TBF Avenger and other planes

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by sniperton

Sure, it's a common practice in DCG campaigns. You only need a hack skin and voilá, you have an R-10 as a Ba.65, or an IK-3 as a D.520.

It almost never looks right, though.

Looking at the number of "hack" skins gives you a pretty good indicator of the sort of planes that mission builders actually want for the game.

Ba.65
D.520
Ki-44
Sunderland
Lancaster
Gloster Meteor

[robday]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Gloster Meteor

This 'plane, as it was the only allied jet aircraft to reach squadron service during WW II, should have been in Il-2 1946 from it's release. Instead we got an American prototype, Soviet aircraft, that as far as I am aware took no part in combat missions, a couple of jets that the Luftwaffe actually flew in service and German drawing board fantasies.
If some third party modeller could produce a "Meteor" to TD's standards I would be eternally grateful.

Cheers,
Rob

[sniperton]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Looking at the number of "hack" skins gives you a pretty good indicator of the sort of planes that mission builders actually want for the game.

Sure. But we mission builders are a minority group who do not produce new models. So we have to live with what we do have.