A Japanese Surprise by kjer_99
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Description
A squadron of Mitsubishi A5Ms surprise a remote outpost of Flying Tigers--volunteer American pilots hired by the Chinese Nationalists to fly air combat against the Japanese during the period just before America entered World War II. Two of the Curtiss P40 fighters have managed to get airborne, while a third has just commenced to manuevering to begin its takeoff.
Not sure just how accurate this picture is. That is, I don't know if the Flying Tigers ever tangled with the A5M, which was a Japanese Navy aircraft. It was certainly used extensively during the Sino-Japanese War from 1935 on, but may have been replaced by more modern aircraft such as the Zero or the Oscar by the time the Curtiss P40 was flown against the Japanese. However, I had the models, so I thought what the heck?
Credits:
All trucks: Ed Baumgarten.
Jeep: Net freebie; can't remember who contributed it.
Quanset Huts: Ed Baumgarten.
Tower, Chinese building, distant village, and all terrains: Jeremy Miller.
Mitsubishi A5M: by Oleg Pomoshnikov purchased at http://gunpoint-3d.com/.
Curtiss P40: Net freebie; again, can't recall who made it.
Japanese pilots: Jeremy Miller.
Thanks for stopping by. Comments are welcomed.
Jeremy
Comments (8)
Good scene, could use some dust spots and tracers to show the strafing (IMHO).
wouldn't hurt to have a field; bury a cube primitive in the size and shape of a field, then texture it with a dirt mat..not sure about the markings on the planes, but what the hey, this is art, not history..;)
I agree with you, pakled, but the forground terrain is not flat, although it looks as if it is. What I really wanted is to brush on a lot of ruts. A lot of the Tigers' fields were--well, fields. They weren't paved or graded or anything. For that matter, they probably didn't even have quanset huts, just local Chinese buildings. I also agree with buckzero and I had them, but it just took too much memory and I got tired of crashing Bryce when I went to save it.
Great action!
I don't know that it happened but its possible. The A5M's were in service until the summer of 1942. The AVG was only in existence in 1941 and after Pearl Harbor were transferred into the regular USAAC.
Cool action shot, with minor mishaps, disturbing the yellow propeller rims, otherwise real fine
Very nice. Reasonable assumption that Japanese carrier launced aircraft would encounter the P-40s. No doubt the Japaneses pilots would much prefer the upper hand since a p-40 in the air would much out maneuver that airplane.
Wow great scene. Super fantastic models. Like the camera view!! Very well done.