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'.

6 comments:

Don M said...

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.

Tim Gow said...

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

Don M said...

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.

Tim Gow said...

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

Bill said...

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.

Tim Gow said...

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