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[Mig Eater]

The legendary Dc-3 stood steadfast for decades as the most efficient cargo plane ever built & is still being used to this day by some freight companies 71 years after its first flight! The Dc-3 was in service with just about every major country during WW2. Along with the American built versions the Japanese licence built several hundred of them & the Soviets building several thousand more.

American C-47 Skytrain (pre/early war)


American C-47 Skytrain (mid/late war)


British C-47 Dakota


French C-47


Soviet Li-2


I haven’t made the Japanese L2D Type 0 version as they are getting something home grown instead.

[wilmet]

so many gooney birds

they all look good as usual, I'd just be nit picking if I had any complaints.

(I think the french also called theirs "Dakota" btw)

Edited by wilmet, 28 November 2006 - 05:43 PM.

[Mig Eater]

Some places say Dakota & some say Skytrain, so I'm just gona leave it as C-47 :/

[Sudeki]

Nice pics again Mig ......you post another of your wonderful work...

[Capt. Wildstar]

you always make my day good job love it and i would just say skytrain since thats the acutal name but idk

[Rattuskid]

Are you going to make a post-war (spooky?) gunship version or is that just far too far out of your timeframe?

[Mig Eater]

The AC-47 Spooky was made in 1965 so it's way out of D-day's timeframe.

[wilmet]

is there any major difference between the transport planes of each period in terms of speed/health and number of troops carried (dunno if the game imposes a limit) or is it mainly cosmetic?

(about the french "dakota", I heard an ex pilot from the war in indochina call it like that, it's easier for a frenchman than trying to pronounce skytrain anyway

[Mig Eater]

All of them are the same, I could have just use a generic one for all side TBH but you know me trying to be as historically accurate as possible

[wilmet]

who's complaining ?

in the same line of question, is there any major differences between the types of bombs used by the various bombers of each country. I suppose the size and power of the bombs change with the size of the planes but I'm wondering if there's stuff like fire bombs/napalm or what not.

[LEGO]

I suppose we can see the gifference between Li-2's squared windows and other round ons?

[Mig Eater]

There isn’t much difference in the heavy bomber airstrikes but the medium bombers use a vast array of different munitions.

[Sudeki]

Ummmm.....Darn, no update to this mod. :( ........3 1/2 weeks with no update....it seems the forum is pretty quite too :( .......i thought you said Mig all the ground and air voxel will be done by christmass or much sooner :(

[Jeeves]

For all we know, mig is preparing a major update as you post
That, or everyones busy around Christmas time and modding time is limited at best
I'm sure mig hasn't forgotten he has a project here, so when he has an update, I'm sure he'll post one.

[Mig Eater]

A combination of overtime at work, Christmas shopping, my new 42” TV distracting me & generally not really being in the mood to work on D-day has meant that there is nothing new atm. I’ll work on some units tomorrow tho so there might be an update later in the week. After that I’m busy until next year so it might be a while before I post anything else.

[Jeeves]

Found a way to rig the 42" up to the comp?

[Sudeki]

my new 42” TV distracting me

Found a way to rig the 42" up to the comp?

@Mig - big T.V. is really distracting, when we got our 1st 72" inch T.V. i was also distracted. And hooking your PC is awesome

@Jeeves - hooking ur PC in a big T.V. is awesome. Have you tried it Jeeves

[Jeeves]

No big tv to try it with, and I'm sure my sisters wouldn't be impressed; they seem to find Neighbours more important than trying to fit an extra hundred lines of code on the screen

[Mig Eater]

My Gfx card has a TV out option but the picture was crap so I need to get a new VGA cable before I can connect the PC properly (going a bit off topic here, oh well ).

[wilmet]

at least you'll know what to ask santa (42" screen !! )
how's the job btw?