LloydNB

I'd really like to see some flying boats. - Felixstowe F.2/F.3/F.5 - Curtiss H - Macchi M.5 - Lohner E/L/T

My old EVO works fine - well except for the buttons that no longer work, but that's an age thing. The software works perfectly.

Hi Geezer I do love these planes. Are you working on a Gauntlet? I started work on re-skinning the DAT Gauntlet for 2 SAAF Squadron in East Africa but its wings and horizontal stabilisers are only mapped to the upped surfaces. That means a lot of work trying to make decals of all the lower surfaces and then hours trying to line them up. I don't want to waste the time if a better version is just around the corner. How's the Gladiator going? Are you still interested in help doing the Sea Gladiators? Even if its just grunt work doing the decals, drop me a line. Cheers

2 SAAF Squadron Hawker Fury Continuing the East Africa theme - 2 SAAF Squadron flew Furies and a couple of Gauntlets in a ground attack role in January 1941. A bit of an upgrade for my old Fury skin. The DAT Fury has the horizontal stabilisers and elevators (top and bottom) mapped to the same place on the skin file. I've corrected it by mapping a decal to the bottom surfaces. It works but its time consuming so is not a recommended solution.

File Name: SF2 WW2 SAAF Hurricane Skins, East Africa File Submitter: LloydNB File Submitted: 24 October 2015 File Category: Hurricane 1 SAAF Squadron - Hurricane MKIA 3 SAAF Squadron - Hurricane MkIA (Trop) These skins are for Raven's excellent Hurricane MkI and MkIa (Trop). Most of the hard work on these skins is down to him - I've just played around with the panel lines and added some extra decals. SAAF squadrons in East Africa used a number of different aircraft over the campaign so I've decided to set these around January 1941 when: - 3 SAAF Squadron was Hurricanes only and - 1 SAAF Squadron was a mix of the original MkIs supplied early in the war, loaned MkIa(Trops) from 3 SAAF and Gladiators. Anyone who would like the layered files to play with should drop me a line and I'll convert them to your format of choice - anything to encourage more people to get into skinning. Regards Lloyd Click here to download this file

Nearly done.

OK, here's my two cents/bob worth. Given my current interest in WWII East Africa, I would like to see: Hawker Fury Fairey Battle Ju 86 - both bomber and converted passenger Maryland Hawker Hart/Hartbeeste/Hardy Valientia Ju 53/3m DH Rapide Anson Wellesley Lysander Vickers Vincent Gaunlet Blenheim I & IV Swordfish A bit long I concede but it is a "wish list". Dream big!! And before someone comments that some of them are available at Capun's site, read Wrench's post above.

Another contribution to the SAAF air war in East Africa. Which do you prefer - the Mk I or the Mk Ia Trop? I think that by the time the SAAF got in combat in 1941 that the Trop was probably right.

I love my 156. This isn't it but it looks the same, apart from the steering wheel being on the wrong side.

According to my reference stuff the bomb loads for the A-4 were: - up to ten 50kg bombs in both the forward and rear bomb-bays (20 bombs in total) or - up to ten 50kg bombs in the rear bay and one 1220 litre fuel tank in the forward (the most common configuration) or - one 1220 litre fuel tank in the forward bay and one 680 litre tank in the rear bay. It seems that the forward bay was commonly blanked over with a belly plate so more fuel could be carried. With only fuel in the wing tanks, more bombs could be carried (2400kg including on the wings) but with a range (for the A-1) of only 1260km. The tank in the the forward bomb-bay would extend the range to 2340km with 1500kg of bombs. Here's a diagram of the cowling development.

Sorry, that was a bit vague. I mean it hangs a bit too low. It was little more that a space for a man to lie in. Comparing photos of the gondola side windows, they look a bit big. Also the front mg was in the nose and not the gondola. I like the way you've managed to have the rear gear doors close again when the gear is fully down. How does the animation for the gear work? Do they rotate through 90 degrees for storage.

I agree! I do think the gondola is a little too deep and it would be good to see some separation between the brake slats but it looks just like the Airfix model I had as a kid.

Looks great. Is it possible to split the bombay or fake two bombays in the data.ini file so that a mix of ordinance can be carried?

Yes, more like this. Where do you stand on the issue of dive-brakes? I'm not sure exactly which was the last model that had them - possibly the A5. If that's the case I think you could dispense with them. Also, there is a fair amount of detail on the top or the fuselage. perhaps you could map that separately, like for the Fiat Br20? Looking forward to this one.

I thought we were sticking to early North Africa? The CR.32 is fair enough but changing direction to the Spanish Civl War?!!! Focus grasshopper! (Now I'm showing my age witha Kung-fu reference.) Just kidding. You're the artist and the artist gets to do whatever he wants.

So mate Do I get a prize for being the first to spot that it isn't a Fairey Fox MkVI ? It's a Hawker Hart/Hartebeest?

Stripes for the Royal Navy. No stripes for the RAN.

A question for those who have played around with guns. Now I know when you set up a gun's data.ini file one of the factors to set is the rate of fire. When you set up the aircraft the setting for the gun can include that it is synchronized. So, does making the gun synchronized actually change (ie lower) the rate of fire? Or is just for effect so you don't shoot your propeller off and the same weight of shot still goes down range?

Just an idea. Don't let my ramblings be the reason to hold things up. I'm sure it would make me really popular in the community. Early war it is!

So that's the standard CR42, the CR42 AS and the CR42 CN. Any other variants planned? The only others that went passed the experimental stage were the CR42 Egeo (Greek) with an extra fuel tank in the fuselage to extend the range to 840km and CR42 LW for the Luftwaffe anti partisan operations - no spats, flame dampers and two bomb racks under each wing.

Fantastic!! I love how the 50kg bomb is coming along. Just the blue steel look I envisaged and the rolled edge on one side of each fin is a nice detail.

Don't forget the Belgians used the standard early Italian camo scheme too. Great work mate. Can't wait to start playing with different squadrons.

Nearly done!!