Burma the game

Discussion in 'Burma & India' started by Bob Turner, Aug 27, 2012.

  1. Bob Turner

    Bob Turner Senior Member

    One model I'll have to build, or get someone else to :) is this hurricane. Is this the right one? Note the roundels on this, pretty obvious why when you think about it.

    I'll ask about this one as well while I'm on. Is this the right Sunderland?
     

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  2. Bob Turner

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    You can get individual SRTM hgt maps here. I still cannot find any with landsat colour maps to overlay on the digital elevation maps. Index of /srtm/version1/Eurasia
     
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  4. Bob Turner

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    Thanks Hebridean, I was trying to get a work round for adding an overlay to the 3dem elevation map. The map is one degree by one degree, So I used the ruler tool in google earth to draw a diagonal line, with the grid switched on. Then I zoomed into get a good fit on that line.

    Now really I should have opened the high res dem tiff file from 3dem in photoshop, then used the google earth image as a layer. Got it to fit properly and cropped it but I wanted proof of principle, so straight in to 3dem. Hopeless trying to fit it in there but the idea works. The map for a fly through looks pretty good. That's even with a not very high res google earth image.
     
  5. Bob Turner

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    Hi Idler, at the moment the amount of work isn't a concern. A lot of it will be fun to do, though I hate rigging figures! It also forces me to learn the ins and out of unity, which can't be a bad thing.

    I've got a good bit of the Sunderland done, what a pig to model. It's getting there though. I take it this thing has to land on land. It didn't land on the water when it went to that lake to pick up wounded and sick chindits? This is just so as I know if I need to add wheels to the model.
     
  6. Bob Turner

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    Here's how far I've got with the Sunderland. Looks like I forget about the wheels, I knew I'd seen one with wheels but it was just so it could land for air shows. I was confused by the accounts, where a landing strip had been built by that lake.

    The colour scheme looks like a grey blue top and a white underside but surely they would have given it a lick of camouflage as it was flying inland?

    A paint job and a good bump map and this model should pass muster from a distance. :unsure:
     
  7. Hebridean Chindit

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    No change to normal scheme - they were voluntary missions flying unprotected, hence their DFC's...

    The Sunderland was purely on-water landings - the "wheels" were classed as "beaching-gear" only and were really quite cumbersome to fit - find a guy called Kermit Weeks and his website - a great description of their peculiarities and he's the owner of the only flying example left in the world... you may be getting mixed up with a UK based Catalina that you may have seen, also white, that can use runways...

    The strip by the lake was purely for L1's and/or L5's...

    A link that has lots of pics of the example in Duxford...

    duxford sunderland - Google Search
     
  8. Bob Turner

    Bob Turner Senior Member

    I'd seen a model and photo display at the Sunderland air museum in Sunderland. At the time I didn't take much notice as i was more interested in the real Vulcan bomber they had. the wheels on the model looked as though they were only for wheeling the thing around.

    The three view drawing I have is the best of only four I could find on line. it's a Mk four, rather than a Mk three. At first i just gave an impression of those engine exhausts but i think I'll have to scrap them and do a better version. On my drawing, it looks as though there are four of them per wing but I can only see two on the Mk three. Another difference seems to e at eh nose of the plane, where on some versions there's a little hole affair, just in front of the gun. Where a guy could pop out and tie the plane up.

    I still haven't got an underside view of the wings, and I need that to add fuselage lines as a bump map for the paint job.
     
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  10. Bob Turner

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    That was good! hard to see the gun on top and the housing on the wing that covered a line of yagis.
     
  11. Bob Turner

    Bob Turner Senior Member

    The start of the short Lee Enfield.
     

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  12. Hebridean Chindit

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    I've got a link that will give you more details... pm'd...
     
  13. Bob Turner

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    One model that I can use, with a new paint job and maybe a little alteration is this Spitfire. The funny story about this model is that the BNP were going on about migrant workers, and they used this model for their flag waiving blurb. However, the guy that built it is Polish, so the spit is a Battle of Britain spit but flew by a Polish ace. :lol:

    This one with a paint job shows why those disks are mounted with the props on my Sunderland. The get a blurred image of a prop spin put on them.
     
  14. Bob Turner

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    I thought I'd e able to copy the front gun and stick it on the back but no such luck, I'm going to have to build that one as well. The drawings were all to hell for the gun turret framework but i think it looks not bad but a expert might whinge on about it not being 100% Can't be helped. :unsure:
     
  15. Bob Turner

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    Those gun turret were having me going mad. No way would they work, so i went and got a photograph of the front gun and I've started to build the framework, by guessing the sizes. it looks pretty good so far.

    Things have slowed down a it, mainly as I'm having to watch loads of tutorials on using the game engine Unity. I'm slowly building up interest from 3d gurus in the idea though. It's a case of getting the right skill sets together, nobody wants to commit to a lot of work on their part, if the right team isn't already in place. There's always that dodgy, chicken and egg, situation for any project getting off the ground.
     
  16. Hebridean Chindit

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    Burma... twas not built in a day... ;)
     
  17. Bob Turner

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    You can say that again!

    How do you rate the programs 3dem and sketchup then? The shuttle radar height data is much better than google earth's. I did see the really high detail once, for Newcastle. The city planning department has the data but it costs money to buy. From that height data set, you could work out the heights of buildings!
     
  18. Hebridean Chindit

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    Sheesh... he thinks I get time to play... o_O

    Presently transcribing a 450 page book approx 850 words a page... that's just one of them - every time I trawl one of these books it leads to another, and another, and a file, and another, and a TNA visit etc...

    It's the round tuit joke; now, I just gotta find a round tuit... ;)
     
  19. Bob Turner

    Bob Turner Senior Member

    Better guns but they are still just basically sticks. has to be though for a game, the more polygons, the slower the gam runs. I've left two openings in the side but the doors are just switched off. A colour scheme and bump maps for the body lines and it's almost done. :p
     
  20. Bob Turner

    Bob Turner Senior Member

    A quick question here about the props on four engined planes. On my model I've got the two on each wing in synch, were they, or did they have a ratio for revs on each engine? Can I just rotate the prop an arbitrary amount?
     

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