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Nipponki '46 ?? now including Tanks

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December 21, 2011, 02:48:24 PM Last Edit: December 29, 2011, 02:46:43 PM by raafif
an interesting post on Hyperscale has started on Japanese 1946 whifs ...

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/message/1324485802/Nipponki+%2746+-+Konpeki+no+Kantai+%28Deep+Blue+Fleet%29


Look carefully at the big flying boat in the middle  :o




what say you guys ?
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RussC

#1
December 21, 2011, 03:03:11 PM
Looks like a catamaran Emily or Sidoku flying boat- maybe the work of Tophe's Ninja alter-ego ? And the weird seaplanes, pocket battleship, and ballistic missile submarines, lots of leaps but colorful. :blink:
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#2
December 21, 2011, 04:00:38 PM
Been wanting to see Deep Blue Fleet for years but there's been no release in the UK.

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#3
December 21, 2011, 05:15:14 PM
There was a Sikorsky (?) project that looked a lot like that.

But what is that on the right hand side???  At the same level as the Shinden(-ish) thing in the middle.
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#4
December 22, 2011, 08:37:47 AM
The submarines look WAY too modern for 1946 to me, but then what do I know about submarines? The don't have ANY wings, let alone long ones!  ;D
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#5
December 22, 2011, 09:01:57 AM
>Been wanting to see Deep Blue Fleet for years but there's been no release in the UK.<

A long time ago I got a VCR tape of a Deep Blue Fleet episode from some military-video company.

I like the Japanese imagination, as rampant and UN-realistic as it is (totally ignoring logistics and industrial capacity!!).
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#6
December 22, 2011, 09:14:25 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 22, 2011, 08:37:47 AM
The submarines look WAY too modern for 1946 to me, but then what do I know about submarines? The don't have ANY wings, let alone long ones!  ;D

The German Type XXI of 1943 still looks surprisingly modern and the large Japanese I boats were sunk deliberately by the US to ensure Stalin didn't get his hands on them.  Again, they were surprisingly modern boats for the time and it's alleged by various authors that they were intended for nuclear power.
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December 22, 2011, 02:33:52 PM
Quote from: simmie on December 21, 2011, 05:15:14 PM
But what is that on the right hand side???  At the same level as the Shinden(-ish) thing in the middle.

Looks like a reject from StarWars  ;D

Yeah, I don't think much of the subs either too "late-German / Soviet".  The story-line says they are more like Walter-powered Japanese I-400 class which makes much more sense - the cartoonists probably don't know what an I-400 looked like.

Apart from the Japanese Arado-234 & the 6-engined B-17 multi-fuselage thing, the other aircraft look Japanese '46-ish tho  :thumbsup:

C'mon guys, I know there are some here who can do interesting profiles on this theme ....
you may as well all give up -- the truth is much stranger than fiction.

I'm not sick ... just a little unwell.

Jschmus

#8
December 22, 2011, 03:20:07 PM
Looks like the source blog has posted the first artwork of one of the designs:

http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.com/2011/12/nipponki-46-deep-blue-fleet-2-seiho.html
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#9
December 22, 2011, 03:27:14 PM
Quote from: Jschmus on December 22, 2011, 03:20:07 PM
Looks like the source blog has posted the first artwork of one of the designs:

http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.com/2011/12/nipponki-46-deep-blue-fleet-2-seiho.html



Looks like the work of Tophe-San !  :mellow:
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simmie

#10
December 22, 2011, 05:08:24 PM
The large subs look a lot like Delta IV's, but with a shorter conning tower.
Reality is for people who can't handle Whif!!

Now with more WHATTHEF***!! than ever before!

raafif

#11
December 23, 2011, 02:02:34 PM Last Edit: December 23, 2011, 02:10:20 PM by raafif
Arawasi says they will soon post basic profiles for us to modify  ;)

I have bought a few decal sheets thru these guys (they're modellers who source kits etc of japanese items), their service & prices are good  :thumbsup:

a vid of Deep Blue Fleet to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjO9HlDBoiE

there is a second video but it's not as good -- I just skipped thru it.  For some reason all tanks in this film seem to be bog-standard RW stuff - no whiffs there  :-\
you may as well all give up -- the truth is much stranger than fiction.

I'm not sick ... just a little unwell.

Jschmus

#12
December 23, 2011, 02:12:37 PM
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raafif

#13
December 29, 2011, 02:52:13 PM
a few updates here .... http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.com/
a SeaToryu -- with floats !!


& now for some proposed J'46 Armour ...
Large SPG like the German Cricket  http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/a-if/35-0074.html
Japan's version of a KingTiger    http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/a-if/35-0076.html
you may as well all give up -- the truth is much stranger than fiction.

I'm not sick ... just a little unwell.

RussC

#14
December 29, 2011, 03:01:05 PM
Quote from: raafif on December 29, 2011, 02:52:13 PM
a few updates here .... http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.com/
a SeaToryu -- with floats !!


& now for some proposed J'46 Armour ...
Large SPG like the German Cricket  http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/a-if/35-0074.html
Japan's version of a KingTiger    http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/a-if/35-0076.html


  A little further down from the float "Nick" is a another whiff, a twin engine Zeke. Nice illustration too. At first I thought it was a painting of the
abandoned Ki-102 Randy or the J5 "Tenrai" but no...just a two motor zeke!



Lots more down the page including prop jet carrier planes and a FW 200 Condor in IJN service.
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