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no matter how, the work of eswube is formidable, a time-consuming work, and all of us could only thank him.

Hang in there.

@Madmike - Thank You!

With great relief I want to announce that FD-scale Land Vehicles have been uploaded.

That leaves "flying stuff" left to upload (unfortunately it still means majority of FD-scale content).
(But it doesn't mean I'll start uploading it today nor tomorrow, nor even necessarily this week )
So far (Ships, Org.Charts and Land Vehicles) around 2600 files were uploaded. Some 4700 remaining.

So far the work took me more time than expected, not least because I had to make some tweaks to list of Roles and Subroles (and make necessary changes in previously uploaded entries - my fault, at one point I started to really overcomplicate things, and had to cut it back to... well, slightly-less-overcomplicated level ).

Unfortunately, the Search function for FD Archive is still not working (only search by filename works) and each country entry, besides "all vehicle drawings" (for that country) shows also completely random (and faulty) set of subroles (that lead nowhere useful).
When Colosseum was away in Turkey He suggested I join Discord and tell Watchwood directly, but I'm afraid I didn't join (because I forgot what I did with the "invitation" link and besides I wasn't really keen to join there ).

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The current list of Roles/Subroles for land vehicles is as follows:

2.3) Land Vehicles

Armoured Vehicles
- Tank
- Armoured Car - see Note L1
- Reconnaissance Vehicle - see Note L2
- Infantry Fighting Vehicle - see Note L3
- Armoured Personnel Carrier - see Note L4
- Armoured Infantry Mobility Vehicle
- Amphibious Assault Vehicle
- Armoured Fire Support Vehicle (Assault Gun / Tank Destroyer) - see Note L5
- Armoured Self-Propelled Artillery - see Note L6
- Armoured Engineering Vehicle - see Note L7
- Armoured Recovery Vehicle - see Note L8
- Armoured C4 Vehicle - see Note L9
- Armoured Train / Rail Vehicle - see Note L10
- Armoured Vehicle (other) - see Note L11
Artillery - see Note L12
- Mortar
- Field Artillery Gun - see Note L13
- Fortress and Siege Artillery Gun
- Railway Gun - see Note L14
- Multiple Rocket Launcher
- Ballistic Missile Launcher
- Cruise Missile Launcher
- Coastal Defence Gun
- Coastal Defence Missile Launcher
- Recoilless Gun
- Anti-Tank Gun
- Anti-Tank Missile Launcher
- Anti-Aircraft Gun
- Anti-Aircraft Missile Launcher
- Ammunition Transporter / Transloader - see Note L15
Command Support Systems
- C4 Vehicle - see Note L16
- Electronic Warfare Vehicle
- Radar Station - see Note L17
Special Military Vehicles - see Note L18
- Light Tactical Vehicle / Weapon Carrier / Portee - see Note L19
- Military Engineering Vehicle
- Mine Warfare Vehicle
- Bridging Equipment
- Maintenance / Recovery Vehicle
- NBC Warfare Vehicle
- Amphibious Support Vehicle
- Drone Support
- Special-purpose Vehicle (other)
Emergency Services Vehicles - see Note L20
- Police Vehicle
- Ambulance / Medical Support Vehicle
- Fire Engine
General Purpose and Civilian Vehicles
- Truck (Lorry) - see Note L21
- Tractor Unit (Prime Mover) - see Note L22
- All-terrain carrier - see Note L23
- Bus
- Van
- Light Utility Vehilce (jeep) / SUV - see Note L24
- Car (civilian passenger car) - see Note L25
- Motorcycle
- Wagon (horse-drawn)
- Trailer and Semi-trailer - see Note L26
- Container
Heavy Equipment (Agriculture, Forestry, Construction, Public Services)
- Farm Tractor
- Combine / Forage Harvester
- Forestry Equipment
- Crane / Lifting Equipment - see Note L27
- Earthmover - see Note L28
- Road Construction Equipment - see Note L29
- Waste Collection Vehicles - see Note L30
- Roadside Assistance Vehicle
- Auxiliary Equipment (other) - see Note L31
Rail Vehicles (Trainbucket)
- Locomotive (Rail Engine)
- Multiple-Unit Train / Railbus
- Tram / Metro
- Rail Car
- Military Rail Vehicle - see Note L32
- Rail Vehicle (other) - see Note L33
Others
- Animals
- Ancient Military


