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Plugging the gap...

ndicki

ndicki

Charter Member 2016
There IS a gap - between mid-1942 and early 1943, when we simply do not have the right type of Bf109, namely the g-2 and g-4. Short of a new model (which apparently may be somewhere in the system) the only alternative is to use an existing one. We poked about at the f-4 a bit but dropped it because for an interim effort, it required far too much new input. So this is the final result, built on the MS stock g-6, and you'll just have to pretend that the bumps aren't there. The technical details on the paint scheme are all 100% correct, so it is only the visual model itself which is at fault. Nothing we can do. Meanwhile, it gets the full treatment - new sounds, correct flight dynamics and gun types, etc, etc. Under final testing at the moment...

Obviously, given the use this type received, we'll be concentrating on the Med and House Hobbit's Russian Front mod for MAW.

First is Werner Schroer of 8./JG 27.
 
Wilhelm Crinius went both ways, Eastern Front and MAW... After his mad spree with this aircraft during August and September 1942 near Stalingrad - his 15th kill on 1st August, and his... 100th on 22nd September! - he went with I./JG 53 to Tunisia in November. He claimed a further 14 kills in North Africa before being shot down on 13th January 1943 by an RAF Spitfire and taken prisoner.
 
WOW!!!!!
This will have to be used in the eastern front Axis missions and in the Russian set as the Bad guy..
Thanks Very Much..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
Nice ones, as usual!!

The only thing that give me trouble with the AvH V4 FM is the very high damping effect on the pitch direction, whatever the model is (from E to K). I tried some twiks but I've not been able to change this.
 
Are you sure you don't have the one I uploaded by accident, with the pitch parameters set too high? There was a fix for this that you should have got. Otherwise, speak to Rene! He understands these things. I'm just the painter...

This must be one of the very last G-2 aircraft to leave the production lines painted RLM 78 and 79. It was flown by Oberst Gustav Roedel, Kommodore JG 27, from Catania in Sicily in the early summer of 1943. It was found abandoned when the Allies took the airfield in July.
 
Beautiful, as usual!!

...and truly masterful bump concealment:applause:

now if we could just get a booster chair for our young pilot
so he might be able to reach his food :p:

Is there really a chance of an early G model in the "system"? :greenbo:
 
ndicki said:
Are you sure you don't have the one I uploaded by accident, with the pitch parameters set too high?
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Yes I'm sure!! I've got this for all V4 109's FM (from Emil to K4). When the pitch parameter is set higher in the tuning section, the pitch damping is reduced or disappear but the aircraft is very, very, very slow to move in the pitch direction.
 
The first three above have been uploaded.

This one might hit a few targets, too...
 
popsaka said:
...and truly masterful bump concealment:applause:

now if we could just get a booster chair for our young pilot
so he might be able to reach his food :p:

Is there really a chance of an early G model in the "system"? :greenbo:
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HEY!! I am using a booster seat!!!:icon_lol:

It is not my fault these things are not made for Hobbits!!!:icon_lol:

Truly Beautiful Nigel.. THANKS..
 
Here's another new type - a G-2/R2 photographic reconnaissance aircraft. This is W.Nr 10605 Black 14 of 2(H)/14, flown by Lt Wernicke, and shot down over Zarzis on 20th February 1943. It has full internal armament and the "camera view" trick we used on the previous PR aircraft. Coming soon!

Meilleurs voeux, Alain!
 
I like the Finnish(?) 109...

...just finished the Finnish air war on YouTube.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLW9vFJ6qa8

Those lads flew everything from 109g6s to Fokker XXIs Gladiators Curtis H75/P36s
Blenhiem mkIs and IVs to the kitchen sink... (and prolly anything else they could get their mittens on!) and with good results, keeping the Ruskies at bay... From what I have gathered, attacking Finland was not the smoothest of moves... (it didn't bother Herr Hitler, though)

The only thing we're missing is the Brewster, which apparently the Finns really loved.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if...

Nigel, have you done any Finnish skins for the MS 406? (I hope I'm not drifting too far off topic)
 
Two or three, a long time ago. They'll be in the archives as complete aircraft, but what you really need to do is strip off the skins and fit them to the MAW/W40 MS406, which has the same mapping but a later model, cockpit and FM/DM.
 
popsaka said:
From what I have gathered, attacking Finland was not the smoothest of moves...
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Well, no... time for two interesting facts!

During the war there were quite a lot of countries in Europe on the Axis side. All but one of them were occupied at one point or another. I guess it was too cold up here.

When the major Allied operations began to roll in 1944 there were five major battlefields. Normandy, southern France, Italy, German eastern front and Finnish eastern front. In all but one of them the Allies broke through.

Yes, I'm pretty *bleep*ing proud to be Finnish when military history is being talked about.
 
greycap.raf said:
Well, no... time for two interesting facts!

During the war there were quite a lot of countries in Europe on the Axis side. All but one of them were occupied at one point or another. I guess it was too cold up here.

When the major Allied operations began to roll in 1944 there were five major battlefields. Normandy, southern France, Italy, German eastern front and Finnish eastern front. In all but one of them the Allies broke through.

Yes, I'm pretty *bleep*ing proud to be Finnish when military history is being talked about.
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I'm also into Steel Beasts Pro PE, and there is a strong contingent of Finns over there, so I know what you mean about being proud and accomplished fighters.
 
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