These 1970s Hasegwa kits are superb and still set the standard in terms of surface detail and buildability.
FredT
Tojo !
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gengriz
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Tojo !
Second kit off the workbench this month; this is the Nakajima Ki-44 IIb Shoki (Tojo) mount of Japanese Army ace, Captain Yoshio Yoshida from mid 1945, complete with six B-29 kill markings:
These 1970s Hasegwa kits are superb and still set the standard in terms of surface detail and buildability.
FredT
These 1970s Hasegwa kits are superb and still set the standard in terms of surface detail and buildability.
FredT
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Re: Tojo !
Nice! The Japanese equivalent of the P-47 one assumes....Very smartly done indeed
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Jim
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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Re: Tojo !
Nice one indeed.
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Re: Tojo !
Excellent Tojo 
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Model kits are meant to be assembled . . . . . . . . . . eventually.
Model kits are meant to be assembled . . . . . . . . . . eventually.
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Re: Tojo !
Great stuff, Fred, that's another excellent build of a classic kit.
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Re: Tojo !
I never realised what a brute this one is in the flesh. Lovely build, Fred.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
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Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939