More Missiles Coming Up!
Marc has added another cool concept to the Tarawa flight deck. Based on a quote from the novel End Run, he's added munitions lockers that pop up from the deck. It's a cool idea. He's also built an awesome top-down silhouette image of what the bay might look like full of fighters.
"Except for the hot-loaded planes, all armament aboard Tarawa was stored in blast-proof lockers beneath the flight deck, only to be hoisted out and loaded on just before launch." End Run, p.167_It's a little rough, but I've got an idea for that. A section of deck plate raises to reveal groups of blast-proof lockers. Each locker has its own set of missiles. Should a group of lockers become empty or not have the type of ordinance required, the user can lower the first group and raise another. The neat thing about this specific system is that when all is squared away, I just have to draw red and yellow lines on the deck.
I toyed with the notion of having dispersed lockers all around the flight deck, but after playing around with some fighter silouhettes, I got the impression that half the time some plane or other piece of hardware would be parked over the hatch.
- Animation 1 (weapons unload)
- Animation 2 (new locker cycle)
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