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Kronosaurus82 In reply to geekspace [2012-10-24 07:42:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Teratophoneus [2012-10-06 14:15:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.
For my tastes the Shoki it's a bit too "shorty", so I prefer the Hayate.

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Teratophoneus In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2012-10-06 17:12:17 +0000 UTC]

well, everyone has a different favourite plane I guess
My absolut favourite plane is the me 163 Komet(dont know why i just think its awesome )
As it goes for the hayate, I do like its design a lot. It seems like a very elegant racehorse. I would love to see one in the skies, hearing the sound of one with an original engine. Its kinda sad that the only japanese wwii aircraft that still flys today and has its original engine is a zero. Not that I dont like the zero, but I would loveto see other japanese aircraft too in the skies. And a Hayate would definetively be awesome to see on an airshow
I dont really know why I like the ki 44 so much , in my opinion it just looks beautiful, even tough its really a bit short. It reminds me a bit of a thundebolt with its quite big engine cowling....

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Teratophoneus [2012-10-06 18:00:33 +0000 UTC]

Well, it's sad that thousands of memorable planes were scrapped after the end of the war, not just the axis ones, but even the allied ones. For example, one of the most important fighter bombers of the war – the Hawker Typhoon – nowadays there's still jus ONE machine, whom cannot fly anymore. We still have many flying original Mustangs, Spitfires, Corsairs and Thunderbolts still airworthy, but I think this is just because they were some kind of icons even at the time the war ended (and many of them survived because of Air Racing, too).
But when we talk about axis planes, it's just scrapping madness! The Zero you're talking about (the one owned by Planes of Fame) is not simply the last Japanese fighter whom still flies with its original engine but – If I remember right – it's the last axis fighter to fly with its original powerplant! I'm sure there are no Fw-190s flying with a BMW engine (but I think there's one under restoration) and neither Bf-109s with Daimler-Benz engines.
The M.C.205 I photographed in Milan has its original Alfa Romeo/DB engine, but it flew only until the late '80s; the last surviving Hayate – which has its original Nakajima engine – flew the last time in the late '70s.
That's a shame.

Anyway, I don't think the Ki-44 is ugly, I actually like it (there are only a few fighters that I really don't like, for example the P-39 or the earlier, Allison engined Mustangs); but as I said I prefer the sleeker, more "serious" Hayate.
Many of the most recent Japanese piston fighters resembled the P-47 indeed, but I think it's fair to say that even the T-Bolt resembles an "on steroid" version of a Zero!

PS - I saw some of your dinosaur drawings in a couple of DA groups, they're quite good.

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Teratophoneus In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2012-10-06 18:14:02 +0000 UTC]

oh in fact I know two bf 109s with db 605 engines. One of them is the famous rote 7 (red 7) and the other one, a G 10 is owned bythe messerschmitt stiftung. Both have original engines(and by the way they sound AWESOME) Here you can see them[link]
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The 190 you are referring too is an A5 owned by FHC
It has its original bmw 801 engine as you said.[link]
And you are right its really a shame that there are no more axis planes. I would love to see some of them. Imagine they would have restored the Do 335 to flying status-now that would be awesome
I didnt knew that a ki 84 flew until the late 70s, are there any videos of it?
I think that there is also a Ki 43 out there in flying condition, I remember that it is owned by a museum in japan or china but it hasnt be flown for a while and i dont remember if it had its original engine.
Now that you say it youre right, the tbolt looks a bit like a beefed up zero
And thanks for liking my pics , I also like youre , they are awesome

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Teratophoneus [2012-10-07 07:58:07 +0000 UTC]

I didn't know about the 109s, I thought there were just replicas and the Merlin powered ones from Spain.
About the Ki-84, I don't think there are videos on youtube. I just have three photos of the machine number 1446 (which is the last surviving Hayate) flying in october 1973 its last flight. The photos are on the book "Aero Detail - 24". The book says that the machine at hat time was returned to Japan from USA (1446 was the plane used for US evaluation after the war), but says that in Japan in the '70s there were no money and no pilots to maintain the Hayate airworthy. Perhaps with an extensive restoration 1446 could fly again, but nowadays that Ki-84 cannot fly anymore.

