Tamiya J1N1-S5 Gekko type 11

JEAN-LUC LELODEY
Very interesting, Following !
J'adore les avions Japonais de cette époque, et celui-ci est rarement "maquetté", hâte de voir la suite. Tu es un Pro du masquage 👍
Quelle version comptes-tu réaliser, celui avec le radar FD-2 ?

Sebastian Meyner
Following this one for sure 🙂 👍

Guillaume Blanchet
Merci JL et Sebastian.

Je vais y aller avec la version radar. c'est vrai que ce n'est pas un modèle aussi populaire que les mosquitos et BF 110s, mais comme je suis particulière épris des avion d'interception bi moteur et que le modèle était très abordable je n'ai pu resister. De plus, niveau détails de l'intérieur était d'une hauteur supérieur a mes attentes.

Clifford Keesler
Very nice following.

Guillaume Blanchet
Take a seat Clifford. I have closed the fuselage and glued the wings yesterday. It's a great Tamiya kit. Everything was fitting together perfectly & the mold ejector mark are in area where you will never see them.

Sebastian Meyner
Great work thus far Guillaume 👍 I got this one in my stash and your build is a great motivation to put this kit a bit closer to the work bench 😉

Guillaume Blanchet
Thanks Sebastian. It's a very enjoyable kit to work on. Make sure you reverses enough space on your shelf as this one must have largest wing span of all my twin engine aircraft 😉.

Sebastian Meyner
It's coming along very nicely Guillaume 👍

Clifford Keesler
Very nice cockpit.

Guillaume Blanchet
Thank you both!

Nathan Dempsey
I really need to pick up on of these. Looking good Guillaume. Can't wait to see the next steps.

Gary Victory
Really nice build and attention to detail Guillaume. Great progress. 👍

Guillaume Blanchet
Thanks for the nice comments guys! Much appreciated as the mojo is not very high right now. I'm looking for a new jobs 🙁

Guillaume Blanchet
Thank you Roland! Enjoy the show, the painting is about to start.

Guy Rump
Looking really good Guillaume 👍

Rui S
Great pit 👍 I'm in 😎

David H
Belle finition au cockpit, je vais suivre ça. Merci d'avoir partagé

(Beautiful finish to the cockpit , I'll be following this . Thankyou for sharing)

Guillaume Blanchet
Merci, thank you! I'm happy with the paint job. For once I manage to have the pre-shading showing through the Tamiya XF-11. Unfortunately I got one small air probe part M.I.A. . I have attempted a few Search & recue missions, but I fear It got lost under my backyard deck & might be lost in the dirt and gravel.

Clifford Keesler
Looking better all the time.

Guillaume Blanchet
Hallelujah! I found the lost part in the dirt (pics: 44 & 45).

Thanks for the nice comment Clifford

Guillaume Blanchet
I've experiment with oil paint on the whole surface. The effect is subtle, but quite nice, I'll integrate this process in my future builds for sure. This time I had to re-mask the canopy so I could apply a clear coat over the oil paint.

Clifford Keesler
It looks great, I want to do one of these now, but I think it has been discontinued.

Guillaume Blanchet
Thank you Clifford. YOU can try this place for Japanese kits. They have very low prices, but shipping will be higher.

plazajapan.com/4950344997305/?setCurrencyId=1

Clifford Keesler
I have bought a couple of kits from them. The shipping wasn't that bad and you can find stuff you can't find here.

Clifford Keesler
Just checked, and they have it. Thank you sir.

Guillaume Blanchet
Glad to hear Clifford, my pleasure.

Clifford Keesler
You are most welcome.