J. Lucarny P-51

My impression is that the P51 was not as succesful in the Pacific Theater as it was in the ETO. While it was superior to most Japanese late war AC it never had the Kill ratio that it achieve in the ETO. In a show I saw in the Military Channell a show call Great Planes and the Host claim that the P51 had a ratio of kills against German fighters of 11 to 1. WoW! now thats impresive!:ernae:
 
miamieagle said:
My impression is that the P51 was not as succesful in the Pacific Theater as it was in the ETO.
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Don't believe everything you hear without reasonable proof...


While it was superior to most Japanese late war AC it never had the Kill ratio that it achieve in the ETO.
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And what ratio did they give you for P51's against Japan?
 
And statistics can be so misleading. I doubt very many Mustangs were shot down by the few skilled pilots Japan had left towards the end, and by the same token, were their targets becoming fewer and farther between? What kind of missions were they predominantly flying? It's kind of apples to oranges. Is he a great quarterback, or does he just have 2 astounding receivers and the best offensive line ever? The world may never know.
 
You are right Bear. There is no proof that the P51 had a better ratio of kills in the ETO than in the Pacific. like I said its only a impression. Everything said or written about WW2 should always be taken with a grain of salt. Even official documents are not always totaly truthful. The truth is the Allies won the war and Axis lost the war and we are all been able to live in a better World because of it.

This is just my opnion!:wavey:
 
Hey Bear, how did you get the tanks off the model of WOP Flying Undertaker? I am also doing my own conversion and I can't seem to get them off, the model always converts with them on. any hints will be apreciated. Thanks!

by the way, to add my two cents to the discussion about how effective the P-51 was in the PTO... the grandfather of a gf of mine back in college told me when I met him that they, the Japanese pilots flying sorties against Amercian raids in Japan, where really looking forward to mixing it up with the famous P-51. This mindset lasted only a few weeks... to many of them got shot down by it. He said the plane he most respected from the US was the P-51. I don't know how much this adds up to the argument of how effective the P-51 was in Japan, but at least in the mind of one pilot it was the best his enemies could throw at him.
 
Well my man, it can only be done for real in scasm, and that's quite a leap for a conversion rook. You have to convert the mdl to a scasm file and edit it internally in text form. The good news is that the tanks are animated in the FS9 mdl, making them easy to identify in scasm code and disable. Because they're animated parts, disabling also kills them visually.

Another commonly used "external" approach is to try repainting the texture that colors the tanks with an alpha channel that renders them invisible. It works OK in most cases, but you still see the shadows on the ground in screenies and sometimes the invisible material of the tanks still interferes with mounted stores on the wings. I prefer the more complex scasm approach for a clean break from the tanks. Either way its not something that can be done with a simple 1-2-3 tip.

Not to digress, but your comments regarding the vet Jap pilot's viewpoint makes me wonder more about how their impressions of the Bearcat would have shaked out had they faced it also. In performance, it was as good as or even better than the Mustang by some accounts.
 
FOr Wozza's P-51D, I did a few Iwo Jima skins. And for Bismarck13's Early Mustang Collection, I did some CBI skins.

OBIO
 
Thanks for the info, it is very useful... I was thinking figuring out how to get those tanks, or rather the animation of them "on" or "off", to be linked to wing folding or hoook down, so they can stay with the model if I wanted; or just get them off. I am still learning scasm so it is not easy for me...

The Mustang, and also the Spitfire, where very popular with the Japanese pilots is what I was told, because they "represented" to them the best the Allies could make and fly. He told me the Navy planes where all big, blue, and mean but he wasn't to scared of them. I asked him because I am a Hellcat fan and wanted to hear stories of him tangling with it. Only the Mustang and the Spitfire made in him a strong impression.... even though he never saw a Spitfire! I only got to talk to this pilot once, and only for an afternoon when I visited Japan, but he gave me the impression that the Japanese thought the Mustang was unbetable.

If the Bearcat had come into play it would have been a turkey shoot. I don't think I would have talked to "gandpa" fifty years later :p
 
I managed for now to make the tanks "invisible" as you said with alpha texturing... thanks for the idea.

I am wondering if you have managed to make the gauges come up in the VC? I know you can't use the cab files of the original... so I am trying to replace them with gauges from stock cfs2, but they don't show up.... any hints bear? Thanks.

As soon as the downloads are working I'll check out that p-51D skin Obio; I like your work a lot, so I am sure that skin is great.
 
As with all conversions that use FS9 cab gauges in 2D and VC, you have to replace with CFS2 compatibles. The tools for this job is Cfgedit and/or FS Panel Studio. Do what you can...send a PM if you get stuck.
 
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