Tamiya 61056 - 1/48 Mitsubishi Ki46-III-Kai (Dinah) Inte  [61056]

The Mitsubishi Hyakushiki Shiteir is meant become one of the better Japanese aircraft. Developed as a high-altitude, high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, it proved really successful and was utilized throughout the pacific war by the Japanese Army. Soon before China-based B-29s initiated high-altitude daylight raids over Japan, it became ovcious to your Japanese military leaders that an urgent growth of an interceptor fighter with good performances at thin air ended up being necessary. In June 1943, the Army Aeronautical analysis Institute learned the likelihood of adapting the Hyakushiki Shiteir, which was one of the few functional aircraft within the Japanese Army to truly have the needed altitude performance, for this sort of procedure. In May 1944, the task was approved and urgently carried out. To install two 20mm device guns in the nose, the forward fuselage gas tank were replaced and nose canopy ended up being modified to "stepped" nose housing. The aircraft with these customizations were called Hyakushiki Shitei III Kai Air Defence Fighter "Otsu" kind. Further, in July 1944, the Army ordered to include a 37mm dorsal canon tofire forward and upward at an angle of 70 levels. Aircraft with this addition ended up being called "Otsu + Hei" type. Although many of them were flown by reconnaissance aircraft pilots with few dog figh experience, they made greater army gains against B29s showing the outstanding fundamental capacity for the Hyakushiki Shitei.