Sunday, 2 January 2011

Nakajima B5N 'Kate' - part 1

While supposedly sorting out some kits yesterday I found myself (inevitably) sidetracked by building a couple.  That's not quite as bad as it sounds as the kits in question were of the pre-painted Japanese variety.
To balance out the recent completion of Nates and Sonias for the Army, I decided to build some early WW2 Naval aircraft.  Perhaps January is 'Naval Aircraft Month'....

First up were a pair of F-Toys 'Kates' - the component parts of a single kit look like this:
The build was a painless process and the models were left to dry overnight.  I'll post photos of the completed models soon.
Coming soon - Aichi D3A 'Val'.
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6 comments:

  1. Don M2 January 2011 at 20:32

    Had the old Airfix 1/72nd Diorama
    of Hickom Field (Pearl Harbor)of a Val with some troops scurrying about
    on the vacuformed runway, brings back found memories.

    Interestingly many years later I was
    stationed at Schofield BKS Hi, in the same building (I Quad) as my grandfather stayed in before shipping out to fight in the Pacific.

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  2. Tim Gow2 January 2011 at 20:45

    Don M
    Interesting story - did grandfather get through it all?
    Tim

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  3. Don M2 January 2011 at 22:50

    Yes he went on to do occupation duty in Japan in fact. More interesting is that he left Germany as he put it on the business end of a Kar98 in 1938 came to the states and joined the US army fought across the Pacific,and told me a few neat stories of how encountered German speaking natives on various islands
    that used to be German possessions before WWI.

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  4. Tim Gow3 January 2011 at 10:26

    Don M
    I think that he deserves a special blog posting - I look forward to reading it!
    Tim

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  5. Bill3 January 2011 at 18:52

    Nice looking plane Tim..)

    And I've been telling Don to do a memorial to his grandfather for years...I've heard allot of the stories and they are fascinating.

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  6. Tim Gow3 January 2011 at 22:10

    Bill
    Let's both nag Don - he's bound to crumble eventually.
    Tim

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