• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Milton's Douglas A-20C Havoc conversion uploaded!

CFS2 Conversion of Milton's A-20C.zip

389015067180177120.jpg

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Aircraft - American

Description: Conversion Of Milton Shupe's Douglas A-20C Havoc for CFS2

FS 2004 package by Milton Shupe, Tom Falley, William Ellis, Roman Stoviak; Sounds by Nigel Richards; Gauges by Scott Thomas, Rich (Real_Old_Salt) Murray, and Roman Stoviak. Original Pilot figures by Jan Visser and Craig Richardson.

Conversion to CFS2 Dvslats and Crew.

VC panel work by Peter Mercy.

Textures by SteveB, Bruce Ellis,

Enjoy,

Dave

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit CFS2 Conversion of Milton's A-20C.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Superb

Dvslats, Milton, and Co.,

many thanks for your awesome conversions of Douglas A-20C and A-20G

Beepee
 
Reply...

Dave,

Excellent work on one of my favorite birds! You wouldn't happen to know if the model is multi-lod, would you?

And...if it is multi-lod, is there any chance an early (1940-era) DB-7 can be had with Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SC3-G/R-1830-S3C4-Gs for use in France?

Performance was a little more modest: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_douglas_DB-7_France.html

If not, we can always stick with this steady stable hand...
 
It is good too see my skins in use in good old CFS2. I have too admit that I haven't had CFS installed for many a year now. I have a few skins that will fit this model and for the G model. I have mainly been painting Soviet VVS, French and Allied schemes leaving the USAAF too Huub and Wellis. If anyone wishes too have DXT3 versions of them I am happy to convert and release any of my paints for CFS2.

If your interested you can find the fs9 paints I have released so far on the Douglas A20 Havoc thread over on the fs2004 forums. My paints start becoming available from page 34.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/95258-Douglas-A20-Havoc/page34 If it has a Drop box link then its available.

Steve
 
RAAF Bostons

SteveB said:
It is good too see my skins in use in good old CFS2. I have too admit that I haven't had CFS installed for many a year now. I have a few skins that will fit this model and for the G model. I have mainly been painting Soviet VVS, French and Allied schemes leaving the USAAF too Huub and Wellis. If anyone wishes too have DXT3 versions of them I am happy to convert and release any of my paints for CFS2.

If your interested you can find the fs9 paints I have released so far on the Douglas A20 Havoc thread over on the fs2004 forums. My paints start becoming available from page 34.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/95258-Douglas-A20-Havoc/page34 If it has a Drop box link then its available.

Steve
Click to expand...
A brilliant model and lovely paints. The RAAF skin made me wonder whether the nose could be textured to appear solid. A lot of the RAAF A-20s were modified in the field, with a painted nose and 50 cal brownings in the nose. Most of those were A-20A aircraft, but I can't see any external difference between the A and the C variants.
Many thanks for this brilliant addition to CFS2.
 
Ravenna said:
A brilliant model and lovely paints. The RAAF skin made me wonder whether the nose could be textured to appear solid. A lot of the RAAF A-20s were modified in the field, with a painted nose and 50 cal brownings in the nose. Most of those were A-20A aircraft, but I can't see any external difference between the A and the C variants.
Many thanks for this brilliant addition to CFS2.
Click to expand...

Ravenna, the "C" nose is textured glass and although mapped separately, the opacity is set for 45%.

If Dave et al can copy that model, and change the opacity to 100%, then the nose glass can be painted.

However, the plexi was not mapped for painting with the fuselage, only from the side, so textures would be stretched across the top and front of the nose.

I will consider doing a properly mapped plexinose (separately from the fuselage) if there is interest and time to do the conversion to CFS2.

This is the way it is currently mapped for textures.
 

Attachments

  • noseplexiglas_t.jpg
    noseplexiglas_t.jpg
    57 KB · Views: 7
Rami said:
Dave,

Excellent work on one of my favorite birds! You wouldn't happen to know if the model is multi-lod, would you?

And...if it is multi-lod, is there any chance an early (1940-era) DB-7 can be had with Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SC3-G/R-1830-S3C4-Gs for use in France?

Performance was a little more modest: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_douglas_DB-7_France.html

If not, we can always stick with this steady stable hand...
Click to expand...


Rami, this is not a multi-LOD model. Sorry 'bout that. :)
 
Rami said:
Dave,

Excellent work on one of my favorite birds! You wouldn't happen to know if the model is multi-lod, would you?

And...if it is multi-lod, is there any chance an early (1940-era) DB-7 can be had with Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SC3-G/R-1830-S3C4-Gs for use in France?

Performance was a little more modest: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_douglas_DB-7_France.html

If not, we can always stick with this steady stable hand...
Click to expand...

