Excellent set of TAMIYA. Perfect casting, no words. It is going perfectly. Сollect this set is very nice. Excellent quality from TAMIYA

Typical Tamiya excellent build, though the stand is a bit odd ((the submarine cut out?) though the aircraft is a clean easy build. It might be good for a young beginner, though some explanation for what they are building might be a good idea.

This 1/48 scale kit comes from a well known Japanese modeling company called Tamiya. I’ve worked on a small handful of kits from them and this is one of their best ones in my opinion. The pros for this kit are as follows: Even though there is only painting option for the aircraft, the 631st Kaigun Kokutai, you do have a choice of six serial numbers and I went with K6-17. The views for painting and placing of the decals are excellent. The decals were very easy to take off the paper and I applied them to the aircraft with no problems at all. The illustrations are well detailed and easy to follow. It has an excellent back story written in both English and Japanese. The vast majority of the components fit well with minimal sanding. The cons for this kit are as follows: Even though they give you one weight for counter-balance to be placed in one of two floats, I feel like they should have included two weights instead. It would’ve been cool to have an option as to have its wings and tail surfaces folded over as if being stored in an I-400 class submarine. But that’s not the case with this kit. In conclusion, I give this kit a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5. Tamiya if you’re reading this, aside from a few glitches here and there, I’ve had a wonderful time working on this kit. Job well done!