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10-18-2009, 10:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: singapore
Posts: 119
| 1/72 D4Y2/3 Suisei Judy, 601st & 653rd Kokutai, October 1944 WIP I swung by Achtung Japan here in Singapore this weekend and got these kits to even out the IJN line-up of my builds...hopefully I can squeeze these deadlines before the BOLG anniversary...or not... It's the two versions of the D4Y Suisei "Judy" Bombers used by the IJN during the Battle of Leyte Gulf from the aircraft carrier Zuiho (653rd Kokutai) and the land-based 601st Kokutai, probably from Mabalacat, Pampanga Base. Faster than the A6M5 Zero Sen, these aircraft were actually used as night fighters with oblique cannons to bring down allied bombers. The 601st were actually based in Tengah Air Base, Singapore too before they got pulled out to beef-up the IJN forces in the Philippines. These aircraft were also responsible for sinking the most allied ships during the pacific conflict, most notably the aircraft carrier USS Princeton. Old kits, but amazingly with recessed panel lines, though the canopy is a tad thick, not to mention a masking nightmare.      
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10-18-2009, 10:24 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
Posts: 3,760
  | Nice!
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10-18-2009, 10:58 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| I've always thought the Judy had wonderful lines.
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10-19-2009, 01:37 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| I'm looking forward to a couple kits being worked on.
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10-19-2009, 07:25 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canberra
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| That’s a nice plane, but what a lot of window, looking forward to seeing them being built 
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10-19-2009, 09:04 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: singapore
Posts: 119
| thanks folks... doing test-fitting now, and i must say it's not gonna be a stroll in the park...these kits are just begging to be detailed... engine cowling flaps, canopy options perhaps from falcon vac-form custom parts, etc... and i'm not really crazy enough to show open bomb bays...not yet anyway...
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10-19-2009, 09:15 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| Very cool Wingnutz 
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10-19-2009, 11:28 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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|  looking forward to these 2
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10-20-2009, 03:22 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: singapore
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| the more i look at the kits, the more i realize that there's a few more mods that i need to do to update them... with the D4Y3 having more inaccuracies than the D4Y2 kit...mostly on the engine cowling, i.e. intakes, gun ports, exhaust pipes... oh well...
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10-20-2009, 08:10 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| C'mon get to it! 
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