Elusive pics Chiran in Japan OSCAR OUTSIDE ! SOLVED

[Michel Lemieux]

Been looking for these for a good while now.

BTW, Rod WEB site is MORE than reccomended.

The collection of pics he has accumulated through the years is worthy of mention.

http://www.warbirdpics.com/

More n the WEB site.

Last edited by Michel Lemieux on Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Is that the old POF's Ki84?

[Michel Lemieux]

Yes sir it is

That's a relief - I'd heard a rumour that it had been scrapped.

[Michel Lemieux]

Well mind you the pics date from 84.

I think it is still there with the same coat of paint it had when it left NA

[Michel Lemieux]

With an Oscar outside ?????

Anyone can confirm ????

http://www.themodelhangar.com/forum/museums-73/26150-peace-museum-kamikaze-pilots-chiran-jp.html

[Mark_Pilkington]

possibly a fibre-glass full scale mockup? just doesnt look correct?? around the u/c area of the wing, and canopy areas?

regards
Mark Pilkington

[Chad Veich]

possibly a fibre-glass full scale mockup? just doesnt look correct?? around the u/c area of the wing, and canopy areas?

regards
Mark Pilkington

The wing looks very flat bottomed and the tip are quite fat as well. I would guess a replica, or at least part replica anyway.

[Michel Lemieux]

U might be right, I was concentrating around the langding gear & the cowling / stacks areas

Would be shocking these days and age to find such an AC outside....but then, you never know

Tks for the input

[n5151ts]

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[Michel Lemieux]

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If you say so

[Michel Lemieux]

OK, since I'm on an Oscar roll

Photo of planes at a promotional event on the roof of the Roselands shopping centre in w:Roselands, New South Wales. Photo taken by a relative who said it was taken in 1970 or 1971. The planes shown are a Mustang on the left, Japanese "Oscar" in the middle, and the wing of a Spitfire on the right.

Must be when it was in Col Pay hands.

[Michel Lemieux]

Solved.....

Yes a replica made for a 2007 kamikaze movie

For those we love / Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku

[Michel Lemieux]

And other pics from Chiran

[tom d. friedman]

the canopy on the oscar is to bulged, the rest of it looks rather fabricated too.