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... next project - more enemy "targets"

UncleTgt

UncleTgt

SOH-CM-2025
Using the ki-61-Ib by Vladimir Kochmarsky, Rob Cox, Kevin Bacon and Steve Seybolt. Its the 1% JA ki-61b here at SOH, & is also included as an opponent in Capt Kurt's 49th Fighter Group install.


Although the wings are mirrored, its got breaking parts logic & seems a good AI opponent in QC.

Some early stage WIP screenies as teasers...:a1310:
 
Bravo!

Very nice repaints Uncle Tgt! Kochmarsky's Ki-61 (three models) are still available over at Simviation, Combat Flight Sim menu-CFS2-Older Files.

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
some more screenies - trying to avoid the more famous skins, which are already pretty well covered

Plenty of dp file work needed to represent the different armaments used on the different versions. Although based on the texture mapping for the -1b, as far as I can tell the mapping is identical on all three versions, so more accurate dp files would allow us to fly ko, otsu, hei, Tei (a,b,c,d) sub-types (and associated late-war kamikaze loadouts, which was the original source of the interest for this model as it has breaking parts).
 
I'll be taking some time to work on the dp files for the different versions.

Maxstuka is right, we badly need some smaller Jap ordnance. It would be great to have the MD bombs resized & re-released...

Meantime, I'm keeping my hand in with another Caproni skin for Peperez, but I thought I'd leave you with a Zero-sen WIP. This time an early A6M5 of 205ku, working out of Formosa & Sakishima Gunto during Iceberg, April of 1945.

Got to hand it the stockers, the base paints really are superb starting points & full of paint chip & weathering details...
 
Japanese Ordnance

I have PDF files of the US tech manuals for Japanese ordnance including one for bombs and fuses if they might be useful. They aren't the best quality in the world, but readable and gives shape and dimensions. It will take me a bit to sort through my ebooks and locate them but I can capture the data and line drawings for the needed pieces and send them on. I'm on a dial-up connection so it might take a couple of days to fire them off. I'll probably have to go to the public library and borrow a few mb of bandwidth. Let me know.

Steve
 
Weapons are most easy as cake to make for the most part. Get the size is the hard part.

I did find this while looking around.

IJAAF_Bomb_diagrams.jpg

It covers a good range of bombs.
 
Very Nice Paint!

Hello UncleTgt,

I have never been any good at painting camouflage. How did you do the paint job on the third Aeroplane in your first post?
I also have a Ki-61-Id that needs a good camouflage pattern but is otherwise complete.

I have tried a couple times, but have never gotten quite the results I wanted.

Thanks.
- Ivan.
 

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The link I posted say.

"Naval Bombs" "Naval bombs are usually coloured grey with tail fin supporting straps painted green."

"Army Bombs" "These are coloured black, with two light bands around the body and a red band about the nose."

But I'm kind of confused looking the the pic with the text. I'm going to guess the pic is showing Army Bomb painting.
 
Jap Ord

It looks like the army explosive bombs were black overall, and the navy explosive bombs were gray, the color varying with what was on hand. The other kinds varied in overall color (gas, incendiary and so forth).
 
You wouldn't happen to have better drawing of the 30, 50 and 100 KGs? The measurement say that the fins and body are not the same size but the drawing show fins and body are the same same size. I don't know what meseument is what....
 
I'll take a look and see. We should probably start a thread just for ordnance, we kinda hijacked this one. Let's let UT have this one back. I have several other TMs covering British, German, Italian, French and U.S., so if you need data for other countries, I'll see what I can do.
 
If you can find any thing make a thread. I'll keep looking but I keep finding a lot of guns and tanks pic...
 
Ivan said:
Hello UncleTgt,

I have never been any good at painting camouflage. How did you do the paint job on the third Aeroplane in your first post?
I also have a Ki-61-Id that needs a good camouflage pattern but is otherwise complete.

I have tried a couple times, but have never gotten quite the results I wanted.

Thanks.
- Ivan.
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Hi Ivan,

Paint Shop Pro 8.1 & lots of layers & masks. Some custom brush tips allow me to hand draw a reasonable "mop-head" applied camo.

I start with a mono colour blank & build up the details with layers. Once the camo pattern is established I use different filters & masks overlaid to build up the colour. It allows you to do fine adjustments without losing the original drawing work. Time-consuming, but flexible.

In this particular case I cheated a little. I used the camo pattern from "Tony32v2.zip" & selected everything with a green shade. I then created a new layer & filled the selection with a dark green, & began to soften & blur the edges slightly. Duplicate the layers & build the effects with differing transparancies & you'll retain the panel line details.

Same approach for markings, wear & tear & paint chips. Using masks & layers is the key - oh, and lots of patience!!!:biggrin-new:
 
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