Let's Craft Episode 15 Hasegawa 1/48 Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa w/Kimono Pinup Girl

To close out 2023, your Kitfluencer takes on Hasegawa's 1/48 scale Ki-43 Oscar. In this build I will show you how to paint that splotchy Japanese Army Air Force camouflage over bare metal and as a bonus, I have included a scale appropriate Kimono pinup girl to pose with it. If that doesn't get your attention, I don't know what will.
Music Used
Infinity - Timecrawler 00:00
Fruits of Life - Jimera Contreras 03:58
Beginnings - Unicorn Heads 06:16
The Only Me is Me - Three Chain Links 10:59
For Time to Disappear - Go by Ocean_Ryan McCaffrey 16:01
Athena - Karl Casey ‪@WhiteBatAudio‬ 19:16
Rear View - EVA 22:45
I Have Often Told You Stories - RamblingLibrarian 26:18
Baby - TWLL(Vincent Teoule) 30:04

[@neilhaas]

Happy new year 2024 best wishes & predictions.

[@lesthiele4921]

That was excellent work my friend, and a different twist with the pin-up girl, very bext wishes for a Happy New Year, best reagrds from Australia

[@ofmodelsandmonsters]

Thank you, glad you liked it.

[@neilhaas]

Very nice Japanese aircraft of models & monsters aircraft from Japan.

[@ofmodelsandmonsters]

Muchas gracias.

[@danielheyduk7905]

By far my favorite builder !

[@ofmodelsandmonsters]

Thank you so much Dan.

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool. 🛩

[@jamescreswell9037]

Are you thinning your Model Air? If so, ratio, and with water or Vallejo Thinning Medium? Apols if you showed it and I missed it. Airbrush brand and nozzle diam? (.3mm?) Pressure with Vallejo?? Love your geisha. Such a shame Hasegawa don't include a pilot figurine with their 1/48 kits. Fortunately, ModelKasten to the rescue. No Special Attack Unit decal options in this Ki-43 kit unfortunately otherwise I'd do a mini diorama with the school girl figurines traditional wave off farewell. Enjoyed the vid.

[@ofmodelsandmonsters]

Sometimes I thin model air with airbrush thinner and I only add one or two drops. As for the airbrush I've been having issues lately so I've used everything from a Paasche Raptor to a Grex TG3.

[@jamescreswell9037]

@@ofmodelsandmonsters Oki doke. Thanks. Was just trying to get a handle on correlating the performance I observed to specs.

[@hfdennycheng9010]

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