nell

mine isn't that kit, so it should be easier to build. i like the plane it'self.

I looked for the LS carton earlier tonite and couldn't locate it; time for a re-organization!

The clear parts on the Ki-109 are awesome. I hope I get to build that and the Tamiya Saiun and the Hasegawa Ki-84 and the Tamiya Me-262 and the...

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Keeper:

Sounds like your cellar is as bad as mine! :-)

Bill Shuey

LS was really ahead of their time. Most of the kits have engraved panel lines. The Nell has engraved rivets and decal locators. I'd probably keep the rivets and eradicate the DL.

The Ki-67 series has DL's too, easily filled. Reviewing some notes this series are apparently 1/75 as previously stated. Lovely bomb bay and retractable gear.

The Dinah series are fairly modern; engraved panel lines and no DL's. Great kits, I think Hasegawas' efforts were superfluous.

Their KI-43 kits are ok except for the DL's. The 43-II has "1963" inside a wing; I can only assume that is the date. Engraved panel lines again. Both of these kits look like they were originally engineered for retracting gear and changed to a post & hole later. Anyone got an original issue?

The Judies were okay for their time but the Fujimi kits are far superior.

Don't have the Zeroes or the Rufe. All these kits were recently issued by ARII. Nice buildable stuff if you don't plan on winning at the Nats. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

keepah, no decal lines on the nell. i just looked. later revisions, senior moment?

Mine are seventies editions. The decal locators are finely scribed into the surface; actually they're hard to see without a "glare tilt." This goes for the Nippon Go, Mark 11, and Mark 23. Which version did you get? Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

i'll have to look. it's on thea chromey silver plastic. lots of sunk in rivets but no decals. did the tilt and 10x loupe.

They must have cleaned up the mold and you've got a later edition. Great, now I gotta look for a later edition if I want retractable gear. Nope, I'm just gonna fill those little lines! The rivet pattern extends through the DL on the Nell, not so on the Peggy.

Since your's is "chromy plastic" (is it chromed or just high silver?) I'll assume it's a Nippon Go civil airliner. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

it's the same sort of silver lindberg and various others used. not actual plastic chrome. there is a little flash but over all it's pretty clean. the glass is really nice, should only take one light coat of suture to be great. while the instruction sheet has turned yellow, the decals are clean and sharp. i tried to scan the wing and fuselage, but it didn't look good.

Just happened to think, be careful of those decals. I did a Nell 23 about ten years ago and when I went to mount the decals, I watched the meatballs shatter in their water bath. Water wasn't hot, or even lukewarm. You might want to hit them with future or one of the decal preps available before you wet them. I got lucky, there were a bunch of generic after-markets available for me to use, and I was able to salvage most of the smaller decals.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

thanks! i will definiyely put some of that decal preserver on them. they look like goof colors. no dates on the stuff, so i can't give you the year. the instruction sheet is solid yellowing and it was a sealed box.

If I remember correctly, I picked up mine in the very late 1960s or early

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