Nakajima Ki-44-II Shoki (Tojo) - Hasegawa 1:72

Hello!

It's my first gallery in new year, so I would like to wish everyone a big bunch of successful models.
I would also like to wish paint producers, to release all our "military" colors in gloss version.
It would simplify our life -we put the glossy under decals anyway. Then goes matt varnish.
Beside that gloss paints are going through paintbrush nozzle much easier- painting camouflage dots,
color borders "freehand" would be fun.

Model:

Hasegawa kit, moulds made in 1972 (!).

Paint: Alclad II ALC-105 polished aluminium

Unit: 47 th sentai (wing) Narimasu, Japan 1945

Way cool!

Very nice

Really like that !

Good work!

Sharp looking

I really admire the clean work, especially the canopy. I'm rarely happy with my clear parts.

That is a fantastic looking kit! But it leads me to a slightly more meta question. Would not an older airframe, such as this depicts, look slightly more beaten-up, by this stage of the War? Or am I thinking of a different aircraft, and this was a nearly-new built airframe?

Thanks for comments.
Chief: I am not too much in weathering gloss silver surfaces... Nothing seems to satisfy me here.
Shoki's been produced 'til 1944, so I believe a quite new machine could be preserved in 1945.