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[BlrwestSiR]

Calling this one done:

[Count0]

On 5/18/2025 at 2:36 PM, BlrwestSiR said:

Calling this one done:

 

Nice chromatic richness, as the Spanish modelers would say. Oil's or acrylics?

[Count0]

Another Lego jig. Airacobra advancing at a glacial pace...

And murderers row of small models in various stages.

[BlrwestSiR]

After finally getting the Takom Ho229 combo kits, I couldn't wait to start hacking one up. 

@Martinnfb and I have been talking about the 2 seater  B version which doesn't have the right nose and cockpit for the proposed night fighter variant. Right being subjective since it was only proposed. Anyways, that led to the idea of doing it as a What-if. I thought of a USN carrier based version say early '50s. 

So here I am. 

Fuselage inner frame. 

Cockpit with styrene side panels to make a tub. 

Mocked up. 

 

[Martinnfb]

Sweet, can't wait for the finalized look .

[belugawhaleman]

1 hour ago, BlrwestSiR said:

After finally getting the Takom Ho229 combo kits, I couldn't wait to start hacking one up. 

@Martinnfb and I have been talking about the 2 seater  B version which doesn't have the right nose and cockpit for the proposed night fighter variant. Right being subjective since it was only proposed. Anyways, that led to the idea of doing it as a What-if. I thought of a USN carrier based version say early '50s. 

So here I am. 

Fuselage inner frame. 

Cockpit with styrene side panels to make a tub. 

Mocked up. 

 

I have the single seat version, I'm interested in how these things build up. 😀

[BlrwestSiR]

18 minutes ago, belugawhaleman said:

I have the single seat version, I'm interested in how these things build up. 😀

So far, the fit has been good. There's some light flash in places that needs clean up. Definitely doesn't have as much (internal) detail as the ZM kit for good or bad. The wings have only three main parts- upper and lower halves plus a wing rib at the root. 

The big miss is the lack of painting instructions. I would suggest maybe downloading the ZM instructions for detail colours. 

[DocRob]

20 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Cockpit with styrene side panels to make a tub.

Kit is looking promising, Carl. I´m eying the two seater, as I have only the ZM kit. Are you sure, there should be a tub. After looking at some pics, I think there is only the tubing.

Cheers Rob

[HubertB]

14 hours ago, DocRob said:

Kit is looking promising, Carl. I´m eying the two seater, as I have only the ZM kit. Are you sure, there should be a tub. After looking at some pics, I think there is only the tubing.

Cheers Rob

Well, the soon-to-be-released ZM kit has some for the twin-seater (but not for the single-seat V3 you can do with the same box)

https://www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/sentiment/oyajiblog_137.html
 

Hubert