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I picked the Platz double boxing a while ago and thought it would be a good tester to play with weathering techniques

So I brush painted with Vallejo Air IJN Dark Green over Tamiya silver from a can, with Vallejo chipping medium brushed inbetween.

I think it worked well, lots of paint flakes that captured the look of the well worn late war prototypes. Per my reading, the yellow wing tips and the roundels were kept clean as these would be overpainted regularly.

The kit was very good, although it is necessary to change the tailfin for ones on an included mini-sprue. Decals are well designed with loads of options, spares for small details and even extra numbers to make your own serials. However the small prop decals would simply not stay in place so I abandoned these and painted tips on instead. (I know now that the props should be dark brown, might repaint some time).

The bottom image is my reference from the great Osprey book on the type.

That's a difficult finish to achieve in 1/144th! Looks great.
DH

Nice one Tim!

By way of family similarity I've had a go at the closely related Kyufo floatplane. Always looked a bit mean to me - it was designed for a contra-prop (think Wyvern) hence the elongated snout. I tried for 'faded and slightly weathered' not being as brave as you !) may yet tweak it a bit.

Mike

Very nice, getting into some of those WW11 Japanese aircraft as well.