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Creating Aircraft for FSX

Japan's WW2 aircraft under construction

 

Built with Blender.

 

I have been building a Mitsubishi F1M2 "Zerokan" (Allied reporting name "Pete") since November last year.
I'm a moody person, the aircraft I introduced in my last blog was temporarily discontinued, hahaha
So it will resume after the completion of F1M2.

The F1M2 was an interesting aircraft that I had known since I was a child.
This is because during WW2, my father was a trainee in the Japanese Navy's flight training corps.
And among the photos my father left behind was F1M2.

 

Migrate work to FSDS v3.5


When I was young, my father told me that the photo of this biplane was the "K5Y Red Dragonfly."(Allied reporting name: "Willow") 
My father's training team trains with this K5Y.
However, since my father was still in the first grade, he could not train to fly an airplane.
And in August 1945, the war ended.
The Japanese army was disbanded, and my father's desire to become a pilot ended.
Growing up, I discovered that the photo of my father's K5Y was actually an F1M2.
It was my father's misunderstanding. Hahaha...

 

Export FSX models from FSDS v3.5. I tried exporting the FSX model directly from Blender using "Blender2P3D/FSX", but it didn't work. It is more reliable to work in Blender, migrate to FSDS and then extract the FSX model. And FSDS is more suitable for building FSX models than Blender. (It's a lot of trouble though...)

 

 

I think my father received the photo below after the war as a souvenir from his time in the military.
F1M and K5Y look like the same seaplane.
And since it was a biplane, I thought my father must have misunderstood.
However, the F1M photos left by his father are valuable. I've never seen it anywhere else.
I thought it was a photo of Lake Tsuchiura, where my father belonged, but when I looked at the mark on the tail for the UVI squadron, 
I found out that it belonged to the seaplane tender ``Sagaramaru'' and was headed for Singapore.
And there was no sign that the UVI squadron had come to Tsuchiura.
I can no longer ask my father why he had this photo.

 

A photo of F1M2 left by my father. I colored it myself.


I really wanted to see UVI Squadron's F1M2 in FSX.
And the photo of the F1M2 book on the right, I really like this F1M2 illustration.
F1M2 was built in the past by Mr. Kazunori Ito, whom I respect, and it was like FS2004. And it's very old.
It doesn't have folding wings, which is what I wanted to see most.
So I had no choice but to build it myself to see it.

A Left, "FAMOUS AIRPLANE OF THE WORLD" published in 2010, right, "Maru Mechanic" magazine published in 1980

 

The magazine in the photo on the right was published in 1980 and was a famous magazine in Japan called "MARU Mechanic."
The magazine on the left is "FAMOUS AIRPLANES OF THE WORLD" No. 136 NEVY TYPE ZERO OBSERVATION SEA PLANE, published in 2010.

I used these two magazines as reference.