Dora D-9

[dancat]

some shots of my most recent work.
should be out soon but.....you know me!

 

[dancat]

two more!!

 

[Vogelscheuche]

Nice work! I am completely unfamiliar with this bird. Can you tell me more about the "Dora"? I see there's a sound folder in MAW that has Dora engine sounds.

 

[Mathias]

Nice!
If I may, I would suggest to check the canopy, there shouldn't be any screws or so.
The canopies where no different from the Fw190A. Early D-9 having the standard canopy, later models having the bulged one like many late A-8, F-8 and A-9.
The canopies on the surviving museum Doras are all not overly accurate replicas.

 

[hairyspin]

I do like that! :salute:

 

[phrog_phixer]

Wow!

The detail is incredible! Nice work.:salute:

 

[Steven190]

Nice work as usual Jon

Look forward to it.

 

[dancat]

thanks Mathias!
I've looked at pics of your 190's so many times drooling over the work you did and have been trying to do something as good and I think this is the best I can do.
that sucks about bolts in the canopy...
I spent a lot of time doing the textures on them.
maybe it was the TA-152 that had them.
I know it was a pressurized pit on that.

Vogelscheuche,
it was an upgrade to the 190A's as far as I know for high altitude bomber interception.
did about the same roll but less ground attack.
it replaced the BMW radial with a liquid cooled Jumo.
it could carry a droptank, and upto a 500kg bomb I do believe.
it was armed with two 13mm mg 131's in the cowl and two 20mm mg151's in the wing root.
I will include my sound file when it's uploaded, if I can find the right wav. files to do so.

Nice!
If I may, I would suggest to check the canopy, there shouldn't be any screws or so.
The canopies where no different from the Fw190A. Early D-9 having the standard canopy, later models having the bulged one like many late A-8, F-8 and A-9.
The canopies on the surviving museum Doras are all not overly accurate replicas.

 

[philem]

Awesome !
Really, very nice work !

 

[HouseHobbit]

Bravo..
This is a beautiful dora..It is my favorite Fw 190 of all of them..
Thank You..
I can't wait to wreck this one..
Hey, does it Bounce well??
:salute::salute::salute:

 

[dancat]

thanks everyone,
I would like to get a bit more done before release, even as a beta.
maybe by Friday it can be good enough for that.

 

[ndicki]

Beautiful work, especially that cockpit!

Need a mos file, by any chance?

 

[MajorMagee]

Here's a shot of the D-9 cockpit here at the Air Force Museum, but it only shows the fixed framing, and not what's on the sliding canopy.

 

[dancat]

it does need a MOS. Nigel, you interested?
for some reason, my MOS editor doesn't work anymore..
thanks Major, I think that's about the only pic of the cockpit I can find too.

 

[ndicki]

Glad to be of help! Stick it in the mail and I'll find a break from marking exam papers!

 

[dancat]

will do Nigel!

 

[Steven190]

Here are two pictures of acual FW190's cockpit frames first one is from White 1 and the second is, I think, Flug werks Dora.

If you need and other I have quite a few of the FW

 

[dancat]

nice pics, interesting how much pictures vary on these old war birds.

 

[MajorMagee]

That part of the frame is hidden in the seam when the canopy is closed. What we're missing is a picture of the mating frame around the opening of the sliding part of the canopy.

 

[dancat]

I think the bolts were used on the pressurized pit in the TA.
with the addition of the extra glass, air gap between, I think that's where I've seen the bolts.
hard to say, I've used other peoples work as references to what I can't find real pix of.
IL2 has been one that I used but I don't think it's 100% authentic.