Mitsubishi J2M Raiden

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden (Allied name ‘Jack’) c/n 3014, coded ‘ヨD-1158’, the only surviving Raiden, as displayed at the Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, California: a single-seat Imperial Japanese Navy interceptor with a stubby, deep fuselage, a Mitsubishi Kasei fourteen-cylinder radial set well forward in a tight cowling on an extension shaft, a four-bladed propeller, a small raised canopy, a low wing spanning 10.8 m with four 20 mm cannon and a tailwheel undercarriage, shown tail down on its wheels: dark green upper surfaces and fuselage sides over light grey undersides, a matt black anti-glare panel on the cowling, two yellow lightning bolts on each side of the fuselage, red hinomaru with white surrounds on the fuselage and upper wings and plain red below, yellow leading-edge strips on the inner wings, the code ‘ヨD-1158’ in white on the fin, three pink cherry-blossom victory marks on the port side, a white spinner and black propeller blades with yellow tips (shape from a Polish 1:50 three-view scaled to the published span and length and checked against photographs of this aircraft; the drop tank and bombs displayed beside it are not shown). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 345 models · download .glb (1.6 MB) · Plate 165 in The Hangar