A6M Zero

[brendan]

Took abit of tweakin to try and get this right , the zero is a Combat flightsim port to fsx.







And just bought a new toy !!! very excited will post soon !! gotta go fly it first LOL.

[Splitpin]

Nice.........Ive got the WOP model....its ok, but just one paint.

[Ian Warren]

Just a pity the Corsair did not flip his wing up ....SNAP.. would have taken the Zero,s wing off

[Olderndirt]

Can hear the Japaneses pilot - "#1*? you Boyington".

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Apr 18 2011,4:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Can hear the Japaneses pilot - "#1*? you Boyington".

Over the radio you hear " Black sheep one ... angles 10 " .. fact was Pappy was at 15

[J7G]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 17 2011,7:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just a pity the Corsair did not flip his wing up ....SNAP.. would have taken the Zero,s wing off

Hey! That's my patented IL2 Out of Ammo Nothing For It move I'll have you know

[Ian Warren]

J7G .... Couple oldies but bloody goodies


Look at that boiler plate amour whatsa doosey .. yeah not a Corsair

[Splitpin]

Like it or not the Zero gave them a run for their money when it first came on the scene, and would have held its own if they had the time to evolve it.
Not sure if those kind of cartoons are entirely appropriate these days.....not the aircraft but the pilot figues....but i guess thats from another era....seems odd that the "sneaky eyed,receding jaw" people are providing the bulk of our cars and household goods.....i wonder who really won?.

[Ian Warren]

Same as religion , here there to say .... i,m not religious - fact is - a very nice Japanese girl loved the pics , the artwork puts a perspective to the stupid ideas during war , see loved my knowledge and i went through encyclopedias with her teaching me names of warships and how to pronounce , She was so impressed and pleased we had so much respect and interest and still learning want to learn , Tonomi lives in Sapporo and she is always welcome at my place here .

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 18 2011,1:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Same as religion , here there to say .... i,m not religious - fact is - a very nice Japanese girl loved the pics , the artwork puts a perspective to the stupid ideas during war , see loved my knowledge and i went through encyclopedias with her teaching me names of warships and how to pronounce , She was so impressed and pleased we had so much respect and interest and still learning want to learn , Tonomi lives in Sapporo and she is always welcome at my place here .

I wasnt getting at you Ian, dont get me wrong. Ive seen some pretty bad taste Japanese wartime cartoons about us.Having lived with Japanese now for many years i can tell you, that a lot of them arent to proud of some of their elders acts......but that applies to everybody....nobodys clean.
As one old Japanese guy once told me "we may have lost the war, but we have been politly iinvading the rest of the world ever since....and winning"

If you want a good read, find a book called "Samurai" by a dude called sakai saburo....he recalls a few fights with Wildcats, and how they were almost impossible to shoot down......

Sakai's tribute to the ruggedness of the Wildcat :

"I closed in from the best firing angle, approaching from the rear left of the Grumman [F4F Wildcat], the pilot appeared to realize that he could no longer win. He fled at full speed toward Lunga.
I had full confidence in my ability to destroy the Grumman, and decided to finish off the enemy fighter with only my 7.7mm machine guns. I turned the 20mm cannon switch to the 'off' position, and closed in.

For some strange reason, even after I had poured about five or six hundred rounds of ammunition into the Grumman, the aeroplane did not fall, but kept on flying. I thought this very odd - it had never happened before - and closed the distance between the two airplanes until I could almost reach out and touch the Grumman. To my surprise, the Grumman's rudder and tail were ripped to shreds, looking like an old torn piece of rag."

[Ian Warren]

Strangely enough , its Japanese Cartoons that even hi-light the conflict the war and with some really superb artwork , friggen great magazines

[brendan]

nice plane though ! hhahahhahah

I worked with an old guy in NZ who was in the SAS ( Australian) he told me that they were over the border somewhere ( wouldn't tell me where) , malaya, borneo, vietnam , somewhere.
They came across six zeros all parked in a line covered with netting, bush had grown around them, ( in the late 60s - 70s ) . He reckoned they looked in pretty good nick but as soon as you touched them they fell apart.
Made of wood etc, he knows where they are but he said by now they would be gone or found by forestry workers, shame but.
Japs were as nasty as germans BUT the first to have (ahemmm!) work camps was the bristish in the Boer war.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (brendan @ Apr 18 2011,4:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Jap's were as nasty as Germans BUT the first to have (ahemmm!) work camps was the British in the Boer war.

Brendan ... Smack on the nose .. Go s with all sides ... we compare the greats off the aircraft , the great writings off Aces not and nothing off the idiots , all sides have their Hero,s and there worst ...

[J7G]

I thought the picture was a parody of the propaganda of the time. Either way I enjoyed it.