Greto 32

 

 

 

The cockpit parts look like in the film, but would not be functional. See the joystick has no room to move. 

I will replace the ugly gun barrels with injection needles. 

 

It seems that the axle could be left in place and the unique propeller could be added afterwards. Nothing is glued here! 

Everything ready in the other fuselage half. 

Halfs jointed. The radiator required painting on this early stage. 

annoying gaps between cockpit pod and fuselage.  

Gaps are first filled with thin styrene sheet 

Lots of Mr.Surfacer 500 

Then thinner and a swab 

I figured too late, that this model needs nose weight. So I drilled a hole to the bottom of the fuselage and dropped tungsten beads with PVA glue inside... 

And so the PVA glue invaded the cockpit 🙁 

Wings are in place! 

Maybe I cut the canopy poorly from the sprue because some nasty lines appeared.  

Canopy in place and masked. 

Black and white primer added. 

Fast check with tape showed an area where primer was badly stick. 

Yellow parts first this time 

First I tried to solve the Honneamise number system by checking the countdown timer in the movie, but later I found a picture from a movie art exhibition, where the numbers and letters were defined. It was revealed that Honneamise number system is base-13, so number 32 is expressed as 26. The letters are like Japanese hiragana consisting of a consonant and a vowel. Literally these symbols should read "Geto26". 

Lots of cutting masks. 

Continuing this backwardish order of painting with red. 

Unfortunately it's not Uru in Blue 😉 Problem was the yellow and red colors that blue could not cover, so I had to hide them with white primer. 

Some masks off. Looks nicely colorful. 

Landing gear bay interior improvised. 

painting of other missing parts ongoing. 

 

Propeller spinner chipped with salt 

Random spare red stencils with unreadable text 

I got lazy so I didn't put stencils everywhere. 

Landing gears and doors in place. 

masks are off