural integrity".

[TheChronicOne]

Hey that looks great!! I agree on the tail art.. that is very well done and looks so utterly cool... I want to copy it. 

[NARSES2]

A neat looking aircraft 

[strobez]

Ok... ok... ok... I couldn't take the stress.  I mean there it was, just sitting on the shelf next to my Tintin armoured car...  but it just kept staring at me while I was working on my Macchi M.52r...

Wondering, why I loved that little red plane more... why I just didn't care...

So I cracked... I grabbed it off the shelf, ripped out all the rigging... and re-did it with stretched sprues.



I don't have the heart to take more pictures... especially because my clumsy thumbs have also increased the errant CA glue content of this project considerably... but it's done.

So I put it back on the shelf... but this time I turned it away so I only have to look at the lovely little tail piece. 

[TheChronicOne]

My man!!   


Three cheers for the extra effort!   

[zenrat]

But I liked it better before when it looked more like a cartoon...


...kidding.

[strobez]

But I liked it better before when it looked more like a cartoon...


...kidding.

Oh, fer...