Notes:
- Note L1 - wheeled armored vehicles, not designed for transport of personnel other than it's basic crew, includes scout cars,
- Note L2 - armoured vehicles designed for reconnaissance and/or artillery observation, that are either tracked or based on wheeled APC's,
- Note L3 - vehicle designed to carry a squad of infantry and armed with integral cannon of calibre 20mm or more,
- Note L4 - vehicle designed to carry a squad of infantry but armed with machine gun or unarmed,
- Note L5 - includes assault guns, tank destroyers and the like - if applicable, has to be used with relevant Artillery subroles (Field Artillery Gun, Anti-Tank Gun or Anti-Tank Missile), as well as with Armoured Self-Propelled Artillery subrole; vehicles that carry anti-tank missiles but not as primary armament (i.e. aren't dedicated tank destroyers) do not belong here,
- Note L6 - includes self-propelled howitzers, mortar carriers, armoured multiple rocket launchers and air defence systems - must be used with relevant Artillery subroles,
- Note L7 - armoured bridgelayers, combat engineering vehicles, minelayers and mine-clearance vehicles etc. - must be used with relevant Special Military Vehicles subroles,
- Note L8 - must be used with Maintenance/Recovery Vehicle subrole from Special Military Vehicles,
- Note L9 - must be used with relevant Command Support Systems subroles,
- Note L10 - must be used with Military Rail Vehicle subrole from Rail Vehicles,
- Note L11 - includes armoured ambulances, ammunition carriers/transloaders and other niche kinds of vehicles not easily included in other subroles,
- Note L12 - for simplicity, term "gun" includes here also howitzers - also, armoured self-propelled vehicles here must be used with Fire Support Vehicle or Self-Propelled Artillery subroles from Armoured Vehicles,
- Note L13 - for simplicity, includes mountain guns, infantry guns and horse artillery,
- Note L14 - must be used with Military Rail Vehicle subrole from Rail Vehicles and, if relevant, with Armoured Train/Rail Vehicle subrole from Armoured Vehicles,
- Note L15 - includes only purpose-build or specially-adapted vehicles - if relevant, has to be used with Armoured Vehicle (other) subrole from Armoured Vehicles,
- Note L16 - includes command & control and signals relay vehicles - if relevant, has to be used with Armoured C4 Vehicle subrole from Armoured Vehicles,
- Note L17 - air defence, battlefield and coastal surveillance - artillery/missile fire control radars integral with guns/launchers (like on ZSU-23-4) need not to be marked,
- Note L18 - when relevant, has to be used with appropriate Armoured Vehicles or Artillery or General Purpose Vehicles or Heavy Equipment subroles,
- Note L19 - includes armed jeeps and technicals, light attack vehicles, gun-trucks, portees and the like - if relevant, has to be used with relevant Artillery subroles,
- Note L20 - when relevant, has to be used with appropriate General Purpose subroles such as Car, Van, Motorcycle but not truck, unless said vehicle is actually capable of carrying cargo,
- Note L21 - includes tank trucks and any other kind of truck-based vehicle not mentioned elsewhere, as long as it's capable of carrying cargo,
- Note L22 - road and off-road vehicles designed to carry payload on trailer or semi-trailer instead of on it's own chassis, includes artillery tractors,
- Note L23 - includes both fully-tracked and half-tracked vehicles,
- Note L24 - includes both military light utility vehicles and civilian light trucks and SUV's with frame chassis,
- Note L25 - includes small SUV's and crossovers with unibody,
- Note L26 - any trailer/semi-trailer vehicle needs to be marked as such, except for artillery guns or rocket/missile launchers or radars - otherwise, if used only to carry cargo (including liquids), not marked with any other subrole, if a trailer/semi-trailer is some sort of specialized equipment, then needs to be used with relevant subroles from Command Support, Special Military Vehicles, General Purpose or Heavy Equipment roles,
- Note L27 - cranes, forklifts, straddle carriers,
- Note L28 - bulldozers, loaders, excavators and graders,
- Note L29 - road rollers, asphalt pavers, cold planers,
- Note L30 - garbage and sewage collection vehicles, street sweepers and the like
- Note L31 - includes aerial work platforms and other niche kinds of vehicles not easily included in other subroles,
- Note L32 - in most cases this subrole has to be be used with Armoured Train subrole from Armoured Vehicles or Railway Gun from Artillery - includes military draisines,
- Note L33 - includes civilian draisines, maintenance equipment etc.

Thats amazing work Eswube! Thanks for keeping us all up to date!

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- Dan

Work List:
Eastern Air Lines Fleet History
Around the world challenge
US Attack Aircraft History

@Orionfield
Thank You for kind words.

Uploaded FD-scale spacecraft, drones and missiles (large ones, those on separate type-specific templates, not those several "parts sheets" that were circulating around).
Gliders and aircraft/helicopters/etc. will follow from next week onwards.

Marvellous news, and a very B I G thank you eswube for your valiant efforts, doing this hard and time consuming mega-task.
Thank you very very much

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

@Novice - Thank You for extremely kind words.

Gliders are now uploaded, so it's just powered-aircraft left. Unfortunately "just" means here some 4400+ files - 3 months of work at the very least.

You are doing a fantastic job eswube! I know its hard work uploading all these and so you deserve plaudits from all the members here.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Just a side note. When I went to FD scale - never build - Aircraft, I could see "thousand" of different topic, like Yacht, etc. I believe that's not entirely correct....

The site categorization doesn't work as expected. This is pending additional development work which has not yet been planned. In the meantime, use the vehicle advanced search

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Upload of the FD scale aircraft is proceeding. Right now left to upload are: France (underway), Russia/Soviet Union, Great Britain and USA (and, of course, new any entries, that are being added regularly).

But that's not the reason why I'm writing this post...
Someone (not me) uploaded Bordkanone75's new drawing of DAR-10. And did it clumsily (not least because old version was not removed, while it should be).
I can't find that post, but I believe I asked TO NOT UPLOAD ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN before I will finish the "basic" upload.
Needles to say, that "unauthorized" upload has been deleted.