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Kit 1/144  by Academy . Reissue of a kit by Crown . Model &  photo  by JC Carbonel

The Mitsubishi G4M Betty is among the best known of the Imperial Japanese Aircraft of WW2 and yet there have been very few toolings produced to model this machine (and a large part of them are obscure  Japanese kits which were probably never available outside Japan( If you can prove us wrong here , please tell us by clicking HERE)

We would like to thanks Mike Goodwin and the shop TMA and the companies MHD and Soclaine for their help in preparing this article. Additionnal sources were  the KCC books and the site www.j-aircraft.com

INJECTION KITS

ACADEMY (CROWN)

AMT

FROG (not issued , was to be of Hasegawa pedigree)

HASEGAWA

IMAI

LINDBERG LINE

MINICRAFT

OTAKI

PIT ROAD

SANKYO(kit n°55 1/150 according to KCC )

SANWA (TOKYO PLAMO)(kit  n°13 1/226 according to KCC )

TAMIYA

YMC (1/125 . No data available)

VACUFORMED , RESINE & POLYETHYLENE KITS

AVIATORS (1/48 1990 ref 4805 no further data available)

RACCOON MODELS ( resine 1/48 ref 48-11 no further data available)

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