It is Seiran, an attack aircraft carrier in a submarine. It was completed in September 2015.
I made a special attack aircraft named Seiran, released from Tamiya. The Imperial Japanese Navy developed it with the idea that the airplane was stored in a giant submarine and attacked secretly.
The cockpit, pilot, and the assistant? Bomber? I made them. Tamiya’s figures in all plastic models are of very excellent quality on the whole. There’s no choice but to omit them.
The dolly (cart) is attached to this kit. It was rare. I assembled it at once. A float is carried here and seems to move to rumble.
I assembled two floats earlier to check whether they got on the dolly properly. I set up a weight in one of the floats to keep a balance to prevent overturning. This airplane looks balanced behind very much. It is an 800 kg bomb standing to the left.
(06-August-2015)
Oh, What a coincidence! When I uploaded this Seiran in this HP, I heard the news that an I-400 class submarine sinking in the Nagasaki offing was found the next day. The I-400 was the mother ship of Seiran, and the airplane wings were folded, and three planes were stored like this Tamiya’s leaflet. Because 70 years have passed, I think this ship has intense corrosion and is worthless; if the condition is good, it is good information. I wonder about the pilot’s feelings about living in a submarine…
Such a detailed commentary is written on an assembling manual of Tamiya. It is splendid. It helps our motivation for building well.
These two pilots are entirely the same mold. I drew a mustache on the pilot’s face. Oh, the eyes are similar. I made a difference with a navigator without a mustache.
Maybe I could paint like the pilot of IJN somehow.
Recently, even a Japanese could not answer the day of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I suppose history education should be taught from after the Meiji Restoration to the postwar period first. Last is four major civilizations if there’s no time to teach all programs. By the way, Hiroshima was on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki was on August 9, 1945.
(09-August-2015)
The cockpit color was designated as XF-22 RLM gray in TAMIYA Color. I want to paint by lacquer Mr. Color, so the Japanese Navy fighter cockpit color of number 126 (Mitsubishi Planes) was mixed with RLM02 gray with number 60 about half-and-half for now.
The propeller canopy is available in two kinds, with a point being round and sharp. I chose the sharp one. I didn’t know about it so well anyway. My impression of the body is slim and intelligent; it is considered stylish.
The back is like this. As for the assembling before the painting, there will be a limit. The next step is painting.
(27-August-2015)
I drew in freehand without the masking about the painting of the canopy frame. The freehand drawing makes me under some pressure. Maybe I need to repaint it a little later.
The pitot tube of the kit mold is dull; I made it by myself with the brass pipes. I was going to use the part of plastic parts, but it’s broken, and all was remade of brass. I was finished in good taste.
I use the glue named Pitmult-2; this is water solubility and can be stuck and peeled off for gluing the canopy and the body. Honestly speaking, I wouldn’t say I liked it. It was poured the liquid-like thinned with water at the adhesive point. I had trouble around. The canopy was sticky and clear windows were tainted; regular plastic glue is better for me.
(10-September-2015)
Before entering the whole painting process, only a canopy is masked.
It is a painting; the bottom and float bottom fuselage will be inking without an especially fading effect. The dark green upper area When a body color of dark green puts the light and shade here and there.
Also, a propeller and dolly were painted with an airbrush. This dolly seems to take time and effort.
(2015/09/13)
As shown in the picture, it is not a very good way to paint the masking sol to a large area. But I carried it out.
I’ve airbrushed the panel line in dark green.
I blew the light and shade lightly, and the basic painting was completed. Oh, I want to glue my legs together early.
The dark green and bright off-white border made a boundary that clear. Moreover, it is the boundary of a random curve.
Depending on the taste, I feel that’s random in the crisp line unnatural to a Japanese fighter airplane. Because I could not start it again if I put the decal off the nationality mark, I repainted that there is some gradation.
A decal was a bit old, and a white part was easy to break. Red and yellow were quite robust, and I needed a strong decal softener to stick on the curved surface. It’s almost completed.
(2015/09/16)
The Seiran is a special attack airplane that can be equipped with an 800kg bomb. This airplane could be stocked in a submarine. Twenty-eight planes were produced by the end of the war. There was also the Panama Canal bombardment plan, but they couldn’t participate in the actual fighting and finally met the war’s end.
It’s a classified weapon so it wouldn’t become dirty so much. It has been completed as neatly as possible.
It’s easy to imagine the Seiran’s size compared with the AA battery. It’s quite a large airplane. Because there are two floats, I feel it’s big.
I finished the dolly with a very different color from making comments. I imagined a center pallet becoming dirty with machine oil in black.
The black parts are rubber, dark brown is iron parts. The Brown area is the wooden part.
Wrinkles have been left on a decal of the Rising Sun. After putting decals softer, twiddled one would be wrong. I made it a little flat with sandpaper and applied red again, but complete recovery would be impossible.
This could be stuck tight. After all, should I not have moved it?
The antenna line is made of metal. The antenna pole on the cockpit I have been damaged after completion. It was attached again, so the one stuck tightly has sagged for a short while. It’s deplorable.
Moreover, a drill was used to fix an antenna pole again, so a chip was in the cockpit. It’s trouble to the next from the next as a domino was being lined, and the way knocked it down. A chip was finally falling, but building works around here needed scrupulous attention.
I can see the faces of the pilots well because I polished the canopy. I like this part.
It is a big body. The body’s underside is light gray. I did the inking and washing lightly.
Well, is the painting of some sashes warped? I imagine that the corner of the window panes is dirty with sea breeze operation on the ocean and salt attached.
I blew in black around the engine exhaust.
There are some points of trouble, but on the whole, it is a reliable aircraft with good looking.
A decal of a nameplate under the tailplane was broken into pieces. I borrowed one piece from Zero fighters of Tamiya in my stock. Because a letter is so tiny and not readable when I look hard to close near, It’s no problem. I do not understand that I look hard and approach and do not see it.
That it was unexpected, painting of dolly took time.
Yellow decals have uneven coloring. I painted over several times to unify the color tone.
It is my first time building a seaplane. The fitting of a part is good and also has a tremendous impact. There is a feeling of satisfaction very much when completed.
(18-September-2015)
