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Received some great gifts recently from a mate who visited, including 2 models fom a hitherto unknown brand to me.
The company is Doyusha, from China, and they produce a huge range of 1:100 and 1:144 scale kits, prepainted on the sprues. They sell in mixed bags of 10 kits, the buyer not knowing which kits are in the package. My mate's LHS however opens the bags and sells the kits as single items.
Detail is superb! Parts are airbrushed and canopies brush painted.
Each kit comes with a display base, and the series seems to consist of 20 or so major aircraft types, in many different versions and schemes. The most common seems to be the Zero, with 32 or so kits (including the capturd A6M5 in ATAIU SEA markings).
Doyusha also make a ground crew set, a deck diorama set, and 6 of the kits even come with motors to spin the props!
This kit is No.78 of the 1:100 'Tsubasa Collection', and is basically the A6M2 kit no.13 in special markings. Among the sprue components, there is an optional bomb, centreline rack, and A6M3 prop. Not being applicable to this kit, they are left unpainted in the original light blue plastic.
Anyway: pics of the kit as she comes, and progress so far...
(Ivett would not be amused, but the external detail is so great I am considering making a decent cockpit for her. Various external details will also be enhanced by painting and weathering too (MG barrels, ejector slots, etc).
Arigatou Shinpachi, I will! I've talked to him about the forum, and he asked if there were other Japanese modelmakers here, so I mentioned your 3D A6M8 project. Want to send him some links, and hoping he will join!
(Asked him about the Sai-un aswell, will post a comment on Panagioti's thread when I've written all the information out)
- and no need to be sorry for your hobby, I have full respect for anyone who enjoys repairing or restoring things.
Arigatou shinpachi!
Hirohiko will be pleased. He's a great modelmaker, working mostly model railways, but has a ceiling full of aircraft models aswell (his favourites being WW II Allied types)
His train layouts have been in Japanese magazines, and his co-work in club layouts have been displayed publicly. Hoping he will tell us all more himself sometime.
Also, I remembered wrong - it wasn't his grandfather who designed the Sai-un, but Uncle: Fukuda Yasuo. His grandfather, Fukuda Ichiro had been a Rear Admiral in the IJN!
Thanks Wayne! I thought it was a Pearl Harbour bird, but didn't want to say till positive!
And thanks too Shinpachi! Yes, Hirohiko said since losing his position when the IJN was reduced, he concentrated on submarine development. He lived to 103 years of age!
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Hirohiko says we're both just big kids (and Ivett agrees 
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