Invader .50 machine guns

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fde_bressy

Charter Member 2011
How is it possible to modify the front guns on Invaders to have correcr armemant, which was:

6 x . 50 machine guns in the nose (instead of 8 on current models)
no machine guns in wings ( instead ot 3 on each side presenty shown )
possibility of up to 4 x twin .50 in guns pods monted under both wings

In addition with the upper turret, which could be fired by the pilot whed aimes forward, this was a reasonable ammount of 16 .50 machine guns firing forward. Pilots reported that firing all guns together slowed the A/C of around 25 Km/hour ( 12.5 knots ).

Sources : Jane's 1946 edition.

My problem is not so much to modify the DP file, which is rather easy to do, than to really modify the plane's appearance, by wiping out two front guns and the wing-monted guns.
 
It's not that easy!

fde_bressy said:
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My problem is not so much to modify the DP file, which is rather easy to do, than to really modify the plane's appearance, by wiping out two front guns and the wing-monted guns.
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Hi fde_bressy,

what you are asking for can only be carried out by the original designer of the aircraft. If I am guessing right, you are talking about Tango_Romeo's, a.k.a.Tom Sanford, A/B-26 Invader collection.

Get in touch with Tom, he includes his e-mail address in his addons, and ask him if he would consider modifying his model source files to meet your request.

Model source files are never uploaded, what we get is the compiled final model file (*.mdl) which sits in the \model folder of each aircraft installed in CFS2. Only original designers/owners can modify them.

At any rate, I can't tell about wing guns, although the built-in capability was there, but I have seen a number of A-26B gunship WWII pictures showing 8 x .50" machine guns mounted on their noses.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
I am not sure if anyone converted the SOH A-26B to CFS or not.

If there is interest, I would be happy to take the FS2002 version, modify it to your specs, and make it available to anyone who wishes to convert it to CFS2.
 
Milton,

Good to see you down in the basement.

Bearcat did a bang up job converting it to CFS 2. In fact, it is one of my favorites in both CFS 2 and FS 9.

Would it be possible to model the FS 8 version with the early nose armament of machine guns and then possibly one of the cannon armed versions?

Here are a few shots of her in action in the Senior Sim:
 
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