Nakajima Ki-44 CGI Project

[Shinpachi]

Thanks, Wojtek!

 

[Wurger]

Excellent !!!

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far shinpachi!

 

[evangilder]

Your attention to the details is outstanding. It's coming along very nicely!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thanks for checking, Wojtek, Hugh and Eric!
I'm still working on the landing gear for more details...

 

[Shinpachi]

CGI simulation in movie!
Thanks.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36F1HuJIXWs

 

[Gnomey]

Excellent work so far shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thank you very much, Hugh, for kind checking!

I'm currently working on the tail wheel.
Not a few RC modellers look understanding the wheel-bay doors open outward but they open upward as if sliding up along the outer skin because the hinges are located inside the fuselage. I hope I can show the mechanism in my CGI soon.
Thanks!

 

[Crimea_River]

Amazing work Shinpachi. Those are very intricate workings and you've captured it well in the video.

 

[GrauGeist]

Shinpachi, you're work is always amazing, the detail and accuracy!

They should take your accurate research and build a reproduction!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thank you very much for kind comments, Crimea_River and Dave!

Motion settings have paralyzed my dull brain.
As mentioned, I think the American designer for this retractable landing gear was genius at the time when no PC tools available like today

 

[GrauGeist]

Wait a minute...you said "American designer", so is this to say that the KI-44's landing gear configuration was adopted from an American design?

 

[Shinpachi]

Wait a minute...you said "American designer", so is this to say that the KI-44's landing gear configuration was adopted from an American design?

Yes, it is, Dave.
It is well known among us that an American designer for the Vought V-143 invented the retractable landing gear almost for the first time in the world and his system was adopted for the Nakajima Ki-44. Mitsubishi also followed for its Zeros at the same period.

 

[GrauGeist]

I had no idea that the Nakajima engineers incorporated those elements that into their design!

I have learned something today, thank you Shinpachi-san!

 

[Shinpachi]

You are welcome, Dave!

Nakajima's excuse was "We had no time to develop such an excellent one".

 

[Wurger]

Smashing work !

 

[fubar57]

Thanks for the history lesson Shinpachi. Always learning on this site.

Geo

 

[Shinpachi]

You are welcome, Geo

Chikuhei Nakajima, founder of Nakajima Aircraft, requested his engineers not to imitate the western technologies but the reality was not so easy as he dreamed.
On the other hand, Mitsubishi style was to study them as they were to find out any chances to improve.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent work as always!

 

[Thorlifter]

Shinpachi, I'm am curious. Are you doing these fantastic works of art just for fun or are you doing these for some movie company or CGI shop?