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Im unfortunately no modeler myself (too many left hands :D), but a quick Google search shows only some self-build models as well as buyable plans for scratch building them. The models also seem to be of the early Marks, not the fighters.

That is actually the Pterodactyl V, which was supposed to be one of the fighter variants of the series. Powered by a 600 HP Goshawk and armed with two Vickers MGs. It was about equal to the regular fighters of its day. The other fighter Version would have been the Pterodactyl VI, which would...

Cortz, I noticed you named your flying wing pterodactyl. Do you know of the british Westland-Hill Pterodactyl planes from the 20s and 30s? All of them have very strange designs that look very much AH-like. I also really like your Buzzard, what did you change from the Fokker G.I?

Is the DB-3 based on the proposed Daimler-Benz DB Jäger? It kinda looks like it, only with the Prop moved to the front. What kind of performance does it have in the setting? With the long nose you could still fit some overly long engine.

There have been quite a few TLs on these Forums were the "bad guys" win (infact there are several different Nazi victory TLs, both ASB and not). They are fine as long as the author makes it clear that they do not share the values/goals of the "bad guys" in the TL. Also: Great TL! Keep up the...

To combine both: Based on research I did you could probably fit a badly armoured twin 5-6 inch gun turret to one of the really large zeppelins build in real life (Hindenburg, Macon etc.).

This is such a cool premise (especially for and Air-Pirate fanatic like me), its a shame that its not really going to work. What happens if you look at the tail end of the era described by OP? So more towards 1939 than 1918. I guess its more difficult to create the necessary conditions then, but...

Thanks thats exactly what I was looking for!

The whole thing was meant more as a feasibility check. The real designs are all designed as recon or Anti-infantry vehicles and in sure most lack the top-armour to withstand fire from an attack aircraft. I just wanted to know if its possible to mount a (or several) light or medium Flak Guns like...

I had expected that mounting the weapon should be possible but that the armor might be a bit much. A halftrack would be a good alternative, fully tracked vehicles are not as developed ITL. I would like to know where the weight of such a thing would clock in, if its much heavier than 15 tons...

I have a question for a project Im currently working on and figured this thread might be the right place to ask. The techlevel is approximately mid to late WW2ish and im looking for a mobile AA gun in the 20 to 40 mm range to be mounted on a chassis that can withstand light air-to-ground fire...

I really like both concepts, the only thing that annoys me is the absence of any kind of secondary armament. Its very common in fictional tanks for strategy games due to balance reasons, but it always ruins the otherwise more realistic designs for me.

I unfortunatly do not know as much about this as I woulk like, but from what I can gather its quite difficult to impossible to get something like this work with the technological constraints of the day. Do you have an idea to circumvent these problems?

I would like to subscribe to the magazine :D I always had a soft spot for technicals (beginning with the tachanka) and more purpose build armored cars, so I knew that you could stick lots of stuff on such a truck, but I had not seen one carrying such a heavy weapon until now. Is that a UB-32A...

Isnt that ZU awfully heavy for mounting on a truck? What does it do to your center of gravity?

Samarkand indeed has a Tadjik majority, so it would be a prime candidate for inclusion into that country, but according to Abers map the area sourounding it has a mainly Uzbek population. I think in the end its going to be difficult to draw totally "fair" alternate borders.

There are significant Tadjik minorities in several regions of Uzbekistan, most notably in Surxondaryo, but i dont know if this is significant enough to include that area in a larger Tadjikistan. Independant Karakalpakstan is is definitely an option.

Visited Uzbekistan but cant edit the map.