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That screenshot makes me wish the Asobo/Microsoft Mustang had an opening canopy too, which would make it a bit more fun. Having spent Christmas weekend sick with COVID, I'm glad to be feeling well enough to back to doing some virtual flying again while I have the week off from work. I was thinking of the 352nd FG and The Battle of the Bulge while flying 'Moonbeam' over the winter landscape.













 
I absolutely love this repaint of the CWHM Dakota, Doug, it is superb! Here is just a smattering of screenshots I took this evening.









 
Bomber_12th said:
That screenshot makes me wish the Asobo/Microsoft Mustang had an opening canopy too, which would make it a bit more fun. Having spent Christmas weekend sick with COVID, I'm glad to be feeling well enough to back to doing some virtual flying again while I have the week off from work. I was thinking of the 352nd FG and The Battle of the Bulge while flying 'Moonbeam' over the winter landscape.














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Glad to here you are on the mend Bomber. Yes although if the canopy fell back onto the fuselage as in real life that would be even better! I would guess having two animation movements would be too complex.
 

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The gun bay looks familiar. Pictured below is my work for Warbirdsim, 12+ years ago, in FSX - with properly-marked feed chutes with red paint (indicating left-side... the right-sight chutes had green paint), as well as authentically-painted ammunition tips (black indicating armor-piercing, silver indicating armor-piercing incendiary), authentic inspection stamps and placards, etc. The three-digit numbers on the guns being the last three digits of the individual aircraft's serial number (applied to the guns in the field). It's a shame to hear about the AH P-51 canopy animation issue, with the rear of the canopy not properly "latched down" - excusable if it was 20-30+ years ago, but it is common knowledge now about how the P-51D canopy functions. Not just two side rails and rollers, but another, nearly identical, rail and roller in the aft upper fuselage with which the rear of the canopy is also attached. As the canopy is rolled back, it rotates slightly downward at the back, hinged at all three locations of the canopy rollers. I remember it was a bit of a bear to animate authentically, but nothing that couldn't be done in one afternoon's time.

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Bomber_12th said:
The gun bay looks familiar. Pictured below is my work for Warbirdsim, 12+ years ago, in FSX - with properly-marked feed chutes with red paint (indicating left-side... the right-sight chutes had green paint), as well as authentically-painted ammunition tips (black indicating armor-piercing, silver indicating armor-piercing incendiary), authentic inspection stamps and placards, etc. The three-digit numbers on the guns being the last three digits of the individual aircraft's serial number (applied to the guns in the field). It's a shame to hear about the AH P-51 canopy animation issue, with the rear of the canopy not properly "latched down" - excusable if it was 20-30+ years ago, but it is common knowledge now about how the P-51D canopy functions. Not just two side rails and rollers, but another, nearly identical, rail and roller in the aft upper fuselage with which the rear of the canopy is also attached. As the canopy is rolled back, it rotates slightly downward at the back, hinged at all three locations of the canopy rollers. I remember it was a bit of a bear to animate authentically, but nothing that couldn't be done in one afternoon's time.

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My hat off to you John. The Warbirdsim P-51D was a beautiful model in FSX and the early P3D.
 
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