Not many toys today. We are putting on the make up now. A few doodads.

Some new pits:

P-40B final



Hurricane



B5N2



A much needed car. Thanks Gramps.



A conning tower. It's just no fun attacking a periscope.







But mostly this stuff. Story telling.











Banzai!

FYI, Photobucket bandwith exceeded, no shots visible.

Edit: Visible now.

Brilliant stuff from the wizards who brought us YAP and YAP2. Some of those shots are mouth-watering. Good luck in the final phases of finishing this undoubted gem.

This looks very promising. Looking forward to the finished product.

Question concerning the second 'story' page. It is mildly confusing.

You make it sound like the bomb dropped by the level Kate was on the Oklahoma. This was the Arizona if I know my history and the 'picture' you have of course shows the bomb site on the Arizona (with the Vestal next to her). The Arizona isn't mentioned.

The picture is of the attack on the Arizona. You have that right.

The Oklahoma took four torpedoes in rapid succession and started to list towards the holes. It was also bombed heavily. In fact, they were all hit numerous times by several types or ordinance as well as strafed. The Arizona, I think, had avoided much attention up to the point that it was destroyed because the Vestal was so uninviting a target to the air crews.

Looking at Fuchida's map drawn while circling overhead Pearl Harbor, there are no "slashes" (marks he made denoting a torpedo attack) directed at those two ships. So she got hit once and for all but the attack itself was an all-out onslaught.

The text for Pearl Harbor is entirely from John Toland's The Rising Sun and might not exactly match up with the picture. The pictures are entirely from my screwing around with the missions and snapping shots and almost never match up to anything. Usually they are taken of errors...like fuel gauges that fill up or cars driving along 8" in the air.

The storyboards for Pearl Harbor are done as are those for Force Z and Wake Island. I will complete Burma (or this portion of it) tomorrow. Mike is making needles and gauges do what they are supposed to. He is also making guns point where their bullets go. I am painting a few cockpits and smearing gunk on some ships. Little details but these are the face of the product and they make the first impression.

I guess that is where the confusion arises. It sounds a lot like the death of the Arizona, which of course was from a magazine explosion. The Oklahoma took several bomb hits but none was bad enough to make the ship a total writeoff. She of course could have been put back in service if they really wanted to but there was no reason to put a horribly damaged WW1 vintage Nevada class warship back into service so the OK ended up as scrap metal.

She did get the last laugh though, going down while under tow.

The list. The #$#%%^&!!! List. It's at ZERO items to go.

Final mission tweaks. Finish Burma storyboards tonight. Almost ready to go.

Here's a few shots from the mission Sandy Sandell. We almost skipped this. What a mistake that would have been.

First the mission.



Then a quote I love from Ed Rector taken from Dan Ford's book.



Our sincere recommendation. We cannot do any story justice in writing. These men have already done it.



Then, the First Pursuit swarming on the Lily bombers.



You knocking one down. If you don't fly like Chennault said, you will get popped.



Our new B5N2 pit which will be modified to go into the Ki-30 and Ki-51.



Our redo of Geo's F6F pit for the F4F-3.





Some shots of Davide Kliewer's submarine attack at Wake Island.





And last, a shot from Phase Two. We are lining up Hinch's carriers at the dock for paint finally. They promise to be works of art.



Back to work. No more 16-hour days after today.

Banzai!

And one from Wake Island, too.



And three from Force Z.

The storylines (and the screens) that go with the game are simply excellent! Puts this sim in a class of it's own. A clever and brilliant way of generating that all too nefarious feeling of immersion.