Kawasaki T-4 Blue Impulse 2008 - Completed

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Finally, I got the rest of the minor stuffs ready and it's done~~!


The ejection seats were painted with Andrea Acrylics. But I didn't add the seatbets on them, trying to get rid of the kit as simple as possible.


This is a little nice kit just like the F-16! I really had fun with it!

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So I have another run for the stensils and I have a couple of quick clear coats, one gross and one matt, laid on it. And after all these, I am able to remove the mask on the canopy.



I have hand-painted the darker lines on the wings to fit the blue shades.



The next thing to work on is the finer details inside the cockpit and then I will need to handle the landing gears.

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Just spend the evening having the color scheme painted. This is a custom mix of 2 blue colors. I didn't manage to get the Gunze #322 and #323 as stated in the instruction. But I think this color still match close enough to the decal anyway.



The next evening I have most of the decals applied. I need to leave the stensils for later time as I hardly able to focus from my eyes after consecutive evening audio meetings.


After some the decal applied, I found that the mask I have made on the wings are appearantly off the track. Perhaps I will have to hand paint the darkr shade of blue lines later on.



But afterall, I think the masking job is pretty close and I am still glad to have this progress going on so far.

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Finally, I have got some time after an exhausting biz trip and is now closer to normal life.... XD
The plane has been primed with a custome mix of grey as pre-shadow. Then the Gunze GX White has been used as highlight color.

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The intakes have been fitted and the wings are also assembled into the main frame.
Some fillings were done to shapen the lines and alignments.




I will need to highlight some of the details and panal lines before I start the painting work.

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Progress was slow with this kit as I focused more on the Nissan March all day... But I managed to get a nice masking for the canopies and a quick black base for them. I spent the midnight filling all the gaps between the main frame parts. So hopefully once I get the intakes ready for fit-in, the painting work can start straight ahead.

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The next thing to work on after fitting the wings and the intakes is the cockpit details.
There is hardly any details within the cockpit and I have decided to detail it up with some pieces of plastic sheets.

I started by marking the inner walls of the cockpit so I can work on the walls as well as the console areas.


Some thinner sheets have been used. I just cut them randomly and drill some holes here and there. These are all done without any reference to any reference photos. But I think it is good enough at such small scale.... no one is going to look really so close into the cockpit and compare to the real stuffs anyway...... ^.^


After a very quick air-brushing, washing and dry-brushing, The cockpit is not more detailed and I am quite satisfied with it. Let's move on with the rest~~

Kawasaki T-4 Blue Impulse 2008

This is a new build for the Luner New Year vacation. This will be a very quick build just to clear some of th stocks. So no mod is expected.



After opening the box, I just found that it is a very simple kit just like the F-16. Hopefully will be a very funny one as I have been really long from my last jet fighter kit.