Masks for the Japanese Ki-43 army fighter of the second series, which the Allies knew under the code name Oscar. Glazing from both faces and two sheets with red discs.
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The Ki-43 of the second series was built on a single idea: the lowest possible weight. It carried a pair of machine guns, at the start it had no armor at all, and its agility in the horizontal admitted no discussion. The second series received a stronger engine, a shorter span with a sturdier wing and, for the first time, protection for the pilot and the tanks. Its characteristic feature remained the maneuvering flaps, which deployed by themselves in a turn and shortened the turning radius further. It took Allied pilots a long time to learn not to fight this machine on its own terms.
The set offers two glazing masks, that is one from outside and one from inside, and with them two sheets with the red discs that Japanese aircraft wore on the wings and on the sides of the fuselage.
In its dimensions the Oscar was among the smallest fighters of its day, so in 1:48 it makes a model that fits in the palm of a hand. That shifts the limit of what can still be done by hand: the cockpit frame here is so narrow that a brush will not outline it straight, but film uncovers it precisely. At the same time the opposite holds for surface detail, because the fabric covering of the tail surfaces and the fine ripples on the engine cowling are lost at this size. Anyone wanting to see them moves to 1:32, where the model grows by roughly half in every dimension.
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