Thanks for the compliments.

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Teratophoneus In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2012-10-07 09:14:18 +0000 UTC]

in fact the red 7 is a spanish buchon but it was completely rebuilt into a G4 and is to I think 90% original. The Messerschmitt stiftung actually owns 2 109s which are to my knowledge completely original.
I wish they would invest some more money into all those restorations that are planned. For example the horten 229 still awaits its restoration as well as the last survivng ta 152 and more than a dozen other aircraft that are in the Paul E. Garber Facility.
I am very curious how those mitsubishi and nakjima engine sound so i hope that some of these japanese aircraft are restored into flying condition.
Man, I could talk about this stuff for hours

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Teratophoneus [2012-10-07 10:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Me too.

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to AliceSacco [2012-08-28 15:42:07 +0000 UTC]

Penso che sarà a colori, si. Ma tutto a toni molto leggeri e acquarellosi. Comunque non ne sono ancora sicuro.

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to non-nobis-domine [2012-08-22 16:35:56 +0000 UTC]

Ah, naturalmente con "fare qualche studio in più" non voglio essere offensivo.
Intendo dire che ho imparato con la pratica che nei fumetti un certo tipo di colorazione – leggera – è più apprezzabile, soprattutto con uno stile di disegno "sporco" come il mio. Purtroppo il computer porta ad esagerare con la saturazione dei colori e con i dettagli, ed è qualcosa che io intendo evitare.
Ovviamente esistono le eccezioni, ma sfogliando fumetti a colori o libri di illustrazioni fumettistiche, lo stile di colorazione preponderante è più "leggero".

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to non-nobis-domine [2012-08-22 16:24:23 +0000 UTC]

Sull'uso dei colori, mi sa che devi fare qualche studio in più.

Per quanto riguarda l'attendibilità storica, potresti aver ragione: io stesso penso di autolimitarmi, ogni tanto.
Però il mio cervello funziona così: voglio che le cose siano coerenti e credibili.
Certo, avrei potuto inventarmi tutto di sana pianta, ma se si ha la possibilità di collocare la storia in uno scenario credibile, perchè non approfittarne?
E comunque, non è che non mi sia preso delle libertà: i personaggi saranno tutti di fantasia, così come gli avvenimenti specifici ed i luoghi che si vedranno – a parte la città di Tokyo.
È il contesto ad essere storicamente preciso, ed è questo che conta. Alla fine ho avuto delle difficoltà solo perchè mi sono fissato su quel particolare modello di aereo, e solo per motivi completamente infantili: mi piace e volevo disegnarlo!

Un esempio pratico di quello che intendo? Prendi il film Kelly's Heroes (in italiano I Guerrieri) con Clint Eastwood. Ambientato durante l'avanzata alleata in Francia nell'estate del 1944, si svolge in un contesto realistico ma narra di eventi di fantasia, esattamente come lo farà la mia storia. Un altro film ambientato nello stesso periodo, quindi con contesto storico fedelmente ricreato, ma che narra di eventi di fantasia è Il Treno, con Burt Lancaster.
E ancora, sempre restando nell'ambito bellico: Il Grande Uno Rosso, con Mark Hamill e Lee Marvin, narra di personaggi di fantasia, con eventi di fantasia, ma inquadrati nel contesto storico preciso in cui si mosse proprio la prima divisione di fanteria dell'esercito americano, soprannominata appunto "the big red one".
Potrei andare avanti all'infinito, citando anche i film di Kubrick con quella cura maniacale per i dettagli e la ricostruzione storica, ma che nessuno mai si sognerebbe di definire "limitati" dalla loro attendibilità.

Se poi mi voglio sbizzarrire, lo faccio, stai tranquilla.

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Kronosaurus82 In reply to YukiOshi [2012-08-20 12:56:08 +0000 UTC]

Sono le insegne nazionali dell'aeronautica della giapponia. Sono belli, si.

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