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The Spitfire XIV was created by Fievel. As you can see it was completed but never added to IL2 by oleg...

A guy called Harti (who made the P40B we use in game) submitted a completed Hawker Typhoon Mark IB Late to oleg as well but once again was never added...

If we could contact these two and get their completed models to add... How cool would that be....

There's a little more to it than that. :wink:

IIRC Harti's model was never good enough to be accepted by Maddox Games, though it was submitted several times. I think it had a lot of errors that Harti just didn't know how to correct, through lack of experience. Saqson was pretty scathing about it.

A lot of models were lost this way - the practice of allowing unproven modellers to reserve aircraft for many years while they slowly learned the necessary techniques worked in only a handful of cases. All the third party aircraft were made by about 10 people in total, so very few volunteers actually stayed the course.

Fievel had a good track record (I believe he made the Spit VIII) but he just disappeared. The Spit XIV external model was finished but not the LODs, damage model, shadow model and cockpit - so there was a long way to go.

Same happened with Biggs and his Spit Mk22 - the external looked great but he ran out of steam.

The external model is the fun bit, but also the easy bit. The grind comes in making the LODs, textures and all the rest. Lots of external models were built and displayed - but they only represent about 25% of the work necessary to complete a model for IL2.