1/72 Kawanishi N1K1/2 'Breaking Wind' Done! (Endpics page 3)

[NARSES2]

I'm intrigued now - what's the small missile ?

[Tophe]

Shht... It's top secret!

[Sticky Fingers]

That is a swept wing Igo-2-A Anti Shipping Missile, made by Mitsubishi. Introduced in the closing stages of the war (November 1946 to be precise) it uses infra red (thus the world´s first ´heat seeker´, with the first batch delivered to the Imperial Navy about 10 years before the AIM-9 goes into production), has a solid-fuel rocket, and is small enough to be launched from fighterplanes instead of bombers.

[Sticky Fingers]

Shht... It's top secret!

Whoops

[NARSES2]

Thanks for the info on the missile - neat idea and little model 

[Weaver]

Just catching up with this: most impressive! 

Re the odd engines issue, what I'd have done is put the more powerful engine on the cockpit side, thereby putting the most power on the side with the most drag so they can cancel each other out. maybe a bigger fin & rudder on that side too

[Sticky Fingers]

Thanks guys.

Managed to finish the weathering tonight, I personally am happy with the results.

I kept the chipping to a minimum as this is supposed to be a newish plane. Basically only the wings' leading edges.
Bit of gunfire residue, too, (home made black pigment: scraped some blackboard chalk on sanding paper) but again not too much:


Bit of rust (from one of them Tamiya 'eye shadow' thingies) on these bits, nothing factual but it breaks the green and the white a bit:


Exhaust smoke residue (pigment again, mixed black and brown), again fairly subdued:



Bit more rust underneath the floats (though once she's placed on the trolley you won't see it):



Also painted the canopy frames, freehand, and no masking. Not too bad a result but I think I can do better. Might scrape it off with a toothpic and try again. On the other hand: it looks way better in real life instead of viewed on this macro shot. But that's what they all say

[Tophe]

Very good results (according to my own standards)

[Sticky Fingers]

She's done:



Mo' better pics will be made tonight, after tea.

[Tophe]

Wonderful!

[Sticky Fingers]

Here they are. Pic-heavy!






































Fueltanks are from a Me262 Schwalbe, so is the ring-aerial on the right-side fuselage. Horizontal stabilizer is from a p38 Lightning, chests on beaching trolley from a Preisser 1/72 German Pilot set, decals on vertical stabilizers  from 1/35 JGSDF NBC Detection Vehicle, and the right side fuselage was lengthened with help of a 1/24 Suzuki Vitara rim.

Thanks for having a look, comments and useful criticisms are most welcome.

[sequoiaranger]

....it looks pretty cool and unique!

[Tophe]

The first flight is November 1946, OK (my father may confirm), but what about the design project date? May I classify it in the 1939-45 designs?
Thanks!
EDIT: "Sticky Fingers" is now, as promised, part of Aviation history, on my site http://cmeunier.chez-alice.fr/Asymm_addition.htm (at the end of it). Feel free to tell me how to correct the text.

[rickshaw]

I particularly like the use of the Orange background.  Reminds me of old Tamiya pictures of their various Japanese aircraft kits.  It looks like it could well fit into their line up of kits!  The weathering is subtle and believable.  I don't like heavy weathering on aircraft very much.   

[Sticky Fingers]

Thanks for the compliments, people!

Thanks for the mention on your site, Tophe 

Re. the old Tamiya catalogues: I've been looking high and low for a scan of those pages so I could edit one with this plane appearing somewhere in there, but Google was not my friend