Work In Progress
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Information of details are very scarce for Grace. This drawing is reconstructed from remaining sources.
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Article fromKoukuu Jyouhou magazine March1986.
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Hasegawa revised instruction in later boxes
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Most notable difference is mixture recipe for interior color.
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Printing dates.
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Anyway I applied Mr.Color C351 zinc-chromate for interior.
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Kits' engineering is excellent. Although rather complex structuring, I had no trouble so far.
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Started B7A1 too. In bright orange styrene.
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I first painted gear room with interior color as kit instruction says. Paint silver over, and then mix of c57 Aotake and fluorescent blue green. Result looks good to me.
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B7A1 variation has door for tail wheel. Box is too small compare to door, so I enlarged it.
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more aotake
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priming with Gaianotes surfacer fresh + creos cr2(magenta), cr3(yellow)
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As one source recommends Japan Railway color for IJN prototype orange, I'll try one.
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Paint c58 orange as base color with modest shading..
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Set base masking in pkace.
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I use Tamiya's masking sheet with grid to align miltiple layer of circle mask with supportive holes.
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IJN red over white.
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Parts waiting for final assrmbly.
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Two semi-completed planes were set on show in Kyushu-Plastic-Model-society's 20th anniv. event(7th-9th Oct) .
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