Requests For Artwork.

[GaryChildress]

Hi Big B, a couple of cancellations on ship orders. I hope you haven't started them already, though I suspect you are still on your holiday sabatical. I apologize for the sudden about face. Anyway I went ahead and did the French cruiser Lamotte Picquet and the Japanese CLAA just for kicks to see if I could do them and they seem to be in pretty good shape so I'm going to use them and relieve a little burden off the other artists in the forum. They're a little lackluster compared to your stuff but they'll work.

Thanks again for all the wonderful ships,

Gary

PS. would you be willing to send me a couple of pretty sunset or sky line templates I could use on future ships of my own. Maybe some different ones from the ones you've been using or something. I haven't figured out how to do backgrounds yet. [:)]

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

One more request for Big B. The French CL Lamotte Picquet. Interned in Siagon during the war, I'm going to put her in Australia instead as a member of the Free French navy. Unfortunately all I have is a somewhat sketchy

I have pictures if you want them.

But this ship should appear on the OTHER side! It could have been siezed at any time - and eventually WAS siezed by Japan!

I know. She was holed up in Saigon due to fuel shortages and was eventually left for the Japanese. However, I'm doing an alternative history mod whereby she escapes to Australia before that.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

It is 312 Kokutai. I can provide more data on request.

I'd like to see it.

[TheElf]

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

Hi Elf, did you ever get the opportunity to add those 5 extra Allied plane tops to your re-rendering of the stock plane top file? I apologize for being pushy. No rush though. [:)] I know you said you were working on them so I was just curious if you had already posted them somewhere and I had missed them.

Have a happy and safe New Year and thanks again for all the great art--making 2005 such a great year! [:)]

Gary

Doh! Holidays...sorry shipmate, I got sidetracked and then forgot. Tends to happen when knee deep in COD2[;)]

I am working on Alikchi's Fisher Eagle today, so I will look at your request...

[Sneer]

if you want to add new ship give it to Japan - so little capital ships are under construction during war that it will be more fun overall
think about French (Japan) vs Uk RN

[el cid again]

This is almost certainly wrong. Ki-89 is and experimental aircraft.

Ki-52 was an experimental dive bomber in the right number series for when Val was around - 89 is too late in the series

and it was based on the Stuka -

but so was val

maybe it IS the same plane! Just army guns, army electrical voltage and army radio.

[Terminus]

Remember that the Ki-89 is for Iron Storm, an alternate history. Alikchi can do whatever he wants...

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

It is 312 Kokutai. I can provide more data on request.


I'd like to see it.

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Air Group 312 (meaning Kokutai, not Hikotai)

Formed 5 Feb 45

Formed to use Shusui version of Me 163 rocket fighter

Extraordinary cooperation of army, navy, industry and academics permitted this project in record time. Design: 1 month!

770 kmh max speed in this version.

Cieling 10,000 meters.

5.5 minutes endurance at full speed.

Commander CAPT Takeo Shibata
LCDR Masao Yamashita = air officer
LCDR Yorio Yamagata = group leader

Base: Yokosuka Air Arsenal

Training Unit location: Kasumigarura Air Group

24 A6M5 Zeros at training base unit.

MXY7 training gliders.

Positive ground control permitted interception without depending on the on board pilots understanding the situation. He only had to handle the final approach and weapons.

Time to 10,000 meters: about 3 minutes.

First test powered aircraft 7 July 45. Fuel tank valve malfunction caused a crash, ultimately but not immediately fatal. Cause immediately identified and fixed.

[el cid again]

Remember that the Ki-89 is for Iron Storm, an alternate history. Alikchi can do whatever he wants...

The difference between alternate history and science fiction is that you should put as much as you can in historical context - otherwise it isn't alternate "history." I thought possibly he did not know there is a real version - which I have identified as Ki-52. Why would one not use the real one?

[Daniel Oskar]

I was curious so I started digging through what references I have and found in Whitley's that Lamotte-Piquett spent a period in dock in Osaka Japan in September 1941. It seems unlikely that it would participate on the allied side.

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: Daniel Oskar

I was curious so I started digging through what references I have and found in Whitley's that Lamotte-Piquett spent a period in dock in Osaka Japan in September 1941. It seems unlikely that it would participate on the allied side.

I would imagine that Lamontte-Piquette spent a period in Osaka because she had been captured with the fall of French Indo-China, as she had been left in port due to fuel shortages. However, if I included her in the mod I would have her escape to Australia or the DEI before then.

Regards,

Gary

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: Sneer

if you want to add new ship give it to Japan - so little capital ships are under construction during war that it will be more fun overall
think about French (Japan) vs Uk RN

I suppose that would make things more interesting. However I sort of wonder why the Japanese never utilized her during the war in RL.

[TheElf]

Gary, is your F7F for Carrier use or land-based USMC use?

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: TheElf

Gary, is your F7F for Carrier use or land-based USMC use?

Hi Elf, land-based USMC use.

Many thanks! [:)]

[el cid again]

I have permission to add some ships to the CHS release, but there is no art - so they will look like other allied ships - unless someone makes art (or has art) we can use. The need is urgent for this release:

Kirov CA (early form, not much AA)
Leningrad DL (same)
Gavriil DD
Gnevnyi DD
L (Leninetz, Leninet) SS
M (Maiodki, Malyuika) SS
Shch (Shchuka) SS
Stalinetz SS
G5 MTB
Albatros DE
Dzherzhinski Coast Guard Escort
US Admirable MS in Russian colors
US SC subchasers in Russian colors

[el cid again]

I suppose that would make things more interesting. However I sort of wonder why the Japanese never utilized her during the war in RL.

There was also a submarine in Indochina - actually decomissioned.
The cruiser and the sub were laid up for lack of spares - France fell in 1940. It is not easy to deal with that when you don't have French design plans and factories!

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: Daniel Oskar

I was curious so I started digging through what references I have and found in Whitley's that Lamotte-Piquett spent a period in dock in Osaka Japan in September 1941. It seems unlikely that it would participate on the allied side.


I would imagine that Lamontte-Piquette spent a period in Osaka because she had been captured with the fall of French Indo-China, as she had been left in port due to fuel shortages. However, if I included her in the mod I would have her escape to Australia or the DEI before then.

Regards,

Actually, Indochina was VICHY French and so her forces were ALLIED to Japan, nominally. Japan did not take over the ship until she killed all the French officers - 1944 I think- at some special dinner! [Only one unit escaped - a FFL "regiment" (battalion) at Hanoi didn't send its officers to the "dinner" and instead began a dramatic march - to Kunming - up the rail line! They then joined the Allies!] Japan COULD HAVE taken over the ship and other assets sooner, but didn't.

Thai ships damaged in a brief war in 1940 with France were also repaird in Japan. Thailand did the reverse - a nominal ally of Japan the Thai staged a coup on the Japanese in 1945.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

I have permission to add some ships to the CHS release, but there is no art -

Cobra did some Soviet ships a while back, in his first "what if" pack.

[Monter_Trismegistos]

From where do you guys take names for types of Soviet submarines? K1 and S1 did not have other names, and their letters stands from sredniya = medium and kreyzerskaya = cruiser size, the same method as M from malutka = tiny. Stalinetz was a submarine of L type (L2 actually).

[TheElf]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: el cid again

I have permission to add some ships to the CHS release, but there is no art -

Cobra did some Soviet ships a while back, in his first "what if" pack.

Yes Cobra did some ships, The Kirov...