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Spruance DD's and variants

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lazarus

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Peanut butter beta time. Peanut butter beta time... Sprucans and variants.
Been on the back burner for a while. So, texture mapped, hard deck, fx and nofx versions.
I see a few things to fix, some mapping needs going over again, some more clean up, most of which
is all ready done in the render engine models, just needing compiling.

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The Spru's: Spruance, Oldendorf, Stump, Moosbrugger and Fletcher
The Kidds: Kidd, Callaghan,Scott and Chandler.
The Spru DDH : Hayler. Yes DDH. Hayler and one more ship were ordered as DDH's- larger hangar and flight deck for 4 helio's- same idea as the Shiriane DDH's. No detail design done, and the orders were converted to standard DD's as the engineering costs had ballooned to 101 million by 1978- the dawn of the gold plate study phase that led to all that vaporware (DDX, CGX, CGNX, SCS, A-12, JSF, ect,ect)

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Let us know how it goes. Off now, Dogs and I are headed to the local for a pint before siesta time.
 
Yes, but behind CG's or CGN's in the line up. I keep looking at Long Beach, but the California's or Virginia's need doing, but yah, we need a Knox. I thought you had one going, or was I remembering incorrectly?
 
I've been working on the Long Beach off and on for some time. I was on it from '89-'92.

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lazarus said:
Yes, but behind CG's or CGN's in the line up. I keep looking at Long Beach, but the California's or Virginia's need doing, but yah, we need a Knox. I thought you had one going, or was I remembering incorrectly?
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I have always been interested on that class, since the Armada used a modified version (the Baleares class). In fact, I have the blueprints ready, but I haven´t found time to begin the design.
 
It was annoying if it was riding the trough of the swell. Worst I saw was rounding the horn of Africa in '89. 55* roll to port at 3am. Made a big mess of things!
 
55 deg roll! That would have plastered the bulkheads. And that was long after all the old electronics were stripped out. I seem to recall a figure of 400 tons or so of electronics alone when the BILLBOARD system was replaced. Way back in '70's I got banished aboard for a couple of weeks for an exercise-can't remember who I p!$$ed off in the squadron to draw that duty- got caught in a huge blow in the Bering Straight. The fish heads said the roll 'was only' 30-40 deg, but it felt like it was going over and right around again, though I found the pitching to be more disconcerting, simply because it seemed to be in slow motion, and went on and on, damn near to 100 deg motion from one end of the cycle to the other. They said they were great riding ships,too. I puked for 3 days straight! Good times!
 
lazarus,
Thank you for the Spruance DD's, I love your ships. I served aboard USS Comte De Grasse (DD-974), one of the seven Spru's equipped with Tomahawk ABL's (Armored Box Launchers). Any chance of having a version with the ABL's mounted?
 
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Anything for a steady customer!
ABL and VLS versions. All of the bits are done. Its funny, but like any model building, you end up with a 'spares box' so most of the work is done
 
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lazarus;

What H-3 is that in the first post with the VX-1 markings ? Virtavia ? Paint available ?
I spent many an hour boring holes in the sky in "Eyesight 22".

Joe
 
Don't mean to hijack this thread . . . . . .
'65 to '69 back when I was at VX-1 at Boca Chica we had four SH-3's. A models first then we got the "new" D's.
Also had four S-2F, four P-3A, and one P-2V.
Sooner or later gonna do the paints for all of them.
 
Hijack the thread, Not at all. ASW's what its all about. And now We have the call sign to amend the config file. Good and catchy, too; EYESIGHT 22.
The VX-1 skin is a FS9 alphasim skin, but adaptation to FSX is straight forward. On Hovercontrol:

http://www.hovercontrol.com/cgi-bin...ng&img=0&cat=FS9_Helicopter_Repaints&bool=and


at the bottom of the page:

textureVX
FS 9
SH-3 Aviation Warfare Division VX-1 Patuxent
Second release for ALPHAS Seaking Pack 2. Its an SH-3 from Aviation Warfare Division VX-1 Patuxent.
Uploaded By cmjahn
Zip File
Hits: 1672
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Size: 671 Kb
Added: 02/27/2006

And an addendum. Greyeagle put me onto a glitch in the simconfig for USS Kidd. I fumduckered the texture assignments in the sim config. Do a cut and paste with this:


[fltsim.0]
title=USS_DDG-993_KIDD
model=
texture=1


[fltsim.1]
title=USS_DDG-994_Callaghan
model=
texture=2



[fltsim.2]
title=USS_DDG-995_Chandeler
model=
texture=3


[fltsim.3]
title=USS_DDG-996_Scott
model=
texture=4

Don't know why I did not see or notice that. The accused pleads 'nux vomica' and begs the mercy of the court....
 
lazarus said:
And an addendum. Greyeagle put me onto a glitch in the simconfig for USS Kidd. I fumduckered the texture assignments in the sim config. Do a cut and paste with this:
Code: 
[fltsim.0]
title=USS_DDG-993_KIDD 
model= 
texture=1   

[fltsim.1] 
title=USS_DDG-994_Callaghan 
model= 
texture=2    

[fltsim.2] 
title=USS_DDG-995_Chandeler 
model= 
texture=3   

[fltsim.3] 
title=USS_DDG-996_Scott 
model= 
texture=4

Don't know why I did not see or notice that. The accused pleads 'nux vomica' and begs the mercy of the court....
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While you're at it:
Code: 
[fltsim.0] 
title=USS_DDG-993_KIDD 
model= 
texture=1   

[fltsim.1] 
title=USS_DDG-994_Callaghan 
model= 
texture=2    

[fltsim.2] 
title=USS_DDG-995_Scott 
model= 
texture=3   

[fltsim.3] 
title=USS_DDG-996_Chandler 
model= 
texture=4

scott s. .
 
Wups! Good catch. Noted for correction. I'd better check the textures and see if I got the hull numbers on the right ships!
 
lazarus,
Thank you for taking action on my request for a Tomahawk ABL-equipped Spruance, and also the VLS configuration. :encouragement:
 
Like I said, anything for a steady customer. Those were in the queue from the start, anyways, along with the what if's. And on that note...
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almost ready for launch! I found a drawing of a CATOBAR version too, with a airgroup of Convair-201's in the artwork. Buwahahaha! This is fun!
 
lazarus said:
Like I said, anything for a steady customer. Those were in the queue from the start, anyways, along with the what if's. And on that note...
View attachment 4735
almost ready for launch! I found a drawing of a CATOBAR version too, with a airgroup of Convair-201's in the artwork. Buwahahaha! This is fun!
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That's quite interesting......as some of us do have the Razbam Convair 201, it will make a complete "what if" picture! :encouragement:

Hank
 
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