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Shot below shows the large 2048 tile art pasted to an FE sized tile, with some ground objects. EDIT: Showed shot below to a buddy, who flew two tours in 'Nam. He won the DFC taking out Communist AA guns, and said the vehicles' scale "looks about right."

Made some VERY rough experimental terrain tiles for FE2. First shot is Stephen1918's stock Palestine mod. Subsequent shots are of experimental tile art sized at 2048x2048. Note improved immersion at different altitudes - almost resembles IL-2. The concept I'm toying with is LARGE 2048 tiles for "important" locations (airfields, cities, ports, fortifications, etc) transitioning to smaller tiles in areas that are of no real interest and are located well away from important areas. Dunno if this will work, but it should reduce the hit on framerates? Second shot looks at combination of large and small tile art - frame rates ain't bad.

Will eventually release CR42s and Glads for SF2, suitable for baffmeister's BoB mod. Sample shot below.

Have made enough progress with the Gladiator to sorta/kinda show what the 1940 desert mod will eventually look like. Map is Stephen1918's Palestine map with hi-res textures. The first six months of WW2 in the desert had as much in common with 1918 as 1940. Operations quickly ramped up to massive dogfights at VERY low altitude, sometimes below 1000 feet.

Gladiator camo patterns varied more than "normal" for RAF aircraft, and I think I've figured out why. The Gladiator entered production before the Munich Crisis of 1938, which is when the RAF introduced dark earth/dark green camo, so most Gladiators were completed in over-all silver dope. Consequently, most Gladiator camo was applied in depot or in the field - this would explain why there was so much variation in the camo patterns. To make matters worse, the RAF introduced 4-color camo (for biplanes) just before the shooting started - this resulted in even more variation. So, the Mk 1 will have the initial 2-color pattern, and the Mk 2 will have the later 4-color pattern. Photos show both patterns used wherever the Gladiator was deployed - Britain, France, Norway, Egypt, Sudan, etc. EDIT: Per the Mushroom pub on the Gladiator (thanks Wrench!) many of the Gladiators sent to Norway had dark earth on the upper wings over-painted with medium gray, and sometimes dark earth on the lower wings was over-painted with sky gray.

Got some work done on the Mk1 version.

'Tis a fine madness....

Nice job, Steve!

More WIP shots over the Alps.

Got it flying ingame for first time.