Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on July 07, 2013, 09:44:12 AM

Title: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Greebo on July 07, 2013, 09:44:12 AM

Hightone asked me to skin a Ki-43 from the 248th Sentai. This unit was active over New Guinea from November 1943 fighting the USAAF's 5th Air Force. The Ki-43 was by this time seriously outclassed by US aircraft. Also the IJAAF in New Guinea was badly outnumbered and at the end of a very long and vulnerable supply chain. As a result the 248th lost a third of its pilots in combat in the first month and almost all its ground crew personnel while still in transit to a US submarine. The 248th fought on until April 1944 when the US advance threatened to overrun their bases. With no air or sea transport available the surviving pilots then began a hellish six month march to safety through the New Guinea jungle from which only a handful of pilots survived.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/248_Sentai_Ki-43_SC1.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/248_Sentai_Ki-43_SC2.jpg)

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: FTJR on July 07, 2013, 10:51:17 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Devil 505 on July 07, 2013, 11:13:04 AM

Beautiful.

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Kazan_HB on July 07, 2013, 11:49:38 AM

Perfect as always  :aok

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: HighTone on July 07, 2013, 12:24:42 PM

Wow....it looks awesome.

A million thanks to you Greebo-san. I have always marveled at the bad luck the 248th had. Must of been one hell of a tough go.


Make that a billion thanks Greebo-san  :cheers:

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Shifty on July 07, 2013, 01:01:22 PM

 :aok

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: lyric1 on July 07, 2013, 01:18:02 PM

 :aok

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Dragon Tamer on July 08, 2013, 08:54:39 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Vudu15 on July 09, 2013, 07:30:31 AM

Greebo you marvelous cat a new skin with a story for me to knock down fighters with :D

Title: Re: 248th Sentai Ki-43
Post by: Mitsu on July 09, 2013, 06:28:46 PM

What a cool...it's time to fly with your Ki-43 skins!  :salute