Can you identify this aircraft? I don’t know of it’s off the box of a model or maybe a set of DVDs, but I’ve never seen it before. There’s a slight resemblance to the Vultee Vengeance, but the areas fore and aft of the cockpit are different. The color scheme and markings suggest the NW Africa campaign of 1942–43, but as far as I know, the Vengeance never saw combat. There’s also a resemblance to the A-24 variant of the Dauntless, but I don’t think that’s right either.
Was this an actual airplane at one time, or is it purely fictional?
I know next to nothing about historical aircraft, but I would guess it’s AI-generated simply because of the markings on the tail. It looks like “71” followed by a 4 missing the crossbar, or maybe a distorted uppercase lambda. That’s the type of thing that AIs tend to produce when generating text.
It’s a fake amalgam of “generic WW-II era attack airplane”.
Correct shape and perspective on airplanes is notoriously difficult for artists. By the time you get close enough to have the airplane filling the “screen”, any actual photo you’d be working from will have suffered from fish-eye effects.
Which hub? The dark primary or the ghostly one below it?
And that droptank is about to drop, Hank. Or is it a float? Gear wheel nacelle? Barely hanging on by a thread, whatever it is. And is that a phantom intake?
The weird open cowling panels and the faux gun barrel fairings sell it for me.
And also the fact that they can’t decide what orientation the roundel is supposed to be. (On one wing, single point forward; on the opposite wing, two points forward.)
I guess I should be grateful that this time, it’s sufficiently abominable that it’s easily detected as AI garbage.
Tongue in cheek. I don’t think it’s real. That’s why I said it was 1 of none. The spinning prop doesn’t look right, the cowling isn’t aerodynamic and there’s something weird sticking out under the cockpit.
It looks like a TBM Avenger and a Supermarine Spitfire had a child.
