I sent a PM to one of the really good designers here asking if they might create a CV-3 in the quality of their other freeware carriers. I haven't had any reply so he probably won't consider it. Last night I was made aware of Iro Usio's library of ships in our CFS2 Warbird Library that RAMI spent so much time cataloging and uploadind for the Usio Legacy. I downloaded a Saratoga, Lexington and a couple flush deck DD's last night.
I wrote a PM to RAMI who said that it was ok to convert this to FSX and share it here in our FSX Warbird Ship library. With the meager skills I learned converting the VN_PRESARA that is in my thread about the F8C's I went about it today and just finished testing it. It works great in AI Carriers and also with the platform I added for a "hard deck" in MDCx as part of the conversion to FSX mdl you can land and make an arrested landing with Rob Barendregt's RCBCO-30 gauge installed in your aircraft's panel. If there were landing zones in the CFS2 carrier, they disappeared when I converted it. You have to have the RCBCO-30 gauge to land in FSX. I have landed both the F8C-4 and also the F4B-4 by Paul Clawson which will be one of my future repainting projects after the Vought O2U-2 Corsairs beginning probably either Friday or Monday next. Here are a couple screenshots of the F4B-4 on deck. You can see the plane guard DD off the port quarter below. I don't particularly care for the bright lemon yellow deck marking but it is in the model so it can't be changed to chrome yellow like it should be. Wish he would have put in the textures like Virtual Navy did. I DO like the deck pendants and the mahogany deck planks Mr. Usio did create in the model. I am told that Stuart277 made Saratoga and Lexington models for CFS2 so I hunted them down but they are of the carriers from 1942 and 1944 with camouflage hull and superstructures and blue flight decks. Beautiful models I saw but I didn't download them because of the time period.
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