Old Dog
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OK, this i what I'm going to build...
and the prerequisite date stamp
For some provenance, the Ki-46, allied code Dinah was built as a high speed, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. It was rugged, dependable and well liked by it's crews and succeeded very well in it's assigned tasks serving right up to the end of the war successfully over flying B-29 bases. It was so successful that the Germans tried in vain to obtain manufacturing rights for it. When the B-29 high altitude raids began, the Japanese had little in the way of aircraft with the speed and altitude necessary to combat them. Seventy-five Ki-46's were modified as fighters by installing two 20mm cannon in the nose and fifteen were modified by the army with an additional upward firing 37mm cannon. Although flown by crews trained only in recon work they proved quite successful in their endeavors. I haven't found any hard numbers but apparently somewhere on the order of 25 B-29's were downed by these craft.
I do have an Eduard Zoom set for the kit and for more information on what's in the box and the PE set you can go here Old Dogs Ki-46 kit review
I don't plan on starting this for a while as I want to finish my Wellington first.
For some provenance, the Ki-46, allied code Dinah was built as a high speed, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. It was rugged, dependable and well liked by it's crews and succeeded very well in it's assigned tasks serving right up to the end of the war successfully over flying B-29 bases. It was so successful that the Germans tried in vain to obtain manufacturing rights for it. When the B-29 high altitude raids began, the Japanese had little in the way of aircraft with the speed and altitude necessary to combat them. Seventy-five Ki-46's were modified as fighters by installing two 20mm cannon in the nose and fifteen were modified by the army with an additional upward firing 37mm cannon. Although flown by crews trained only in recon work they proved quite successful in their endeavors. I haven't found any hard numbers but apparently somewhere on the order of 25 B-29's were downed by these craft.
I do have an Eduard Zoom set for the kit and for more information on what's in the box and the PE set you can go here Old Dogs Ki-46 kit review
I don't plan on starting this for a while as I want to finish my Wellington first.