Yokosuka D4Y Suisei

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Yokosuka D4Y1 Suisei (Allied name ‘Judy’) c/n 4316, tail code ‘鷹-13’, the restored aircraft displayed in the Yūshūkan museum at Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo: a two-seat Imperial Japanese Navy carrier dive-bomber with a slim fuselage, an Aichi Atsuta inverted-V twelve-cylinder engine with a chin radiator, a three-bladed propeller, a long glazed canopy over pilot and radio operator-gunner, a low wing spanning 11.5 m and a tailwheel undercarriage, shown tail down on its wheels with the gunner’s canopy open and a drop tank under each wing: green upper surfaces over light grey undersides with a wavy dividing line along the fuselage, red hinomaru with white surrounds on the fuselage and both wing surfaces, yellow strips on the inner leading edges, the code ‘鷹-13’ in white on the fin, a green spinner and dark brown propeller blades with yellow tips (shape from a D4Y three-view scaled to the published span and length, with the nose from a D4Y1 side view, checked against photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 350 models · download .glb (1.0 MB) · Plate 154 in The Hangar