So, I just discoverd Carriers! CVT-16?
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delta_lima
Charter Member 2015
Most excellent news! I’ll be keeping an eye out.
Together with Dean’s RF-8 in the works, it’s shaping up to be a great 2019...
Together with Dean’s RF-8 in the works, it’s shaping up to be a great 2019...
fallenphoenix1986
SOH-CM-2022
Happy dance
tgycgijoes
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Ready For USS Randolph
I've got my Stoof ready as soon as you are. We will be able to get empty deck config too?
I've got my Stoof ready as soon as you are. We will be able to get empty deck config too?
FlyingsCool
SOH-CM-2019
Echoing all the other comments 
(Yay!.... Yay!.... Yay!... )
Thanks so much!!
(though I must say I also was happy with the T-2's on the deck
)
(Yay!.... Yay!.... Yay!... )Thanks so much!!
(though I must say I also was happy with the T-2's on the deck
)
klnowak
Charter Member
Kind of Like this?
Best
Gaz
Is there any news for that model ? Looking for a good base for CV-12 Hornet. This one would be fantastic
greetings
Klaus
blanston12
SOH-CM-2025
I have also recently discovered carriers and have been downloading a collection of them created by SWS, FlyingStations, RFN, Yanco and others. One thing I have been looking for is some information on the different carriers typical escorts and the formations they would take while at sea, does anybody know where I could find such information?
klnowak
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Some sugestion to get the first informations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Carrier_Group_tactics
https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/3426-tactics-101-naval-formations-part-1/
greetings
Klaus
lexington1709
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I've got a Bonhomme Richard model with textures but I can't very well edit them to CVA / AVT-16. 
lexington1709
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sas1946.com
Same model, for which I am checking and seeking permission for FSX. So no-I don’t have Lexington textures from the several PM requests you’ve sent.
No-I cannot create any. I would suggest if you’re using the same model you try to produce the textures you are looking for or ask on the sas forum (as I am)
cheers
Gary
tgycgijoes
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That is NOT for FSX or P3DvX
I am a member of SAS1946. SAS1946 is an extensively modded IL2 platform and is tremendous if you love IL2. Those guys are serious combat flyers and have spent 1000's of hours modding it. You can log in at the link he gave above and see what it is all about. It is NOT compatible with any of our 3 platforms though so that "Bonnie Dick" cannot be converted to use in FSX or P3D and certainly not X-plane to my knowledge though from Gary's comment above he may know something I don't being much more experienced in that than I am. I have been a member of SAS1946 (though haven't visited them until today for a while) for over 9 years since the early years of IL2 way before FSX@War OR DCS.
I am a member of SAS1946. SAS1946 is an extensively modded IL2 platform and is tremendous if you love IL2. Those guys are serious combat flyers and have spent 1000's of hours modding it. You can log in at the link he gave above and see what it is all about. It is NOT compatible with any of our 3 platforms though so that "Bonnie Dick" cannot be converted to use in FSX or P3D and certainly not X-plane to my knowledge though from Gary's comment above he may know something I don't being much more experienced in that than I am. I have been a member of SAS1946 (though haven't visited them until today for a while) for over 9 years since the early years of IL2 way before FSX@War OR DCS.
lexington1709
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Gary:
Sorry for the several PMs... I didn’t know if they were sending. Found out my account wasn’t activated. Apologies.
I got the model from Karla on the sas1946 site. After telling her what I was doing, she even sent me the original Blender file! I thought that was cool of her! The model on the site is for IL2 but they’ve a converter to make it a OBJ file.
Karla also sent me the HQ textures for Bonnie Dick. I’ve tried modding the flight deck and island textures to Lexington (as she, Bonhomme Richard, and Shangri-La were converted to SCB-125 at the same time, so they share the same hull and islands) and my efforts just don’t look good to me (my changes stand out like crazy). I saw the nice quality work here so I thought I would ask to see if someone had the Lexington textures I could use (with permissions, of course).
Sorry for the several PMs... I didn’t know if they were sending. Found out my account wasn’t activated. Apologies.
