Main reason for making this diorama was to use some of my old airfield equipment: in this case, Hasegawa's excellent little Toyota Starter Truck . The Hobbyboss Easy Assemble kit just happened to be on a shelf in my local model shop.
I may be one of the few older modellers who genuinely like these (somewhat) simplified kits: but they are basically sound, nicely moulded and, most importantly in an increasingly expensive world, cheap. When they portray open cockpit machines however, the simplification can be a bit much - an instrument panel and seat belts were necessary here though I added nothing else.
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Another slight problem with these kits (and, yes, I have made several of them so I can generalise fairly) is with the decals.
There are two options per kit but they often have the same faults as those in older kits used to have: either being out of register or with certain colours in dubious shades. With Hobbyboss's Japanese kits, the roundal red is often rather too bright. Actually, I ignored this here thinking that my weathering would compensate - which was partially true.
This model was brush-painted with Tamiya acrylics. washed and drybrushed with tubed acrylics. The truck, having been finished about four decades ago, was painted in good old Humbrol enamels.