Bsyamato: Lol, I should have looked it up instead of relying on my faulty memory!
Winetanker: Cool, she’s coming right along!
I thought I already threw my hat in this ring, but I guess I forgot to do so. Can I join up with the 1/48 Hasegawa KI-84? I got some nice Sky Decals for it.
Joe
Joe: Sounds great. Would love to have her aboard!
Hi Cliff,
You can sign me up with a Revell 1/48 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero! It will be strictly OOB!
Ken
Looking forward to seeing your work, and Welcome Home Brother.
Welcome Ken! Just put you down.
Finished up my Raiden.
I used the kit decals which didn’t turn out too bad, although some of them started to disintegrate. I’m particularly proud of my save on the starboard Hinomaru which cracked in about 6 pieces.
Sorry the pics are a little out of focus. I think I had the wrong ‘scene’ set on my camera
Sharp looking Judy Bsyamato!
Surfsup that deck is looking wicked nice!
Man this G/B is already cranking ,hoping to get something started here when I finish the Bronco over in the twin boom g/b
Nice Jack Winetanker. It’s a rotund little thing isn’t it. This GB is off to a good start.
Cheers
Tony
WT: Nice work! Do you want me to go ahead and post her or would you like to try for better photos?
Yeah the Raiden did look sorta like a real life ‘egg’ plane.
started this. not my first 8x8 (or second or third…). am trying to see if i can avoid the windows around the driver’s hatch. all my UN warwheels have them. i thought they were just to keep the elements off the driver. my research showed the JGSDF windows are for iraq deployment for increased visibily and apparantly are armored as well so i guess i will add them unless i can figure out the hatch with all the not used parts. will be my first 2 color airbrush camo so i am not going to put any hatches or rails, handles etc unless they will not cross a color line. may make it easier to mask. off to workshop to work on finishing a couple of builds. 
Thanks for having me aboard. I decided to take a “coffee break” on my Academy P-47N for a short while and switched over to the Hasegawa 1/48 Ki-84 Hayate. I’ve had this in my stash for quite a while and hae been itching to build it for quite some time. I bought some Sky decals for it now I just have to pick out a scheme.
I started with the cockpit. Its probably the second best I’ve seen so far out of the box (behind the Tamiya Jug series of course). I did utilize an Ultracast seat though. I decided to add all the levers and such before painting so they wouldn’t get damaged or lost. I preshaded the cockpit XF-1 Flat Black then mixed a custom shade of XF-71 Cockpit Green and a tad of XF-49 Khaki to come up with my interpretation of Nakajima Green. I’ve read that sometimes the cockpit was left in natural metal too, so I opted to paint the seat in Alclad Aluminum to add contrast. Once detail painted with a brush and a drybrushing with silver was done, it was Testor’s gloss coated. It then got a detailer wash and some minor postshading. I used the kit decal for the instrument panel. It worked well with Micro Sol. 
More to follow. Thanks for looking.
Joe
Waynec: Looks like a really nice kit there, I assume it comes with rubber tires? I started on a PLA wheeled IFV with large windows in the front and just stuck a piece of clear plastic in there I’d painted gloss black on the back to disguise the fact that there’s no interior and then put liquid mask over the thing to paint the vehicle.
Joe: Wow, that cockpit looks fantastic, I love it! I’ve got one of those around here somewhere and yeah, it’s a great kit right outta the box. Looking forward to seeing you build her.
Sweet. That seat is just killer! Makes me want to break out the Ki-100.
Looks fantastic Joe!
yep rubber tires. i have the PLA 8x8 SNOW LEOPARD and 6x6 TD as well as 20+ other modern wheels of various types and countries. it has all the windows and frame so that isn’t the problem i just don’t like the way it looks.
just finished putting tires on EBR-10. another set of problems. seems they have big “axle mounts” when mounting little road wheels on tanks but tiny “axle mounts” for big tires.
Funny they’d do the axle mounts like that. I need to do some more vehicles like this, the part of armour modeling I hate the most is fussing with individual thread links- wheeled AFVs are much more fun.
indy tracks is/are why i do warwheels though i have a couple of tricks that make rubberband tracks easier to put on. i swapped the nwe ASU-85 for an M-198 towed gun because it had indy tracks. have a PZ-IIC and an SU-76 i will still build but may be it.
i have build trumpeter, afv club, and hobbyboss warwheels and all of them do this. i think even my tamiya SDKFZ-222 had this problem. i mask off the holes and axles before priming and painting and still have fit issues. finally got all 8 on my EBR-10; cya, patience to hold it and more patience to let it sit overnight.
Here’s a better ‘money pic’…
Yeah, the Raiden doesn’t look like it’s lanky brothers, but it was one of the few single engine fighters that was effective against B-29’s.
WT: Again nice work! I can see all the subtle power and exhaust stains you added better now. The chips turned out great, updated your photo to the roster.