Shep's Graphical Artwork (Planes, Ships, etc)

[MadmanRick]

Supermarine Spitfire Type 355 (Mk. V):


Royal Air Force:


Royal Navy:

[DuckofTindalos]

Any chance of those Floatfires with pre-SEAC roundels? They're great, obviously.[&o]

[MadmanRick]

Which would you like Termy, type A or A1 (yellow surround)?

[DuckofTindalos]

Type A1, on the RAF Floatfire, please.

[MadmanRick]

By request:

Spitfire Type 355:

[DuckofTindalos]

NICE![&o][&o][&o]

You, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

[MadmanRick]

Nakajima A4N1:

[Herrbear]

Whenever possible, could you do a Martin 139W for Thailand. Thank you.

[MadmanRick]

Lockheed P2V-2 Neptune, since the Neptune didn't actually see squadron service until well after the war (1947-8), the markings are highly speculative. But, here is what it would've looked like if it had been given a higher priority:

[MadmanRick]

I've already got a CAF Martin 139 on the list, so I've added one in RTAF markings as well.

[MadmanRick]

The Beech XA-38 Grizzly, in 3 different schemes:


USAAF Day Attack scheme


USAAF Night Intruder scheme


USN scheme (hypothetical PBJ replacement as the AB-1)

[DuckofTindalos]

That's a rather unattractive airplane...[X(]

[MadmanRick]

Indeed, however from what I could glean about the Grizzly it was a thoroughbred, done in more by the fact that it used the same engines as the B-29 than anything else. It also didn't help that a little thing called the jet engine had come along either. The Grizzly was armed with a 75mm cannon, 2 FF .50 cals and 4 turret mounted .50's, as well as 2000 pounds of additional ordinance! A fascinating "what-if"!

[RyanCrierie]

ORIGINAL: MadmanRick

Indeed, however from what I could glean about the Grizzly it was a thoroughbred, done in more by the fact that it used the same engines as the B-29 than anything else. It also didn't help that a little thing called the jet engine had come along either.

You've pretty much summarized a major reason why a lot of "what if" projects died.

1.) Lack of Engines -- either the original engines for them never materialized; or were being used for the B-29 or follow-on programs. There are unlimited R-2800s; not so R-3350s...

2.) Jets -- now everyone wants JET PROPELLED PERFORMANCE. It became the buzzword.

That said; it's a crying crying shame the XA-38 was never put into service; it actually had very nice and docile handling characteristics for it's performance -- something a lot of experimental planes didn't have *cough northrop flying wings cough*.

[traskott]

Stop !! Stop !! I'm running out of slots !!!!


Just kidding... Please, continue !!!

[NormS3]

your not already?[:D]

[RyanCrierie]

Martin B-33A Super Marauder.

XB-33

The first version of the B-33 design, the XB-33, was a twin-tailed medium bomber with two Wright R-3350 engines and pressurised crew compartments; its design began in 1940. It would carry around 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) of bombs. Soon after design of the XB-33 began it became clear that a twin-engined aircraft would not achieve the performance requested by the army. The company moved on to developing a larger four-engined design and the two prototypes ordered by the USAAF were not built.

B-33A
Following the abandoment of the original twin-engined design the company continued to design a larger four-engined design and two prototypes were ordered by the USAAF as the XB-33A; its bombload was to have been 12,000 lb (5,443 kg), as much as that of the B-24 Liberator, the heaviest US bomber flown in combat prior to the B-29.

The original XB-33 design was to be powered by the R-3350, the redesigned XB-33A was to use Wright R-2600 engines. The main reason for this was demand for R-3350s for the B-29, one of the most highly valued projects of the Army Air Forces.

On January 17, 1942, the USAAF placed an order for 400 B-33As to be built at the government-owned plant in Omaha, Nebraska operated by Martin. On November 25, 1942 the project was cancelled to allow the Omaha plant to concentrate on manufacturing B-29s.

[MadmanRick]

Next up the Bell XFL-1 Airabonita, which was basically a navalized P-39. The aircraft was produced for the same proposal that brought about the Chance-Vought XF4U and Grumman XF5F. It had too many things working against it, such as unsolvable stability problems and chronically weak landing gear, as well as the fact that the Navy had banned the highly flammable coolant that in-line engines required from carriers and only one airframe was produced, but again an interesting "what-if":


Prototype pre-war markings


hypothetical 1942 markings


hypothetical 1943 markings


hypothetical 1944 markings

[RyanCrierie]

Okay. Put all the stuff over the last months into a game mod.

7.7 MB ZIP HERE

It replaces stock:

A_PlaneSide.bmp
Aptop.bmp
Aptop_alpha.bmp

in your ART folder, so back those up.

List of stuff in it HERE

I did not do rotating art for the FL Airacomet and for the P-50 Skyrocket because I was a bit tired of the whole thing by then.

Version 2 of course will add the AXIS (Japanese+German+Thai).

There are about 11 Allied aircraft slots left; which is why I'm a bit worried.

There's room to add the French into the game as a what if -- what if Vichy France had not completely folded to the Japanese; but I am very ambivalent on that -- since I'm sure MMR will come up with some new AWESOME units for the USN/USAF/UK.

[RalfBHV]

Great Work!

Thanks

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