Skyline Paper Models Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude (Beta) - Page 2

**Don Boose** · #11 01-24-2009, 10:23 AM

Excellent, Mike! I have my eye on this one and am enjoying watching your build.

Of course, I always do, as your areas of aviation interest seem to track pretty closely with my own.

Don

**Yu Gyokubun** · #12 01-25-2009, 04:29 AM

Before I joined this American forum I liked American fighter planes but now I am influenced and my preference changed to Japanese planes

**MiG-23MLD** · #13 01-26-2009, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by YuG

Before I joined this American forum I liked American fighter planes but now I am influenced and my preference changed to Japanese planes

I think every body has some preferences, but personaly i like american and German WWII aircraft the best, the He-111, B-29, Me-264, P-51, He-162, Ar-234, Ju-288, Ju-388, Ho-229 and the F-4U Corsair are some of my favorites, however Japan has also beautiful designs so in general i think as a modeller the biggest problem is time, if i could make a different airplane a day, i would make all the aircraft that have been made but i always choose the aircraft i like the most and are easier to make.

But in general all airplanes once you understand their design philosophy they become beautiful whith disregard of their nationality, it is similar to women.

From the 1960s to the present i think the An-124, L-1011 Tristar, Tu-204, B-777, B-757, Il-86, E-170, YaK-141, B-1B, Tu-22M, Rafale, MiG-31M, Lavi, F-16, MiG-29M, Su-27. F-14, F-22, F-15, A-5 and MiG-23 are my favorites

**GreMir** · #14 01-26-2009, 07:08 AM

Sorry for lack of update over the weekend but it is a bit difficult to build with watery eyes and sneezing every few minutes - cold spell over Florida and of course I came down with a severe cold :(
Hopefully it's getting manageable and I hope to start cutting and glueing again.

It's strange that instruments of war such as planes might be regarded as beautifull, but that's how I feel. I look at them as engineering marvels where technology and estethics merged together. This is especially true for Japanese designs but also applies to planes like P-51 Mustang, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, Tempest, Whirlwind and several more.

**MiG-23MLD** · #15 01-26-2009, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by GreMir

Sorry for lack of update over the weekend but it is a bit difficult to build with watery eyes and sneezing every few minutes - cold spell over Florida and of course I came down with a severe cold :(
Hopefully it's getting manageable and I hope to start cutting and glueing again.

It's strange that instruments of war such as planes might be regarded as beautifull, but that's how I feel. I look at them as engineering marvels where technology and estethics merged together. This is especially true for Japanese designs but also applies to planes like P-51 Mustang, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, Tempest, Whirlwind and several more.

I think since paper modelling is an art, it is related to beauty, related to forms, flying and knowing the design philosophy, so when we see a fellow forum member making an aircraft there is always curiosity and an aesthetic respose.

When i make a paper aircraft model i usually fall in love with the design, i love its forms, shapes, pictures, history and if i can comprehend its aerodynamics its technology so if i am making an A5M4 definitively i need to feel some love for the aircraft`s shape, and when my model`s shapes and forms get closer to the real one`s i fall in love even more, in few words reproducing reality in a model makes you love the real aircraft even more

**GreMir** · #16 01-26-2009, 01:12 PM

I wouldn't use the word "love" (my wife might have an issue with it

) but for me to build any model it has to somehow appeal to me to pick it up and start cutting.
Problem is that there are to many models that constantly scream at me "pick me, pick me" :D

**Don Boose** · #17 01-26-2009, 03:12 PM

Mike wrote" "Japanese designs but also applies to planes like P-51 Mustang, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, Tempest, Whirlwind and several more . . ."

Yep! Right on target. I certainly track with that short list, although I could add to the "several more" (it looks like a Corsair . . . and I couldn't leave out the dear old P-40, especially the B/C/Tomahawk tiger shark versions -- and, of course, neither did you).

Don

**zachy** · #18 01-26-2009, 04:40 PM

Does anyone know what unit the A5M4s where that attacked wake island were? i was talking to a pilot from that battle years ago and while he told me the planes where white, I've forgotten the markings. I was wanting to make a diorama but I need some place to start.

**GreMir** · #19 01-26-2009, 05:37 PM

I don't think any A5M4 participated in the Wake Island invasion...
Opening missions were carried by Chitose Air Group's G3M Nells flying without escort - distance was to great for A5M4.
Second invasion atttempt was supported by Hiryu and Soryu, but they were all A6M2 carriers.

**CharlieC** · #20 01-26-2009, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by zachy

Does anyone know what unit the A5M4s where that attacked wake island were? i was talking to a pilot from that battle years ago and while he told me the planes where white, I've forgotten the markings. I was wanting to make a diorama but I need some place to start.

Afaik the IJN used a carrier air group organisation unlike the USN which maintained squadrons "hosted" on carriers. The two carriers in the attack on Wake island were the Hiryu and Soryu - split off from the Pearl Harbour attack force. Each IJN carrier group used its own identification markings.

it seems as if the Hiryu markings were two blue bands around the rear fuselage with a blue band on the tail. The Soryu markings were similar with a single blue band around the rear fuselage. A6M2 Zero Gallery.

Regards,

Charlie