Gepard

It is astonishing how good our old, twenty years old game, can be on a good computer. When it starts we were happy with texture files in the size of 256x256 pixel for the plane skins or for terrain tiles. Today we have 1024x1024 or even 2048x2048 pixel skins and with a modern computer the game runs better and faster then in it's starting times 20 years ago.

Recon mission over SAM site

Aggressors over Michigan's fields.

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.

Right now I'm thinking about which project to start next. I have 4 in mind. 1) Poland 2) Borderwar between China and Vietnam in 1979 3) version of Battle of Britain terrain for the 1960th or 70th 4) Diego Garcia Poland is an area with a lot of possible scenarios. World War 2 in 1939 and 1945, a possible Warsaw Pact invasion in 1981, a modern Suwalki Gap scenario, or a hypotetical what if the former german province Ostpreussen would have become the homestate of the jews: Israel in Central Europe. China and Vietnam Borderwar is an interesting scenario, because both sides have similar planes and weapons, so that only the skill of the player decides of an outcome of an air battle. I like the idea very much. "Modern" Battle of Britain terrain has two major possible scenarios. One: The Soviets have taken control over France and UK is in the same situation as 1940, but with other enemy. Two: A conflict between the European Community and UK, a scenario with its own flair, because blue vs blue and to be honest true friends the Brits and the French never were. Diego Garcia. Its an other naval map with one base on an island and carrier operations.

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.