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Old 11-08-16, 01:43 PM   #12
mikey117us
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I am committed to porthole correction ( including eyebrows on casing portholes etc. ) your PN# configuration for hull numbers. And texture improvements. So far I have in mind 1: as built 1939 RN and Canadian versions, minesweeping gear on, short forcastles, mast stepped to the main deck fore of the wheelhouse, tall aft mast with high backbone rigging. And a closed bridge. In the pic you may see I rebuilt the Mark II DC Rack to the taller version. On the Canadian versions The pom pom will be aft of the engine casing skylight, the stern will be squared off and the flagstaff on the stern. Also on Canadian versions with MS gear the DC racks are offset. 2: improved flower class corvette with lenghthened forcastles. This will represent refits/newly commissioned ( pre destroyer bridge with mast still forward MS gear removed ) these will include Arctic/Med up gunned versions with up to six 20mm AA guns. I customized the carly floats with Light crib decking and ropes, color is not changed yet, i plan to appropriately change wooden decks through the war with non skid. And earliest versions will be minus 271/ 2w1-c radar. I offset the 271 radar from the centerline. I am about to rip the walls off the bridge and replace them with handrails skirted with the splinter mats which I need to resize. Earlier versions will just show canvas covers on the handrails. And next add correct entry doors and add Windows to the wheelhouse. Real life got in the way and I stopped all work for two months but I am getting back into it this week. I modded two items in UK_guns I built a single 20mmGB out of the double and put it on the stock mount from guns.dat and the Mark IV depth charge thrower and DC barrel fall now throws the expendable arbor stand. Corvettes no two are identical so I am basing the Canadian on the Sackville as seen in photos and various RN versions in photos for the RN. For instance one detail in the screenshot where the aft carly floats were I modeled a square frame with L Beams with 55 gallon drums stowed in its own framed container and smoke emissions equipment. Based on a 1941 photo of a corvette taking on ammunition and stores. Those drums were for war alcohol used in the depth charge throwers. Sorry for the lengthy reply I will do a WIP thread later. I may have other questions in seperate threads from other modders and with permissions have mods within this mod beta tested. Right now this Corvette has waterstreams added to the hull. ( also the hull vanes from bathurst ) I have 6 corvettes and two V&W destroyers escorting Warspite and Hood and a Leander and London Class, and a bathurst filling in as a bangor. Plus a polish Grom and Barrasque, all escorting a fake Baltic polish relief force convoy in a Storm. Several MFM merchants and Laconia are in the force. Facing Bismark, Graf Spee, emden and a Z-flotilla of destroyers supported by Luftwaffe HE-111s. My mod soup includes 20km environment Shiv effects fir shiii, and its a rainy heavy sea, using FM interior2d and u-boat compilation mod. All 6 corvettes Hunt well and don't rob resources even with waterstreams. ( so far )
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