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 I visited a famous hobby shop in Akihabara as a famous hobby spot in Tokyo.. I researched classification of the goods being sold at hobby shop.

Classification Making hobby doing hobby Collecting hobby
Complete model,
assembly model kit
Plane ship tank plastic model
・・・・・・・・・・・・10%
Paint supplies・・・・・・・5%
science fiction robot・20%
sexy doll・・・・・・20%
Radio control・・・・0%
rail road layout・・・0%
air gun・・・・・・0%
mini car・・・0%
mini plane・・・・0%
animal figure・・0%
railroad model・・・・・・5%
animation character・・25%
Scratch Build Materials,
a fictitious model
virtual hobby
Alminium brass materials and
other materials for Scratchbuild
Tools for model
・・・・・・・・15%
electronic TV game
・・・・・・・0%
DVD・・・・・・・・0%
July 7,2011
I think that current Japanese model hobby is following.
Model making is not the goal , website posted by bloggers modeling is purposes, the production itself has become the means of many cases.
I also spent more time in the production study. Production study drawing freehand on paper or drawing on a grid paper. Copies of the plan to scale the drawing to the size of production coming topic convenience, fun to make if we have time.

The following table shows my analysis of Japanese hobby trend for 30 years.
hobby
classification making doing hobby collecting hobby
Complete model,
assembly model kit
(It is popular about
30 years ago)
Making model kits
Plane ship tank plastic model
Paint supplies
Science Fiction Robot
Radio controled model
rail road layout
air gun
mini car
mini plane
animal figure
railroad model
animation character
Own modeling and
*virtual hobby is becoming a
mainstream

(current)
Scratchbuild
Drawing and plan to make

Modeling for website upload
Modeling for blog upload
Data making by personal computer
*pocket game(nintendo
*TVgame(Play Station)
*TVgame
 (action survival fighting driving)
*TVgame(simulation)
*collecting game character
*collecting catalog
*collecting know how
*collecting data by web site
*collecting movie
August 5,2011
Filmed on the roof in hot weather. I have taken in the room first, dark room after 3 pm, indoor shooting of rays in relation to quit.
Mounting state auxiliary port, oil tanks fireproof bulkhead, machined brass, soldered two oil filter and other cylindrical objects.
Right: The rear engine mount auxiliary cylinder head, I can rivet on the surface of the wing & air compressor machining is showed in right cylinder
Not only tapping the main landing gear ,mounting bolts and insert the tack.  August 8,2011


Lear wire red & blue is for micro motor to rotate spinner

August 4,2011
About the spinner was rotated by the motor. Oil pipe, spark plug wires I even made a not very visible in shadow.
Spinner is our previous work, "suisei" was borrowed from. Spitfires spinner was fixed with suisei shipinnershapes so I cut a little bit .
The following is where we make a wonder. Either main landing gear, and wonder where small parts on the front fire bulkhead . It comes as a courier is now mobile. Since Friday& Thursdays holiday , takes delivery receiving useful. I had two more lath lead nuts as spare parts I thought that was zero After reviewing the inventory. What we have three spare nuts. Maybe it's my concern diseases. I dropped the handy grinder fitted with φ1 inadvertently broke the drill. Making the Spitfire was reached the process by turning. Produced using the crankshaft bolt M5. Lathe machining center is open on the side opposite the hole φ1 head of M5 8mm hex bolts. φ1 drill has just folded, the new lowered. Holes in steel up to 5mm cutting depth φ1, φ1 and fixed with quick-drying glue on the motor shaft. The spinner was able to assemble a M5 tap off so well. Since the bottom of the picture by rotating the motor, rotating swing was good.


Ausust 3,2011
 I work to prepare for the long summer holidays, have ordered spare parts. Two pre-order them as parts of the lathe leadscrew nut.
φ2, well stocked with pre-drilled so fragile φ2.5. You can rest assured that aligned the three reserves the bandsaw blades.
Previously M3, it had no reserve of any kind at all, tap M4, flew to the home center and break.
It was the end of that night. Previously had only a tap of the M3 off occasionally, Merlin engine in this process from the bottom
Seven M3 taps have been machined invisible hiding .

July 29,2011
 I put cylinder head bolts, and exhaust pipes and others.

July28,2011
 Out line of Rolls Royce Merlin made by alminium


July 23,2011


July 21,2011
 Spitfire workshop has started. The nose of the Spitfire wooden produced this morning, I made a hanger from the fireproof bulkhead around the engine.
Work for the first time entered the room two and a half months, really since the Zero Fighter was completed in May holidays. Shutters were closed and leave it, many of the typhoon rains also affected by moisture.
Paper had been Botoboto by moisture. Wooden cutouts of the aluminum plate was inserted in the engine hanger there was a hole in the wooden and integrated machining brass rod.
The motivation is out, let me be motivated to be purchased at $ 50 a Spitfire Owner's Workshop Manual.
Brass plate is heated to a red-hot stove and then cut in, I will be tempered by natural cooling. Spring and fall back to the original characteristic bend,
Brass plate will tend to become leave bent. 3-D bend is still difficult, I like the picture wrinkled.
And modeling are everyday worries and work, and can not without stress. Maybe that was the first time in several months free from various stresses.
Given only that the climate of the workshop should be able to work comfortably without air conditioning, May and June was to investigate the Spitfire without producing anything.



June 23,2011
A small collection held in Tokyo. Those collections are collected by Aviation writers in Japan.




2011年5月28日
 [rolls royce merlin]・・・・・・・I found a 1:5 merlin actually drive model. It isfatastic.

Probably I can make this engine for 4times weekends.
 
2011年5月15日
The scale is 1:24.
Here is my plan to make merlin engine.

 

May 7,2011
 Was the third time during the holidays visit the Hamamatsu Air Park. With the family since, ate shrimp pilaf the third floor in the corner coffee shop.
Because the family is not interested in aircraft and engine at all and the exhibition toured the hangar alone. <BR>
20 days starting value, the engine will go into the eye. The body is like now graduated, will have drawn into the engine. <BR>
TF-40 engine, the engine was producing Rolls-Royce license IHI. Support fighter F1, has been training with machine T2. <BR>
TF-40 because the drawings are not commercially available absolutely every single real structure of the auxiliary basis, to understand if you made a thin brass pipe line? To reproduce the same number of turbine blades precisely what to do. Reproduction of this engine is going to be quite high.


J79engine for F104&F4 Jet engine、It's developed by General Electric ,and Lisenced to IHI.


April 28,2011
 This is Hamamatsu Air Park located in Hamamatsu Air Base.
Left is back view of F2                                   Right is zeke type 52.This plane was cut its wing.And rebuild wing.
                                                So the strength of wing is lack .Because it is hanged by wire.

AWACS in Hamamatsu Air Base