Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
There was never one word that was spoken about "Little Friends" being the last P-51D's that were going to be covered by Warbirdsim. With "Little Friends", it covers a selection of mid-model and late-model P-51D's, and a very late model K. In "Little Friends II", the focus is on the earliest production model P-51D, the P-51D-5-NA, which is immensley different throughout the cockpit, and throughout various exterior details, from those later models. "Little Friends II" was made so that the community could finally have the opportunity to experience in flight simulator form, an early-model P-51D - something that has never been provided before, just as "Little Friends" was made so that the community could experience for the first time, accurate and authentic mid and late model WWII-era P-51D's/K's.
Over time, just as anyone else out there, I continue to learn, and hopefully produce better work. In order to build up the very unique P-51D-5-NA interior and exterior models, it demanded several months of development work, over the course of which I was able to improve, at least in my mind, the exterior textures. I've been actually working on updating all of the exterior textures now for "Little Friends", on my own time, without any necessary reason to do so, other than to improve all of our experiences with the product. The updated textures will be openly available for all "Little Friends" owners when completed. Besides making all of the incredible number of changes to make the P-51D-5-NA variants, as exactly as they were, the only actual improvement over "Little Friends" were the exterior textures, nothing else. They are different in many ways, because the sub-types were different in many ways (in most cases, in hundreds of ways), from the P-51D-5-NA or NT, to P-51D-10-NA or NT, to P-51D-15-NA or NT, to P-51D-20-NA or NT, to P-51D-25-NA or NT, to P-51D-30-NA or NT. Through all of the different P-51D sub-types that Warbirdsim has already covered, there has actually been only a few that have been done in focus, of all of those there were.
Most Importantly -
"Little Friends II" is meant to, and has always been meant to, coincide with "Little Friends " - it is not meant to replace it at all, but is meant to add more unique/different examples to ones collection. Historically speaking, the paint schemes you see applied to the models covered in "Little Friends II" can not be applied accurately to the models covered in "Little Friends", and the same goes for the paint schemes in "Little Friends " not being correct for the models in "Little Friends II". Both of them are meant to be together, in order to tell the complete story of the P-51D in WWII, from the earliest models, to the mid models, to the latest models that came out during the war years. There was never a single "cookie cutter" mold P-51D, as other companies and other productions have unfortunately led many people to believe. Such changes cannot be reproduced with just a repaint.
I can possibly leave you at least a bit satisfied, to say that I am moving onto something very different now! ; )
Over time, just as anyone else out there, I continue to learn, and hopefully produce better work. In order to build up the very unique P-51D-5-NA interior and exterior models, it demanded several months of development work, over the course of which I was able to improve, at least in my mind, the exterior textures. I've been actually working on updating all of the exterior textures now for "Little Friends", on my own time, without any necessary reason to do so, other than to improve all of our experiences with the product. The updated textures will be openly available for all "Little Friends" owners when completed. Besides making all of the incredible number of changes to make the P-51D-5-NA variants, as exactly as they were, the only actual improvement over "Little Friends" were the exterior textures, nothing else. They are different in many ways, because the sub-types were different in many ways (in most cases, in hundreds of ways), from the P-51D-5-NA or NT, to P-51D-10-NA or NT, to P-51D-15-NA or NT, to P-51D-20-NA or NT, to P-51D-25-NA or NT, to P-51D-30-NA or NT. Through all of the different P-51D sub-types that Warbirdsim has already covered, there has actually been only a few that have been done in focus, of all of those there were.
Most Importantly -
"Little Friends II" is meant to, and has always been meant to, coincide with "Little Friends " - it is not meant to replace it at all, but is meant to add more unique/different examples to ones collection. Historically speaking, the paint schemes you see applied to the models covered in "Little Friends II" can not be applied accurately to the models covered in "Little Friends", and the same goes for the paint schemes in "Little Friends " not being correct for the models in "Little Friends II". Both of them are meant to be together, in order to tell the complete story of the P-51D in WWII, from the earliest models, to the mid models, to the latest models that came out during the war years. There was never a single "cookie cutter" mold P-51D, as other companies and other productions have unfortunately led many people to believe. Such changes cannot be reproduced with just a repaint.
I can possibly leave you at least a bit satisfied, to say that I am moving onto something very different now! ; )
