Shinden, minus one Godzilla

 Godzilla Minus One is one of the best movies I've ever seen! For me, a small part of the movie's appeal is the appearance of the Kyushu J7W-1 Shinden fighter. It happens I built the 1/72 Hasegawa kit some years ago, but didn't have any pictures of it on this blog. Not to blow my own horn, but I'm pretty happy with the job I did on it. As of this writing, it's on display at AAA Hobbies in Magnolia, NJ.

It's mainly painted with Model Master Enamels, with the green/gray camo scheme applied with my Paasche VL. To give the hinomaru decals a painted-on appearance, I painted over them lightly with the base color.

By the way, I found out at Aviation of Japan that you can see the replica Shinden used in the movie at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial in Fukuoka (story here).