I got the model from Karla on the sas1946 site. After telling her what I was doing, she even sent me the original Blender file! I thought that was cool of her! The model on the site is for IL2 but they’ve a converter to make it a OBJ file.
Karla also sent me the HQ textures for Bonnie Dick. I’ve tried modding the flight deck and island textures to Lexington (as she, Bonhomme Richard, and Shangri-La were converted to SCB-125 at the same time, so they share the same hull and islands) and my efforts just don’t look good to me (my changes stand out like crazy). I saw the nice quality work here so I thought I would ask to see if someone had the Lexington textures I could use (with permissions, of course).
It's no problem sorry for not getting back to you and being short in my responses i'm just a bit snowed under with work at the moment so i'm behind with replying to PMs and answering some forum threads and i've got a backlog of ship requests!
How did you get hold of Karla?.....i've been trying to get the same permissions. You're lucky I went the hard way round.....rebuilt and merged the msh components in Blender, had to recreate the UVMaps, remap and reskin all the textures, create custom components specific to FSX with animations (radars, blast shields, IFOLS, lighting) and sort out the transparency issues i've had.
I haven't done Lex (well not got round to it) so sounds like you've got the mods already so as per my previous note you may have better options than me if you want it quickly.
As for Lex I am trying to work out a quicker way to redo the textures so if you can wait (up to you sounds like you're good to go) I can knock something up....CVT Lex is in the pipeline too.
Wake effects and steam effects are keeping me up at night as well as the
night lighting!
I'm also trying to reverse engineer some of my RN models for IL2.......more
ATB (as Dave would say)
Gary
How did you get hold of Karla?.....i've been trying to get the same permissions. You're lucky I went the hard way round.....rebuilt and merged the msh components in Blender, had to recreate the UVMaps, remap and reskin all the textures, create custom components specific to FSX with animations (radars, blast shields, IFOLS, lighting) and sort out the transparency issues i've had.
I haven't done Lex (well not got round to it) so sounds like you've got the mods already so as per my previous note you may have better options than me if you want it quickly.
As for Lex I am trying to work out a quicker way to redo the textures so if you can wait (up to you sounds like you're good to go) I can knock something up....CVT Lex is in the pipeline too.
Wake effects and steam effects are keeping me up at night as well as the
night lighting!I'm also trying to reverse engineer some of my RN models for IL2.......more
ATB (as Dave would say)
Gary
lexington1709
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It's no problem sorry for not getting back to you and being short in my responses i'm just a bit snowed under with work at the moment so i'm behind with replying to PMs and answering some forum threads and i've got a backlog of ship requests!
How did you get hold of Karla?.....i've been trying to get the same permissions. You're lucky I went the hard way round.....rebuilt and merged the msh components in Blender, had to recreate the UVMaps, remap and reskin all the textures, create custom components specific to FSX with animations (radars, blast shields, IFOLS, lighting) and sort out the transparency issues i've had.
I haven't done Lex (well not got round to it) so sounds like you've got the mods already so as per my previous note you may have better options than me if you want it quickly.
As for Lex I am trying to work out a quicker way to redo the textures so if you can wait (up to you sounds like you're good to go) I can knock something up....CVT Lex is in the pipeline too.
Wake effects and steam effects are keeping me up at night as well as the
I'm also trying to reverse engineer some of my RN models for IL2.......more
ATB (as Dave would say)
Gary
Sent you a PM.
Guys,
Lexington1709 have had a couple of PMs back and forwards and i've had an idea that might be mutually beneficial to both of us.
He needs a set of Lex textures for a project and i'm slowly working my way through the pennant numbers but textures aren't my favourite task in modelling and i'm busy at work now.....so it will be weeks before I get round to doing a CVA-16 (the anomalies in the model being my priority) - so i'm putting a shout out to some of the excellent texture artists out there....anyone interested in redoing the island and deck for CVA-16 if I provide the textures?
Drop me a PM if you are - i'll then add them to the model config and convert them to the source format for Lex for his model.
There's a couple of forum threads running on the Essex topic so i'm going to post back on my main (shipyard) thread next steps for Essex so that i'm looking in one place.
.
