Meanwhile some progress on the camouflage:

It’s for a client who will use it for various merchandise (posters, t-shirts). But being a very versatile subject, my intention is to use it for other projects in the future to recover the significant investment this project represents. Commissions welcome! 😉

Thanks Bruce! I’ve poured over AvSpec’s restoration photos for tens if not hundreds of hours and they were a tremendous help in getting my 3D model as accurate and detailed as it is now. The detail changes are a real minefield though and I extensively compared with TA122 and wartime photos, as well as much, much more. My reference folder is currently 3.84 gigabytes and growing daily! 😮

Another update!

All that’s left to do are the tailwheel, rudder and elevator trim links and the flap hinges. And a ton of cockpit detail that will never be seen…

On to the paint shop!

That’s not what I said Stan. And even if I did it’s not unthinkable. The DH Comet replica has washout added to the wings to improve flight characteristics. The Ki-43 restoration and Me 262 replica have larger canopies for safety reasons. Perhaps changes were made to KA114 too? It’s by no means a carbon copy of a wartime machine. That’s impossible by default. Things I noticed (correctly or not) are that the tail light fairing is different, it has the stabiliser fairing mentioned earlier, it has LEDs and likely many other smaller things different from a wartime build. I am sure the wings was built to DH spec, just trying to make sense of what I’m seeing.

More likely the answer is much simpler and there is a degree of flex in the wing, which happened to be present in the airshow photos (i.e. a performing aircraft) I measured and not in the wartime photos I used (which showed “posing” aircraft). Seeing as you’re from NZ I am guessing you may have been involved in the restoration of KA114 and feel offended? Rest assured that I have nothing but praise for the KA114 team.