Ki-43 coming!

[pipz]

Rite on! 

[Clone155]

Why are all the japanese fighter's cockpits blue?

[Fish42]

very nice I can see it getting torn apart with 50 cal from here.   

should be fun to fly though!!   

I think a few 30 cals would do the job pretty easy too. Think it will be fun to dogfight this vs a D3A

[Aspen]

Gonna require some straight shooting with its light armament.  I use the 2 13mm a lot if I'm saddled up good or run out of cannon in the 84.  Can we get an achievement for assists in a KI-43? 

AMAX

[Ack-Ack]

Do the wings on the model look too thick to anybody else?  I was looking at photos online and none of them seem to be that, well, balloon like.

Seems like it.






ack-ack

[SmokinLoon]

I'm looking forward to the I-16 vs Oscar duels during EW scenarios over China.  Same goes for the P40C's and Hurricane Mk I's.  It is too bas we don't have an accurate Buffalo for those EW scenarios, the Buffalo B-239 we have now isn't the right bird for Asian campaigns, obviously off the mark a ways.     

[save]

Armament options will probably be a one 7.7mm and one 12.7mm gun or two 12.7mm guns in the cowl.  I think it could carry two 250kg bombs, but I am not certain of that.  It was also the most lightly built of all WWII fighters, so far as I know.  No protection of any kind and not as structurally sound as the A6Ms.

On the other hand it should be insanely maneuverable.  Take a plane that is already better turning than the A6M2 with a better roll rate and give it fowler flaps like the P-38s and Ki-84 have.

afaik late ki43 where armoured to some extent, and had some type of self-sealed fuel tanks

[Ack-Ack]

I'm looking forward to the I-16 vs Oscar duels during EW scenarios over China.  Same goes for the P40C's and Hurricane Mk I's.  It is too bas we don't have an accurate Buffalo for those EW scenarios, the Buffalo B-239 we have now isn't the right bird for Asian campaigns, obviously off the mark a ways.     

We would need the B-339 versions that flew with the RAF/Commonwealth and Dutch East Indies forces.

ack-ack

[kilo2]

Wooo again!

[bustr]

Used the relationship of the cowel cooling flaps 1 - 6 to map the wing fillet against points A and B. A is the common lower cowling panel mount line, and B is the top of the wing fillet. The white line is a common reference line from the real life photo and the center of cowl flap (3).

Ack-Ack's picture the top of the fillet arc stops 3\4 up cooling flap (3.).

Ack-Ack's Real Life Picture.





Aces High's screen shot the top of the fillet arc stops 1\4 up cooling flap (4).

Aces High Screen Shot.




By the way. The real life scoop under the cowel is bell curve shaped in cross section while the AH is rectangularish in cross section. Or at least using Ack-Ack's photo as a baseline.

Even in this photo the wing fillet stops 3\4 up cowel flap (3).

[bustr]

Just a skoshi flatter scoop but, cowel flap (3), fillet is 3\4 of the way up.

[Squire]

Great news for events. 

[BSB]

<-------Now for the KI-44 !!!! 

[HighTone]

Thank you HTC.

It looks awesome.

I am in shock.


I am very, very, very happy about this addition.


Thanks again HTC 

[Devil 505]

Most excellent.
Now the biggest gap in the planeset is a true midwar Soviet built fighter.