Kawasaki Ki-10-I
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30 5 September 2022, 13:32
Greg BakerOOOOOoooo! A new Uwe Tintin build! Sign me up! I also did this one for my Tintin project, and used the same logic to arrive at the Ki-10 as the kit to use. Not sure if you're aware or not, but even though the 3 planes are only tiny silhouettes in the album itself, they do appear on the cover of the May 16, 1933 edition of le petit vingtième (n° 20). [img1] - in case you're thinking about a reference for the paint scheme.
5 September 2022, 14:51
Uwe Kaeding AuthorThanks Greg. Yes, it was your build that gave me the idea of the Ki-10. I hadn't seen the cover but it was mentioned in one of the Blue Rider books, along with the idea that they are Hawker Harts/Demons... The markings are provided in the BR Tintin Part 7 decal set and I'm still making up my mind about whether to use those decals, kit decals, or maybe a combination of both?
5 September 2022, 22:41
Uwe Kaeding AuthorGot to the first major issue with this kit - the wing struts don't fit! I found that the front strut of the main wing N-struts does not fit and will need to repositioned and lengthened a bit and the rear strut of the centre section n-struts need to be lengthened.
8 September 2022, 04:25
Uwe Kaeding AuthorWelcome guys - I've now started on modifying the struts (wing struts first as they are the easiest)
10 September 2022, 00:38
Uwe Kaeding AuthorThanks everybody - had some fun making masks for the windscreen (it's tiny!) but got it done and now waiting for the glue to dry
13 September 2022, 05:00
Uwe Kaeding AuthorFinally got back to this one - top wing on (the strut mods worked!) and rigging completed. Nearing the end.
11 December 2023, 07:25
Greg BakerI've built this kit twice now... neither one looks as good as this. Very nice work!
12 December 2023, 00:18
Uwe Kaeding AuthorThanks Greg - high praise. Decals are on, a mixture of kit decals plus the tail decal from the Blue Rider Tintin set, which fits OK if you're not worried about just covering the rudder...
12 December 2023, 08:38
Uwe Kaeding AuthorThanks Greg and Robert. this one is done, just waiting on some final photos
13 December 2023, 12:09
Uwe Kaeding AuthorThanks Cuajete - I finally got my act together and took some finished photos!
3 February 2024, 03:44
Uwe Kaeding AuthorYeah - worked on the theory that Herge loved putting spats on things that never had them, so why not use them on a plane that actually did have them?
3 February 2024, 06:26
CuajeteVery nice job, Uwe.
Congrats!
I would also like to put spats in my future Ki-10.
4 February 2024, 19:11
Album info
There are a couple of panels in "The Blue Lotus" showing some Japanese aircraft. They are seen as silhouettes in the distance but are clearly single bay, sesquiplane biplanes. The book is set in 1931 but written in 1935 so it could feasibly be a Kawasaki Ki-10, which was introduced in 1935 and the silhouettes do have the splayed-out struts and look of the Ki-10. I've therefore chosen to depict the planes as an early Ki-10-I and am building the Avis kit, pretty well straight out of the box.
