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Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« on: April 10, 2015, 02:00:08 PM »
This aircraft was based at Matsuyama on Formosa during 1944-45.   





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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2015, 02:48:28 PM »
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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2015, 05:51:33 PM »
Well, looks like I have a new favorite scheme for this bird. Thanks.
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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2015, 05:40:44 AM »
Great looking skin Oboe.  :aok

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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2015, 05:56:38 AM »
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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2015, 09:17:16 AM »
I don't want too much credit for this skin - I found it as an IL-2 bare-metal Ki.61 template for Pacific Fighters on Mission4Today.com, I think.   All I did was "hack" it into AH's skin file layout (which is much more difficult than it sounds).   There is a lot of cutting, pasting, stretching, distorting, filling-in, etc involved in that process.  I suppose it could be called "technical" skinning vs "artistic" skinning - it's a lot like reverse-engineering.  And then I blended in the tail art and details for this particular aircraft.  But the end result is an outstanding skin for AH's Ki.61.  I want AH to have excellent, high-quality skins available.   

The credits for this skin are as follows:

Template by JayPack44, metal texture by Jesters-Ink, internals by Greg Boyington, and rivet pattern by Billfish, adaptation to AH format by Oboe.   That's a lot of collaboration!
 

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Re: Kawasaki Ki.61 Hien, 37th Kyoiku Hikotai
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2015, 03:52:38 PM »
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Another photo of this one I found.