Tag: Kawanishi

• Kawanishi Norm – Part Three – Sprayin’ Weather

  

  This last week has been good weather for spray painting. Clearish, dryish, and warmish…enough to be able to manage lacquers with regular thinner and also spray rattle cans of clear. The shop heater has been on to make a warm box but this is less of a problem now that I have overcome my fear…

  Dick Stein

  March 20, 2023

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly

  airbrushing, Kawanishi, prototype

• Kawanishi Shiun – Part One – A Norm By Any Other Name

  

  If you are scandalised by the use of Allied code-names for Japanese aircraft of WW2, make sure you check back later when I use NATO reporting names for Soviet planes. This is officially the E15K1 but not again in this column. It is a Norm. A very special plane and welcome in the collection. I…

  Dick Stein

  March 19, 2023

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, frugality, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models

  float plane, Japanese, Kawanishi, RS Models

• Kawanishi George – Part Three – George of the Jungle

  

  Watch out for that tree! The Kawanishi George is complete, after a week of delight. I have never spent $ 5.00 better, and that is truly all that came out of my pocket for this fighter. Not a scrap of filler anywhere, scraped seams, and no weathering needed. It is a museum piece after all.…

  Dick Stein

  May 24, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, History, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models

  Hasegawa, Kawanishi, Lt. Hayashi

• Kawanishi George – Part Two – No Colour Known To Man

  

  I am always intrigued by the colours of the styrene plastic that kit makers choose to mould their little fighter airplanes. I’ve seen silver in early Revell kits, red, blue, oliveish-green from Aurora, and a vile yellow from Monogram. Matchbox outdid them all choosing greens, browns, and greys for their kits. And even went so…

  Dick Stein

  May 24, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly

  Hasegawa, Kawanishi, Kimo-Sabe

• Kawanishi George – Part One – A Fin

  

  It was the modelling club AGM and a notice had gone out telling people to bring models for sell or swap. Like a fool I did not remember this and rocked up for the AGM barbeque with hardly any money in my pocket. These virus days we pay for most things with credit or debit…

  Dick Stein

  May 23, 2021

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Club, Scale Models

  fighter, Hasegawa, Japanese, Kawanishi