Time To Find A Dance Partner by steelrazer
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I was watching some films of WW I and WW2 aerial dogfights and was once again struck by the realization of the specialized skills of those military pilots, especially fighter pilots. Whereas the ground war is fought laterally, a pilot's air war is fought in 360 degrees of danger, with enemy aircraft potentially approaching you in an instant from any direction laterally or above and below. Keeping a situational awareness of the ever changing situation and being able to navigate your aircraft into a kill position on your target while making sure that you haven't put yourself in a vulnerable position seems like an overwhelming task. That's without adding the mechanical requirements of the aircraft to keep it flying to efficiently execute the task at hand. It's almost too much to contemplate for someone here on the ground. No wonder their status in our minds and imaginations!
The Nakajima Ki-84 "Gale" was a superb late-war Japanese war plane with impressive specifications. The "Frank" as it was named by the allies was easily able to tangle with the P-51 Mustangs and carried enough firepower to take down the massive B-29s that were raiding Japan with increasing regularity. Ultimately, this fine craft suffered from the relentless waves of bombers interfering with the quality of production, and from a lack of experienced pilots as the conflict dragged on. Still about 3,500 units rolled off the assembly lines to stake a claim as one of the best fighters of the Japanese forces and one to be reckoned with by the allied forces.
Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate: Excellent model and a classic offering free by Bazze with some texture tweaking.
F4U Corsair: Another classic by Bazze and also available free.
Pilots: Japanese pilot by Motokamishii available as part of his Reisen, and my favorite low poly Epici Enemy soldier Lwr01 with adh3d's pilot gear.
C4d6XL+CE, Poser 10, Vue6Infinite (no postwork this time)
Comments (16)
62guy
Nice render! Luckily for the Allies, the Japanese didn't set up an enlarged flight training program to replace losses before the war started. Pilots that just barely missed being selected for active duty were not kept as reserves. They sometimes even committed suicide. Also, while the Allies usually rotated aces back to the homeland to be instructors, the Axis generally kept them in the front lines.
scottl
Wonderfull as always, thanks for sharing these and Happy New Year.
giulband
Beautiful creation !
sike
Beautiful work!! I like Airplene of Nakajima. Nakajima Aircraft factory had to close my country.
London224
Terrific work as always.. I always like to zoom into your work to really appreciate what you have done. Happy Holidays to you my friend. Hope all is going well in the galleries.
debbielove
Very good work, and you have the notes spot on.. Just as in Germany, if Japan had pilots of Quality left to fly these, things would have been so much different.. By way of a note, the last 'Frank' is in RAF Cosford, a photo is on the way.. Rob
Xavier_Leggett
Excellent work!
CATMANDO
Great image....nice work.
AliceFromLake
Very nice aerial picture. I like such pictures.
Renderholic
Excellent work!
buffalosoldier
nice reenactment
iborg64
excellent scene very nice air craft
e-brink
Excellent moment as they are all about to break and I like the wide format too. Interesting thoughts about field of danger. Movement adds a further element, of course, and each plane and pilot has their own moving sphere of danger as they all range round the sky. Quite a ballet!
Penters
Really nice POV, and layout.
neiwil
Time to drop tanks and tango......and as usual a stunning image and your thoughts on the subject reflect the reality of events for pilots on all sides......great choice of aircraft too.
UVDan
Wonderful scene!