by Anthony Kochevar
1/700 IJN Unryu (Skywave/Pitroad)
This is the IJN Unryu as depicted carrying Japanese army trucks to Luzon, Philipines before it was sunk. The model is very good out of the box and Tom’s photoetch was used as well. Wire, styrene, paper and two months went into the model. One of the things I liked was the fact that you could see both levels that stored airplanes. I scratch built a couple extra elevators in different positions, this way I could display the model differently to my liking. The trucks were US Army trucks from JAG. I could not find Japanese trucks so I just painted them different greys for the Japanese colors. Overall I think the model turned out pretty good.
