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This is the resin kit by Plaatz, of the Japanese anime jet fighter "Yukikaze" from the anime of the same name.
Excellent kit! Nice, sharp detail in a fairly flexible resin. Cast metal landing gear and exhausts. Photoetch landing gear doors and antennae. GREAT decal sheet!
The canopies are clear resin plugs that fit into holes in the fuselage, so there's no cockpit detail. I painted the plug parts black, and painted the canopies themselves with Tamiya "smoke." So they look shiney black from most angles due to the refraction from their black bottoms, but clear tinted from the sides.
I left off the underwing missiles (also cast metal) 'cause, well, they're small and it looked annoying to put all those photoetch fins on them, so the heck with it
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Excellent kit! Nice, sharp detail in a fairly flexible resin. Cast metal landing gear and exhausts. Photoetch landing gear doors and antennae. GREAT decal sheet!
The canopies are clear resin plugs that fit into holes in the fuselage, so there's no cockpit detail. I painted the plug parts black, and painted the canopies themselves with Tamiya "smoke." So they look shiney black from most angles due to the refraction from their black bottoms, but clear tinted from the sides.
I left off the underwing missiles (also cast metal) 'cause, well, they're small and it looked annoying to put all those photoetch fins on them, so the heck with it