Where should the "shrapnel" come from?
From those itsy bitsy .303 holes?
There must be many more hits before parts are torn away.

The heck are you talking about?

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says who?
afaik thats only hearsay!

Pepper a plane in IL-2, even with a rifle caliber MG, and you'll get a nice shower of metal. I don't know if that's correct or not, but it definately is noticeable here in its absence compared to IL-2...
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As you said, Necrobaron, "pepper a plane" thats many hits :-D
I also don't know how it looks in reality, but the few, clean holes one sees in that pic will get you a few paintflakes at most.

Actually, there is. Probably not noticeable in the video embedded in the page, but I downloaded it to my PC and used VLC Media Player to play it back.

This allows you to enlarge the video picture considerably and you can clearly see small pieces of debris being shed by the Dornier. They are MUCH smaller than in il2, but this is as should be with small calibre .303 rounds.

So, all present and correct.

I'll see if I can get a screen print of it, but may not come across too well.

Hope this comes out ok.

I used Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to make things a little more clear as the quality is poor when you blow the video up in size, but rest assured nothing added or otherwise manipulated in this - the debris is clearly visible beneath the Dornier.

As robtek said they are not much more than "paintflakes" or "metal-flakes", but they are there!

Well it seems to me that the sim is in beta testing...what say you Oleg:grin:

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A bit OT but I think these pictures from A2A simulations B17G are simply stunning and really set the bar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...outsims/b1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...outsims/b8.jpg