AD!!!! There you are! How do I find Volk? I need a painter.

And, of course, that pit went down the drain with the rest of your models also, right?

A new Friday update. Painting planes while waiting for parts.

This is 31st Sentai, 1st Chutai attempting to bomb Mingaladon Airport and being jumped by AVG Pursuit 3...or the Hell's Angels. The tailgunner is deadly. It took me four tries to get these pics.

What are those? KI 51s?

Ki-30's. We will use them a couple of times: Rangoon and the Phillipines.

Ahhh, they didn't look quite like KI51s but I wasn't sure. IJA aircraft aren't my strong suit.

Some of this is tough. I think we are perpetuating errors. Some modeler will paint an airplane and we use it for the authentic paint scheme when it was wrong to start with. And the pictures are mostly in black and white. All those shots of Japanese aircraft without primer and peeling paint are but snapshots in time but if you look at the game pieces, they are all like that. None of that jibes with what I know of the Japanese. But without a photo...not a modern model or a rebuilt warbird.

I am painting the Ki-21 in the colors of the two Sentai that attacked Rangoon. There is just no way that the paint was the color represented in drawings and I have no idea what it would have faded into. So whatever I use might end up being considered well-researched and authoritative when, in fact, it is a WAG. Luckily, the player will see it from the inside and through a ring sight.

Here are some additions. We are bringing it all together now. Still painting two more planes, making decals and tweaking the terrain.

Ki-21 Sally 60th Sentai


Ki-21 Sally 98th Sentai


Hayabusa in base paint. I love this wing. Wolf's FM is a little too hot for the average player. We will tame it a little but we will leave those snap rolls in.






Butterfly flaps in Aotake primer.

Luv the Type 1 Hayabusa. Often mistaken for the Type 0 during the early war campaigns in Malaya, Dutch East Indies and over China; it really was a formidable fighter. It outclassed most early-war Allied fighters. And by all accounts a delightfully manoeuvrable fighter to fly.



Forgive me if you are aware of this zerocinco, but the most knowledgable folks to talk to regarding accurate Japanese aircraft colours are the guys at http://www.j-aircraft.com/ . They are real fanatics when it comes to Pacific aircraft. and the good thing about it is that if they don't know they'll say so. But, honestly, there isn't much they don't know about aircraft colours.

Cool link Pips.


Wheels

whats up with the props not moving in some of the pics, I think its one of the only things i didnt like about the Strike Fighters engine.