Rare and Japanese

[mclaring]

Hi Pipl,

part of a long-term project for me is documenting the Japanese air war in New Guinea. Here is a Ki-48 of the 2nd Chutai, 208th Sentai, captured at Hollandia in April 1944. Must say good technical diagrams for these ships are hard to find!

Michael C.

[sparty72]

Tidy

[Serval]

Very nice. Though I think that the contrast between the clean paint (perfect new underwing) and lot of chipping is pretty big.

[jrcjr65]

Excellent Job!

[BLOWHARD]

If I'm not mistaken, that chipping paint is really green paint peeling of the tan-gray base color, yes?
It looks pretty nice except I'd watch the repeat pattern caused by the splatter brush. It's pretty noticeable of the upper rear fuselage.

[mclaring]

Blowhard is correct about the paint chipping. All Ki-48s left the Kawasaki factory with a creamy brown overcoat which faded in the field. all green camou (splotch. paint, or stripes) was applied in the field. in the case of new guinea the weathering was pronounced, with some airframes receiving a "splotch" camou look which in case was simply weathering. no two airframes were the same. correct weathering on any airframe is hard to achieve, let alone Japanese ones, - I'm still looking for the golden weathering brush - any ideas ?

Michael C