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    Icon22 Alphasim Hallybags are now released & development thread!

    I decided it was about time the Alphasim Halifax BIII, C8 & Halton received some fresh paint.

    I'm starting with the Halton, re-drawing it prior to paint. Then I'll work backwards through to the BIII, combining elements of Shessi's & Pepe's work as I go.

    Here's an early WIP of the panel & rivet re-drawing...

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    Thanks UT!

    Looking forward to it!

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    Your usual thorough and detailed approach. Great choice of subject!

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    UT,

    Could you clear-up for me:

    Was the basic aircraft the Handley Page Halifax HP-70?

    Was the B.III a bomber version and the C8 and Halton both passenger/cargo versions?

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    UncleTgt,

    Very nice!
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    Hi MR,

    HP61 was the BIII bomber for the RAF

    HP70 was the C.VIII cargo/freighter for the RAF. Postwar quite a few were used by fledgling airlines as cargo carriers. The design was developed further into the Halton as an interim passenger airliner for BOAC.

    I thought I could improve the BOAC paint for the HAlton, & having developed the basic template, I can see how I can use this as the basis for C.VIII paints, then some B.VI (Pepe's files), & B.III paints.

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    Thanks for the info, UT.

    Can't have too many of these old transport/freight carriers IMHO.

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    Couple of progress shots of the Halton with the BOAC livery applied. Work continues...

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    Very nice!

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    Halton repaints are done, 3 renditions of the same airframe:

    BOAC "Falmouth" circa 1947

    Westminster Airways during the Berlin Airlift in 1949

    Westminster Airways just prior to their demise in 1950

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    and 3 repaints for the Halifax C.VIII

    Lancashire Air Corporation during the Berlin Airlift 1949

    British American Air Services during the Berlin Airlift 1949

    301 (Polish) Squadron RAF Transport Command 1946

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    Very nice UncleTgt Your paint work looks really stunning on the 301 Squadron livery.

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    Great looking paintwork Uncle.

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    Beautiful work, UT!

    Looking forward!

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    Very smart and sharp!

    Cheers

    Shessi

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    progress report

    Quick update - I shifted to working on a DP file & got side-tracked into weapons & payloads.

    Attached shows:

    "payload_name.1"= "USUAL" (1 x 2000lb HC + 12 x SBC Incendiaries) salvoed

    "payload_name.2"= "ABNORMAL" (9 x 1000lb + 6 x 500lb) salvoed

    "payload_name.3"= "NO-BALL" (16 x 500lb) salvoed

    "payload_name.4"= LR "PLUMDUFF" (1 x 2000lb HC, 2 x 1000lb + 4 x SBC Incendiaries)

    "payload_name.5"= "GARDENING" (4 x 1850lb Aerial Mines) single drops

    This meant adapting some existing wepons to create some new ones...

    New Incendiaries weapon - uses Allen's M10 rocket (which is multi-LOD), resized & manipulated using MCX, new paint job meant to give the impression of a stick of firebombs. Then recompiled using Robert John's "Exploding Objects using FS2002" batch files & tutorial.

    New 2000lb Cookie (the Hally couldn't use the 4000lb cookie). Just Shessi's 4000lb Cookie slimmed down (real thing was 18" vs 30" diameter of the 4000lb cookie) & recompiled as above.

    New MkIV RAF Mine - just the Groundcrews Mk1 mine resized & recompiled as above - fits the bomb-bay better.

    Once I'm settled with the performance of the new DP file I'll use it to complete the cargo birds & then it's just flight testing to do...

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    Aahh, yes. Gratuitous destruction and mayhem... on steroids!

    Well done UT!

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    Almost there - template for the Bomber version is completed ...

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    John,

    Very nice, I always look forward to your new creations!
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    Last night I streamed (Amazon) the movie "Halifax At War: The Story of A Bomber."

    It was awesome. They covered in detail all of the combat versions and what the differences were between them as well the cargo/transport Haltons.

    Looking forward to these!

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    some repaints, & then I'll begin uploading...

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    Excellent!


    Thanks, UT!

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    Outstanding work Uncle. Does she come with a bombsight?

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    Ravenna, I might have to leave that to somebody else. I've tried for days now to configure a bombsight as a fixed window & it just doesn't want to work for me - I must be missing something in my Test Install config I think. The bitmaps are done, but it won't switch to show the bombsight view except facing forwards, very puzzling.

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    The transport zip has been uploaded.

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