Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa (Allied name ‘Oscar’) manufacturer’s number 6430, built around January 1944, captured by US forces at Hollandia, New Guinea, in April 1944, rebuilt there and evaluated in the United States, and now displayed at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona: a light single-seat army fighter with a slim fuselage, a close-cowled Nakajima Ha-115 radial with a three-blade propeller, a long tapered canopy, a low-set wing with rounded tips and butterfly combat flaps, and a small rounded fin and rudder, shown tail down on its main wheels and tail wheel: dark grey-green upper surfaces and fuselage over light grey wing and tailplane undersides, a bare-metal lower cowl lip, yellow identification strips on the inner wing leading edges, a white-ringed red hinomaru on each side of the fuselage and plain red hinomaru above and below the wings, a white fuselage band edged in red, the 63rd Sentai’s insignia in blue and white on the fin and a yellow ‘13’ on the rudder, and a polished spinner and blades with yellow tips, as photographed at Pima (no Ki-43 is in a UK museum; shape from a Ki-43-II three-view checked against photographs of 6430; drop tanks and bomb racks are left off and the cockpit interior is generic). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 330 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 128 in The Hangar