Resin exhaust stacks for the Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighter in 1:48 scale. The casting has hollowed-out openings, a detail that a molded part in this scale cannot offer.
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The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien was the only Japanese production fighter with a liquid-cooled V engine. The Ha-40 powerplant was derived from the licensed Daimler-Benz DB 601 and was an inverted V12, and because the nose of the aircraft was unusually slender, Allied observers at first took it for a machine of Italian origin and gave it the code name Tony. The Japanese name Hien means swallow.
The package holds cast exhaust stacks for both sides of the engine. The openings are hollowed out to depth, so once fitted they do not look like blind cylinders, and the surface is ready for a weathered metal finish to show at its best.
Glue the stacks on only after the engine cowlings are finished, so that they do not break off while the model is handled. A convincing look comes from a dark base, a transition into rusty brown and a light pass with graphite, which gives the metal back its matte sheen. Apply the soot trail behind the openings as a heavily thinned black, sprayed in the direction of the airflow, that is to say rearward and slightly upward along the fuselage side.
Before gluing, clean the casting residue off the parts and check that the exhausts seat in the recesses in the cowlings; sometimes the opening in the plastic needs to be widened slightly. The material is brittle, so separate it from the casting block with a fine saw; breaking it off easily damages the thin wall of the opening.
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