Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

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Nakajima Ki-117 'Pike' - Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, 1946











This is the Tempest II by the SFP1 Dev A-Team masquerading as the Nakajima Ki-117 (Allied Code Name: 'Pike'). I took the grey specular bitmaps, masked off the undersurfaces and added a blurry green leafy layer to look like those sprayed on camo schemes seen on WW2 Japanese aircraft. A red spinner, yellow wing leading edges, slightly distressed Hinomaru and some fictional IJAAF markings finish it off. I have absolutely no clue on IJAAF squadron/wing/air army structures so haven't named the squadron and the '4' within an arrow on the fin is a marking straight out of my own head! I love the Hawker Tempest but much prefer the 'chinny' versions.

If you have a feeling of deja vu then, yes, I've showed this Japanese Tempest before but the photo's were hosted by Photobucket (b*stards) and have the horrible Photobucket watermark running through them so I decided to do some new screenshots.

[Dizzyfugu]

That's pretty cool! Works for me.

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Lavochkin La-13 'Fickle' - Soviet Air Force, 1946















I think this 3D model of the Tempest Mk.II with it's dubious tail makes for a good masquerade and this is the Lavochkin La-13 as suggested by NARSES2. I thought I'd try a scruffy winter scheme with chipped white upper surfaces revealing green paint beneath and for this one I decided to put the insignia directly onto the skin map and the number 23 so that they would also appear chipped and worn. It's not brilliant but it works. I had to fight the temptation to add upper wing insignia as those wings look so bare. I noticed the Shvetsov M-71 radial engine is very similar in size to the Bristol Centaurus but substantially heavier and well down on power too. You can dial this into the game/sim and do other things like swap the 20mm Hispano cannons for the 20mm Shvak with simple edits.

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Both look good to me   

[zenrat]

Looks good with red stars.

According to wikipaedia* M-71 is 250kg lighter than the Centaurus.  Not heavier.
Centaurus output is approx 300hp more but power to weight ratio of M-71 is 2.268 hp/kg against 2.068 hp/kg.
Both are about the same diameter.  M-71 is about 400ci larger capacity.
I couldn't find a comparison of oil consumption...
 

*I did try to check their figures but my Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft only has power output data for engines and I have no equivalent reference source for British engines.

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Looks good with red stars.

According to wikipaedia* M-71 is 250kg lighter than the Centaurus.  Not heavier.

Yes. Schoolboy error. For the M-71 I used lbs (2140) instead of kgs (970).

[zenrat]

Looks good with red stars.

According to wikipaedia* M-71 is 250kg lighter than the Centaurus.  Not heavier.

Yes. Schoolboy error. For the M-71 I used lbs (2140) instead of kgs (970).

Easily done if using Wikipaedia as there is no consistency in the units used.  Each contributor using what they are used to or what their sources use.  This can result in mixed combinations such as Hp/Kg instead of Hp/lb or KW/Kg.

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Saunders-Roe Farman B.Mk.I - No.7 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1938














Nab him
Jab him
Tab him
Grab him
Stop that pigeon now!

An odd choice of name but in my world Saunders-Roe licence-built the Farman 222 and the RAF adopted the name. I did consider calling it the Blackburn Burnley.