1. #61
    AHA! Now we know......at least that's the story im using to cover the fact that i just ordered a purple moped.....it was the only color Tomos had availible d@mit. i wanted a black one, but.....

    Since the beta testers are what really make a project work, the cmpn should be in good hands. this is gonna be cool...

    When i was much younger i had a 1/72 P40E and a corsair in NZ markings.....had to do a bit of research for the paintjob. Everybody always asked me what country that represented, and to a man they all had no idea of the contribution to the war effort.
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  2. #62
    @Icefire & Enforcer

    Cheers guys,

    Yeah the Pacific theater was pretty much Americas war. Next to the US, British even Australian forces, New Zealand's contibution was very small... although no less important?

    From a population of just over a million at the time, we just didn't have the manpower, or equipment to go around in the Pacific.
    But where they did serve, Kiwi's usually made a good account of themselves, and were nearly always in the thick of things in one service branch or another during many of the major battles that took place during the war.

    The defense of Britain, then going on to North Africa and the Med became the main theaters where our forces were focussed.
    At the time, I don't think it would have made much sense to reduce the infantry units and airforce sqaudrons there to bolster our presence in the pacific. That would have reduced the fighting efficiency of both deployments.

    What is odd though is why fighting the Germans was considered more important than taking on the Japanese who were already knocking on our back door step... especially after the bombing of Darwin harbour!

    My reasoning for doing this campaign was because firstly im a NZer, and secondly there is bugger all available that features the RNZAF (or RAAF) other than Icefires two excellent campaigns. (I've yet to fly your "Defense of Singapore" campaign btw)

    But as im not a historian, and don't have easy access to the kind of info required, I had to make it fictional, but loosely based on reality.
    RNZAF & RAAF did work closely together on a number of operations, and these missions will go some way to represent that... hopefully


    i just ordered a purple moped.....it was the only color Tomos had availible d@mit
    LMFAO... first thing I would do is purchase a tin of black spraypaint and "deal" to it so that nobody gets any wrong ideas.
    How about a nice mottled camo pattern?
    Hehe, you could even apply road-kill markings to the gas tank!!

    Cheers!
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  3. #63
    Any ideas when this baby'll be out?
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  4. #64
    Originally posted by HotelBushranger:
    Any ideas when this baby'll be out?
    It's currently being tested (50% done now), and I'm cleaning up a few glitches brought to my attention as well as adding in some cool new suggestions.

    I want to run it at least once in career mode myself as well just to be sure everything checks out ok.

    I don't realy want to get pinned to a date as it will be done when its done, but lets say more than "two weeks", but less than a month barring anything unforseen

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    I don't realy want to get pinned to a date as it will be done when its done, but lets say more than "two weeks", but less than a month <span class="ev_code_RED">barring anything unforeseen</span>
    I think those are code words for me being in a bad mood when I beta test his last 6 Corsair missions. Muhwahahahaha
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  6. #66
    LMAO

    Alls good now, the councelling I'm getting is helping a lot.

    Only kidding mate, they were good points you made.
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