4 x Japanese A5M Claudes. In our rules aircraft will be broken down by fighters, bombers, tactical bombers
(Stukas, etc.), heavy bombers, naval bombers, naval fighters, naval dive bombers, naval torpedo bombers, and
air transports. Fighters will be further divided into early, mid, and late war.
These Claudes represent Japanese early fighters. The white ones are models of two fighters that were based
on the Soryu; the other two were based on Kaga. When I painted the Kaga ones I misread the photo caption
and thought this was an army paint scheme. It wasn't - it was used by the Kaga air wing. In our game though these two will be land-based army fighters.
The Kanji on the port wing of the Soryu fighters was very difficult to paint, but it is very close to the actual Kanji
painted on the real fighters. The striping and numerals on the starboard wings are authentic. The only thing
missing from these fighters that was on the real planes are some Kanji on the fuselage - these were far too
small for me to even consider painting.
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