The Blue Lotus (Ki-10 "Perry") Se: Lysbildefremvisning Mosaikk Liste 1 October 29, 2017
The Cover of Le Petit Vingtième (May 16, 1933) which inspired this project
2 October 29, 2017
The box, of course!
3 October 29, 2017
The sprues.
4 October 30, 2017
Well that cockpit is cute... but I think we can do better.
5 October 30, 2017
Got ride of the side wall details and opened up room for a second seat.
6 October 30, 2017
Yep. Now it's a two-seater...
7 October 30, 2017
Hmmm... that "vent" also has to go.
8 November 5, 2017
Ok. Now the interior looks a bit better.
9 November 5, 2017
Whew! It all still fits!
10 November 5, 2017
Some seat backs, etc.
11 November 7, 2017
We have paint!
12 November 7, 2017
luckily the cockpit still seems to come together... hopefully I can still squeeze in some extra bits...
13 November 20, 2017
Front vent boxed in
14 November 20, 2017
Fuselage buttoned up and seams filled.
15 November 26, 2017
First coat of Tamiya XF-14 acrylic paint.
16 November 26, 2017
Front vent done and wings... attached. Or more like mangled into place....ish.
17 December 8, 2017
Red dots!
18 December 8, 2017
Rising sun tail.
19 April 19, 2023
A new box...
20 April 19, 2023
After the Great Shelf Disaster of 2023, I decided this one didn't need to be salvaged, it needed to be redone. These sprues seem familiar...
21 April 19, 2023
It might be cheating, but I re-used most of the interior bits to save time.
22 October 31, 2023
Checking the motor for fit...
23 October 31, 2023
Of course, it WAS in place... and then the wire connection broke, so I had to dig it back out and reconnect it again. Oh, well... more putty I guess.
24 October 31, 2023
Not a great fit for the engine cowling, but I've dealt with worse... right?
25 November 7, 2023
As expected, the flimsy plastic struts needed to be replaced by a bit of wire.
26 November 11, 2023
I did manage to salvage a few pieces from the old build. I might've done a better paint job on the tail, but this somehow feels like the best option.
27 November 11, 2023
All hoooked up and the propellor spins! Yah!
28 November 16, 2023
Red dot decals applied, pilots on board... we're looking done.
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Album info Part of my ongoing Tintin build project. Although the Ki-10 "Perry" doesn't really appear in the Tintin album "The Blue Lotus" (except in tiny silhouette), it does appear on the cover of the May 16, 1933 edition of le petit vingtième (n° 20) as a trio of planes that are searching the Chinese countryside for Tintin.
Although not "authentic", the planes on the cover are depicted as two-seaters, so a second cockpit was cut out and the entire interior was rebuilt from scratch to accommodate.
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