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THANKS, Alain Breton!

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Bill Kestell

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Earlier this year, Alain Breton was kind enough to send me his Amiot 350 series (Am-351, 354, 356). He indicated that they were of a very old creation and while this is true, the model is not at all bad and it's the only game in town ... so I really did appreciate his generosity.

Well, I FINALLY got around to playing with them and here's a little something from the Am-351. I added a bombadier to handle the nose MAC 1934, changed the dorsal MAC 1934 to a HS-7, 20mm by dropping a gun tube over the Lewis gun barrel. Then I re-arranged the hardpoints and used French bombs where I could (Bombe 500Kg, Bombe 200Kg, Bombe 100Kg, Bombe 50Kg) and a British MkXII torpedo just for good measure.

Alain's airfile makes this a dream to fly ... even after moving the "engines" around to get the starting smoke set properly. Then I added some engine exhaust smoke (nasty stuff from well-worn engines running a bit on the rich side and a little bit too hard).

Lastly, the bombsight and away we go. This is another aircraft which makes a nice bombing platform. and yes, Virginia, I am one of those LBN's (Level Bombing Nuts) :faint:
This is from about 5,500feet at about 200 mph with a load of 6--200Kg bombs.

Hope you enjoy this.

PS ... You RCT's (Really Creative Types - you know who you are) ... here's a series of grossly underappreciated French aircraft that need to be modeled ... especially the Am-351 and Am-354. I think they have some very nice lines and hold a unique place in French history.


:engel016:Hint, Hiint!
 
Interesting, attractive aircraft. It's as if you took a Do.17, and handed it over to DeHavilland's design dept for a remake.

Beautiful lines.
 
By name ... FX_exhsmoke_long_KH

I set up a typical engine like this:

PORT ENGINE - INBOARD//// OUTBOARD

-2.00, -0.15, 1.8 ////-3.20, -0.15, 1.8
-2.03, -0.18, 1.8 ////-3.23, -0.18, 1.8
-2.00, -0.18, 1.8 ////-3.20, -0.18, 1.8
-2.03, -0.15, 1.8 ////-3.23, -0.15, 1.8

This gives you a nice, visible effect at nearly every angle because you've created a "diamond" shape (when viewed from behind) ... making it visually thicker.
 
If Possible

could you up loaded these aircraft so we could fly the skys of france with them? Thanks :gossip:
 
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