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Kiwi's in the SWPTO...released!

UncleTgt

UncleTgt

SOH-CM-2025
WIP shots of overhauled TBF & SBD models , plus K. Malinowski's P40N & P40M (repainted as a long-tailed late series K) ... more to follow.:running:
 
 
:icon_lol:... wouldn't be the first time an a/c profile paint was wrong ... won't be the last...

It's easy enough to remove.
 
TBF & SBD skins are uploaded.

P40s will follow, kelti sent me some updated prop disks & exhaust effects ...
 
UncleTgt said:
TBF & SBD skins are uploaded.

P40s will follow, kelti sent me some updated prop disks & exhaust effects ...
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Hi UncleTgt,

I forgot to mention in this morning e-mail that both prop disk and exhaust effect fit all of Malinowski's P-40K, M & N models, version 3.0.

I just read from your e-mail replay you are also working on a F model. I think Malinowski released only one version the Merlin-engined F variant and its older *.mdl has a differently sized prop blurred disk, the ones you got this morning would not fit correctly.

I have downloaded and kept all of Malinowski's P-40 versions because there are so many nice repaints still available, fitting one or another version, covering MTO and PTO theatres. Unfortunately, during their design evolution, several details changed like the prop disc size, exhaust stub and payload hardpoint locations, so those details need to be tailored for each model version.

I'll send you the P-40F prop disk this afternoon. If you know how the Kiwis armed their P-40s, I can also send you customised dp files where I replaced USAAF bombs with British models, using William Dickens' Beaufighter weapon pack. Thanks to our friend Ravenna suggestions, I also created, a while ago, a "Kittybomber" dp with an anti-personnel bomb array for Malinowski's P-40M, which was the Kittybomber of choice in the RAF. The P-40M had strenghtened wings, instead of what many think was the E, only capable of carrying one bomb under the fuselage.
But these were field modifications carried out in the African western desert, I have no idea if they were applied in the PTO as well.

I have had a P-40E, F, K, M, N 2d panel project sitting in my pc for several years now. The bmp was one of the last versions uploaded with Malinowski's P-40 series, where I lowered the instrument panel, or "dashboard", allowing a greater visibility during takeoffs and landings, exactly what a WWII pilot would get by raising or lowering his seat in the cockpit. Most WWII fighter planes had adjustable height pilot seats.

The project is still laying there, although I have been flying with it with great satisfaction. I never uploaded it because each time I talked about it, I got from the forum a whole bunch of suggestions and things that needed changes, both here and over at Lindsay's which I wanted to follow up duly.
Last time we got stuck over the historical fuel tank layout, needed to arrange the fuel switches pop-up panel. Many sources report of a "wing tank" besides the P-40 normal fuselage fuel storage and that was the cause of me putting everything on hold again. I found P-40 blueprints showing that it was called a wing tank only because Curtiss engineering took advantage of the room created by the wing crossing through the fuselage and placed a fuel tank in there, under the pilot's feet. But Lindsay was not sure about it and sent me a bunch of RAAF WWII document copies stating otherwise.

I think it's high time I upload it however it is, because I truly enjoyed the extra view room allowed by this 2d panel over the years and the gauge layout is as accurately historical as I could get from WWII panel pictures and flight manuals. I also know that, out there, there are several virtual pilots who do not appreciate, like me, the looks of MS's VC mode and prefer the 2d vision instead.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
Even more Pacific RNZAF skins by UncleTgt!

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - Other

Description: SBD5 Dauntless RNZAF by UncleTgt

This is a repaint for the B24 Guy's Overhauled SBD2 Dauntless for CFS 2. This repaint depicts a SBD5 of 25 Squadron RNZAF from Piva, Bougainville, April 1944. NZ5051 Pilot Flt Lt J.W.Edwards Gunner F/Sgt L.A. Hoppe. The aircraft & crew lost to flak over Rabaul 10th May 1944. This was 25 Squadron's last operational mission over Rabaul with the Dauntless.

Also included:

.dp files with/ without ASV radar aerials
A new prop bitmap from Kelticheart

To install, unzip the download to a temporary folder. Use as replacement textures with the relevant SBD2 model as appropriate.

Thanks to The B24 guy for the Overhaul of the MS original a/c, and to Kelticheart for his prop bitmaps.

This is freeware and subject to the usual conditions

UncleTgt

JUN 2013

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit 25 RNZAF SBD5 Dauntless APR 44 UT.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
30 RNZAF TBF1C Avenger skins MAR 44 UT.zip

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - Other

Description: TBF 1C Avenger RNZAF skinpack by UncleTgt. This is a collection of skins for use with the B24 guys Overhaul TBF Avenger for CFS 2. These repaints depict RNZAF Avenger aircraft during 1944.

