#3151896 - 07/07/10 12:39 AM
Re: Friday update
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A quick buzz around the docks to check on the Empire. Too late for tea at the Strand. Does that mean it's time for a gin & tonic? The wharf is about half done. Gold leaf goes onto the Schwedagon Pagoda this week. The end is now in sight...at a distance...but it's in sight.
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#3151897 - 07/08/10 02:17 AM
Re: Friday update
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A couple more from today. Pic of the tiles pre-wharf, pre-buildings, pre-gold paint. mppd is right on time with the gold paint. Pretty amazing... Banzai...soon
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#3151903 - 07/22/10 05:10 PM
Re: Friday update
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Burma is mostly done. It's all Excel, Word and Notebook now. All the secondary strips are done. The design of the major airports is done. Cities. Villages. We will stop developing it beyond February 28, 1942 for now. I am always surprised at the scenes I stumble upon while doing this. TK's engine can create great scenery. Ki51 at Nakhon Sawan (before I planted the buildings). I wanted some smoke so I blew up the adjacent village for this shot. Landing P-40B at Hmabi or Highland Queen, an important RAF (later IJAAF) dispersal field north of Rangoon. (There's a restaurant in the town that has a dirt floor, no running water except a hose hanging from the ceiling, chickens beneath your feet and great noodles. On every table are bowls, spoons and handguns. You get great service when you put a .45 next to your tea cup.) Some nice scenery near the southern coast of Thailand. A daytime shot of the same scene...I think. Pearl Harbor Lifting off at Saigon to sink the Prince of Wales. A shot from Prachuap Khirikhan. Landing at Kyedaw Airfield at Toungoo...the scene of our first Training Mission. Take off and land the squirrely P-40 and Hurricane. Carrier quals will be at sea aboard the Kaga. A shot of the not-finished-yet major airport layout.
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#3151905 - 07/24/10 12:41 AM
Re: Friday update
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Going back to the start picking up some details. Flying jets in Wings Over Vietnam, this detail is often superfluous but in WWII, you are going to see it in the game. So we had to paint some things that had been passed over by the brush before. Ford Island Bldg 5. It's in all the pictures behind the USS California...you' see. Splinter City is what the GI's called the wooden barracks. The lawn around Base Ops and a few more splotches on the Double Hangars. The correct windows on Hickam Barracks (aka "The Hotel") ...a strafe target, by the way. Those oil tanks... ...and those, too. And this landmark. Then some shots from Kunming...and Guilin. The above P-51B a very nice model from Wolf that we have not remapped yet so we can slap on thicker paint. It's nice workmanship. That's Friday's update. Non-stop until the release which will occur when there is no surface left unpainted, all the missions work as hoped and a couple of planes and ships are repainted. Most of the ground objects you see at Oahu are by mppd...a most excellent prop man. Banzai.
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#3151906 - 07/24/10 02:49 AM
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Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! Zerocino, I know you and others have put in tremendous blood, sweet & tears for Rising Sun, after this is completed and we in the sim world get enjoy this work of art, could it be a consideration in the future to think of another add-on for SFP1. The ETO and Pacific theaters have been done repeatedly, maybe (and that's a BIG maybe) doing the MTO/North Africa theaters??? just a thought/hint/wish/bug in the ear/idea maybe toss around. Thanks again for your great work. Hotrodss
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#3151907 - 07/24/10 03:18 AM
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General Short called.
He said get the damned jeeps off the grass. He's afraid his Rotie's will be next.
Looking good.
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#3151909 - 07/25/10 04:10 PM
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I know the water tower was painted that color. I thought the top of the control tower was painted that color as well. I'm having a very hard time finding a good shot of the tower either before or during the attack.
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#3151910 - 07/25/10 06:29 PM
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Not sure if this shot of the tower helps? It is of Ford Island hangars after the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/HI/FordIs_HI_41Dec7_burning.jpg
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#3151911 - 07/25/10 06:37 PM
Re: Friday update
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I have never seen a picture of the Ford Island tower in dark gray. So we go with what we have for now. Mike's picture is pretty tiny but I see it way back there in the back. It seems to have contrasting "colors". It's only paint. If we get a better shot of that day we will repaint it. Here is the water tower again with Building 55 behind the California. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g30000/g32456.jpgThe destroyed model of the California lists just like the real one. All you have to do is hole it. I wish we could do smoke like that but it would lug down any computer we are likely to play on. Hopefully, you will be so engrossed in the mission that you won't notice anyway. The first time you will get a close look, you will be pulling out of a dive bomb pass on some PBY's on the south end of the island. You should have it at about 11 o'clock on your pull. On every subsequent mission, there will be smoke and bullets in the air.
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#3151913 - 07/26/10 03:28 AM
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Mike, that is the picture of the water tower, not the main tower. I couldn't find a pre-war pic of the tower. There has to be one out there but I can't find it.
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CD WOFF
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