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Glad to hear that construction will resume.
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While construction of the engine will be ongoing, I decided to build the tail rudder. I love the Japanese writing on this part, and it gives me joy to see it come together - it gives the aircraft a unique character.
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More photos of the tail rudder construction. After the internal frame was assembled, I formed and glued in place the upper section. The lower section was far more difficult to shape, but with a little patience it came out pretty satisfactory. This element had another "cut out after glueing" portion, which really helped to hold the shape before and after cutting.
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Here are some images of the completed tail rudder on the aircraft.
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That's a tidy looking tail section - It's coming together nicely
Tim |
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This extraordinary tail section, it seems very real!
Fantastic job. Orazio |
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Looks great Gordon. I feel your pain about the difficulty of that bottom piece - but yours came out very nice!
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You continue to do flawless work on this beautiful airplane, Gordon.
I like the Japanese characters on the tail, too. In the case of your airplane, I find them somewhat enigmatic. It may be that this particular aircraft was very famous and Shrike or Charlie C or Mike Krol will immediately identify the aircraft, the pilot, and the name on the tail, but I am at the office with no references except a couple of Japanese and Chinese dictionaries and my computer and, while the top character is clearly riku [land, earth], the bottom one defeats me. The 50th Sentai traditionally named its aircraft with the names written in (usually) white kanji [Chinese] characters at the bottom of the rudder [See the discussion on this in the J-Aircraft Forum, from which I have drawn this information: ]50th Sentai namings The 1st Chūtai aircraft (red sentai marking) usually had the names of birds, so I would expect the characters on your model to be the name of a bird. However, there were exceptions, some 1st Chūtai aircraft names were not birds (wives’ names, patriotic exhortations, and evocative images (soaring in the sky) were sometimes used). The 2nd Chūtai (yellow sentai markings) aircraft usually had such names as “reverence,” “faithfulness,” and “filial Piety.” The 3rd Chūtai (white sentai markings) were named after types of wind, such as Asakaze (Morning Wind) or Kamikaze (divine wind). Note that the 50th Hikō Sentai used a non-standard set of colors. Most, but not all, sentais used blue for the headquarters chūtai, white for the 1st, red for the 2nd, and yellow for the 3rd. There were, however, exceptions. I hope that one of the aforementioned modelers or Yu or Shinji, or some other Forum member with Japanese language and IJAAF expertise will weigh in here to solve the mystery. Don |
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While changing topic slightly, just an overall comment on the nice job and the fine models Halinski has to build, really nice!
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I would be really interested to know what the markings on the tail mean. Is it some sort of squadron designation? Also, the location of the markings (at the bottom section of the tail rudder) is unlike most WWII aircraft. They usually have markings boldly painted right on the main fuselage section or near the cockpit. I wonder why this is?
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