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And finaly the Tommy boat is burning.

Aggressors over Michigan's fields.

15 of 33 farm tiles are done. Slowly a picture is forming itself.

What if France would have been a communist state and sold their Mirage to East Germany.

MiG-27 close to Kakhovka-Dam in the Ukraine

Weekend!!!!

Impression of the scenery.

Our house specialty: Tommy flambee

Slow but steady progress. 4 of 33 farmtiles are done so far.

Near Buckingham Palace.

German Tony's.

What if Germany would have bought the F-18 in the 1980th.

Going vertical. BTW. The black square at the nose of the MiG-23 is not a so called "fake cockpit". It is there to avoid reflexions of the skin in front of the IR-sensor.

I finished the first of 31 farmtiles. At the moment i'm experimenting with trees, to find a proper look.

If you want to learn more about eastern combat helicopter doctrine you could look in my book "Mi-24". The basic tactics of attack planes were more or less similar. Only the weapon delivery was different.

I worked on the mask of the sea tiles, to avoid the different colors between sea and coastal tiles. First step. You see the differences between already reworked tiles and the others. Second step: All tiles reworked. It will need a third step. If you look carefully on the coastline, you see sharp edges between sea and land. This has to smoothtly blend.

Sounds like one of the books of Bill Gunston.

The Lightning. Was a beauty.

I made 3 outskirts tiles so far. So it looks in game: Here from higher altitude. You see the outskirt tiles in front, some suburb tiles in the middle and city tile in the far. It's still a long way. For me it was interesting to see, that the houses in the outskirts are much bigger than in the suburbs or in the city. I always thought it would be exactly the different way.

It hurts a little bit.

It think it's better now.

I made a new tile for city outskirts. I think the colors, especially the green of the forest part, does not fit to the other tiles. Back to the drawing board!

Yak-35, the soviet answer to the B-58 Hustler

In a first step i will bring the bigger towns in "shape", so that their form will match the reality as close as possible. In a second step i will focus on smaller towns and towns with airfields. And surely Aurora will come on the map.

SitRep: I putted so far 53 placeholders for bigger towns on the map. I hope that i wrote them correctly. More towns will come. This are: Name, Coordinates ++++++++++++++++++++ Michigan +++++++++++++++++++++++ Detroit 707, 543 Ann Arbor 667,529 Saginaw 667,601 Lansing 623,561 Kalamazoo 567,531 Holland 529,571 Grand Rapids 557,577 Muskegon 519,597 Cadillac 581,665 Traverse City 565,685 Petoskey 603,721 Mackinaw City 615,743 Cheboygan 637,735 Alpena 689,699 Escabana 483,745 Iron Mountain 427,745 Marinette 437,701 Marquette 419,785 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pennsylvania +++++++++++++++++++++++ Erie 895,521 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ohio +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cleveland 823,501 Akron 819,477 Youngstown 865,489 Toledo 687,495 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Indiana +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fort Wayne 607,467 South Bend 519,491 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Illinois +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chicago 437,509 Joliet 425,495 Naperville 421,509 Elgin 419,525 Rockford 387,535 Davenport 283,503 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wisconsin ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kenosha 427,559 Milwaukee 423,589 Janesville 391,563 Madison 371,587 Sheboygan 433,623 Fond du Lac 395,625 Wisconsin Dells 351,619 Oshkosh 385,641 Appleton 395,661 Green Bay 415,669 Stevens Point 359,669 Wausau 351,691 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Funny name for german ears. means "barking female pig" in german Antigo 377,703 Rhinelander 369,743 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Canada +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sarnia 757,575 London 815,571 Hamilton 903,597 Guelph 881,623 Kitchener 869,609 Tobermory 809,711 So it looks at the map: