22.11.2007, 12:17
Discussing this in a proper fashion is certainly a good idea.
If it can be kept historical rather than hysterical, then there's a chance that some kind of advance can be had. Here's hoping.
Making "new" types from old by bolting on bit's from here and there did happen historically and to a fairly large degree. Sea Gladiator, Sea Hurricane, Seafire and even Sea Mosquito are the first to spring to my mind. These types initially came to be by simply bolting on catapult spools and arrestor hooks.
There are many examples of aircraft types that can be literally "put together". I saw what appeared to be a good example of this on a Russian forum (my Russians of the google variety so I may have got the wrong impression), where a guy was making a Yak-7 bubble top from a Yak-9 by adding the nose section of a Yak-1, great another historic aircraft to add, I thought, very innovative.
The thing about these kind of mods is that in order to work they require some alteration to a flight and or damage model somewhere down the line, even if it's just to allow the tail hook to work.
So it seems to follow that anyone with a bug bear about the altering of flight models, no matter how small, will also be unhappy about the addition of new types. That's going to be hard to get around for some as "the cat" is most certainly "out of the bag" and no amount of hysteria will change that.
I'm all for modding historical stuff, as long as it's done well, and if it's not being done by someone else I'll do it for myself, time allowing.
If it can be kept historical rather than hysterical, then there's a chance that some kind of advance can be had. Here's hoping.
Making "new" types from old by bolting on bit's from here and there did happen historically and to a fairly large degree. Sea Gladiator, Sea Hurricane, Seafire and even Sea Mosquito are the first to spring to my mind. These types initially came to be by simply bolting on catapult spools and arrestor hooks.
There are many examples of aircraft types that can be literally "put together". I saw what appeared to be a good example of this on a Russian forum (my Russians of the google variety so I may have got the wrong impression), where a guy was making a Yak-7 bubble top from a Yak-9 by adding the nose section of a Yak-1, great another historic aircraft to add, I thought, very innovative.
The thing about these kind of mods is that in order to work they require some alteration to a flight and or damage model somewhere down the line, even if it's just to allow the tail hook to work.
So it seems to follow that anyone with a bug bear about the altering of flight models, no matter how small, will also be unhappy about the addition of new types. That's going to be hard to get around for some as "the cat" is most certainly "out of the bag" and no amount of hysteria will change that.
I'm all for modding historical stuff, as long as it's done well, and if it's not being done by someone else I'll do it for myself, time allowing.