IJN I-400
by Timothy Choi

1/350 IJN I-400 (Tamiya)

Tamiya's beautifully molded I-400 Sen-toku submarine.

Only problem was the lower hull, which was a millimetre or two too thin, so had to be pushed outwards using (in my case) shortened toothpicks. Fortunately, Tamiya molded in slots every few centimetres that helped to facilitate the toothpick placement...perhaps they forsaw this problem? Quite handy, for sure. Picture of this is included.

Additions/modifications:

Paints (all handpainted):

Thanks go out to Tony (HMAS) and "Peppe" on the forums for their wonderful closeups of the I-400 class (which I unfortunately was not able to take full advantage of...sorry!)

Timothy Choi



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