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Imperial Japanse Army's Ki-45 twin-engined fighter.
The left BW photo is original.
The right color image is my remake with aid of a 3D CG tool.
Adjusting angle to the original was very difficult but I suddenly noticed that I was grasping all positions of the 3 aircraft(below).
Why 3? The cameraman was aboard the first one.
Thats a really impressive project...I assume that the airplanes in the last picture are in the same flight configuration as they are in your first 3D rendering (but from a different camera angle)?
This is a screenshot from a movie "Zero (by Toshio Masuda in 1984)".
To be remarked is this aluminum-made 1:1 scale zero was manufactured for the movie by actual Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
By applying the same method, you will easily know that the legendary BW photo "B-29 being attacked by Ki-45" was a false composite photograph.
The Ki-45 looks too small when it flys under the wing of the Superfort on the photo.
To keep the same size ratio, it had to fly over the wing.
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It looks A6M2a - Model 11.
Oh, Wayne. Happy New Year.
Japan is rushing into the new year in about 10 minutes.
Please instruct us with your deep knowdedge about the ww2 aircrafts in 2010 too.