Hi Folks,
Gone back to re-vamping the Alphasim PBY/Catalina for a change of pace. Still lots to do, but getting there.
New crews for USN (spot the cigarette in the crewmans mouth?) and Coastal Command, so now with rear opening blisters, and swinging out machine guns with crew.
The texture mapping is a nightmare, there are 58 separate textures!! I may combine some of the minor ones, but it will then upset the add-on texs already done (Mick, Beepee and others), so prob not.
Now some advice, although the PBY5 seems to have only been used by the USN (Blackcats VP54 etc), there were some 683 made for the US military (some going to CC as MkIVs), that's a lot of flying boats out there. Were they mixed with amphibians in squadrons or?
Did most have single 50 cals in the rear blisters or twin 50 cals?
I will also have a PBY US depth charge loaded version.
Seen here with incorrectly mounted, but looking good, texs by Mick and Beepee, and Alpha's not bad but will be tweaked CC colours.
Cheers
Shessi
ps Again no time-line on these...
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