Very nice looking SBD.


Wheels

Finished.





Next up: Doolittle's Raiders, Lexington's paint and we are ready to go.

NICE!

VF-6 aboard the Enterprise. Everyone is the right color now.









Still screwing around with the Lexington model...has a glitch. Darwin's in. Awaiting B-25B and Japan final.

Very nice. Those F4-F's are top-notch and the carriers look awesome.

Every time I see an F4-F I have a slight feeling of pity I love flying them all the same.

Cheers

Deadline: June 4th.

These are some random shots from the Battle of Midway. Two more missions to rough out: Hiryu hitting the Yorktown and the Hiryu itself being hit.

We are going to set the battle up as it was and rely upon your own scouting to locate and direct your own strikes.

Test bed. Actually, this is the Arizona but we needed the catapult


If you dead reckon correctly, that will be you up there recording the location of the USN.


While this PBY makes a water take off from the lagoon at Midway to find the IJN.




Langdon Fieberling takes VT-8's new TBF's into battle.


Japanese dive bombers arrive at Midway...


...and begin to take the place apart.




Torpedo 8 is intercepted by Zeroes from all four carriers.


Myths dispelled. By the time these were in the air, the die was cast.


Flagship of Kido Butai, the Akagi.


We need an effect in the water around that ship. All this work and that looks like Ms. Pacman.


Next: Hiryu's Revenge and the battle's end. Lots of tweaking. Lots of work but it will be ready by the anniversary of Midway.

Nice preview.


Wheels

Nice.

Let me know. Plan on getting this up pretty quickly. This should be some real fun.

June 4th. Midway Day.

The deadline is approaching. It's going to be close but I think we will make it on time.

It is important to all of us that this Phase of Rising Sun be more than a bunch of missions. It is history that is still alive and the story of an epic sea battle that ranks in importance with Salamis and Trafalgar...very different, but in the essential ways, exactly the same. We try to give meaning to phrases in books that the words do not describe sufficiently.

Here are a few teasers.



We start with Butch O'Hare then go to the Doolittle Raid: 3 missions



Raid on Tulagi and Battle of the Coral Sea: 13 missions











Battle of Midway:

Start by flying patrols to locate the enemy. Your results determine where you fly the strike.







Launch from the Tone to find the US Fleet. Then send the strike to that location.



The famous story of Torpedo 8 but through the eyes of the men defending their carriers against it. Wild!







Lt. DeWitt Shumway finds the Hiryu.