1/18 Scale Ki-61 Hien ( Tony) Custom

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:27 am

I think that I have the pic loading almost down here are some of the parts of the plane.
Rear stab and landing gear strut. This was a Spitfire spinner and prop originaly. I drilled through the spinner put a plastic rod in it puttied bondo on it stuck it in a drill chuck and sanded to shape.

More picks to follow Mrs. Spike wants to go somewere.

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:57 pm

Nice work Picklehaube!

Mark

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:06 pm

More pics

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:52 pm

Wow! What are using as a base model?

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:08 pm

Looks like it's coming along nicely

I couldn't help but notice a "blast from the past" in the background of a couple of your pics...looks like VHS tapes stacked up there..

I finally rid myself of the last vestiges of those that I had recently, even managed to sell a few on ebay, but I guess there are still a lot around out there, heck I don't even own a player any more.

Anyway, nice work so far on the Tony.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:54 pm

olifant wrote: Wow! What are using as a base model?

The wing is a Fw-190. The wings were cut reajusted to get the right rake airlerons re-made wing tips lengthend about 1-1/2" each tip. This was married to a Spitfire fuse. The nose was cut off diced a few times and put back on upside down. I almost have it ready to scribe panel lines. It looks like I have to smooth out the top of the cowling a little . It looks a tad bumpy. Right now it is at the sand and smooth stage . This process takes forever. If I were to do it all over again. I would have started from scratch. Because you have to re-do rather than do and it takes soooooo much more time. So far about 130 hrs spaning about 2 1/2 years.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:05 pm

Pickel, you have truly captured the look of this bird. Well done!

What paint scheme do you have in mind? I found this site with some huge and very nice images of various Hiens. (click on any of the images to the right of the screen)

http://www.markkaiser.com/japaneseaviation/hien.html

pokeyjtc · Post by **pokeyjtc** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:59 am

Looks like it is really taking shape. Keep up the good work and keep posting pics. I'm excited to see how this turns out.

Airacobra · Post by **Airacobra** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:04 pm

That is truly awesome.

Light.Inf.Scout · Post by **Light.Inf.Scout** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:26 pm

That'll look real nice when its done

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:25 pm

Looks

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KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:05 am

Very nice work!

Mark

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:33 pm

grunt1 wrote:Pickel, you have truly captured the look of this bird. Well done!

What paint scheme do you have in mind? I found this site with some huge and very nice images of various Hiens. (click on any of the images to the right of the screen)

http://www.markkaiser.com/japaneseaviation/hien.html

Nice thread I have those pilots history but in Japanese. I am glad now that I can read about them. The one pilot with the blue stripe down the side is one of my favs. There is another one in one of my books that has a red tail red stripe and yellow fuel drop tanks with the green camo on natural alu. There is also the green shamrock on green.. I guess I just don't know wich one I want to to. They are all nice.

Thanks guys for all of the kind words. I will get back on it this weekend and post more pics.

Jackson · Post by **Jackson** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:49 am

spikedude has really gone to town on showing his skills with this Tony and the P-36 Hawk....All Hail Spikedude !!

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:05 pm

Jackson wrote:spikedude has really gone to town on showing his skills with this Tony and the P-36 Hawk....All Hail Spikedude !!

Thanks Jackson.
I am going to make a few more kits of the P-36 then it will be back to this project. Half of the year is almost gone but I am keeping up with my new years resolution.

There has been a lot of positve feed back on this project and I am anxious to get back on it as well. If some of the big 3 would come through and do this one now will be the time before there is no turning back.

This has always been one of my favorites and I hope to do it justice.

Should I do another step by step or just post progress picks? See I welcome input I wish the big manufacturers would do the same. There would be a lot less disgruntlement.

Post by **aferguson** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:00 pm

boy that looks so good. You'll have to do a Macchi 202 one day.

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:06 pm

Agreed Aferg. A 202 would look beautiful in 1:18.

DocTodd · Post by **DocTodd** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:21 pm

Nice work, can't wait to see progress pics.
T

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:58 am

Here is a blast from the past .

I am bumping this up so T-bird can see the pics.

supersonicfifi · Post by **supersonicfifi** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:09 am

Waaaoooo !!! nice ! pickel your the Man !

This plane is amways wearing crazy camo ! I LIKE !

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cnq · Post by **cnq** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:31 am

very nice work . I hope it's going to get made by you eventually.
Here is my version of Tony ( 1/32 Hasegawa)

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:13 pm

cnq wrote:very nice work . I hope it's going to get made by you eventually.
Here is my version of Tony ( 1/32 Hasegawa)

That is a fine looking model !

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