Mitsubishi G4M

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Mitsubishi G4M1 Model 11 T1-323 (manufacturer’s number 2656) of the 705th Kokutai, Imperial Japanese Navy, the bomber carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto when it was shot down by US Army P-38 Lightnings near Buin, Bougainville, on 18 April 1943: a twin-engined long-range land-based naval bomber with a deep cigar-shaped fuselage, a glazed nose with a single machine gun, a stepped cockpit canopy, a teardrop dorsal gun blister, teardrop beam blisters on each side and a long glazed tail cone with a 20 mm cannon, a mid-set tapered wing carrying two Mitsubishi Kasei radials in long nacelles with three-blade propellers, and a single fin and rudder, shown tail down on its main wheels and tail wheel: dark green upper surfaces and fuselage sides over light grey undersides, a black anti-glare panel on the upper nose and black cowlings, yellow identification strips on the inner wing leading edges, red hinomaru on the upper and lower wings and on a white square on each side of the fuselage, and ‘323’ in white on both sides of the fin, as recorded from photographs of its wreck, which still lies in the jungle near Buin, and of the 705th Kokutai in 1943 (no complete G4M survives and none is in a UK museum; shape from a published G4M2 three-view altered to the G4M1’s nose, dorsal blister, beam blisters and tail cone from a Model 11 drawing and wartime photographs; the colour of the lower cowlings, the underside shade and the propeller blade colour are not shown in any photograph of this airframe and follow other aircraft of its type and unit). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 325 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 134 in The Hangar