Kyushu J7W Shinden

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as The first Kyushu J7W1 Shinden as it stood at Mushiroda airfield near Fukuoka when Captain Masaoki Tsuruno flew it on 3, 6 and 9 August 1945: a single-seat canard interceptor with a Mitsubishi Ha-43 eighteen-cylinder radial mounted backwards in the rear fuselage, driving a six-bladed pusher propeller behind a cooling-air exit ring, swept main wings set well aft with a fin and rudder on each wing, small foreplanes on the long nose, a framed canopy and a tall tricycle undercarriage that holds the nose up, shown standing nose-high on its wheels with the gear down, as it was on every flight: dark green fuselage, fins and upper surfaces, light grey-green undersides to the wings and foreplanes, pale main-gear doors and plain red hinomaru on the fuselage sides only; the photographs are black and white, so the hues are the standard Navy ones (shape from the Japanese fuselage installation drawing and a three-view, checked against wartime photographs of this aircraft and the surviving fuselage). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 370 models · download .glb (776 KB) · Plate 214 in The Hangar