Kawasaki Ki-61 Part 2 72-509 Scale 1/72

High-quality water-slide decal set featuring Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighter aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force during the Second World War.

This set focuses on operational Ki-61 variants used in New Guinea, Japan, Manchukuo and Okinawa between 1943 and 1945, including front-line combat aircraft and late-war home defence machines.

 Marking options included:

✓ Ki-61-I-Kai, 59th Air Combat Regiment, 2nd Company

Home Island Defence, Fukuoka, Japan, summer 1945

✓ Ki-61, 68th Sentai, Hombu B-51

Flown by Capt. Akita Ozonaki, New Guinea, 1943

✓ Ki-61-I, 68th Air Combat Regiment, 2nd Company

Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, December 1943

(first Ki-61 captured intact)

✓ Ki-61-I, 68th Air Combat Regiment, 2nd Company

New Guinea, October 1943

✓ Ki-61-Ia, 68th Air Combat Regiment, 3rd Company Manchukuo – Home Islands – New Guinea, March 1943 – April 1944

✓ Ki-61-I, 68th Air Combat Regiment, 1st Company New Guinea, 1944

✓ Ki-61-I Otsu, 149th Shimbu Tai Ashiya Air Base, Japan, autumn 1945 (aircraft repaired using parts from other machines; mixed tail markings)

✓ Ki-61-I Hei, coded “88”, 244th Sentai Chofu, February 1945

✓ Ki-61-I Hei, flown by S/Lt Ryoji Uehara 56th Shimbu Tai, Okinawa, May 1945

Product features:

✓ WWII Japanese fighter aircraft markings

✓ Multiple historically documented aircraft

✓ Includes unit markings, codes and national insignia

✓ Designed for accurate scale appearance

✓ Suitable for experienced and intermediate modellers

Printed on thin, flexible decal film for easy application and a realistic painted-on finish.

✅ COMPATIBILITY

Compatible with 1/72 scale kits from Hasegawa, Tamiya, FineMolds, Academy and other manufacturers.