Nakajima Type 91 Wings

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OBIO

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Were the metal clad, cloth covered, a combo of the two? I have come across a site with pics of a very very very sorry looking Type 91 fuselage...and it clearly shows that the plane had a metal covered fuselage...very oddly clad....almost like a boat with long runs of metal going to nose to tail...like how a wooden boat had a long plank of wood running from tip to tip (small boat like a canoe or row boat, not like a clipper ship or a schooner). I have not found any images at all (real, painted, drawed, made from Lincoln Logs or Legos) that show any detail on the wing coverings.

I currently have Thicko's Type 91 sporting a very detailed cloth covering (best cloth covering I have done EVER!) but am willing to dump it for metal cladding if that is what the Type 91 actually had.

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You ever had one of those moments were you just want to slap yourself in the forehead and call yourself a dolt? I just had one of those moments! I have that exact image saved to my profiles folder for the Type 91...but did not bother really looking at it.

Thanks for making me feel like a total heal, TARPS. I sure do appreciate it LOL!

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OBIO said:
You ever had one of those moments were you just want to slap yourself in the forehead and call yourself a dolt?
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I have those moments quite often, but I hate to cause them for other people! :d Since we're on the Type 91, just wanted to say I like the way artist Shigeo Koike shows the metal fuselage in this painting:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/cl-Epln/91Fighter-e.html
At any distance from the aircraft you'd probably not even see the skin seams. Also, it looks like the vertical fin was fabric-covered as well as the rudder.
 
After doing and redoing the fuselage lines a number of times, I have decided to throw historical accuracy out the window and give the Type 91 some panel lines that are not even close to being correct, but that give sharper results. Those long long panel lines along the fuselage length really get muddy looking, so I dumped them in the trash and did up some panel lines that look much better in sim. While some may throw a fit over this detail, I won't be losing any sleep over it.

I have the vertical stabilizer and rudder done up in cloth, but have run into a snag with the rudder that I need to further investigate. Not sure if it is a texture glitch or a mapping related thing.

And I have the fuel tanks on the upper wings, had them visible on the lower wing but removed them......and the tanks seem to be too close to the center. I need to move them outward a bit and put them back on the lower wing.

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