Kawanishi H8K

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Kawanishi H8K2 Type 2 Flying Boat Model 12, manufacturer’s number 426, ‘T-31’ of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s 801st Kokutai, the only H8K to survive, as displayed at the JMSDF Kanoya Air Base Museum in Kagoshima: a large four-engined patrol flying boat with four Mitsubishi Kasei 22 radials in long nacelles on a high, tapered wing spanning 38 m, a deep, narrow two-step hull with a glazed bow turret, a stepped cockpit, a dorsal turret and beam blisters, fixed strut-braced wingtip floats, a tall single fin and a 20 mm cannon in the tail, shown level on its beaching gear: IJN dark green upper surfaces and hull sides down to the chine, a light grey planing bottom, light grey undersides to the wings, tailplane and floats, red hinomaru outlined in white on the hull and plain on the wings, yellow leading edges on the inner wings, a yellow ‘T-31’ and a small yellow emblem on the fin, white draft marks along the hull, and red-brown propellers with red spinners (no H8K is in a UK museum; shape from H8K three-views scaled to the published dimensions and checked against photographs of this aircraft at Kanoya and Tokyo; window and hatch positions, the wing-root fillet and the float struts are approximated, and the two dark bands across the fin are painted as photographed). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 336 models · download .glb (2.0 MB) · Plate 147 in The Hangar