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Offline Silat

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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2010, 05:33:10 PM »
Now that is a big and beautiful p38 :)
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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2010, 05:55:54 PM »
Now that is a big and beautiful p38 :)

With two engines it can't be all bad. :D
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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #18 on: September 01, 2010, 05:56:04 PM »
The Mk IV was the glass nosed bomber version that entered service in mid 1942. It had single stage Merlins giving it roughly similar performance to the Mk VI. The 1944 Mk XVI we are getting has two stage Merlins like on the later Spits and Mustangs giving it much better altitude performance.
The full throttle height on the B.Mk IV was 22,000ft so it did have significantly better performance at altitude, for its power, than the Mk VI, how ever it also had substantially lower performance down low.  Most B.IVs also had flame dampers which B.XVIs and many FB.VIs did not.
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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #19 on: September 01, 2010, 06:12:10 PM »
Silver B.XVIs are aplenty:




A neat profile of a FB.VI with red, white, and blue spinners. Couldnt find any more info with this, except for this picture.

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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #20 on: September 01, 2010, 07:08:37 PM »
So Greebo did they say anything about the Tse Tse?
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« Reply #21 on: September 01, 2010, 09:14:57 PM »
So Greebo did they say anything about the Tse Tse?
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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #22 on: September 01, 2010, 11:23:38 PM »
Nice info Plazus, where did you find it please? Also any info on those French skins? as in year of operation?
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« Reply #24 on: September 01, 2010, 11:32:45 PM »
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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #25 on: September 01, 2010, 11:56:04 PM »
A couple of colour pics.




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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #26 on: September 03, 2010, 04:08:00 AM »
So Greebo did they say anything about the Tse Tse?

Pyro allowed skinners to skin Tse Tse Mossies on the Mk VI. If HTC had plans to introduce it as a seperate variant he wouldn't have done that. So IMO if we do get it, it is more likely it will be as a seperate hangar loadout for the Mk VI. Possibly this will happen when they introduce the long awaited perked ordnance upgrade to the game.









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« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2010, 06:28:40 AM »
Pyro allowed skinners to skin Tse Tse Mossies on the Mk VI. If HTC had plans to introduce it as a seperate variant he wouldn't have done that. So IMO if we do get it, it is more likely it will be as a seperate hangar loadout for the Mk VI. Possibly this will happen when they introduce the long awaited perked ordnance upgrade to the game.



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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2010, 08:23:05 AM »
Just to be clear, the perked ordnance thing is something that has been rumoured for ages. I've no idea when it will eventually appear in the game.

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Re: Upcoming Mossie skins?
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2010, 02:27:03 AM »
I see from the upcoming skins thread that FTJR is planning to do a 25th BG and a 680 Sqn Mossie Mk XVI skins. Is anyone else intending to do one and if so which ones?