New civil service exams and new updates for: Me 262, Ju 87 Stuka and A6M 'Zero' - April 21, 2022

Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another blog in 2022. Now that I'm working and studying, my time for Blogs decreased to some occasions and some weekends. I'm not sure what the future holds after my work at the public health center ends in August of this year. But one thing is certain: Until they call me effectively, I need to dedicate a good part of my time to the next civil service exams.

For the next days, I'll been studying for an upcoming civil service exam that will be applied in May 8th. This civil service exam is for some reserve job vacancies for public health center attendants, ambulance driver and nurse. Unlike the previous exam I performed in 2019, this one is more like a selective process with one year contract. I hope I can get a good position and a good result in order to stay working at the public health center. There's another exam were the registration will start on April 25th. I plan to perform this one as well.

However, once I resume my studies, I have to reduce my time dedicated to Blender and personal stuff like playing games, watching videos, recording new videos and other things. I don't like when I have to overload myself with lots of obligations when two is too much.

Now, for the main topics. I made some changes on the Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka and the Mitsubishi A6M2 'Zero' Model 21. Let me show you what I did.

Messerschmitt ME 262 A-1a:








The Me 262 received some small changes compared to the last images I shared here in this Blogspot. The canopy framing received a proper texture with the respective materials. I added some smoke traces from the 30 mm MK 108 cannons. It looks interesting. The landing gear of the forward section has a new metal links for the dampers (I guess this is what is called).

I'm not sure I plan to add more things on the Me 262 like some decals from the engines and extra components. When the time comes, I'll share the recent images of this German warbird.

Junkers Ju 87B-2 Stuka:






The Stuka received a texture rework as you noticed on the smoke coming from the Junkers Jumo engine exhaustion outlets. Now it's looking cool and a bit closer to what it looked like from the past.

Also, I added the StG (Sturmkampfgeschwader - the dive bomber wing squadron) emblem, precisely the II Gruppe StG 2 emblem that consisted a Terrier / Yorkshire dog in a red circle. I downloaded from Google as I was looking for the Sturmkampfgeschwader 2 emblem. But the image was too small and I had to resize it with IrfanView and remake it with Easy Paint Tool SAI and Gimp 2.

I plan to make different textures for the Stuka along different emblems for the respective StGs and air forces. I remember the Italian made extensive use of the Stuka during the North Africa campaign and Mediterranean campaign.

Mitsubishi A6M2 Model 21:

The A6M2 didn't had a proper new series of renders to be shared in this Blog, but the major change was: I appended the Armature from the Macchi C.202 Folgore to the main project of the Zero, then I attached it to the Japanese plane. Some modifications were made for the Japanese aircraft Armature, like the addition of new bones for the hook and the wing tips. Also, I made the flaps from a copied segment from the wings like I did for the P-40 Warhawk, Spitfire, FW-190, C.202 Folgore, C.205 Veltro and the P-38 Lightning.

Before that new update, I was trying different colors for the main texture for the Zero structure.



As you can see, I was looking for the green shades the Japanese used for their planes like the Zero, G4M Betty bomber, J2M Raiden / Jack, Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa / Oscar, Ki-44 Shoki / Tojo, Ki-84 Hayate / Frank, G8N  Renzan / Rita bomber, Kawasaki Ki-63 Hien / Tony and some others. In case you ask me these non-Japanese names for the planes, it is common the Allied nations to use code name for Japanese planes the pilots encountered in their skirmishes. The male code names were used for fighter planes while the female were used for the bombers.

Back to the images. The last render of the Zero caught my interest since it was close enough to the original color of the A6M4 and A6M5 models. I may use it for these models in case I would make the A6M5 Zero - with some segments painted in white or silver for the underside of the plane.

I'll bring the new images of the A6M2 after the rigging process for the next Blog. As usual, the next components that remains are: the cockpit internal components like the seat, the stick, the panel and the reflective sights.

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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