Another new stock OH B5N2 Kate Pearl skin uploaded: "AII-324", carrier Kaga!

[kelticheart]

Happy Easter to everybody!

I just uploaded a new PearlH Kate repaint created by adding to the demirrored clean stock original skin new serial codes and a repainted vertical fin/rudder/tailplane.
The resulting skin depicts B5N2 "AII-324", carrier Kaga Torpedo Bomber Force. Flown by Petty Officer 1st class Hirotake Iwata, credited with a torpedo hit on the USS Oklahoma. One more time, from an historical Kate profile found at the Wings Palette website.

This repaint is meant to replace Kate "AI-325" (B5N2_Kate_Kaga) in your Pearl Harbour fleet. When SOH's member/administrator Jagdflieger posted a list of tailcodes and colour code fuselage bands, I realised Kate "AI-325" should be assigned to the Akagi fleet.

Akagi aircrafts, on Dec, 7th 1941, wore "AI" codes and single red fuselage bands, while Kaga aircrafts were identified by the "AII" tailcode and dual red fuselage bands. In my PHP setup, Kate "AI-325" became my Akagi level bomber (B5N2_Kate_Akagi_LB), with "AI-308" as torpedo bomber (B5N2_Kate_Akagi 2). This new skin will add variety to your Pearl missions, instead of having duplicated Kate liveries for torpedo and level bombers.

Enjoy!
KH :ernae:

[Rami]

Kelticheart,

Thank you so very much, yet another outstanding example!

[The B24 Guy]

Nice to see the old stockers getting some new suites.

Great work Kelti!

Regards,

B24Guy

[Jagdflieger]

Thanks KH!

You've now splashed at least as much paint as the maintenance crews for Carrier Divisions 1, 2 and 5 of the IJN.

[kelticheart]

Thank you my friends!

Next week I'll upload "AII-324" companion, that is "AII-376" of Kaga's Level Bomber Force.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

[Talon]

Kelti,

If you can get in touch with Talos2005 he has all the paint schemes for the Kates,Vals and Zeroes involved in the Pearl attack. He sent them to me years ago but I lost them in a HD crash.

A little tidbit for you. The Kates were actually the same color (gray) as the Vals and Zeroes until the attack on Pearl. If I remember correctly they were painted on the way to Pearl but I won't swear by it. I did most of my research in 2003 & 2004.

I'm not real good at doing skins but I did 1 Zuikaku and I Shokaku skin for the Kates.
The Kaga skin was the stock skin from the b24guys over hauled kate.


Talon