The silences is so deafening you could hear a pin drop as the world collectively takes in a sharp breath and mutters to itself - "I dont believe it, Jed actually released the airborne models..."

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the most overhyped model release the forums has ever known...

I wont bore the new guys here with the long story behind these models and the hassles I've gone through getting them done since 3.1b. Needless to say, those in the know are probably nodding their heads silently in agreement. This has been a labour of love for almost half a year now and has been the only thing thats kept me going during my 6 months of illness.

However I've been doing them for too long now, I'm sick to death of the sight of them and if I keep tweaking them any more they'll just get worse.

Well, as Mr. T would say, "'nuff jibba jabba foo"...

This release contains....

- British/Canadian Airborne player models with helmets or berets (you choose)
- Moving mouths
- Replacement Sten Mk5 p_model with correct animations
- Replacement sounds for the Bren and Sten
- A fix for the default Enfield to stop it being mis-held during the firing cycle


And before I give you the link, please respect the effort thats gone into these by not hacking them to pieces and releasing bad hackjobs based on them.

Well here you go kids, be nice to them...

Download and Screenshots (http://www.speedfreak.com/dod_mod.html)*

* excuse the basic page - I'm re-building my server

- Jed

sex? indeed.

finally.. i love them Trp. excellent work

OMG what what, AMAZING, the brits wih berets are amazing... MOVING MOUTHS! :D :D :D

Very VERy good

*fapfapfapfapfap*

Delicious.

:Applauds:

OMG ITS FINALLY OUT!

Great work jed. Nice to see you finally pulled it off.

Ska

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Great work jed. Nice to see you finally pulled it off.

Perv... :eek:

- Jed

get your mind outta the gutter! lol

*hands jed bar of soap* and wash that mouth out too! lol

Ska

British airborne with helmets it is :D those are fantastic!!! been waiting for these since you first came up with this thread :) thanks a lot jed!!!

Great work Jed.
Been waiting for these for ages... well worth the wait.

If anyone was interested...

British Selection icon (http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=76877)

Psh, I'll just get the Beret version. These are so awesome! Thank you alot Trp!

they used both. i think that the officers wore berets and the EM's wore helmets, but im probably wrong :D

Very nice, indeed! :eek:

I always figured the most hyped models had been Vandori's 2nd Rangers. But, hey, whatever floats your boat. Good work!

i think i just voided my bowels.

these are a true work of art:cool:

omg, MOving mouths?! goooooooood job! definitely using!

and those helmets are wayyyyyy too cool. =b

ayeeeeeeee! I was just blown 20 meters away from my computer and out the concrete wall as I saw this. Good job :)

This pack has lived up to the hype, that is the perhaps the greatest compliment you can give.

Love 'em Jed, using Canadians with helmets :D

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Thank you so much, Jed. I'll most seriously be using these.

Wow, these are killer. Congrats on this release Jed, best pack I've seen.

w0000000t!!!! Release! great Lookin models Jed, been looking foward to this for weeks :D :D

Oh, these are nice... I'll have to give 'em a try when it's not so late.

This is like sex! Except I have them!

Gorgeous.

Hey all,

I dunno the story behind these but they are good work. :D

I'm stunned....

One person donated $80 USD as a donation for the models....

I was maybe expecting $1 out of every 500 downloads but not that...

- Jed

W00T :D

Cheers,
M8
Nix

gj m8, ive been w8ing fer these since ur first announced em in 3.1 on the old forums!

