Tamiya 1:48 Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Type 100 plus the Kurogane 4x4 light vehicle — SET is a limited package holding two separate models in one box: the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft and the light utility vehicle. Injection-molded plastic kits to be assembled and painted.
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This box is not one model but two. Tamiya has combined its kit of the reconnaissance aircraft Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Type 100 with the kit of the Japanese Kurogane 4x4 light utility vehicle, both in a single 1:48 scale. For a modeler that means one thing: you are buying a practically ready-made diorama scene. A reconnaissance aircraft standing on an airfield and the vehicle that has driven up to it, two things that belong together historically and work together immediately in one scale. The canopy of the aircraft is in clear parts, on the vehicle you can choose an open or a closed hood, and the box holds figures of a driver and an officer. Both kits are injection-molded in plastic.
The Mitsubishi Ki-46 (Allied code name Dinah) was the main strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese army and at the same time one of the aerodynamically cleanest and most elegant aircraft of the whole war: a thin wing section, a slender fuselage, perfectly resolved shapes. Its strength lay not in its armament but in its speed and its ceiling: it flew so high and so fast that for a long time Allied fighters simply could not catch it. Version III is the late development form with more powerful Ha-112-II engines and a lightened, cleanly glazed nose; that is what pushed its top speed past 600 km/h. The Kurogane, by contrast, is a modest but historically interesting machine: a Japanese light utility vehicle with all-wheel drive, created to an army requirement, in essence the Japanese counterpart of the American Jeep, used for liaison and reconnaissance.
On the aircraft it pays to start with the cockpit and the extensive glazing: mask the clear parts (with tape or masks) and spray only once the framing is done. Use thin cement for plastic, which flows into the seam by capillary action and leaves no marks. Unify the surface with primer and spray the finish with an airbrush; on Japanese machines it helps to grade the shade within the panels so that the large wing surfaces do not look flat. Build the Kurogane like a small armor subject: finish and paint the chassis and the engine bay before you close the hood, and at the end add dust and mud effects with pigments and washes. If you put both models on a common base, unify the tone of the dust on the aircraft and on the vehicle, because that is exactly what makes the scene believable.
The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue, paints and accessories are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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