Seiran Aichi M6A1 Imperial Japanese Navy Attack Aircraft Tamiya 1/48

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It is Seiran, an attack aircraft carrier in a submarine. It was completed in September 2015.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 BOX PACKAGEI 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGI 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)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGOh, 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKING PILOTThese 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKING PILOTMaybe 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)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 MAKINGThe back is like this. As for the assembling before the painting, there will be a limit. The next step is painting.
(27-August-2015)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGI 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGI 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)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGBefore entering the whole painting process, only a canopy is masked.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGIt 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGAlso, a propeller and dolly were painted with an airbrush. This dolly seems to take time and effort.
(2015/09/13)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGAs 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGI’ve airbrushed the panel line in dark green.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGI blew the light and shade lightly, and the basic painting was completed. Oh, I want to glue my legs together early.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGThe dark green and bright off-white border made a boundary that clear. Moreover, it is the boundary of a random curve.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGDepending 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 PAINTINGA 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)

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKIt’s a classified weapon so it wouldn’t become dirty so much. It has been completed as neatly as possible.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKIt’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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKI finished the dolly with a very different color from making comments. I imagined a center pallet becoming dirty with machine oil in black.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThe black parts are rubber, dark brown is iron parts. The Brown area is the wooden part.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKWrinkles 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThis could be stuck tight. After all, should I not have moved it?

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThe 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKMoreover, 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKI can see the faces of the pilots well because I polished the canopy. I like this part.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKIt is a big body. The body’s underside is light gray. I did the inking and washing lightly.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKWell, 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKI blew in black around the engine exhaust.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThere are some points of trouble, but on the whole, it is a reliable aircraft with good looking.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKA 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.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKThat it was unexpected, painting of dolly took time.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKYellow decals have uneven coloring. I painted over several times to unify the color tone.

SEIRAN TAMIYA 1/48 FINISHED WORKIt 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)