HobbyBoss 1/72 Easy Assembly A5M2 'Claude' mojo restorer?

[Dave Ward]

After a few weeks away from the bench, I finally raised a bit of enthusiasm - A simple model - about 20 parts, the trickiest part was masking the tail & fuselage bands. Spray overall silver, then mask to paint the red bands?, or paint the tail & fuselage red, mask & spray silver?
In the end I painted the tail red - I have found in the past that painting over silver can cause problems.............

I've since found that I'm missing some decals - Japanese characters on the wings & fuselage - but as a quick boost to my confidence, it seems to have succeeded. I'm working on something else - but I'm going to leave off build logs for the moment, just pick it up when I feel like it......................
Dave

[Mickc1440]

Very nice Dave, glad it kick started the mojo

[scottie3158]

Dave good to see you back at the bench.

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
Mojo returns. That's great.
Jim

[JR]

Great to see Dave .

[Dave Ward]

Now, here's an odd thing - this is the HB box I have................

And this is a box picture I found on the 'net

I can only think that the Japanese characters are offensive in some way - and have been censored!
Dave

[flyjoe180]

Nice job Dave. This image might help to understand the Japanese inscriptions.

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[Dave Ward]

Joe,
thanks for that - odd that they removed the decals - one of life's little mysteries................
Dave