Malaya. A few days before Christmas 1941... Recreating the last moments before a fatal collision in combat between a pilot of 453 Squadron RAAF flying a Brewster Buffalo (with two and a half A6M2s already in the bag from 9 days earlier) and a Nakajima Ki43 "Hayabusa" from the 64th Sentai IJAAF. Collision or deliberate ramming? Even on a bad day, the anorexic Ki43 could run rings around the portly Buffalo- but in the chaos of a dogfight a little bit extra pull on the flaps at the wrong moment could lead to a disaster like this... The prototypes of the Ki43 were initially so disappointing in the "floats like a butterfly" specification that the factory was forced to save the contract by reducing the airframe weight, (with an angle-griner perhaps?). A series of last minute tweaks were applied, including "butterfly" flaps to provide extra lift during combat aerobatics. But the desperate redesign created a flaw in the wing that made it apt to snap off in the high-G environment of combat. Ooops. That and other shortcomings were partially addressed in the Ki43-II which entered service in late 1942. Rendered in Vue 8 Esprit Assets Its my Buffalo. The Ki43 is the Poserworks Nakajima "Zero" (CP) fixed up (I made a new UV map to allow an assymetrical texture, in this case the 64th Sentai. In Poser I "hid" the existing misplaced antenna mast, parented obj's for new antenna, machine guns, telescopic sight, and the cowling scoop ). Hey presto... an "Oscar." Thanks for viewing and comments.