A7K Jinpu-Kai?

[Brian da Basher]

Don't give up the ship! Or um Jinpu-Kai, SR! You're in the homestretch and I think that "lifejacket yellow" will compliment the paint scheme most excellently!

Brian da Basher

[sequoiaranger]

At Long Last!

Here are some preliminary pictures I just took. The last one shows the relative sizes of the "original" Shiden-Kai--remember the center portion of the Jinpu-Kai (cowl vents to behind the antenna, and the main wing area without the folds) is all Shiden-Kai. Notice the longer, deeper cowl, longer tail, and tailhook, among other things.

[Brian da Basher]

Excellent! You have great skill in 1/72 SR!

Brian da Basher

[sotoolslinger]

Man I am sorry I missed your last update on this one. It is simply wonderful I'm really glad you recovered from all the horror (been there) This is an excellent whiff

[bluntie]

Wow! SR, that has come out a winner!
your home made JNgreen is bang on,i think you may have created "the" jAP46 colour.
And may i say well done on the recovery,it realy says something about skill and commitment being able to pick up the pieces and carry on.Well done SR, very well done. 

[sequoiaranger]

>your home made JNgreen is bang on,i think you may have created "the" jAP46 colour.<

Thanks. Computers and cameras seem to pick up and show colors differently. My photos were taken indoors with flash. The latest pics seem a bit "green", however.

My goal was a color just about directly in between the IJN N2 green and the "Non-Specular Blue-Gray" of 1942 USN aircraft. I feel I did it.

The best color rendition, at least on my computer, it the top pic in my "Excited Much?" post. Look at the "ORMALI" packaging in the Shiden-Kai box nearby--THAT is "green".  The Shiden-Kai on the box is more-or-less the "official" IJN green--my "sea green" is definitely lighter and more blue-gray than that (and I like it that way!). The tablecloth, despite the Visqueen covering, is "blue".

I may take a picture, outdoors, of the Jinpu-Kai in between a "green" aircraft and a "blue" aircraft to show how the color compares. Regardless, I am very pleased with the outcome. This same sea green will undoubtedly appear on a future Pacific German torpedo-bomber (Aichi/Heinkel 119--in fact, I named the sea green color "Turquoise119" as I was trying for a new Pacific camo color for it).

[Sauragnmon]

Very nice work, SR, the aircraft looks quite good, and wonderful work on the wing folds.

Lighting does always affect the tone of a colour - this is why there are actual "Daylight" tint bulbs, because natural vs artificial lighting is different, as is fluorescent vs incandescent by tint and colour.

[John Howling Mouse]

This is so believable....I will send some of your pics to a modeling friend of mine who's living in Japan; let's see if he can "identify" the aircraft....(I'm sooo bad).

[devil505]

Outstanding!!