Wednesday, February 16, 2022

[FREE] 1/100 Mitsubishi B4N1 Papermodel

A single-engine carrier bomber aircraft completed in 1936 and designed by Takao Yoshida, this aircraft was Mitsubishi's response to Imperial Japanese Navy requirement to replace Mitsubishi B2M (type 89) bomber, this bomber ends up being a failure due to the lack of suitable engine and stability problems.

An obscure aircraft on the middle of already obscure Japan interwar aircraft design, this model is particulary hard to design because there's literally 1 (one) real life image of this aircraft as reference which i put as the cover for this post.

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

[FREE] Mitsubishi 1MT Triplane Papermodel


Mitsubishi 1MT was a Japanese single-seat triplane torpedo bomber built for Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft carrier Hōshō. Designed by Herbert Smith, 1MT1N first flew in August 1922 and entered service as Navy Type 10 Torpedo Bomber or Carrier Attacker. 20 aircraft were built, but the aircraft was difficult to fly and unable to operate from an aircraft carrier when carrying a torpedo. The type was soon withdrawn and scrapped.

Another Japanese aircraft model from Argwenza Kainaka, he didn't specify the scale but by comparing the wingspan of the real thing versus the model, maybe it's close to 1/79 or 1/80 scale.Well suited for interwar military aircraft enthusiast, especially for the Japanese one, it's a relatively easy model to build and the instruction panel is already inside the model file.

 

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And this is the one where i tried to resize it to 1/100 scale (torpedo from Mitsubishi B4N1 pattern):





Tuesday, February 8, 2022

[FREE] LIPNUR NU-25 "Kunang" Papercraft

A single-seater monoplane with 25hp Volkswagen engine (then replaced with 35hp VW engine), built in hope of inspiring Indonesian youth interest in aviation, one "Kunang" was produced and its replica now resides in Satria Mandala Museum, Jakarta.






Another papermodel pattern from Argwenza Kainaka as a non-scale model (but big enough to fill an A4-sized paper for a 7-meter long aircraft, so between 1/48 to 1/33?), intruction sheet already included in the model.