Best
Gary
Lexington1709 have had a couple of PMs back and forwards and i've had an idea that might be mutually beneficial to both of us.
He needs a set of Lex textures for a project and i'm slowly working my way through the pennant numbers but textures aren't my favourite task in modelling and i'm busy at work now.....so it will be weeks before I get round to doing a CVA-16 (the anomalies in the model being my priority) - so i'm putting a shout out to some of the excellent texture artists out there....anyone interested in redoing the island and deck for CVA-16 if I provide the textures?
Drop me a PM if you are - i'll then add them to the model config and convert them to the source format for Lex for his model.
There's a couple of forum threads running on the Essex topic so i'm going to post back on my main (shipyard) thread next steps for Essex so that i'm looking in one place.
.Best
Gary
FlyingsCool
SOH-CM-2019
Guys,
Lexington1709 have had a couple of PMs back and forwards and i've had an idea that might be mutually beneficial to both of us.
He needs a set of Lex textures for a project and i'm slowly working my way through the pennant numbers but textures aren't my favourite task in modelling and i'm busy at work now.....so it will be weeks before I get round to doing a CVA-16 (the anomalies in the model being my priority) - so i'm putting a shout out to some of the excellent texture artists out there....anyone interested in redoing the island and deck for CVA-16 if I provide the textures?
Drop me a PM if you are - i'll then add them to the model config and convert them to the source format for Lex for his model.
There's a couple of forum threads running on the Essex topic so i'm going to post back on my main (shipyard) thread next steps for Essex so that i'm looking in one place.
Best
Gary
I'd be happy to take a look at it.
tgycgijoes
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A Simple Conversion
Here is a photo of the USS Antietam, CVT-36 the carrier quals carrier for NAS Corpus Christi before Lexington took over. I changed with his permission, Gary's angle deck Lex AVT-16 since he didn't bury the hull number into the model but thankfully made it a texture I changed in Photoshop. I used the photo below.
It was not a large photo so I went looking for another and found this one
I noticed that Gary's Lexington no longer has the 5/38 twins on the flightdeck which Antietam still does in 1961 which is her last training cruise. I hope to get that fixed in the future through help here. The interesting thing though that sent me on a 3 day internet search collecting materials which are really sparse for the A1-H Skyraider "TRAINERS" on the fantail. At first I thought they were T28C Trojans until I enlarged the photo. Well, there are no photos I found at all of the Skyraider trainers so I studied these blurry aircraft, used my U.S. Navy BuAer directives for 1961 and using Tim "Piglet" Conrad's A1-H and his paintkit, here are the results. I came across by accident and saved the Naval Aeronautical Organization OPNAV NOTICE 05400 for Fiscal Year 1961 dated 1 July 1960 that shows tons of information. Among the squadrons that are the responsibility of NAS Corpus Christi include...VT-30 with 29 AD Skyraiders. So my Skyraider here is one of the 29.
Here is a photo of the USS Antietam, CVT-36 the carrier quals carrier for NAS Corpus Christi before Lexington took over. I changed with his permission, Gary's angle deck Lex AVT-16 since he didn't bury the hull number into the model but thankfully made it a texture I changed in Photoshop. I used the photo below.
I noticed that Gary's Lexington no longer has the 5/38 twins on the flightdeck which Antietam still does in 1961 which is her last training cruise. I hope to get that fixed in the future through help here. The interesting thing though that sent me on a 3 day internet search collecting materials which are really sparse for the A1-H Skyraider "TRAINERS" on the fantail. At first I thought they were T28C Trojans until I enlarged the photo. Well, there are no photos I found at all of the Skyraider trainers so I studied these blurry aircraft, used my U.S. Navy BuAer directives for 1961 and using Tim "Piglet" Conrad's A1-H and his paintkit, here are the results. I came across by accident and saved the Naval Aeronautical Organization OPNAV NOTICE 05400 for Fiscal Year 1961 dated 1 July 1960 that shows tons of information. Among the squadrons that are the responsibility of NAS Corpus Christi include...VT-30 with 29 AD Skyraiders. So my Skyraider here is one of the 29.