The aircraft in this pack represent:

NZ2508 30 Squadron Piva, Bougainville, March 1944

NZ2525 30 Squadron Piva, Bougainville, March 1944

Also included:

.dp files with/ without ASV radar aerials, and a new prop bitmap from Kelticheart.

To install, unzip the download to a temporary folder. Use as replacement textures with the relevant TBF model as appropriate.

Thanks to
B24 guy for the Overhaul of the MS original aircraft, and to Kelticheart for his prop bitmaps.


This is freeware and subject to the usual conditions

UncleTgt

JUN 2013

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit 30 RNZAF TBF1C Avenger skins MAR 44 UT.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Reply...

UncleTgt,

These skins look outstanding, you've certainly taken a shine to the Overhauled models! :salute:
 
UncleTgt said:
:icon_lol:... wouldn't be the first time an a/c profile paint was wrong ... won't be the last...

It's easy enough to remove.
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RNZAF colour schemes, like many operational schemes have been the subject of much debate, conjecture and misinformation. A lot of early profiles had red stripes on the white tails and red borders on the white stripes - virtually all now known to be incorrect. A good (rare) colour photo of a P40 at Torokina shows th white tail unsullied by red stripes http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/17599/rnzaf-40-pile?page=11

Reply from an aquaintance

shorty said:
No, what was interpreted from black and white photos as red stripes was where masking tape had been applied to mark out the white stripes. When the tape was removed it took the oxidation from the base coat with it, add to that the lightest of white overspray and quite a distinctive stripe is formed each side of the white. This was very apparent with the white markings on the RAAF P-40s and Beauforts we were retreiving from Tadji
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Lovely work, all the same Uncle. It may yet inspire me to take actually get arse into gear and take up some sim repainting - although attaining the standards now being achieved by all you resident wizards would be hard......

PS This aircraft is till in existence - John Smith, in Nelson has the fuselage and wings in storage at his private collection (He also has a complete Mosquito FB6)
 
The plane in question - definitely no red tail stripes.

This was the last in a number of P40's called "Gloria Lyons" - the other 2 met dire ends!


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The history behind the name

Romantic Story of Pacific Airmen, An Aircraft and A Girl
The Telegraph - Press Assn - Copyright, RNZAF Official News Service, New Georgia

Nineteen-year-old Gloria Lyons lies in Christchurch Public Hospital with turburculosis of the spine. Patient and cheerful, she faces a stay there of two years. At a forward Pacific base of the R.N.Z.A.F. stands another "Gloria Lyons" - a slick Warhawk fighter and in the pilot's cockpit a small type-written note is pasted, "To the pilot. Gloria Lyons is our No. 4 S.U. mascot. She is doing a long term in hospital and we want both our Glorias to last a long time. No. 4 S.U., December 43."
Four young New Zealand airmen of No. 4 Servicing Unit attached to a New Zealand fighter wing sat in their tent one evening reading mail that had come that day. For one there were seven or eight letters, another also received a good batch, but for the other two it was a lean mail day.
So they got their heads together and not long afterwards this advertisement appeared in a Christchurch newspaper:
"Two lonely airmen wish to correspond with two smart young ladies 18-21 with a view to friendship, interests, dancing, music and sport. Photo if possible."
Among the replies came one rather dimaenily from Gloria Lyons on behalf of herself and a fellow patient. A few more letters broke the ice and now a regular correspondence flows. She tells the airmen to whom she writes of what goes on at home in New Zealand and he describes to her what life is like in the tropics. It is amazing how things get round in these camps, but the airman did not have to stand chipping from his mates.
Instead the story caught their imagination; and when a Warhawk with the identification letter G was passing through the maintenance line the idea blossomed in some head to name the fighter after the sporting, bed-ridden girl and adopting her as the unit's mascot.
So while Gloria Lyons of the Pacific takes to the air with her colleagues to beat the Japs out of the skies, her namesake follows her fortunes keenly and hopefully. The thoughts of the boys of No. 4 S.U. are with the welfare of both.
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Gloria survived and , as Mrs Austin Eames, lived in Bankstown NSW Australia. She died in 1998
 
WOW

They look even better than real life. I am especially impressed with the weathering. Thank you for these beautiful skins - now I have to return to the Pacific war, just to enjoy them.
Finn
 
I'm pretty sure the dark tail stripe would have been black or a very dark blue. Red was officially and in general discouraged as an ID color on allied aircraft because of the red meatball insignias used on Japanese aircraft. It was beleived that a flash of the color red during a dogfight could cause an allied pilot to fire on a friendly aircraft by mistake. Some of the P-38 outfits got away with using red for spinners, because the plane was so unique in appearance that it would be hard to mistake as any other type of aircraft.

Very nice skins BTW, great work.
 
reworked "Gloria Lyons III". Now 2 versions, Foliage Green/Sky or Olive Drab/Grey
& some more ... nearly ready for upload I think
 
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