1/48 Mitsubushi Ki-46 III "Dinah" 17th Chutai available

[NOBI]

Hi There,

Thank you very much for great help from Ashrunner about re-color my Dinah into 17th Chutai marking. Model is available at http://thaipaperwork.com

Thank you very much for all support

http://thaipaperwork.com/model/images/ki46_2/001.jpg

http://thaipaperwork.com/model/images/ki46_2/002.jpg

[ChienChengWei]

Wow! It looks great!
Japan Aircrafts are always very attractive. :)

[Ashrunner]

It looks great, NOBI 8v)

[member_3]

Ordered, downloaded, printed! Mighty fine repaint, Ash...

[John Bowden]

It looks great ASH! Thanks!

Also Thanks Nobi! Boy I have got to get back to modeling:o

Too many great models.........well you know the rest:D

john

[Ashrunner]

Thanks Guys. 8v) I originally wanted to do the repaint for Shoki. NOBI liked it and decided he would release it.

I definitely was pleased with the way it came out. Enjoy the builds.

[milenio3]

Very nice, Ash!! Thanks.

[Don Boose]

I thought it would be worth resurrecting this old thread to note that the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force also used the Ki-46.

See this J-Aircraft thread with many images, especially of Dinahs of 141 Kōkutai (Naval Air Group) in the Philippines (and some fine imagery detective work): Mitsubishi Army Type 100 Hq-Recon. Aircraft "Dinah" In The Navy!!! *PICS* (http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=13811.0)

Any chance of a recolor, NOBi? Especially since you have been offering us many IJAAF fighters and the IJNAF N1K2-J recently.

Don

[John Bowden]

Is this what you want Don?

http://www.j-aircraft.com/jiml/ki-46iii_5139_141-103_marshart.jpg

[Don Boose]

Yes! That's the Don Marsh profile of "Dinah III, s/n 5139, [141-103] . . . found abandoned at BAMBAN Airfield [Philippines] in January 1945 that had formerly been assigned to Teisatsu Hikotai T.102 serving with No.141 Ku." [to quote Jim Lansdale of J-Aircraft]

Although, since I still haven't build the NOBi Firefly I in July 1950 Triumph Air Group colors that you recolored, I hesitate to ask for it, but if you color it and NOBi agree to it and Chris sells it, I'll buy it (with good intentions of building it).

Don

[John Bowden]

Don,

I've pretty much got it done, just have to find a font to match the numbers....... that "3" is a little unique.

john

[NOBI]

I will dig into my library. If my dinah is survive from hdd crash several year ago, I will recolor to that's scheme :-)

[John Bowden]

NOBi - check your email.

[Don Boose]

NOBi - I have the model, if that will help. I presume John has it, too.

Don

[John Bowden]

Don,

I've sent NOBi a recolor and hopefully it will be available soon.;)

[NOBI]

I just got re-color from John, That's color look awesome. I will make a new cover and will send to ecardmodels soon.

Thank you very much, John

[John Bowden]

Thanks NOBi!

[Don Boose]

Wow! That's a remarkably short flash-to-bang time!

Sincere thanks to John and to NOBi.

As the little verse in the WWII aircraft recognition manual used to say: That Dinah has a mighty fine linah.

I am standing by to purchase it as soon as it appears at ECardmodels, and plan to buy a couple more to use as gifts.

Don

[John Bowden]

Just the luck of the draw. Playing around learning how to do vector recoloring, this made a good learning experience.

NOBi's the one to thank for designing "Easy but Beautiful" models for all of us to enjoy!

[MacSongLi]

Nobi/John,

Thanks you very much, I'll be purchasing this one as well.

John, are you using Inkscape?

Thanks,
Gary

[John Bowden]

Gary

In all honesty, I have discovered a problem recoloring with Inkscape. It doesn't recognize all the fonts load on my system. And really it's the fonts I need to use for military aircraft! :mad: I haven't upgraded to the latest version........yet.

Soooooo...... while the version of Inkscape (Inkscape 0.47) I have can do the basics like adding the colors and modding parts, etc... it doesn't allow the added details needed to finish a recolor. Bummer!

So I'm trying to work with Adobe Illustrator - the problem with AI is, it has totally different tools, KB shortcuts and interface than Photoshop. Bummer again!

But AI does let me use the fonts I need, so I guess it Adobe Illustrator for now.

Still haven't figured out how to weather a model in either one of them so my Photoshop skills will still be need.

[MacSongLi]

Thanks John,

I usually use Gimp or Photoshop to re-color. I downloaded Inkscape to take a look, but I'm still trying to figure out the benefits of vector graphics:confused:.

Gary

[John Bowden]

I'll send you a couple of recolor pages. 1 PS and 1 Inkscape.

I believe you will notice the difference.

john

[John Bowden]

This recolor is now available at eCardmodels.

If you enjoy building it please go write a review on the site and if you take any picture send us them so we can update the site with them.

Here's is the link to the model:

1/48 Mitsubishi Ki46 III "Dinah" 141 Kokutai Paper Model (http://www.ecardmodels.com/index.php/jb-nobi-ki46-dinah-iii-141-kokutai.html)

[Don Boose]

Nice work, John and NOBi!

Don

[MacSongLi]

Great job! I will be purchasing this one.

Gary