Jumo-engined Dinah whiff

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Jumo-engined Dinah whiff

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Yeah, what the title says. A one off adaptation of two Jumo 210 bomber engines mated to the airframe of a started and unfinished Airfix Mistubishi Ki-46 II 'Dinah' camera ship found several years ago in a very cool and esoteric collectibles fair scale model job lot. Why? Because it was missing a Mitsubishi radial engine is why, and I had two spare Jumos from a stalled CASA Pedro build. Enjoy.


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Very nice-looking model, and I could imagine such a variant being built and test-flown at the very least. She might have been a bit underpowered (which the initial Dinahs were) if the figures I found for the Jumo 210 and the Ha-26/-102 engines are correct (690 hp vs 875-1080 hp), but she definitely has the classic Ki-46 good looks, albeit with slightly less elegant nacelles.

Delightful bit of work. Well done. 8-)
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Thanks. I think actually that these would have been Jumo 211s (from an old Airfix Heinkel He111P kit) so their performance would have been somewhat better than the 210, my what-if here being a speculative attempt to increase range and altitude capability at the expense of some performance..
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Looks as if it could have,should have existed.Well tidy mun.
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That looks good! One of my favourite aircraft as well.
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Nice work, the stream line cowling should have reduced drag therefore helped with performance.
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I like that. I was toying with a Merlin engined version of the aircraft. I may pay that idea another visit.
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A Merlin engined Dinah would be amazing.
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Nice, and quite plausible too. It would be interesting to put this on a show display table and see who gets fooled ;-)
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Cheers!
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That works, well done 8-) 8-)
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gnomemeansgnome wrote:A Merlin engined Dinah would be amazing.
Yessss.... 8-)

Wonder if you could fit a pair of Mosquito nacelles in place of the original ones... I'm trying to think of the best-looking Merlin nacelles that I can. The Lanc's were okay, but fairly meh to look at, the Beaufighter II's looked rather horrible... oh, of course! What we need is the nacelles from another of the best-looking piston twins ever -- the de Havilland Hornet! The Hornet used a special "slimline" variant of the Merlin (the 130/131), and I reckon they'd look lovely on a Dinah; they certainly do on a Hornet! ;-)
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