I just finished up Hasegawas 1/48 Ki-84. It was a really nice kit to build. Ended doing it in the box markings, but masked and sprayed all marking as the decals were thick! I based it off these two photos
Fairly happy with how it came out! Took some perseverance. I had originally painted it as a Home island defense bird but mucked up the paint job, had to strip it and restart. Otherwise pretty straight forward OOB build
Build phase was very straightforward, maybe 8-10 hours including painting the cockpit. Painting took a very long time, but that was due to having to do it twice. I find designing and cutting the stencils takes a while. All in painting and weathering was probably 20 hours. Then maybe 1 hour attaching a detail bits and finishing.
Maybe 30 hours total if I had to guess but I didn’t keep good track
Very nice!! I have this kit - bought it years ago and have yet to pull it out of the stash. I never keep track of how long it takes to build & finish a kit. Now days it looks like this kit retails for about $25-30, so 30 hours of work suggests about $1.00 and hour for a hobby. So it’s still a pretty cheap hobby in my book.
