Hello Shessi, yes you could be right about NI although that one wears the disruptive scheme, in my image I am not sure as there is not enough of it to see but possible yes.
I have seen photographs from four specific projects, the first was the Imperial War museum example, second the Yorkshire museum vehicle, the one in Belfast that provided most of my information even though it is the long version and finally a version in the Netherlands. Those four specific to preserving the wartime vehicle of my project, the remaining photographs were either historic period ones or of the more modern private collector vehicles, most of the later seem to have been in use by fair grounds so have been kept in immaculate condition.
As you mention all have seen extensive modification through their lifetime so trying to find a definite version is difficult, I based the rear contraption on the Yorkshire vehicle with most of the internals the Irish one. There do seem to be two versions of the Coles crane cab, the rear of some is shaped differently as I found when trying to decide how the bolts are arranged, many also have various covers for the driver, again I used the Irish example because of close in images.
The camouflaged vehicles we see could actually all be R.A.F. vehicles, I thought they were from the army, however, I have seen photographs recently that show a disruptive scheme on European and Middle East vehicles, so where they only used by the Air Force?
I wonder if they found their way to India and the rest of the Far east as well, there is so much we still do not know about these vehicles, Mick posted a link that is very interesting for Middle East service, other than that I am still looking.
Anyway, I waffle too much, less typing more building is what is necessary.
So, those bolts, here we see them added and mapped:
And into IL-2:
Not too bad I think for a amateur.
While trying to add this detail to the static objects last night I found the rotation pivot of the crane is out of place, so
I spent parts of the evening trying to adjust the parts attached to it to go with the updated cab, I now need to add
those into the game today, not a major job but something I could do without really as I wanted to update the remaining
tga files of the vehicle today to match the work so far, as they say "shit always happens on a day ending in Y", so much
for cunning plans and all that.
Take care and be safe.
Wishing you all the very best, Pete.
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