Contra-prop toys for the SOH boys and girls

[lazarus]

Naughty or nice-not my job
Merry Christmas.

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PD Shackleton Mr.2's and AEW.2. Still want to do a bit of tuning up.
Robert kindly donated some spare Shack props and spinners from his MR.3, it uses the Mr.3 VC and sounds, too.
I butched out a set of observer bubbles to replace the missing ones, the animation assignments have not changed.
All three variants of Paul Fosters classic tail dragger.
Drive link : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BR...g93NWbvK8F0get

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Mr. Ito's BP.100- Never made it off the drawing board, but who doesn't like a Griffon and contraprop pusher canard?
Goes like hell, not sure the ventral rad would have been a great idea for a ground attack machine. Quite a nice little model from the master.
I wonder what the naming convention would have been had it been ordered to production? The Boulton-Paul Blender?
Drive link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10a...iKuPNK-KHE2C34

Happy hoho

[Drzook]

Thank you very much and a Merry Christmas to you as well!
(I'm on the nice list but I'm pretty sure it was due to a clerical error)

[blanston12]

Thanks for those, but I did notice a couple issues.

First with the P.100, there are no gauges, the panel.cfg refers to gauges including p51d and BF109e that do not appear to be standard issue.

Secondly they both alias "Avro Shackleton MR3\sound" which Robs Mk3 itself aliases "P51_Racer\sound", which only exists if you have FSXA installed.

[lazarus]

Well, gosh! Probably shouldn't upload loaded. Hell- had a coconut full of shaved ice and rum for breakfast. Forgot the gauges- and the shackleton...most folks have put in a better sound pack to replace the stock mustang by now. A sound alias is a pretty basic hack.
I think the BP.100 uses default gauges or ones so common that most every one has the gauges in the gauge file- it's an FSX compatible panel- I don't even think it came with any gauges, and the panel went just fine when I ran it right before U/L.
What's the little disclaimer say...'some assembly required'. Ain't Christmas without rooting in the junk drawer for batteries.

[harrybasset]

Thank you very much for the Shackletons Lazarus, I can find a suitable soundset or two without any difficulty. I think it's great you take such pains to update these British classics for us.

[paul day]

Gary Jones released a Shackleton Soundset available on Flightsim.com.

Regards Paul Day.

[Sundog]

...and a blender full of a Merry Christmas to you as well!

[Jafo]

Well, gosh!
What's the little disclaimer say...'some assembly required'. Ain't Christmas without rooting in the junk drawer for batteries.

Sometimes the best part of a prezzy is the assembly ...

[lazarus]

P.100 gauges, the F-16HUD and AP, those are really common- I'd expect most folks have those lurking in their installs.
This is the P51, Me109 and P38 gauge files, probably not too esoteric.
Search, 'Garry Jones' for the sound pack, as noted above.

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Looking through the files, remembered another old fav that was converted up a while back, fits thematically...Though I have no idea
how contraprops are thematically related to Christmas, other than there's a lot of rum and blender action on this end of the mojo wire.
A bit dated, but holds up very well, Eugene Heyart's Merlin- sort of a giant, twin Shinden.
Loads of fun, and I have to go back and look at his PZL super steam Otters- everybody loves those.

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Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uI...Hpj0p85jt9VT4A