Hasegawa 1/48 Nakajima Ki-44

Hasegawa 1/48 Nakajima Ki-44 - FULL BUILD

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Жыл бұрын

Hey everyone! This is my full build of Hasegawa's 1/48 Nakajima Ki-44. It was a very nice kit hampered only by subpar decals, and with some careful airbrushing and smooth gloss paint layers I built it step by step into a beautiful defender of Japan.
I normally try to make these longer and use as many of my tags as possible but frankly I can't be asked and I'm expecting this video to underperform anyway due to ~another~ longer-than-desired delay. Hope you enjoy, and hope I actually get the next one published when I intend to.
Music, in a not correct order:
• 出征兵士を送る歌 - Japanese So...
• 10 Minutes of Relaxing...

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@phillipabat8437 9 ай бұрын

Excellent work.✌

@sierrarose6595 Жыл бұрын

Great build and paint job!!! You’re so close to 5k subscribers!

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

I know!! Very exciting. Unfortunately I don't really have the option of doing anything special for it, unless the viewers want to see something completely unrelated to modelling, like a WW2 gaming livestream or something. Probably won't do anything, though. Fingers crossed- maybe I'll have an opportunity to do something special for 10k someday!

@HammerheadModelMaking Жыл бұрын

Nice build!

@Peter-vl9fz Жыл бұрын

Awesome! You are a master.

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the vid!

@stevenblack7928 Жыл бұрын

Great video and build👌

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@YogawithSelina Жыл бұрын

Great job ... Mantapsssss 👍👍👍

@whodey59 Жыл бұрын

Nice build of this little JAF hot rod. Looks nice. Was the anti glare panel on the real Shoki really gloss black? Seems like it would be blinding in bright sunlight.

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

I don't know for certain, but if I had to guess no. It's also not supposed to be black- it's that same blue-black you see on Zero cowls. I *think* the blue-black was a semigloss that sometimes would fade to matte in the sun, but I'm not sure. The kit provides a black decal for it. I just did black because I don't have any blue-black, and an all over gloss was easier to paint than selectively doing a semigloss.

@strgil 8 ай бұрын

That's gloss black for sure.

@yodagaming8612 Жыл бұрын

Great job, looking forward to what you'll create next, any plans to do modern aircraft?

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Eventually. I have a jet age project whose video should be coming out soon. No 'modern' (as in currently in operation) subjects at the moment but I have a few in the stash that I may poke at this summer. F-22 and a few A10's, mostly. I've also got some Russian helicopters that I'd like to do, and though I don't own them I wouldn't mind doing a fullback or a flanker or something similar.

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

I also have a Mig-21 is the 'I've cut a few parts out to hold them together' stage which I *guess* counts as modern since I'm building it like the Syrian Arab Air Force's current / a few years old examples they were / are using for CAS / strike / antiterror work.

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

I'd also like to do Tom Cruise's F-18 from the new movie if I could find a kit that wasn't outrageous in price. Maybe wait till someone lists just the decals and through it on a reasonably priced Academy F-18.

@Android-rz8mb Жыл бұрын

Try AK extreme aluminum you will never go back

@madera7170 Жыл бұрын

Great job, I built my first models with my father about 14-15years ago, it was a set of Soviet aircrafts, IL-2t, Yak-7 and Yak-9, for that time I thought those models to be the best (they were because I did it with father😊). A very long break till 2018, I bought a 1:9 Italeri Zündapp KS-750 with a sidecar, painted that bike with a brush, so the quality was 3-4/10⭐. Break for about 3.5-4years and I started with Air Canada Boeing 747 from Revell, I spent 1 day for that airplane, the quality is the worsest you have ever seen 🤣🤣🤣. The second was Airbus A380 Lufthansa from Revell, big one, 45-47cm, it was much better but not "that one". Then I found paint in spray and started building BMW R75 1:9 with a sidecar from Italeri, I made a very good model. Now I'm working on MiG-29 of Ukrainian Air Force from ICM 1:72, chassis and rockets left, and the next is Polish light bomber PZL 23A Karaś 1:72 from IBG Models, my friend gave it to me because he is no more in modeling (he said he won this model in school 7-9 years ago). For future I'd like to try making cars, especially Japanese, Subaru Impreza, Toyota Supra, etc and of course make one more Zündapp but in 4k quality 😅😅😅. Have a great day everyone!!!!

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

I have a couple soviet WWII subjects in the stash, but Im very intimidated by the colors lol. Good tamiya mixes just dont seem to exist. One of these days....

@madera7170 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWaggishAmerican to the better part of my models I use Mr.Hobby sprays, (for brush mr.hobby and Revell), I bought Tamiya for the first time to Polish Light Bomber, due to photos it should be polish chaki, but we couldn't find the most suitable color in spray, so decided to have a grey-brown color. Btw, I wanted to ask you what do you use to set decals on model? is that a glue or special substance?

@TheWaggishAmerican Жыл бұрын

@@madera7170 Microset before application, solvaset after the decal dries. The microset improves adhesion and to some level conformity, solvaset is a fairly powerful decal solvent that forces conformity (or destroys your decals as happened to my lower insignia)

@madera7170 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWaggishAmerican sounds good ahahah😂😂😂 thank you😉

@madera7170 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWaggishAmerican well, I tried micro set/sol and I liked it, btw I needed to reinstall old decals and it helped me to remove and apply one more time. Thanks for sharing 😊

@PanzerChicken69 Жыл бұрын

Just came here via feed, fellow modeler. Not looking too bad overal, the metalfinish being the dealbreaker. Approach is well ( metal over gloss surface) but you need to play more with your airpressure and your paint/ thinner ratio. Otherwise a crisp looking model! Cheers!!