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[Mig Eater]

Her is another quick unit preview, this time a Hawker Hurricane Mk.I



I’m not too happy with the tan/brown colour tho so it’s subject to change.

I’m working on a bunch of other British units atm, which include the A12 that I know a few of you will be happy to see. I’m also working on a Hurricane Mk.IID & while I’m at it I’ll fix up the Spitfire Mk.IX too.

[Jeeves]

Plenty of other colors you can try
How much of that detail can you see ingame?

[Mig Eater]

Well you can see most of it but it’s hard to distinguish etc. The panel lines & stuff are ambient detailing any way, it’s not really there to be seen but to give some variety & a sense of depth.

[Jorg40]

I think you should stick with that colours, they are good lookin

[Mig Eater]

It should be more brown then yellow, only problem is tho that there isn't really any light browns in the pal that look good ingame.

[Ash]

If it doth not be broken, thou shouldst not see it to be of necessity to fix of it.

[wilmet]

looks nice

is the mk.IID the one with 20mm canons under the wings?

[Mig Eater]

The Mk.IID has 40mm cannons, the Mk.IIC is the one with 20mm's.

[LEGO]

Nice big gun bird.
I've long been wondering how the woody bird stand a 40MM recoil from scatter into parts

[Ash]

In English, I think he meant 'how the hell does it not shatter under the force of its own 40mm fire?'

I'm asking the same thing...sure, modern Apaches use 30mm, but they didn't have that technology back then...

[Mig Eater]

Well they did have the technology back then (cos it worked), if fact the system used on the Mk.IID had been in development for nearly 10 years so they had time to work out the bugs. Even lager sized cannons where used on planes during the war tho, the most famous of them being the German Hs-129 with a 75mm cannon.

I vaguely remember something about a bomber with a 105mm cannon too. Not sure tho, was probably just a paper project if there was one.

[Ash]

Christ. Anyone'd think that'd tear the wings off, or bent the fuselage or something...

[Mig Eater]

Why...? With a good enough recoil system the shock of firing the weapon can be pretty minimal, in fact some recoilless systems where used with successes. The only problem with using such weapons on aircraft is that it can effect the aerodynamics & slow the plane down drastically, unless the weapon is housed inside the plane it’s self & only a few have had that (B-25G etc).

[LEGO]

well, is it really so buggy with my English
I remenber there was a plan to arm Me210/110 with a 75mm or 105mm, to deal with the endless 4-engine-bombers formations.
But they give it up before long although the air frame standed, because the recoil make the plane lost too much speed, and drop
in this case the gas-eject recoilless system can't help much, I guess. cos it can't work exactly the same time and same axes with the recoil.

[arman]

hey mig i readed your topic workalholic and its amazing, could you do a movie when u make a vxl, want to se how fast you work cuse i am very slow

[wilmet]

DDay: the making of available in the special DVD box set.

but that'll only come out after it's gone platinum

Edited by wilmet, 27 June 2006 - 02:21 PM.

[Mig Eater]

ROFL

Well I can’t do a movie but I could do screenshots? I have actually been thinking of doing a step-by-step guide thingy showing how I make vxls.

PS: Sorry for the lack of updates BTW ppl, been a bit of a slow week.

[wilmet]

meh, it's a busy time of year for everyone anyway, and there's the world cup

[Tanks R us]

You had to meantion the cup... :'( poor holland...

Back on topic

mig you ever heard of fraps... it makes o movie of whats on ur screen... ill try to remember the site for it. Even a unit preview of D-day in action (good AI preview)

[Ace]

Fraps only takes videos of games , not the screen at any time.