Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: sharkman on November 11, 2023, 05:02:08 AM
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So, way back, I had bought a started Tamiya Kyofu for a P-40 conversion to floats (still on the shelf), but had the extra body left over and had a neat idea for it of a possible experimental fighter or specialized Kamikaze aircraft.
I got some inspiration from this picture I found online. (I think it was Deviant Art, I've lost the link so my apologies to the artist)
So, I moved the cockpit to the rear of the fuselage by the tail, filled in the old cockpit hole and some others and painted it up. Also made a take-off trolley for it out of spare parts.
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Finally was able to finish it this week.
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A couple more
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Nicely done! (I think the trolley is excellent, but it might be a bit too sophisticated for Japan in 1945... ;) )
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Excellent concept and beautifully done. And a nice bit of kit recycling as well :smiley:
... I got some inspiration from this picture I found online. (I think it was Deviant Art, I've lost the link so my apologies to the artist)...
That image was rendered by Ronnie Olsthoorn aka 'Skyraider 3D'.
-- http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/jsp_profiles_1.htm (http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/jsp_profiles_1.htm)
It depicts what Ronnie called a "Kugisho high-speed fighter design" from 1939. That Kūgi-shō was a short-form for what most of us know as the Naval Air Technical Arsenal at Yokosuka. This was one of a number of 'Seino Hyojun' (Performance Standard) studies done at Yokosuka - including a radial-engined type looking very much like an earlier version of your N1K6 :D
Ronnie mounted one of the original 1939 section drawing here:
-- https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/yokosuka-kugisho-high-speed-fighter-study.27598/#post-106733 (https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/yokosuka-kugisho-high-speed-fighter-study.27598/#post-106733)
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Nicely done! (I think the trolley is excellent, but it might be a bit too sophisticated for Japan in 1945... ;) )
You might be right on that! I was trying to make something that would clear the bomb and it did get a bit technical!
:smiley:
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Excellent concept and beautifully done. And a nice bit of kit recycling as well :smiley:
... I got some inspiration from this picture I found online. (I think it was Deviant Art, I've lost the link so my apologies to the artist)...
That image was rendered by Ronnie Olsthoorn aka 'Skyraider 3D'.
-- [url]http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/jsp_profiles_1.htm[/url] ([url]http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/jsp_profiles_1.htm[/url])
It depicts what Ronnie called a "Kugisho high-speed fighter design" from 1939. That Kūgi-shō was a short-form for what most of us know as the Naval Air Technical Arsenal at Yokosuka. This was one of a number of 'Seino Hyojun' (Performance Standard) studies done at Yokosuka - including a radial-engined type looking very much like an earlier version of your N1K6 :D
Ronnie mounted one of the original 1939 section drawing here:
-- [url]https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/yokosuka-kugisho-high-speed-fighter-study.27598/#post-106733[/url] ([url]https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/yokosuka-kugisho-high-speed-fighter-study.27598/#post-106733[/url])
Thanks Apophenia, and thank you for finding that link! Hats off to Ronnie for rendering the concept!! The radial engine version looks interesting!
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Wow!!! :-*
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A great concept, well executed!