You did an excellent job on this short run kit from the early 1990's! One interesting aspect of our hobby is the number of experimental and hypothetical "what-if" aircraft from World War 2 are now available, in addition to much better kits of "staple" aircraft like the P-51, Spitfire, and Bf-109. I'm 63, and I have been building plastic models for over half a century. If we wanted a Nakajima Kikka when I was a schoolboy, all we could do was buy an extra Me-262, paint it in Japanese colors, and put Hinomarus from our spare parts box on it. We did likewise with an Me-163 if we wanted a Mitsubishi J8M Shūsui. Not perfect, but good enough if you were 14 in the mid-1970's. Thanks for posting this. 70th like.
Great build of a difficult kit. Pegasus had many interesting items. I have in the to be built pile the Prototype Spitfire. Built it before but got lost in a move , but got lucky last year and found one on Ebay. Thank you for sharing your build and hope you have a great week. Cheers, Tony
@@BladeRicsi I find some of the new tool kits far too perfect in the parts fit, with little or no tolerance for even a layer of paint.. which to me is worse almost. At least with a Pegasus kit you know to expect a bit of work and can prepare accordingly.. :)
@@BasicModelling Exactly, bit of gap not ruins the enjoyment of building. Not shown in the video, but this time i did lot of filling and sanding. (tried to make to the video short)
I had one of these old short-run Pegasus kits of the Ryan Fireball, it was a really rough bag of guts and nothing fit correctly, hopefully this Kikka fares better!
As a supplier of these "perverted" model kits, I'm glad to see the actual result. As a heretic, a kit collector I rather call this masochist modelling ЖD but this is what shows the real skills and ingenuity. 6 more awaits you in my stock))
I remember these old Pegasus kits. They were crude to say the least, but had potential. . .
You did an excellent job on this short run kit from the early 1990's! One interesting aspect of our hobby is the number of experimental and hypothetical "what-if" aircraft from World War 2 are now available, in addition to much better kits of "staple" aircraft like the P-51, Spitfire, and Bf-109.
I'm 63, and I have been building plastic models for over half a century. If we wanted a Nakajima Kikka when I was a schoolboy, all we could do was buy an extra Me-262, paint it in Japanese colors, and put Hinomarus from our spare parts box on it. We did likewise with an Me-163 if we wanted a Mitsubishi J8M Shūsui. Not perfect, but good enough if you were 14 in the mid-1970's.
Thanks for posting this. 70th like.
Thank you😀
Great build of a difficult kit. Pegasus had many interesting items. I have in the to be built pile the Prototype Spitfire. Built it before but got lost in a move , but got lucky last year and found one on Ebay. Thank you for sharing your build and hope you have a great week. Cheers, Tony
Thank you, and good luck for the spitfire:)
Beautifully done !,
Made that very kit many years ago. No real difficulties.
Now, this is taking modelling to a whole different level.. !!! Another piece of art there, right there.. :) :)
Thanks Rob:) Just old school modeling:)
@@BladeRicsi I find some of the new tool kits far too perfect in the parts fit, with little or no tolerance for even a layer of paint.. which to me is worse almost. At least with a Pegasus kit you know to expect a bit of work and can prepare accordingly.. :)
@@BasicModelling Exactly, bit of gap not ruins the enjoyment of building. Not shown in the video, but this time i did lot of filling and sanding. (tried to make to the video short)
@@BladeRicsi Yes, I could see some evidence of that around the engines.. ;)
How funny, I'm just now about to build an MPM kikka kit as I found your video. Great stuff!!!
Great job on your build. 👍
Thank you:)
I had one of these old short-run Pegasus kits of the Ryan Fireball, it was a really rough bag of guts and nothing fit correctly, hopefully this Kikka fares better!
It was rough either👍😆
Nice result 👍
Thanks:)
👍👍👍👍👍
As a supplier of these "perverted" model kits, I'm glad to see the actual result. As a heretic, a kit collector I rather call this masochist modelling ЖD but this is what shows the real skills and ingenuity. 6 more awaits you in my stock))
Köszi:DD
Great job enhancing a marginal kit. The extra work paid off. Too bad no pilot figure. Planes look better populated. Keep having fun.
Bill
Turn the bloody piano/ music down!