Mitsubishi Ki-21

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Mitsubishi Ki-21-IIb ‘Sally’ manufacture number 4318 of the 2nd Chutai, 14th Sentai, Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, abandoned at Lae in New Guinea in July 1943 and photographed there by the Allies after its capture that September: a twin-engined heavy bomber with two Mitsubishi Ha-101 fourteen-cylinder radials in long nacelles driving three-bladed propellers, a glazed nose with a ball-mounted gun, a stepped glazed cockpit, the IIb’s conical dorsal gun turret, a mid-mounted wing spanning 22.5 m and a single fin and rudder, shown tail down on its wheels: dark green upper surfaces and fuselage sides, grey-green undersides, blue-black cowlings, brown propellers, a white-edged hinomaru on the fuselage, a white band round the rear fuselage and the 14th Sentai’s stylised ‘4’ in red outlined in white across the fin and rudder; no Ki-21 survives, the photographs are black and white and show only the rear fuselage and tail, so the colours are the standard 1942–43 Army finish, and the wing hinomaru, the turret, the starboard tail marking and the cowling and propeller colours follow photographs of other Ki-21-IIbs and standard practice (shape from a Japanese factory three-view scaled to the published span and length, with Ki-21-II changes from a second set of drawings and photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 370 models · download .glb (1.5 MB) · Plate 112 in The Hangar