"young George" 1/48 Otaki

[Ronnie Murray]

Finally put the metallic base coat on this one.

[Ronnie Murray]

Special thanks to professor Tony Leger for his talents and willingness to maintain and update our website so faithfully!

[Ronnie Murray]

The previous image shows the instructions for this kit and the strange, D shaped hole in the underside of the fuselage.  ?  Well I have covered it and finished crafting the 8 pieces of the landing gear covers.

[Ronnie Murray]

Test post #2

[Ronnie Murray]

Test post

[Ryan K]

Looking good, keep it going.

[Ronnie Murray]

Still pushing this to make some more progress.  Its starting to feel like an airplane, modeling is finally fun again after a very long dry spell.

[Robert Porter]

Looks great! Nice job, looking forward to seeing the final reveal!

[Ronnie Murray]

I was able to push this project over the toughest hurdle...getting the battery powered motor installed and working.  Dont kniw why this one was so tough but its done now. 

[Bill L.]

Looking good - Keep it going!!!

Bill L.

[Ronv]

Looking good Ronnie!
RonV

[Ronnie Murray]

Now drill another hole just under the horizontal stabilizer and insert the brass rod that houses the two electrical wires.   It will all look fine once the fuselage is sealed up.

[Ronnie Murray]

This would be the standard assembly...clean and simple but I had to carve out a space for the battery powered motor.

[Ronnie Murray]

Finally working on this again.  Some kits have landing gear covers tgat fit very well as retracted but this isnt one of them.  I modified pieces from a Hasegawa N1K2-J kit and got them to work.

[Ronnie Murray]

The N1K1sure has a fat butt like a bumble bee.  The J2M Jack /Rsiden and the Betty bomber did too.  Then look at the anemic "damsel fly" type skinny tails they had on the Ki-43 Oscar and Lilly bomber...what a contrast.ě