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Really looking forward to seeing that CAAA (can't be a CLAA with all those turrets).

That CLAA is not sensible. It is an Atlanta writ large - too many guns. And you cannot mount those 100 mms on the sides like that anyway - these are HEAVY mountings - bigger than 127s or 140s. The Japanese did study CLAAs and what they did was very much better - they shrank the design to a destroyer with four mountings. That ship had an AIR plot behind the bridge - the first in Japan. Japan had the first computerized air defense plot system in the world - "probably better than anything the Allies ever had" - from a book on radar just published. While six centerline mounts make some sense, the side mountings in Japanese studies were twin 76s - those fabulous ones for Ibuki and Oyodo - but which they failed to mass produce. Sort of the US 3 inch 50 much sooner.

I request art for a Ku-8 Glider in tow by a Ki-21 tug - an ex bomber,

I request art for the Ki-76 - imagine an up engined Feissler Storch - in JAAF colors. Possibly with its 1943 depth charge armament. This aircraft operated in a squadron off an Army carrier - a conversion of a transport into a full deck carrier. Must be the lightest carrier combat aircraft ever to fly in WWII - or maybe ever.

I request art for the Ki-76 - imagine an up engined Feissler Storch - in JAAF colors.

This one already done El ist in a set of aircraft on rouges site both sides and top/apha
I now have art for KU-8 glider and Ki-21 will create and post

Cobra Aus

Another one for you, Cobra. I'd like art for the J8M rocket interceptor, please.

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

I request art for the Ki-76 - imagine an up engined Feissler Storch - in JAAF colors.

This one already done El ist in a set of aircraft on rouges site both sides and top/apha
I now have art for KU-8 glider and Ki-21 will create and post

Cobra Aus

That's nice, but you'll never see it in the game. Transports are never displayed. And as a result, only A/C with offensive weaponry and those that have offensive missions available to them are seen in game.

Exactly. The tops are a waste of work, good as they are...

Another one for you, Cobra. I'd like art for the J8M rocket interceptor, please.

Done

Cobra Aus

That's nice, but you'll never see it in the game.

I Know that but I dont know how he is going to apply them after all I have airships and choppers in mine and they work ok

Cobra Aus

Yeah, but those are (I assume) patrol aircraft?

Nah I have a boatload of plane art wishes, just don't know where to start. I have photoes and other stuff about'em which I can post later on. ('Im sorry if any of them has been done before..)

So here it goes:

A7M Reppu - Sam
G8N Renzan -Rita
B7A1 Ryusei - Grace

and for the allies:

F7F Tigercat
F8F Bearcat
TBY SeaWolf (TBF Avanger's contender)
B-32 Dominator/Terminator
Douglas XB-31 (contender to B-29, was superior but palnning was more advanced on B-29) just imagine an enlarged Invader, but I have photoes of it's model, it's really a beautiful a/c.

Any of these would greatly help!

Thanks in advance!

I'm interested in the ex-DD banana boats that were acquired by the U.S. Army as blockade runners in early 1942. Names were Teapa, Masaya, and Matagalpa. All I have are a poor photo and a poorer schematic.

And the schematic:

ORIGINAL: csatahajos

A7M Reppu - Sam
G8N Renzan -Rita
B7A1 Ryusei - Grace

and for the allies:

F7F Tigercat
F8F Bearcat
TBY SeaWolf (TBF Avanger's contender)
B-32 Dominator/Terminator
Douglas XB-31 (contender to B-29, was superior but palnning was more advanced on B-29) just imagine an enlarged Invader, but I have photoes of it's model, it's really a beautiful a/c.

All but the TBY, B-31 and B-32 have been done.

I need if possible art work for the douglas XB-31 no luck so far if anyone finds please post

Cobra

That would be pretty hard to do as there probably isn't a drawing in existence of an XB-31.

The Douglas XB-31 was the third of four engineering designs resulting from US Army contracts issued on 27 June 1940. Two of the engineering designs (XB-29 & XB-32) resulted in prototype contracts; however, the XB-31, like the XB-30, was withdrawn from competition. The XB-31 never progressed past the basic engineering design phase.

The XB-31 design was never finalized, but the basic parameters were the same for all projects in the Very Long Range Bomber competition. The aircraft was to be powered by four Wright R-3350-13 radials of 2,200 hp. each and had an estimated gross weight of 88,500 lbs. A crew of twelve was projected, but some Douglas design studies had as few as eight crew members.

Source: National Museum of the United States Air Force, 2005. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research ... /b3-59.htm

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

I need if possible art work for the douglas XB-31 no luck so far if anyone finds please post

Cobra

That one never got off the drawing board, did it?

Anyway, I searched Boeing fast and came up empty. Good luck.

ex-DD banana boats

banana class

Cobra Aus

I have a boatload of plane art wishes

Artwork finished apart from XB-31 no art

sent to Spookie and rouge as well

Cobra Aus

They are very nice! A big thanks or them!

Terminus, where can I find those planesides that were done from my list?

Yep, the XB-31 wasn't built, but nevertheless it was a technically advanced design and was superior to the B-29. And finally it looks extremely cute ! I sent to CobraAus the only pics I have about it's model.