Hi Rami,

No, it isn't multi-lod. For that I would stick with TR's variants.

SteveB said:
It is good too see my skins in use in good old CFS2. I have too admit that I haven't had CFS installed for many a year now. I have a few skins that will fit this model and for the G model. I have mainly been painting Soviet VVS, French and Allied schemes leaving the USAAF too Huub and Wellis. If anyone wishes too have DXT3 versions of them I am happy to convert and release any of my paints for CFS2.

If your interested you can find the fs9 paints I have released so far on the Douglas A20 Havoc thread over on the fs2004 forums. My paints start becoming available from page 34.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/95258-Douglas-A20-Havoc/page34 If it has a Drop box link then its available.

Steve
Click to expand...

Actually Steve, for CFS2 my experience has your paints and others looking their beast formatted to 16 bit 565. Otherwise the bitmaps start to show color bleeds. Pinks and reds especially in the underside.
I've been downloading yours and saving them this way. Thanks for the info on where they start showing up in the thread. This helps a lot.

misson said:
Just amazing! Thank u guys again!!
Click to expand...

You're welcome Mario. :wavey:

Cheerz, Dave
 
Milton Shupe said:
Ravenna, the "C" nose is textured glass and although mapped separately, the opacity is set for 45%.

If Dave et al can copy that model, and change the opacity to 100%, then the nose glass can be painted.

However, the plexi was not mapped for painting with the fuselage, only from the side, so textures would be stretched across the top and front of the nose.

I will consider doing a properly mapped plexinose (separately from the fuselage) if there is interest and time to do the conversion to CFS2.

This is the way it is currently mapped for textures.
Click to expand...

Hello Milton,

It would be easier for me, possibly you also, to do the P-70A1 minus the radar antenna. ???

Dave
 
dvslats said:
Hello Milton,

It would be easier for me, possibly you also, to do the P-70A1 minus the radar antenna. ???

Dave
Click to expand...

I agree and I thought about that option as well.

It would have been simple on the "C" had I not added the _T specular capability for the plexiglas but I needed some shine in FS9 for the glass appearance.
I could change the "C" back to that as it was originally, but it still needs to be remapped for better paint application, as will the A1.
At any rate, either will require a separate model but the A1 will be easier.
So, that is what I will do. :)
 
Hold On Milton

I tried your suggestion. With SteveB's RAAF texture things look pretty good IMHO.
Extra gun barrels can be added through CFS2's damage profile. Oldwheat has a file on these.
Staying with the RAAF scheme I really see no need for a newer mdl.
It will save you some time also. :encouragement:

36712783194_9919f12a3e_o.jpg


Thanks for the offer though!
Dave
 
That there mod do look nice, better not let the fs2004 guys see it or there gonna start wanting it in fs9 then the fsx lot will want one :biggrin-new:.

But that nose sure looks clean, i'll be happy too add some dirt and stuff too it if required, I have cfs2 sitting on my desk awaiting installation once I've had a coffee.


Steve
 
SteveB said:
That there mod do look nice, better not let the fs2004 guys see it or there gonna start wanting it in fs9 then the fsx lot will want one :biggrin-new:.

But that nose sure looks clean, i'll be happy too add some dirt and stuff too it if required, I have cfs2 sitting on my desk awaiting installation once I've had a coffee.


Steve
Click to expand...

Be very, very quiet. :adoration:

If your offering Steve, than I'm accepting. A little dirt is always welcome here. Lol
I'll attach what been done so far. Bitmaps that is...
 

Attachments

  • Nose_solid.zip
    30.1 KB · Views: 1
Field Mod

Going to use this picture as a reference for the extra .5 bmg's.
 

Attachments

  • 8Douglas_Boston.jpg
    8Douglas_Boston.jpg
    52.4 KB · Views: 7
Nose mounted MGs

dvslats said:
Going to use this picture as a reference for the extra .5 bmg's.
Click to expand...

A good pic, but the field mods were made using .303 calibre machine guns ( Fairly sure they were Brownings). The modifications tended to be either three guns abreast or two abreast X 2
 

Attachments

  • DB-7B-02_S.jpg
    DB-7B-02_S.jpg
    11.5 KB · Views: 0
  • DB-7B-03_S.jpg
    DB-7B-03_S.jpg
    10.6 KB · Views: 0
22 Squadron

This pic shows the 2 x 2 guns, if a little grainy.
 

Attachments

  • RAAF 22 sqn Boston IIIs_New Guinea Feb 43.jpg
    RAAF 22 sqn Boston IIIs_New Guinea Feb 43.jpg
    84.4 KB · Views: 7
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top