kelticheart
March 4th, 2011, 06:13
A good day to everybody! :wavey:
I just uploaded the last demirrored repaint from Smashing Time's Pearl Harbour collection: B5N2 Kate "AI-301", 1st wave Level Bomber Force, flown by Lt. Cdr. Mitsuo Fuchida off the carrier Akagi. The carrier Akagi was the Kido Butai leader during the Pearl attack, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, in charge of the Attack Force, was embarked on the Akagi.
Fuchida was not only the 1st wave Air Strike Leader, but also the commander-in-chief/coordinator of all IJNAF formations deployed at Pearl. He was also responsible for training all the Imperial Navy Japanese pilots involved in the attack. He was the pilot who radioed back the historical code message "Tora, tora, tora!" to let Vice Admiral Nagumo know total surprise had been achieved at Pearl.
The 2nd wave Air Strike Leader, which struck Pearl at 8:40 a.m., was Lt. Cdr. Shimazaki whose S.Time's Kate demirrored repaint I uploaded back in December.
In this repaint, which I prefer calling touchup since S.Time did the actual repaint, I followed the same guidelines as the other Pearl series skins for CFS2 stockers I uploaded. I grafted demirrored Fuchida's individual codes from S.Time's repaint on the Kate clean stock demirrored skin.
I took extra steps to differentiate the weathering on each side of the aircraft and, where necessary, I rebuilt rivets and paneling that got lost in the original repaint. I tried cleaning red/green extended-bmp bleeding effects in the stock skin, too. Particular detailing care was dedicated to the flaming red tailplane and vertical fin/rudder, where I corrected the original AI-801 code, done probably out of necessity due to the stock mirrored texture limitations, to the historical AI-301. I resized the code itself to fit the vertical fin better, using Talos2005's same Fuchida repaint of Thicko's B5N2 model as historical reference, adding also the white "birdtail-like" lines on the elevators top surface that were missing from the original repaint.
This is the last green-camo stock Kate repaint I know of, if there are any other somewhere, in need of a cleanup/touchup as well, I'll be very glad to take them down to the local carwash for you, just let me know where they are.
Enjoy!
KH :ernae:
I just uploaded the last demirrored repaint from Smashing Time's Pearl Harbour collection: B5N2 Kate "AI-301", 1st wave Level Bomber Force, flown by Lt. Cdr. Mitsuo Fuchida off the carrier Akagi. The carrier Akagi was the Kido Butai leader during the Pearl attack, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, in charge of the Attack Force, was embarked on the Akagi.
Fuchida was not only the 1st wave Air Strike Leader, but also the commander-in-chief/coordinator of all IJNAF formations deployed at Pearl. He was also responsible for training all the Imperial Navy Japanese pilots involved in the attack. He was the pilot who radioed back the historical code message "Tora, tora, tora!" to let Vice Admiral Nagumo know total surprise had been achieved at Pearl.
The 2nd wave Air Strike Leader, which struck Pearl at 8:40 a.m., was Lt. Cdr. Shimazaki whose S.Time's Kate demirrored repaint I uploaded back in December.
In this repaint, which I prefer calling touchup since S.Time did the actual repaint, I followed the same guidelines as the other Pearl series skins for CFS2 stockers I uploaded. I grafted demirrored Fuchida's individual codes from S.Time's repaint on the Kate clean stock demirrored skin.
I took extra steps to differentiate the weathering on each side of the aircraft and, where necessary, I rebuilt rivets and paneling that got lost in the original repaint. I tried cleaning red/green extended-bmp bleeding effects in the stock skin, too. Particular detailing care was dedicated to the flaming red tailplane and vertical fin/rudder, where I corrected the original AI-801 code, done probably out of necessity due to the stock mirrored texture limitations, to the historical AI-301. I resized the code itself to fit the vertical fin better, using Talos2005's same Fuchida repaint of Thicko's B5N2 model as historical reference, adding also the white "birdtail-like" lines on the elevators top surface that were missing from the original repaint.
This is the last green-camo stock Kate repaint I know of, if there are any other somewhere, in need of a cleanup/touchup as well, I'll be very glad to take them down to the local carwash for you, just let me know where they are.
Enjoy!
KH :ernae: