crazyeddie

Excellent Mod - Already thinking of Livery options for HMS Ocean, LSL Sir Galahad, HMS Battleaxe, Brazen and Broadsword. ?

Nice workmanship, looking forward to skinning this.

The site has been like that for a while now with everyone's images, sometimes they show up, often they don't. I had trouble posting images a while ago, the site would take the image but all I could see was a flashing white page, and I often get that with other peoples images as well. No idea what the problem is, but your not alone. I blame aliens.

Superb workmanship, well executed and beautifully detailed. well done.

Rubbish, I said it was a very minor criticism of what is already a superb map, I'm sure they appreciate our opinions if you dont.

There is a modern RAF Hospital complex at Cape Zevgari, not the industrial type buildings shown, and the Bloodhound Missile Site at Paramali to the SW of Episkopi has large fuel tanks on the old missile launch pads, all that is there now are the old launch pads, no fuel tanks. 2 very minor criticisms of what is now my favourite map, super job boys.

Admiral - Your CB-90H Fast Attack Craft. Do you have an .edm without the rather large flag on it, we trialled this craft a couple of years ago and I want to create a working Mod with it, but without the flag. The problem with the hangar door on the image above. Is it anything to do with the landing spot for the Merlin, it looks too far forward and the blades must be clipping the superstructure ? You might need to move that spot back a few feet, at a guess I would say the back wheels need to be on that deck strip just in front of the M and L letters. I appreciate that would make the lowered ramp VERY close to the flight deck edge but that is a very small flight deck and I suspect they had smaller helos in mind when they designed her.

- that looks much better.

An enlarged version. There is a quick release wire across the top of the gaps, certainly on the left hand, unclear if there is one on the right but imagine there would be. None lower down the other ropes and wires are related to the mechanism to inflate it when it gets dumped over the back end, and something related to whatever that thing right in the middle is. Just realised the thing in the middle is the Marker Bouy for Man Overboard ... sorry about the crap image duplication, the site is doing some really weird things lately, cant delete that !!!

Try these 2 Admiral, it shows the arrangement quite well. The guard rails do not go along the full width, there are gaps for the 2 liferafts to be rolled off the stern with barriers each side of them. There are 2 black lines that look like guardrail wires but that is the seam of the life rafts, it's a slight optical illusion. Different ship I realise, but I image they were all very similar in this respect.

Given the in game issues with wheel animation for helo mods this Mod would look much better if you left the wheel down permanently. When helos are working with underslung loads or close to the ground for any other evolution it is normal to have the wheels down, and lets face it it would look better than hovering 2 feet off the deck with static blades. Just an observation.

Admiral. There is a similar problem on the side window of the flight deck office, from the side you can see through that to the sea below, its only a small hole though, the black blanking behind it just needs extending a little bit to fill the gap. Super little ship mate, well done.

There are 2 large holes in the focsle, in front of the gun - you can see right through to the sea below ... image attached.

Urbi - I have installed the Ch-53 and Admirals Patuxent and I have no issues with either the normal or glass texture files in our AW101 Mod - as you can see for yourself in these images. The glass on the CH53 is a mess but thats how it was when I last looked at it a while ago and there is nothing I can do about that. It may be something to do with how you have your game and other mods set up but I cannot replicate your issues , sorry. I tried to put the Ch53 on the Patuxent deck but it falls right through, nothing I can do about that either. I use a completely different Patuxent Mod.

The link to the Ch53 is broken and has been broken for a while, but I will try to download both of those Mods and see if I can do anything to help. This site is also acting up badly at the moment and its difficult to even make a posting at times. !!!

Use the normal that's provided in the Mod. I cant do anything about people creating Mods that use the same name for texture files in different mods, I keep telling people to use unique names for texture files in their mods but that's all I can do, sorry. I dont use that version of the Patuxent, nor do I have the Ch53 so cannot see an issue with either. As more and more groups create ever more complex mods the issue of conflicts gets worse and worse, for example a US Flag, if you name it "US_Flag.dds" for example and anyone else uses that same name then the Mod that gets listed first in the Mission Editor will be seen first and thats the texture that will appear. If YOU were to change that flag to another country's texture then if it is listed above the other Mod in the drop down then thats the flag you will see. That is just one of the many Conflict issues that are getting worse, there are many more and I wont bore you with it. I only paint the Mods, others make them, I can advise and try to cajole but its up to them after that.

Small Update - Added RCN Cyclone livery for Admirals HMCS Montreal. https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqz1g3l3y9x5zr9/Admiral156 and crazyeddie's AH101 Merlin V3.zip?dl=0

Thanks, I missed that post.

Bump ?

About 20 or so years ago I went up to RNAS Yeovilton for a presentation by Lt Cdr Adrian Orchard on the future of the Fleet Air Arm. He was CO of 800 Sqn flying Harrier Gr9’s at the time. One of the subjects I raised at the questions session afterwards was what were they going to replace the Sea King airframes with, they were close to retirement then and there was no plan. I suggested the Merlin was the ideal airframe for the Jungglies (846, 845 and 848 Sqns). The RN already had the HC2 version in service at sea and the technical support in place. Another 45 or so airframes would be ideal or 24 if they cut the sqns down to 8 apiece, which was being suggested at the time. He said that was not an option, the HC3 Merlin was not blade folding and was not suitable for Cdo Ops, which I suggested was complete bollocks (I had served in 846 and 845 sqns so I did know something about the subject). There was also the matter of cost, they did not have the budget to buy any more airframes, so I suggested we take the RAF airframes and get them blade folding capable. He stopped the conversation by saying it would almost certainly require a complete rethink for the RN and he favoured Chinooks, which was a crazy idea given the amphibious ships we had then (HMS Ocean). They would have to stay on deck or be blade stripped to go below, which would make their usefulness in an assault to be almost zero. The Chinook is a fine helicopter, but it isn’t navalised and it would suffer badly at sea, on an open deck. Stealing the airframes from the RAF was the only option in the end. All of those airframes are being converted to HC3/4 standard with folding blades etc etc and they will equip 846 and 845 Sqns with them in the Commando Helicopter Force, based at RNAS Yeovilton. 848 Sqn was disbanded in 2016. 847 Sqn (formerly 3 Cdo Bde Air Sqn based in Plymouth) now provides armed support to the force flying Wildcats. I served in that for 2 years when it was in Plymouth. Cant see the AW 139 being suitable for RAF Troop lift, executive toys at best !! More Merlins I would say, and make them HC4 capable to fly from carriers, spread the load so to speak.

I had to move the V1 and the bow smoke marker inboard a little bit because of the placement of the cat on the Melbourne, and I think the deck angle may have been slightly different for them both as well, so it has to be a little bit of a compromise. Would be nice to have a decent Corsair for her, in due course I believe.

Here you go, these livery files were created for the version of the Melbourne that I am running in my game, it may not be up to date in which case you may have to alter the description and file details to fit your game. That's easy enough to do, just copy what's in the other livery folders, the formats are the same (or should be !). Grey deck and Green decks included, pick the one you want and ditch the other one. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxbtoatxs9tvbq8/ARA Independencia.zip?dl=0

I always finish my own work, and I intended to finish this one day along with a couple of others I was working on, todays as good a day as any for this one. The image I am working from shows the main deck colours to be grey, darker on the flight line, but I'll do you both grey and green. I have had to move some things a little out of alignment with the actual deck because its not the same ship or the same era, so what you see is what you get.