Quickest/best way to get some more Japanese strike aircraft into the game

[IceFire]

Interesting info! I didn't know anything about that.

[Pursuivant]

Man! I wish there were good interior shots of that wreck. Even after 60 years on a tropical airfield, the pictures would probably be a heck of a lot better than the few black and white interior shots we've got of the Nell.

That is, unless there are actually blueprints, pilots/maintenance manuals or other technical documents which aren't available on the web.

[Asheshouse]

Not much of the cockpit left unfortunately



More pics here http://nl.tracesofwar.com/artikel/19...er-Gasmata.htm

A quick google search for "Gasmata g3m" will find more pics

The G3M2 type were involved in attacks against Guadalcanal, flying from Rabaul I guess, in autumn 42.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Asheshouse

Not much of the cockpit left unfortunately

There are decent period pictures of the control panel and enough pictures of the pilots' and navigator's positions that it's possible to make some educated guesses. The picture you linked to gives a decent inside view of the frame around the cockpit.

Pictures I haven't seen are the interior of the gunners' and bombardier's stations.

[gaunt1]

G3m

[Pursuivant]

Thanks for the graphics from FAOW.

Another good source of images for the Nell is here:

http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.c...m-nell_20.html

There are some very nice pictures from a WW2 era Japanese magazine (Asahi Graph) which show unusual interior details.

Still not enough to really model the interior of the plane, but pretty close.

What's lacking are details of the ventral turret (or the "dustbin" turret in the early marks of the G3M1) and more detailed views of the interior of the various crew positions (notably the bombardier's station). Details of the wheel wells and the shackles for bombs and torpedoes would also be helpful.

[gaunt1]

Sorry for necroing this thread, but I found something that may be useful.

D3A2 (note that it is almost the same as D3A1, maybe not so hard to do the A2 variant?)

B6N

D4Y


And many more cockpit drawings...
http://gunsight.jp/c/english/cockpit-e-3D.htm