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Title: New Zeke....and it's got a Heavy MG up front
Post by: EDO43 on February 03, 2011, 06:36:44 PM

The A6M5b...oh boy.  Now we get a zeke with some heavy guns in the cowl, well, one anyway.  2 x 20mm, 1x7.7 and 1 x 13mm....hehehe...me thinks it might lend to some more A6M pilots.  Nice skin too...Nakajima built A6M5b.  Too early to tell but that cockpit color still looks like a U.S. interior green to me but it's far better than the aotake that was modeled earlier. The whole cockpit looks a lot better than it did.  Gotta make a skin with the upper wing/fuselage Hinomaru's overcoated w/dark green....You hear that Greebo? 

Title: Re: New Zeke....and it's got a Heavy MG up front
Post by: Wmaker on February 03, 2011, 06:40:25 PM

A6M5b is the variant that has always been in AH and it has always had the HMG.

Title: Re: New Zeke....and it's got a Heavy MG up front
Post by: EDO43 on February 03, 2011, 06:48:32 PM

Well crap.  So it has.  I guess I always thought it was the A6M5a....yep, I gradgitated from S.A.U.  (Stupid bleep University)....

Title: Re: New Zeke....and it's got a Heavy MG up front
Post by: Saxman on February 04, 2011, 06:56:22 AM

I still wish HTC would give more gun packages for the A6M5 to cover those three major variants, 52a, b and c. That's three Zekes for the price of one!

Title: Re: New Zeke....and it's got a Heavy MG up front
Post by: Krusty on February 04, 2011, 01:11:44 PM

A6M5c would be a nice addition, with 2x 12.7mm alongside the 2x20mm in the wings, and one single cowling gun (never sure why this was -- to make the pilot feel confident seeing the gun fire protruding into the cockpit??). I wouldn't want to see it be the only zeke flown, though (it probably would be lol!).

I'd say make them separate if needed or as you suggest just a different weapons option. Whatever it takes. Either way I've longed for the up-gunned "c" model for a while.