John, I really enjoy following your progress through New Guinea here! Looks great!
John, I really enjoy following your progress through New Guinea here! Looks great!
The next scenery pack is almost ready for release.
This extends along the northern coast of PNG from where previous Houn Gulf package ended, just north of Finschhafen, & gets you as far west as Hansa Bay.
Some of the pre-war landing grounds of the Eastern Highlands will be included. Although of limited use in a Combat Sim, they have interesting histories, & some should be just as challenging as landing back on a pitching & rolling carrier deck ...
For example,
I'll include the strip at Aiyura. The Australian Army Terrain study called this strip "a death trap", only suitable for lightly loaded DH Dragon or similar. Situated in a bowl shaped valley, the runway was ringed by tree cover. It had a hill at the SE end, & was only used uphill, towards this hill! The location was also reported to be susceptible to cross winds
SW of Madang we have the landing ground at Amele.
Built close to the river, its short grass runway had an approach over trees & hill escarpments to its East.
The runway was spongy, with potholes covering the SW end of the clearing, so the Australians quickly determined it completely useless for operations, even by light aircraft...
Can't wait. These look great!
December '41
Pearl Harbour has brought the USA into the War - proper
The Japs have just sunk Prince of Wales & Repulse
Badly needed supplies to the UK are being lost to the deadly combination of Fw200C Condor shadowers & U-Boat wolfpacks
802 sqn FAA deploys with HMS Audacity, the world's first CVE, to give Captain Walker & the escorts for convoy HG76 some mobile air cover
We have Sub Lt. Eric Winkle-Brown overflying the convoy as it heads North towards the Bay of Biscay & back home to Blighty
June 1943, Operation Toenails is underway to the North.
Distant cover is being provided by USS Saratoga & USS "Robin"
Spring 1944, & the encirclement of Rabaul is completed with the capture of the Admiralty Islands & the St. Matthias Island Group NW of Kavieng, New Ireland.
SeaBees get to work & quickly establish a significant airbase on Emirau Island...
Those skins and this air base are looking very nice
Nice work being done by these Seabees, John!
Gave the diggers some time off, spending some time improving my G- Max skills ...
Still a WIP ...
It's a frankenstein mash-up of the Pakayan/Sandydog Martin 139 WH-3, with elements of Paul Clawson's B-10, & crew figures adapted from Dave Garwood's Avro Anson crew ...
Good work John - have you seen the pictures of M598 at Darwin on this site https://www.ozatwar.com/airfields/raafdarwin.htm ?
Hi UncleTgt
Looking good.
Happy New Year.
Cheers
Stuart
The diggers are back at work...
You'll be in Dutch New Guinea soon.
These look very good, John!
Well, now... Looks like a feast just ahead!
"De Oppresso Liber"
Just making sure this thread doesn't drop off page 1 ...
Oh god, really nice camo. Is this like what you did for Akemi's Zeros? I am so much looking to this
Another teaser
Or maybe this one ...
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