'Puter artwork (sort of)

[PiobBear]

Here's some pics of a virtual airplane I've just finished "painting", for use in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator.

It's a Hawker Hurricane MkI, 1st Fighter Squadron, Irish Air Corps, Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Ireland, 1942.

PIC1 PIC2 PIC3

Self portrait, with an octagonal head and a very flat face

[ardchoille]

Here's some pics of a virtual airplane I've just finished "painting", for use in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator.

It's a Hawker Hurricane MkI, 1st Fighter Squadron, Irish Air Corps, Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Ireland, 1942.

PIC1 PIC2 PIC3

Self portrait, with an octagonal head and a very flat face

Nice work! The octagonal head reminds me of the old Tomb Raider games.

[Jock Scot]

My wife's uncle flew Hawker Huricanes Mk.1 with No.82 squadron RAF,during the battle of France(1939-May 1940).Sadly he was killed during the Battle of Britain flying a Hurricane.It may be of interest for you to know that the first Mk 1's had a two blade propeller which were not replaced by a three bladed prop. until early 1940.

[haukehaien]

It may be of interest for you to know that the first Mk 1's had a two blade propeller which were not replaced by a three bladed prop. until early 1940.

And for the serious propheads, it should be noted that the two-blade propeller was a fixed-pitch propeller.

[macwilkin]

Piobear,

Have you seen the movie The Brylcreem Boys? If you haven't, you should. It's the only movie to my knowledge that deals with the Irish Defence Forces during WWII (The "Emergency" as the Irish called it) and Allied and German flyers shot down over Ireland.

The Irish uniforms in the movie are well done in terms of accuracy.

T.

[PiobBear]

My wife's uncle flew Hawker Huricanes Mk.1 with No.82 squadron RAF,during the battle of France(1939-May 1940).Sadly he was killed during the Battle of Britain flying a Hurricane.It may be of interest for you to know that the first Mk 1's had a two blade propeller which were not replaced by a three bladed prop. until early 1940.

If I recall the story correctly, the Air Ministry initially declined to purchase any Hurricanes. Convinced that war was coming (their engineers didn't believe that the German aircraft they'd seen displayed at air shows were ever really meant to be passenger planes), the Hawker company put them into production anyway, without any Government contracts. Had they not done that, Great Britain would have fought the Battle of Britain mostly with biplanes. By the end of the war the Hawker Hurricane had accounted for more kills than any other British-made fighter, including the Supermarine Spitfire.

[Archangel]

Piobear,

Have you seen the movie The Brylcreem Boys? If you haven't, you should. It's the only movie to my knowledge that deals with the Irish Defence Forces during WWII (The "Emergency" as the Irish called it) and Allied and German flyers shot down over Ireland.

The Irish uniforms in the movie are well done in terms of accuracy.

T.

I believe there's at least two other movies. I'm really sorry but I can't remember the titles.
Both deal with the idea that Ireland imprisoned any combatant that landed there. They were kept in two separate camps.

One movie was a big '70s war epic. The part I remember most is the Nazi's trying to escape in disguise but stopping to rescue a child drowning in the mill run. In the rescue the uniforms became visible.

The other one, I think, revolved around a football game.

[macwilkin]

I believe there's at least two other movies. I'm really sorry but I can't remember the titles.
Both deal with the idea that Ireland imprisoned any combatant that landed there. They were kept in two separate camps.

One movie was a big '70s war epic. The part I remember most is the Nazi's trying to escape in disguise but stopping to rescue a child drowning in the mill run. In the rescue the uniforms became visible.

The other one, I think, revolved around a football game.

I think you're referring to The Mackenzie Break and Victory, both of which were not set in Ireland. The former, while set in Scotland, was filmed in Ireland.

There is a movie called The Night Fighters, starring Robert Mitchum and Richard Harris, that deals with the German's unsuccessful efforts to supply the IRA with weapons during WWII.

Regards,

Todd

[haukehaien]

I believe there's at least two other movies. I'm really sorry but I can't remember the titles.
Both deal with the idea that Ireland imprisoned any combatant that landed there. They were kept in two separate camps.

One movie was a big '70s war epic. The part I remember most is the Nazi's trying to escape in disguise but stopping to rescue a child drowning in the mill run. In the rescue the uniforms became visible.

The other one, I think, revolved around a football game.

I think that the "child drowning in the mill run" might be from The Eagle Has Landed, where a team of German paratroopers have been sent to assassinate Churchill in 1943. They are disguised as a Polish paratroop unit (to avoid difficulties with the language) and are waiting in a village where Churchill will spend the night. While they are conducting "maneuvers", a village child falls into the mill race and is rescued by one of the Germans, who is killed, and whose uniform becomes visible.

The film also deals with Ireland, in that the Germans are getting help from an IRA man who makes his way from Germany to Britain by being dropped into the Irish Republic by parachute and then making his way across the border into Ulster.

It's a pretty good film (although the book is better.)

[Riverkilt]

My father flew Hurris for the RAF in 1942 with 59 OTU. He was on the Dieppe Raid too.

Did Eye of the Needle with Donald Sutherland have Irish settings, or were that Scotland...scary movie for sure!

Ron