Shadow on The Wall - Work in Progress by Jozef Gatial

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The B-32 Dominator was supposed to replace the B-1`7 in the low to medium altitude bomber role in both the European and Pacific theaters (it had been originally developed as a backup to the B-29 but they could never get the pressurisation system to work properly).

Yes, in

it is black on white. "The Army Air Forces wanted to begin replacing B-17s and B-24s with B-32s in the summer of 1944".

Long years ago I had detailed blueprint of B-32 but it is lost. Can you help me with it

 

[royabulgaf]

I felt that the B-29 was not suitable for the European battlefield due to its weak armor of the cabin and the tactics of German fighters. Which project should replace the B-17 and B-24 aircraft in the Luft'46 (47, 48) scenes?

I don't know if the United States would have thought of design and manufacturing another heavy bomber design, other than the B-29, to replace either B-17 or B-24, given that it was the second most expensive American program of the war.
I'm under the impression the B-29 would have added another dimension to the plight of the Luftwaffe come 1944/1945, what with its higher speed, longer range, operational altitude and heavier bombload.

P.S. grated, the Luftwaffe had more capable air defences than the Japanese...


Regards
Pioneer

Consider the second iteration of the Martin XB-33. Slightly smaller than the Superfortress, about the same speed, but could fly at a higher altitude.

 

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CL-195 with two layered textures.

 

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WIP

 

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I hope no last one project from this excellent book

 

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I had to install Vue to be able to render these action scenes

 

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second one

 

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and ortho views

 

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Marvelous, I doff my cap, Sir.

 

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Northrop N-176

 

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in action

 

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WIP

 

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Vickers OR.330 ortho views

 

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action scene

 

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action scene

 

[JohnR]

What was the advantage of having the two forward mounted engine nacelles?

 

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and last action scene

 

[JohnR]

Fantastic job as always, I am still intrigued by the two forward engines. Wasn't there a possibility of some sort of compressor problems?

 

[Arjen]

A guess on the forward engines: centre of gravity considerations?

 

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next one from my old archives: Lockheed CL-1000-47

 

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and last pictures of CL-1000-47

 

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Lockheed CL-1200. Next one project from archives - quality is as is

 

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important view

 

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a few action pictures

 

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and CL-1200 is closed

 

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ortho views of next model from old stack Hawker P.1134i2

 

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and last view

 

[Mark Nankivil]

and last view

Always enjoy checking SPF and finding that you posted these great images. Thanks!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

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Hawker P.1134i1

 

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Vickers VA559

 

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in action

 

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in action

 

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One from my the best scene now rendered in higher dimensions. Multilayered textures (6-8), masks and bump maps, etc. But used textures mapped on 3D model have dimensions to 5-8 000 pixels. So I have idea to render top scenes in poster quality - 10-12 000 pixels width. But as I check this rendered image, quality of textures is "before cooperation with Constantin Udalov". If it will be interest I will try to do some top pictures for your top prints

 

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Lockheed AMSA 1968

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Great images - thanks.

The Vickers, that one is a truck.....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[dan_inbox]

Thanks, Jozef! Your pictures are very beautiful. Artistic and aesthetic too. A real pleasure.


Could someone give some background to the "Lockheed CL-1200" in post #584?
The CL-1200 I lnow about was a big-wing F-104, looking completely different.

 

[PlanesPictures]

Thanks, Jozef! Your pictures are very beautiful. Artistic and aesthetic too. A real pleasure.


Could someone give some background to the "Lockheed CL-1200" in post #584?
The CL-1200 I lnow about was a big-wing F-104, looking completely different.

Yes, I found it. Next one CL-1200

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-cl-1200-vamx-navy-attack-study.2164/

and well known CL-1200 Lancer

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-cl-1200-x-27-lancer.832/

 

[dan_inbox]

Thanks, Jozef. I had forgotten about the VAM(X) version.

 

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heavy weight

 

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Even 14 years after creating the model of this amazing Boeing project, I'm still not sure if the statically "brutal" window model is right. Were there any moving surfaces for better aerodynamics?