A 'what if' of a 'sort of'?? . . . 'What if' Girls und Panzer used aircraft? Well, they kind of do, there are aircraft in the anime but they aren't involved in the battle games, this one is!
In keeping with the rules of 'Sensha-do' (tank battles as a sport) all material had to exist before 15 Aug 1945, it seems to me if aircraft were allowed they would be ground attack aircraft like dive bombing anti tank types, I suppose strictly speaking the Aichi isn't anti tank but it is an anti armour, albeit ship armour! and I considered it needs to be Japanese because other dive bombers would be a better fit for other Sensha-Do schools and collages more representative to type (it'll hopefully make more sense when I build them)
The kit, ZTS Plastyk Aichi D3-A1 'Val', It's certainly not a kit for the feint hearted and needs considerable work to get it to a high standard, but, I'm looking for a reasonable standard which means provided it looks like what it's supposed to be then I'm satisfied, to be sure I do get more satisfaction from building a 'challenging' kit rather than one that simply falls together,
The plastic has a weird look to it although the texture is fine, I have experience with 'ZTS Plastyk' of Poland having built their ultra challenging Gloster Javelin FAW 7/9
The instructions are typical of an era perhaps before this kit's 2005 creation, a little basic but the kit too is also basic, as with the decal options, I won't be using them, but if they are like the Javelin decals they behaved perfectly fine if perhaps a little thick.
Maybe you can see what I mean by basic, the ejector pin marks and stubs are epic! I could collect them and mold a new kit! Ha! No sink marks though
The cockpit has no detail beyond two tiny little rudder pedals a control stick and two what seem to me to be undersized seats, which would be perfect for petite Japanese collage girls!
Fuselage construction is in a number of pieces, two of which make up the engine bearers (not shown) and a molding that reminds me of the old Matchbox Meteor NF11 with a part that fits over the cockpit forming the upper mid fuselage
After much fiddling and frottering this is the best fit I believe is possible for the wings! Not sure what the guys at ZTS were thinking, but, we have to go with what we have,
the panel detail is really quite good, certainly better than some contemporary Airfix kits I've built (Zero, Spit PR19 and Gnat) which were way too wide and deep
Sometime passed, and this happened!
I'm really quite enjoying this one, I should think I'll be done by this time tomorrow
Miko (building stuff)
In keeping with the rules of 'Sensha-do' (tank battles as a sport) all material had to exist before 15 Aug 1945, it seems to me if aircraft were allowed they would be ground attack aircraft like dive bombing anti tank types, I suppose strictly speaking the Aichi isn't anti tank but it is an anti armour, albeit ship armour! and I considered it needs to be Japanese because other dive bombers would be a better fit for other Sensha-Do schools and collages more representative to type (it'll hopefully make more sense when I build them)
The kit, ZTS Plastyk Aichi D3-A1 'Val', It's certainly not a kit for the feint hearted and needs considerable work to get it to a high standard, but, I'm looking for a reasonable standard which means provided it looks like what it's supposed to be then I'm satisfied, to be sure I do get more satisfaction from building a 'challenging' kit rather than one that simply falls together,
The plastic has a weird look to it although the texture is fine, I have experience with 'ZTS Plastyk' of Poland having built their ultra challenging Gloster Javelin FAW 7/9
The instructions are typical of an era perhaps before this kit's 2005 creation, a little basic but the kit too is also basic, as with the decal options, I won't be using them, but if they are like the Javelin decals they behaved perfectly fine if perhaps a little thick.
Maybe you can see what I mean by basic, the ejector pin marks and stubs are epic! I could collect them and mold a new kit! Ha! No sink marks though
The cockpit has no detail beyond two tiny little rudder pedals a control stick and two what seem to me to be undersized seats, which would be perfect for petite Japanese collage girls!
Fuselage construction is in a number of pieces, two of which make up the engine bearers (not shown) and a molding that reminds me of the old Matchbox Meteor NF11 with a part that fits over the cockpit forming the upper mid fuselage
After much fiddling and frottering this is the best fit I believe is possible for the wings! Not sure what the guys at ZTS were thinking, but, we have to go with what we have,
the panel detail is really quite good, certainly better than some contemporary Airfix kits I've built (Zero, Spit PR19 and Gnat) which were way too wide and deep
Sometime passed, and this happened!
I'm really quite enjoying this one, I should think I'll be done by this time tomorrow
Miko (building stuff)