New Updates for: Heinkel He 111 and P-40N Warhawk (new project) - March 27, 2021
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog during this quarantine phase while the World makes their best to find a (possible) cure for the COVID-19 pandemic. And since this year is starting to unfold for us, nothing like a good Blog to entertain you.
For this Blog, I'm going to talk about new adjustments of the Heinkel He 111. I know. I've been busy with other things and like I always do when I start different new projects and leave some of the existing ones still. But today, I made new components and small adjustments on the German Medium bomber aircraft.
I included some metal framings for the canopy / window and the top turret of the He 111. In addition, I made a gondola-like turret from the lower section of the aircraft, the Pitot Tube, the MG 15 on the front, top and lower sections of the German bomber, the yellow layers under the wing tips and the Luftwaffe markings on the fuselage and wings.
It's looking good, despite I'm working at a low rate on my planes projects. The next components to be made are the landing gear, the other frames for the canopy, the ailerons, the flaps, the instrument panel, the aerial attachments, the bombs, painting the aircraft and rigging it.
Before I conclude this Blog, a new aircraft project will be shared here. (Another one?) Yup, another one. At some moments, I always keep saying to myself "Tomorrow, P-40." Weird enough, I have no idea why I always keep saying this. But then, I decided today will be a nice moment to start it. The P-40 Warhawk.
In case you don't know what it is, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is a fighter interceptor developed in the United States prior to WW2. It was developed from the original Curtiss P-36 Hawk - a single-engine aircraft powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radial engine. However, the American aircraft powered by radial engines proved to be unable to match with European planes like the German Bf 109 and the British Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. Because of that, the engineers replaced the radial engine on the prototype by an Allison V-1710 V-12 in-line engine, reducing the frontal area compared to radial engine-powered aircraft and, after some works and adjustments, the P-40 proved to be equal to the Spitfire and Bf 109. At low and medium altitudes, the P-40 was very agile. But at higher altitudes the aircraft's performance drastically decreased due to the absence of a turbocharger - making the P-40 an easy target in higher altitude combat, even for the late versions of the German fighters like the Bf 109 G and FW 190 D that outmatched the American fighter. During WW2, the P-40 flew in several missions for American and Allied nations, highlighting the British Commonwealth that replaced their Hurricanes with P-40s during North Africa and Italy front; the Chinese Air Force with the iconic Flying Tigers (a group of American volunteers that arrived to help the Republic of China to fight the Japanese. However, due to the neutrality position the United States towards the conflicts in Europe, these volunteers were branded as tourists and they should not reveal themselves as part of an American clandestine military operation to stop the Japanese expansion in the East Asia and the Pacific); the Soviet Air Force - despite the pilots experienced some mechanical issues by some units arriving barely complete and often preferring the P-39 Airacobra and their planes; Finland, Egypt, France, Poland, Netherlands and Brazil - with the last country operating the P-40 aircraft from 1940 to 1954 when they started operating the Gloster Meteor jet fighters. Curiously the P-40 has three nicknames: Kittyhawk and Tomahawk by the British and Soviet pilots and Warhawk by the Americans. The reason for these two nicknames is because of the versions from the aircraft. Tomahawk were given to the original P-40 and its B and C variants while the Kittyhawk for D and later variants. In addition, the British and Chinese P-40 Warhawks had shark mouths painted in the nose. The reason for that came from the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engined aircraft that were photographed with shark mouths painted on their nose to inspire terror and panic on their enemies. The painting was maintained in the Brazilian P-40 Warhawks after WW2 and nowadays, is visible in some A-10 Warthogs (Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II) to inspire fear with their gatling guns.
Alright. Let me show you the initial renders of the P-40N Warhawk.
Interesting. At first, I decided to extrude some pieces from the aircraft fuselage to make the air intake from the nose and the tail rudder, while the yaw controller and propeller spinner were made from some extracted parts from the original mesh. I'm going to make the P-40 with few separated components in order to spare some memory consumption and lots of painful work with UV mapping - something I'm facing with the Spitfire.
For the next components, I plan to make the wings, the elevator and the canopy.
Probably in the future (I'm not sure due to my attention on my studies and now on my job - yup, they finally decided to call me back to work for at least 3 months.) I'll start the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the American Republic P-47 Thunderbolt with the Brazilian Air Force markings, the Italian Macchi C.202 Folgore and Fiat G.55 Centauro, the British Hawker Hurricane and Gloster Meteor and the Romanian IAR 80 / 81.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you enjoy this Blog. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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