Japanese Profiles.

[lyric1]

68th Sentai.

This partial photo shows the aircraft on the deck of a carrier being transported there is debate as to where & when.
It is also the only known photo of this aircraft & it has a spiral pattern on the the spinner unusual for Japanese aircraft. The only other Hien I have seen with one is a 244th Sentai plane.

No profiles I have found only some modeling pictures.

[lyric1]

244th Sentai.

#15.

Another photo with the pilot.

[lyric1]

Couple more actual colour photos for reference purposes.





Bunch of good colourised images.





























Not much to do with skinning thought it was interesting that this Japanese fellow built an entire KI-61 instrument panel. Used former original parts & made new ones he did not have.

[FTJR]

A continuing gold mine of information, thanks Lyric 

[lyric1]

A continuing gold mine of information, thanks Lyric 

Thank you.

[lyric1]

Another photo with the pilot.

More of #15.

[lyric1]

Never seen the photo before.
11th training flying corps.

[lyric1]

Bunch of good colourised images.

Found another image of this aircraft.

Translation.

Tokumisao Phase 1 Yasuhiko Hiranuma Ensign 21 Unit, which is presumed (B29 2 aircraft destroyed) of the power machine. body
Rear band is present 3 (navy blue, red, navy blue?) Are wound.
This unit survive until the end of the war,

[lyric1]

Never seen the photo before.
11th training flying corps.

There is a profile for this one.

[lyric1]

Few more 244th profiles.

[lyric1]

244th Sentai.

Couple more photos of this one.

[lyric1]

Akeno flying school.
The yellow rudder is wrong its the only profile I could find on this aircraft.







This profile I believe is based off of the partial tail in this photo below.





Not a great photo in this image but all the books say its this aircraft in the profile.



More profiles of this squadron could not find matching photos.







Only photo I could find of the 105th it matches no profiles I have though.







All the rest are profiles I cant find photos for.

[lyric1]

110th.



165th.









Some generic photos that don't have enough info to skin with.

56th.



Unknown.

[Krusty]

Interesting to note that the lower photo is too degraded to pull much detail from it, but this one has an interesting color-related detail. It could be nothing, but I'm seeing a slight difference in the shades on the canopy and the "chipping" paint around the canopy and its slide-track area, as compared to the areas between color spotches. I surmise/guess it might not be splotches painted over bare metal, but over a light grey type of paint. Just a bit of food for thought.

[Devil 505]

Nice catch Krusty, there is definitely a tonal variation there.

However, it could also be caused by a scuffing by the canopy's lower edge on bare metal. This would cause shallow lateral scratches catching sunlight from above, and giving a lighter appearance from the point of view of the camera.

Also, it looks like the marks are two parallel lines of equal width. They seem too uniform to be from random wear. I wonder if there are a pair of rollers under the canopy that contacts the fuselage sides.