354th FG updates and progress

Thank you all for the feedback. It sounds like the visual effect is working OK, so I guess I am committed to redoing several of the airfield textures I already had finished. Here's the first, A-66 Orconte, France

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Trees

Seems like all the trees weren't always taken out though. Here's a combat artist rendering of A-1 Pierre du Mont at Normandy. I also have an aerial photo that matches pretty closely. This is easier to make out where the trees are than the photo.

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Hi CK,
No nit-picking intended, it was just your very first effort had trees very close to the runway.
If you scale the artists pic against your first effort, I think you'll see that your trees were quite close over all.

I think your latest looks very realistic, and you can always vary the tree level/location.

If I was in a fighter (especially), I wouldn't want a tree anywhere near me!! You imagine, getting back safely only to be taken out by a tree!!:icon_eek::isadizzy:

Cheers Shessi
 
Shessi,

I do agree with that. The 354th FG's first ace, Lt. Charles Gumm was killed hitting a tree when his engine failed on final. So I've moved the trees away from the runways. I am only noting a historical fact.

Here's the refinished A-98_Rosieres-en-Haye ALG. Note - no trees near the runway :icon_lol:
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New airfield, Ansbach Germany

This is the last wartime airfield used by the 354th FG, a former Luftwaffe permanent base built in 1939 and formally home to KG53 Legion Condor. It even had it's own railway line running the perimeter for hauling ammo, bombs and fuel to the storage areas at the field edge. Pen32Win supplied me with a good field layout and I had a couple of photos to help. It's by far the most complex airfield I've done and I learned a lot about building airfields from the effort.

It was captured pretty much intact. There were a lot of hangars and the Group could put most of their P-51s inside, a fact MUCH appreciated by ground crews.

Thanks to Rami for reminding me that creating a GSL for it was how to control the size for MB.
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Kurt,

Not a problem at all. It looks fantastic, I can't wait to get my hands on these!
 
Well CK, you are becoming quite the master at this lark!

Really is a well put together and blended airfield:applause:

Cheers

Shessi
 
Maj. George "Max" Lamb beats up the airfield on the last day of the war

Maj. George Lamb, CO of the 356th FS (7.5 confirmed and 2 probables) in his last assigned P-51D, UNO-WHO? buzzing R-45 Ansbach.

Only 2 skins left to complete and then the campaign development begins. :jump:
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Nice work CK!

Good to mix and match, gives a choice and level of realism.

Not your fault or to do with you CK, but seeing that first pic, wouldn't it be great to have detailed grass/ground world scenery tiles. Good skin and structure tex, let down by the ground tex.
Flying around CFS2 ground tex looks good (using FS2002/2004 texs), but close up well.........

Cheers Shessi
 
Can It Be THIS Dottie ?

P-51D 355th FS GQ-V "Dottie" (155) Flight Simulator 2004 (Re-Paint)
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JK_GQVDottie.zip (9.5 Meg) (downloaded 99 times) P-51D 44-63649(?) was assigned to Lt Robert E. Emme of the 355th FS. The aircraft was destroyed in an accident. It had just received a new engine and Lt. Emme was making a test flight as was required. As he was approaching the field to prepare for landing the throttle cable let loose and he was unable to throttle back. It was decided to make a dead stick landing and the runway was to be cleared. He turned off the switches on his approach. He then realized the runway had not been cleared. To continue would be a disaster and he was to low to bailout. He made the decision to raise the gear and belly the plane just off to the side of the runway. The wreckage was later dynamited. Repaint for the Shockwave Mustang by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by John Terrell.
 
Thanks Shessi. A clog in my brain wouldn´t let me remember.

Thanks SC for the link. Very interesting.

It reminds me of a film called "Escape to Victory" with the great Pelé, Pepe´s fellow countryman, and Osvaldo "Ossie" Ardiles, a fellow countryman of mine, both real life professional football players that played for their countries national football team, acting POW that play a football (soccer) match as Allied vs Germans.
 
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