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Offline Greebo

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422nd NFS A-20G
« on: March 12, 2014, 07:37:57 AM »
The 422nd Night Fighter Squadron was based in the UK and equipped primarily with the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. As there there were not enough P-61s to go round the squadron was also given a number of A-20Gs to make up the numbers. These were used for intruder missions and sometimes to drop flares for the artillery. From February 1944 USAAF's ETO-based olive drab and grey night fighters were gradually repainted to an all-over gloss black scheme as testing had shown this was the least reflective finish when illuminated by a searchlight.

Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this aircraft. There is a colour photo of it here.

The AH A-20G is a very old AH1-era shape and so lacks stuff like a bump map, a spec map and a material file. The pilot vanishes when viewed close up and it has a low poly count, as well as numerous patched, distorted and stretched areas. OTOH the shape is pretty accurate and it has a high surface resolution.






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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2014, 09:17:12 AM »
Nice.   :)

but does this mean you have inside information that the A20 is not going to be remodeled any time soon?   :cool:
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2014, 09:31:57 AM »
Great, just what Cobia needed - even more doom for his A-20.  :devil

Nice work, Greebo.
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2014, 12:21:10 PM »
Great, just what Cobia needed - even more doom for his A-20.  :devil

Nice work, Greebo.

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Same color as my terrain was last night.  Ought to be good.

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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2014, 12:40:40 PM »
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2014, 12:57:23 PM »
Nice! :x  This also means there will not be an update to her for a bit longer. :lol
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2014, 06:11:00 PM »
That is just pure pimpin'.  :rock

Cobia will look good killin' everybody in it.
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2014, 09:41:46 PM »
 :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x 
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2014, 01:28:15 AM »
 :rofl

I was waiting on that!

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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2014, 03:29:28 AM »
More Navy skins are cool.  ;)

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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2014, 07:29:53 AM »
That's not a navy bird Arlo. Air Corps night fighter. Blackout havoc.
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2014, 11:37:54 AM »
Never-the-less.  :D

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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2014, 04:42:16 PM »
Nice.   :)

but does this mean you have inside information that the A20 is not going to be remodeled any time soon?   :cool:

I would doubt it as all the skins are removed once a model is updated. I would say it says the opposite that any information he may have says it WON'T be the A20 being updated next, as otherwise it would be a waste of his time doing the skin only for it to be deleted.

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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2014, 05:10:09 PM »
I would doubt it as all the skins are removed once a model is updated. I would say it says the opposite that any information he may have says it WON'T be the A20 being updated next, as otherwise it would be a waste of his time doing the skin only for it to be deleted.

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I'm pretty sure you just affirmed whats SmokinLoon said.  :headscratch:
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Re: 422nd NFS A-20G
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2014, 05:11:50 PM »
I'm pretty sure you just affirmed whats SmokinLoon said.  :headscratch:

Duuuuh. Need sleep.

Thought he said 'will be updated soon!' Missed the Not...

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