Mark your calendars, boys!  I finished a kit!  This is the fantastic A5M by Sweet.  It took me just over 2 months to assemble the 25 or so pieces and get it all finished.

The base is a piece of wood from Hobby Lobby with a pre-made tree by a company called Ashland.  All I did was paint over the wood so it looked less like plastic.  The back side of the tree has a bare spot, but i couldnt really fix it so we’ll just pretend those branches fell out during a storm.  The grass is static grass applied with a barely functioning applicator, with larger tufts made by Army Painter.

For painting I used Krylon, Alclad, and Vallejo paints.  I applied some Tamiya panel line wash and almost ruined everything.  One of the side hinomaru were damaged during process and I had to touch it up with a brush.  Looks fine at arms length but up close you can definitely tell.

All in all this was an enjoyable build.  Sweet makes really nice kits and if I was more focused I could knock these things out in just a few days.  Looking forward to bringing this one to the next meeting and hopefully to Roanoke as well.

– Chad