Tag: Mitsubishi

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Six – In For A Penny…

  

  In for a Pound. Or Yen, as it happens. I go whole-hog with a new idea. The pre-shading concept is not new to others, but it’s fresh to me. I’ve done a lot of Google study to see if it is a good idea and have decided that I have no idea – but a…

  Dick Stein

  December 4, 2020

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

  camouflage, Mitsubishi, pre-shading

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Five – Airframe Day

  

  Well, the Peggy is closed up and winged. Airframe day passed successfully. I do not decry the Czech makers of short-run kits for their economies of production – at least I do not condemn them too much. I appreciate the fact that they bring me things I could otherwise never have. But I do miss…

  Dick Stein

  December 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Model building club, subassembly

  cement, Mitsubishi, Peggy, tails, wings

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Four – A Detour

  

  I have an ongoing problem with model kit building – one that is exacerbated by the fact that I build my kits in three locations. This involves hauling kit boxes and part-made structures around with me. The problem is that parts can go missing. I have tried to prevent this by adhering to the practice…

  Dick Stein

  December 2, 2020

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  castings, Mitsubishi, Peggy, propellers

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Three – The Offices

  

  Notify the Department Of Occupational Health And Safety, Yoshi. I think we have a situation. If we are to be the crew of the Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber we certainly do. See the three big green objects on the flight deck just behind the navigator and radio operator’s station? These are petrol tanks. Un-armoured…

  Dick Stein

  November 30, 2020

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

  interior colours, Mitsubishi, Peggy

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part One – Buddy Holly

  

  At the risk of alienating my readers, I would like to recall them to the 1957 song by Buddy Holly: ” Peggy Sue ” and let it play in their minds. It will do so all day, I assure you… The Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber is a Hasegawa kit that came up in the…

  Dick Stein

  November 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  bomber, Hasegawa, Mitsubishi

• Mitsubishi Dinah – Part Three – Standing Room Only…

  

  The Mitsubishi Type 100 – the Dinah – was delivered to the Japanese Army Air Force in several versions – bomber, reconnaissance plane, trainer, etc. and there were several configurations of nose and canopy. The thin nose and multi-step greenhouse is characteristic of the training aircraft – probably to allow and instructor to oversee the…

  Dick Stein

  April 27, 2020

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

  Aurora, Mitsubishi, trainer

• Mitsubishi Dinah – Part Two – The Bright Bird

  

  I knew at the outset that the Dinah in IJAF trainer colours was rather special. The yellow is not the pure chrome of the RAF or RCAF trainers nor the red/yellow of a prewar US Navy aircraft wing – it has a distinct orange glow to it. I wasn’t sure whether the plastic that the…

  Dick Stein

  April 26, 2020

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

  GSI Creos, Masking, Mitsubishi, Painting

• Mitsubishi Dinah – Part One – The Japanese Shop

  

  My daughter visited Japan for a two-week holiday last year. Thoroughly loved the place and will go again. On this first visit I primed her to visit a model shop in Akihabara with instructions to bring me back a small 1:72 model kit of something that we don’t get in Australia. Her choice of whatever…

  Dick Stein

  April 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Decals, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Secondhand

  Leonardo’s, Mitsubishi, Tokyo, trainer

• Mitsubishi A5M-2 – Part One – CLAUDE

  

  I often wondered about why the WWII Allied command code-named the Japanese aircraft in the way they did. So I analysed the names – ZEKE, RUFE, BABS, BETTY, TOJO, NATE, CLAUDE, etc. and here’s my conclusion, unsupported by any research… a. The names are short. They needed to be to be spoken or telegraphed quickly.…

  Dick Stein

  May 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, finances, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hobby Boss, Japanese, Mitsubishi