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Bloch MB.152-C1 released by Captain Kurt!

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Lot's to do yet, but the main model and VC models are complete. It's ready to have the texture mapping done which is followed by painting. The LODs get done after the painting. But first I need to do the pilot figure and add him.

Fortunately Morton did a 2d panel for Dickens' Bloch which works with some gauge replacements. As part of the VC I will still have to place the gauges. Unfortunately, some French gauges simply do not exist, so I will need to coble up some dummy non-working gauges to take their places.

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Damn this one looks nice as well, with the textures I am sure it will be beautiful :applause: (these barrels are quite long, impressive :dizzy:)
 
Captain Kurt said:
Ha! I can see y'all are real excited about this one.
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Yes we are!!! :redfire::redfire::redfire:

But hey! Some of us are not old retired fellas. We have job, life and family. Therefore, most of us are not scrolling flight simulation forums every minute of every hour of every day of the week. :wavey:
 
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Kurt,

Thank you very much for these~ I am currently populating Battle of France missions with your exquisite 109 Emils, and am learning to fly all over again!
 
CK, the model looks great as usual. For FS9 there is the French Restauravia MB152 already, which has (some) French gauges (see screenshots). I don't know whether they will work in CFS2, but I think it is worth the try as the combined instrument at the top of the instrument panel might be hard to do.

When they work, it might be a challenge to reach somebody from Restauravia who can give permission to use these gauges, but I have been in contact with them, so I could give it a try (when they work in CFS2 of course).

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Regards,
Huub
 
Didn't the French use pull throttle? Way back in 2016 I found CFS2 can do this by adding the below to the aircraft.cfg

[Controls]
throttle_reverse= //0 normal and 1 reverse

Huub:
CFS2 can't use XML gauges so they may not work. I think there are some MAPE French gauge around for CFS2 as well.
 
Thanks Huub and Allen

Yeah they are probably .xml gauges which CFS2 doesn't read, but it can't hurt to ask. We do have some French gauges which I am using but the ones outlined in red below are not available. I can adapt some CFS2 gauges and use some analog gauges so I'll get by. But some of the gauges will be non-functional such as the rounds counters.

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This already looks great, Kurt. :applause:
Seems the French had their own way of doing things, with the reverse throttle and so on. I can't quite figure out what that big gauge in the center of the panel picture actually is...
 
Hello gents
If it's of any use and Restauravia allows it, I can make a C .gau with the .cab XML one.
Let me know if you are interested.

Cheers
Martin :jump:
 
Hi Chaps,

Here is my collection of CFS2 WW2 French gauges. Hopefully they will cover most of the Bloch's panel.

Cheers,
Kevin
 

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@ Allen, Yes the throttle on French aircraft works reversed.

@ skylane, the big gauge is indeed the airspeed indicator (Anémomètre), the bar on the left is called variomètre (variometer) and the bar on the right is the clinomètre (inclinometer).

Cheers,
Huub
 
Klein

Yes that would be very helpful. Huub, would you ask them for us then?

Kevin, thank you, that matches my collection too. Those don't provide the ones I outline in the pic above unfortunately.
 
This is what I have put together so far. Lots of substitutes and/or non-working, and some still need bezels added in the image.

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Captain Kurt said:
Huub, would you ask them for us then?
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No problem, as I already did :biggrin-new:. As I didn't know how to contact the original author (Emmanuel Geoffrey) I contacted the webmaster from the restauravia site, with who I had contact before.

Cheers,
Huub
 
This is the final VC instruments layout unless we get the ability to convert some of the .xml gauges.

The reverse throttle is not the only oddity. They used 2 airspeed indicators. The one in the center of the panel called the Anémomètre was for speeds above 100 kmh. The one just to the left of that was the Anémomètre d'atterrissage, or landing airspeed indicator which was for just that, landing. It was for speeds from zero to 200 kmh. Why you wouldn't combine the functions in one instrument like every other air force did? But that's France.

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The VC looks really nice :applause:

As for the 2 airspeed indicators maybe there was one that was more precise than the other? I also remember that the bf-110 had 2 altimeter (maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure about that) but with some quick google search I can't get a clear answer for that, maybe again a matter of precision.
 
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