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[UncleTgt]

These islands lie to the North of Papua, but needed doing as the stock renditions are pretty basic, & don't match up well once Rhumbas mesh is installed. They saw very little wartime activity...

 

[ElsnerMarkus]

Just left Innsbruck and north bound to Munchen, Germany. Nice scenery.

Oh ? Was there .
upgrade of the Germany scenery? I didn't find Lake Constance nicely animated, there were some air raids on targets in Friedrichshafen

 

[stoney]

It's JHS Germany.

 

[UncleTgt]

Finally got to Hollandia.

 

[kdriver]

Well done John! How far are you going? It's only another 665 miles to Sorong.

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Well done indeed, John!

 

[UncleTgt]

Well done John! How far are you going? It's only another 665 miles to Sorong.

Kev, this will probably be as far west as I go, it's a natural endpoint for anyone wanting to recreate 5th AF's campaign in PNG, & its another long stretch West to get to Wakde...

The most interesting parts of the Air War in PNG can all be recreated once I release this, assuming someone wants to that is , and a large part of the RAAF's contribution can be modelled using the same sceneries. Missions after the JAP AF's annihilation at Hollandia can get pretty repetitive a series of mud moving trips or barge busting missions, with very little air opposition....

Anyway, back Eastwards the Admiralty Islands chain looks like a good candidate to rework next. This would complete the isolation of Rabaul ...

 

[skylane]

assuming someone wants to

Someone definitely does! Work is in progress.

Thanks for all these beautiful sceneries, John!

 

[kdriver]

I agree John. MaskRider covered Dutch New Guinea pretty well in any case.

Manus and the other Admiralty Islands are a good choice. With Hollandia out of the way, I think that will leave Palau as the only location where CFS2 stock scenery still survives.

Thanks Skylane - that's welcome news. I have been intermittently modifying existing missions out of Port Moresby to suit John's Moresby airfields. However, I haven't made a start on the targets, such as Lae or Buna.

Keep up the great work both of you!

 

[Hiede]

My son has been working on a mission when Enterprise was sent to Hollandia to give air cover for Mac Arthur.

Hiede

 

[UncleTgt]

Just finishing the gsl work...

 

[UncleTgt]

Comparison with OOB CFS2...

Note how Rhumbas mesh improves things.

Why MS thought Hollandia strip was close to the town's location is anyone's guess...

 

[UncleTgt]

Tami strip was East of Humboldt Bay. Never used by the Japanese, the US finished it & used for resupply missions to get round the logjam at the beach-heads.

They unloaded at the mouth of the Tami river (off to the left of the pic), trucked them to Tami Strip & loaded them onto a shuttle of C-47's flying into the first runway the Engineer's got working at the Hollandia strip complex

 

[UncleTgt]

A couple more - Hollandia town & closer look at the Humboldt Bay area

 

[msfossey]

Looks amazing UncleTgt; thank you for all your beautiful work.

msfossey

 

[bearcat241]

Excellent!

 

[UncleTgt]

Anyone making missions for Hollandia will need some aircraft wrecks ...

I followed Allen's lead & plundered the stock Oscar model as the basis for an IJAAF fighter wreck. mLOD & 3 different damage/wreck models for some variety.

Still very much a WIP

 

[Deathwind]

This is Allen's 109. Couldn't find any textures for it and I'm not a painter. Slapped a few decals. made the exhaust texture look better to me anyway. This is a Heinz 57 Unit meaning it looks good but nobody flew this thing.

https://ibb.co/YN4FYGW

 

[skylane]

A few pictures of UncleTgt´s Ki-43 wrecks. Here´s a row of parked planes at Wewak:



And here, the same planes turned into wrecks after dropping some parafrags on them:

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Skylane: nice B-25! Where did you find her?