Markings for the Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighter in 1:72. Three schemes belong to machines of the Hei subversion of the 244th Air Regiment, which defended the area of the capital in 1944 and 1945.
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Japanese fighters of the day were powered almost without exception by radial engines, and the Ki-61 therefore looked foreign at first glance: a slender nose, a radiator under the fuselage and a liquid-cooled inverted V12 built under German license. Allied pilots were convinced it was an imported European type and assigned it a code name of its own. The Japanese name means swallow and matches the shapes of the airframe. The subversion designated Hei carried a pair of heavy cannons imported from Germany in the fuselage and could be told from the later version, on which the fuselage was lengthened.
The unit the schemes come from was among the best-known Japanese defensive formations and its machines carried conspicuous colored bands across the tail surfaces. Two of the possibilities offered concern the same aircraft in two phases of its life, which is useful for a modeler: it is enough to clear-coat and re-mark the same model and a second variant is gained without having to obtain a further kit.
Colored bands across the whole tail surface tend to be supplied in this scale as one large piece, which bends badly over the edges. It helps to cut it at the leading edge and then to cover the joint with a thin layer of clear coat. The kit is not part of the package.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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