[Billfish]

Any comments on this color list? Could that be used and how much is it true?


http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/page-RG ... Japan.html

Well it would serve you well on that to do a couple of things....1. Consider the post above particularly the inserts as to Aotake (as it was so tremendously varied and what I assume you're implying as "translucent"). 2. Lastly, when it comes to many exterior colors know the Japanese often used what was on hand....Even captured paints. So though it's great to add "known" relic colors as used on this or that (if an intact sample and often even time corrupting them)....To say "Japanese O.D. was this "x"" simply sets you up to be proven wrong....

Look on www.j-aircraft.com .....They have the best info for anything Japanese (the members there the very writers that supply the info you get elsewhere)...There the true experts and best advice and most knowledge.

K2

[Guest]

Thanks

and thanks for the site, didn't know about that one.

On old images, and new one as well, of the Japanese planes it is amazing how aluminium sheets looks very low quality, much worse than British, not to say German or American. Or is it only low technology used in assembly line?

[Billfish]

Thanks

and thanks for the site, didn't know about that one.

On old images, and new one as well, of the Japanese planes it is amazing how aluminium sheets looks very low quality, much worse than British, not to say German or American. Or is it only low technology used in assembly line?

Low quality how?

K2

[zulu64]

Mane a slightly less lurid version would be a nice add on. Something similar to the Ki100 but perhaps ever so slightly lighter.

[Fearfactor]

I could not care less about the color of the Tony cockpit. Will the color change the fact that it's a P.O.S. with 'Emil' performance in the mid to late war?? Even flying it offline against the terrible AI, I get creamed when I fly it. And my AI squad mates get downed well before I do, leaving me to get creamed alone against a bunch or Hellcats or Sairs!! Not trying to hijack this thread but I have a point sort of related.

But I guess it's ok for those who like to fly a weak plane for a challenge?!?!?

[Billfish]

Ki-61 rulz!.......If you have gunnery skills, and I don't mean flooding the sky with lead yet short bursts where you want them, and can both turn and burn plus zoom and boom....You'll be an ace in this outdated plane.

Just the engine was outdated. The balance of it was very well thought out. In the sime it has many errors......Armor not up to snuff, windscreen oiling, lack of fuel tank protection, wrong extinguishers the list goes on.....

Yet by far my favorite ride.

K2

[Th!rdeye]

They are easy pickings for my P-47/38. A more accurate cockpit would be better for the pilot. Last thing he will see. :twisted: :twisted:



I am kidding of course.......or am i?





It is a beautiful plane though. Love the lines of it.

[GerritJ9]

There was also a Ki.61-II later in the war, in the sim we have the Ki.61-I versions. The Ki.61-II had several improvements/changes- from memory, some dimensional changes and a more powerful engine, the Ha-140 of 1,400 hp. Unfortunately for Kawasaki, the Ha-140 suffered from hopeless reliability and furthermore the plant producing the engine was bombed.......... leaving Kawasaki with an increasing number of desperately needed airframes without engines. Enter the Ki.100, a Ki.61-II airframe with a Mitsubishi radial replacing the inline Ha-140- surely one of the most remarkable lashups ever and definitely one of the most successful.
Here's a thought for the modding geniuses: replace the Ki.100's radial with the Ki.61's inline engine to create the Ki.61-II. After all, it's only the reverse process of what Kawasaki originally did!

[Billfish]

Here's a thought for the modding geniuses: replace the Ki.100's radial with the Ki.61's inline engine to create the Ki.61-II. After all, it's only the reverse process of what Kawasaki originally did!

Though a bit more then that, what you could do is take a Ki-100 from the fuselage guns back (though wing transition pieces and such were different), add the Ki-61 radiator, add the Ki-61 nose section appropriately stretched......Then add the correct DB605 based off of the MC-205 or comparable 109.


Only a handful of Ki-61-II's made it into service (roughly 38 up to a maximum of 68 *doubtful*), a detailed breakdown of this from the true expert in the field Mr. J. Long can be found on j-aircraft.

What was produced in large quantities though was the Ki-61-I-Tei. More altered then most realize this aircraft DID see a lot of service and had a number of the bugs worked out of the previous versions. Though just as most Ki-61-II never made it into service (until refit as Ki-100's)), a number of those never made it as well due to Ha-40 shortages (134) and would not have been upgraded to Ki-100's.

K2