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Kawanishi H8K Emily
- Thread starter Shessi
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dombral
Charter Member
OUTSTANDING!!!! Thank you Shessi!!
très intéressant scenery et le nouveau Emily est splendide . Merci à tous et bravo . Je vais l'adapter pour la mission de reconnaissance sur Pearl Harbor dans la campagne de Midway .
miccasharon
SOH-CM-2023
Beautiful bird and scenery!
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
miamieagle
Charter Member
Superb
Thank you
Thank you
braveheart77521
SOH-CM-2023
Great aircraft! A Joy to Fly! One suggestion. by adding the following to Panel cfg, the forward vision (Horizon) will be greatly improved for takeoff :
[VIEWS]
VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL,THROTTLE_PANEL, Compass_Panel,
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=9.000, 0.000, 0.000
Braveheart
[VIEWS]
VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL,THROTTLE_PANEL, Compass_Panel,
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=9.000, 0.000, 0.000
Braveheart
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Well,
I'll try posting this again. I'll be danged if I can figure out whats happening. Hopefully it won't double post. If it does I won't worry about it.
Hiya Shessi,
First of all, please do not distract yourself at all with this project. But if you do find some time and are so inclined here are the coordinates of the wreck location from Google Earth: 3° 4.409' N 172° 47.554' E
If you activate Photos in the GE sidebar you will see that some one has posted a photo of the wreck in its current condition.
From what I have read it was part of a large contingent of Emily's station on Butaritari- Makin up until some time in 1943 at which time this one wrecked or became disabled. The Japanese salvaged the engines and any other usable equipment from it that they could. Those along with about a dozen other Emily's were evacuated from the island in the face of advancing allied invasions. The Japanese left 100 ground crew behind.
At the time of the US invasion the wreck was used by the Japanese as a snipers nest, silenced by Sherman tank fire. It sat rotting away until sometime late in the 1980s when the wings and hull collapsed to the lagoon bottom.
Zooming in on the Google Earth view and going by other photos it appears that it sits with the nose heading about 131-132 degrees.
Here are a couple of other photos:
NOTE: the map shows the location of the Emily at the base of King's Wharf.
Cheers,
Chris
I'll try posting this again. I'll be danged if I can figure out whats happening. Hopefully it won't double post. If it does I won't worry about it.
Hiya Shessi,
First of all, please do not distract yourself at all with this project. But if you do find some time and are so inclined here are the coordinates of the wreck location from Google Earth: 3° 4.409' N 172° 47.554' E
If you activate Photos in the GE sidebar you will see that some one has posted a photo of the wreck in its current condition.
From what I have read it was part of a large contingent of Emily's station on Butaritari- Makin up until some time in 1943 at which time this one wrecked or became disabled. The Japanese salvaged the engines and any other usable equipment from it that they could. Those along with about a dozen other Emily's were evacuated from the island in the face of advancing allied invasions. The Japanese left 100 ground crew behind.
At the time of the US invasion the wreck was used by the Japanese as a snipers nest, silenced by Sherman tank fire. It sat rotting away until sometime late in the 1980s when the wings and hull collapsed to the lagoon bottom.
Zooming in on the Google Earth view and going by other photos it appears that it sits with the nose heading about 131-132 degrees.
Here are a couple of other photos:
NOTE: the map shows the location of the Emily at the base of King's Wharf.
Cheers,
Chris
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It needs a texture?
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Well, maybe it does. I didn't want to sound like I was looking a gift-horse in the mouth though! ;^)
However, keep in mind that this particular Emily was disabled by Boys anti-tank rifle fire from Marines during the Makin Island raid of Aug 17 through 19, 1942. So it sat there like this for over a year before the invasion of Butaritari-Makin island in November 1943.
It was probably in pretty nasty shape.
MR
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Whoa! I didn't put any textures anywhere. I wasn't really thinking about it too much. I put the bgl into the scenery folder for my Micronesia scenery and that was it. I just figured it would call out whatever textures it needed from the game itself. I understand that one doesn't place textures into scenery folders. Give me a little credit.
MaskRider
Tiller of Soil
Understood. I just figured it was supposed to look like a rusted-out old hulk. Didn't even occur to me that it needed to be placed into its own scenery folder next to its own texture folder- as I said wasn't giving it much thought. Now I know.
I added a Miscellaneous Scenery Objects folder with proper scenery and texture sub-folders, activated it, and now everything is jake.
I appreciate the help. Thanks.
I added a Miscellaneous Scenery Objects folder with proper scenery and texture sub-folders, activated it, and now everything is jake.
I appreciate the help. Thanks.
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Hehe.
Oh, yes. Delightful.
Of course you realize what this means?
It means I shall now need to take a break from what I was doing and build a nice island to go with it.
Thanks, Shessi. Its beautiful!
Chris
I noticed mine is sitting quite a bit further off shore than yours Maskrider. Any idea why?