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IJN31 Japanese carrier aircraft
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:36 am
by dragon6
In this pack there are 7XD3A "Vals" with folded wings. Are they correct with just the wingtips folded or do they fold in the middle of the wing?
As long as I'm asking, I assume the B5N "Judy" is really a Kate? As, of course, is the B5N2.
The pack USN49 land based fighters is said to contain 4XP40 "Mustangs". Are they P51 or are they P40?
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:40 pm
by av8rmongo
Ray,
The pack USN49 land based fighters is said to contain 4XP40 "Mustangs". Are they P51 or are they P40?
They are not P-51s they are P-40s. And its REALLY hard to paint the shark's mouth on them.
Paul
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:09 pm
by Donald M. Scheef
The folded-wing Vals in IJN31 are correct as molded. Only the outer-most panel of the wings folded. Placing the fold point further inboard would have reduced parking space requirements (important for a carrier-based aircraft) but also increased the weight of the joint or resulted in a weaker structure (highly undesirable for a Japanese dive bomber). The A6M "Zero" had similar wing-folding characteristics. In fact, some models just left off the folding section and had squared-off wing tips. (For comparison, D4Y was small enough that wings did not fold at all. The same is true of A-4 Skyhawk.)
B5N should be Kate. Judy was D4Y; a very different aircraft. IJN31 contains B5N Kates. GHQ has not yet made a 1/2400 D4Y.
I concur with av8rmongo - USN49 contains P-40 *hawks. (Can't really distinguish Warhawk, Kittyhawk, etc. in this scale.) GHQ has not yet produced a 1/2400 scale P-51 Mustang.
Don S.