Some work-in-progress pics of the cockpit. We now have the pedestal modeled and installed. The shots show the model as renders and as it appears (for the first time) in 4.5. A lot of tweakage required for P3D use of PBR but we are getting there.
Some work-in-progress pics of the cockpit. We now have the pedestal modeled and installed. The shots show the model as renders and as it appears (for the first time) in 4.5. A lot of tweakage required for P3D use of PBR but we are getting there.
Amazing work!
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Whilst researching material for the exterior model, I kept getting sidetracked by something I noticed about the restored "That's All Brother". The intakes for the engines are not the original type used in and pre-1944.
If you compare the original with the restored version, you will see that "TAB" was fitted with the early 1943 type intakes which are perched right at the cowling mouth. I've included several contemporary shots for comparison. The restored version appears to use the shorter variety aligned with the cowl-flaps. I wonder why?. Engine type difference? Non-availability of original type of intake? Has anyone seen a C-47 in captivity with the old-style intakes? I'm finding quite a few differences as I get into this build. Interesting.
The clue is in the pic notations.
Those birds were in the Far East / PTO. So I believe that’s a tropical air filter, not unlike the Vokes filters on Hurricanes and other types in the Mediterranean theatre.
They being by far the rarer and likely hardest worked Daks, few likely survived through to restoration.
The only pics I’ve ever seen of those are serving in North Africa, CBI, and PTO. The post war Assam airlines’ Dakotas (likely ex-RAF birds from that theatre) also were thus equipped.
https://postimg.cc/mzPp5BXq
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_...e_pyramids.jpg
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/547187423451146156/
Hope this helps.
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