U.S.N.9mm M9 Dolphin
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| This assembled a kit. For me, being awfully fond of WW2 series, it is a middle-sized M1934 when it comes to Berreta models. That’s why, despite such high popularity of Berreta models, my lineup of them is pretty poor and this is the only model of large size (a M84, which I bought under the impulse of collecting kits). As for assembling, it was equipped with a full-automatic sear and I could easily assemble it except for a little trouble in aligning the direction of the sear with that of a spring. |
 A semi-automatic position |
 A full-automatic position |
It is mechanism of full auto of this model characteristic. In full-automatic mode, a full-auto lever pin moves downward by rotating the lever on a slide, then the sear is rotated by kicking off the sear, which is shown in the right picture, and a hammer gets released to fire. |
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| Instead of putting a white paint in a site part this time, I tried to add
Phosphorescent paint for trial. I hit on Phosphorescent paint. And a spray Phosphorescent paint or fluorescence-colored thing was put in DIY shop nearby. After all I want white color and a little quantity to use. And I understood that it was sold in fishing tackle shop when I examined it on Internet.Besides, I purchased it and tried to use it for the trial that was around 400 yen (400 yen - 1200 yen). By seeing with my eyes, it glows in faded but a little greenish white. Although, there might not be so much practicability....since when I see the sight in the dark after looking at it in the light for light storing, my adaptation to darkness seems to delay somehow and there is only a little amount of light emitting left by the time my eyes become accustomed to the darkness. Please forgive me for putting aside the practicability in this case and let me just say that is the characteristic of my model since this is a model gun anyway. As to the use of an air soft gun for games or something, the fluorescent colored one may be useful... |
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The pictures above were taken at night in the same position, with and without illumination. I wonder if you can see the difference, because it does not have so much light emitting...(see indicated by the arrow) It might have been a bit more different if the luminescent coating was applied to larger portions. For your information, the time of the light emitting was a few minutes approximately, I guess. Phosphorescent paint which I used this time is a thing of the left photograph. There were fluorescence yellow, fluorescence pink, fluorescence green elsewhere. There was it in fishing tackle shop. |
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I brushed up on blueing this time, which gave the model shiny blue coloring. Please don’t give me that it's funny for an army model… At first, I couldn’t figure out what color a selector was sprayed in, which finally turned out when I luckily got a resale opportunity. Semi is White・full is Red. You will think that blue of a slide is strange. It seems that the final procedures were not done completely. As the color changed into black after it was applied with oil, I tried to dye it again but could not take out the coating so easily since I usually dye it like rubbing. So I stopped the procedures as it was also rather shining. Please let it go as this. ←I, for myself, like it in this picture, looking rather shiny, expressing nice blue and hard texture… |
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