$80!! that is something. Well these models are worth it, hopefully it wasn't a typo while he was filln out PayPal lol :p

Awesome, I like the basic page too, its straight to the point not like those pages with all these spinning things and **** and you cant figure out where the download is lol :D

I think Ill switch between british and canadian depending on my mood :D

What you gonna spend the $80 on then? Drugs, guns and women no doubt lol

Jus tried them out and they were worth the wait, nice work jed but IMO nothing can surpass your old SAS pack for 3.1 lol Comfort caps rule! :D

Great work mate,

Ska

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
What you gonna spend the $80 on then? Drugs, guns and women no doubt lol


Paying my hospital bills actually. Like I said I havent been able to work since February because of illness and being an imigrant in Sweden I dont get that much help from the government. I've already lost 14lb in weight from eating noodles for a month! Lifes turning into and SAS E&E course.. :mad:


Jus tried them out and they were worth the wait, nice work jed but IMO nothing can surpass your old SAS pack for 3.1 lol Comfort caps rule! :D

Did I not mention that I re-did the SAS pack? Same quality/detail as the Airborne ones and yes, with the comfort cap. I didnt release it as I predominately made it for my DoD clan and I didnt want to start annoying everyone else who's making britpacks with all my releases.

- Jed

Are you insane! please do release lol

Sorry to hear about your ill health mate, dint realise. Is it still the trouble with your wrist/hand that you broke?

Ska

Can I say well done for this pack, they are superb. I especially like the replacement sten and bren sounds, just the ticket

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Are you insane! please do release lol

Sorry to hear about your ill health mate, dint realise. Is it still the trouble with your wrist/hand that you broke?



I might release them later. I need a break from DoD modelling for a while.

As for the illness, nah, its just old war wounds playing up again.

- Jed

Very great work... it'll probaly take awhile before anything else comes along that is better then this.

They look awsome great job JEd but is there a v_model for the MK5 in the works anywhere or is one released?

Originally posted by Airborne506
They look awsome great job JEd but is there a v_model for the MK5 in the works anywhere or is one released?

Just about to ask the same question.

I don't think anyone blames you for taking a break jed lol You've bloody earned it. Hope you get better soon mate, your a bloody good modeller and a seemingly bottomless well of knowledge of WW2 British stuff lol

I made a Mk5 sten hack job a while back but it was a piece of ****. You can get it at dodsupply (http://www.dodsupply.co.uk) if you want it but you'd probally be best waiting to see if jed makes one as it will no doubt be better than mine.

Ska

I didnt make a Mk5 as I thought you had made/were making one Ska. Didnt want to trample on anyones toes.

I think Marzy is making one. I'll talk to him when he gets back as he probably wants me to do the UWV map for it so someone can skin it.

- Jed

By all means go for it jed mate. I've got too much stuff on to really make a good job of it anyway.

if you do make one though please for gods sake let foley be a beta tester or I think he may actaully implode lol

Ska

These make me want to go and watch a Bridge too Far :) Not sure if it was the same division, but they look very similar. This is some of the sweetest work I have seen for DoD ever. I'm gonna have to do the old trick of having two installations of dod again because BFE doesn't allow custom player models. These are so good I have to see them in-game.

Is it possible to make it so the Sergeant Major is wearing a beret and the rest have helmets? I really liked that about Klown's 3.1 pack, dunno if it was historically accurate, but it looked cool.

Once again, outrageously good.

ooo ahhhh :eek:

Berets were worn by all in special units like the airborne not just the sergeants. But in battle they used their helmets like everyone else. What I'd love to see if the Bren gunner being a member of the "Gilder Pilot Regiment" This may sound strange but when they landed their gliders the pilots fought alongside the troops they brought down until it was possible for them to be shipped home. They were both fully trained airborne soldiers and pilots trained by the RAF, not to mention they were all NCOs or officers.

They were also allowed to chose their own weapons and equipment before going into the action and many chose Bren's as they would be doing time on the front line and a Bren is a good thing to have when in a foxhole

Great Work m8. All your hard work has really paid off, thanks for makin theses as perfect as you know how. Amazing!

Beautiful. Simply Beuatiful. I've never ever even downloaded any custom british player models. I was planning on hacking me some sort of crazy totally unrealistic british commandos. But i've changed my mind, I'll just use these. I've been waiting for these since 1.0 came out, and there was a reason to use british player models. You did a fine job, especially with the invisible textures on the helmet scrim, but I'd have to say that the strap looks somewhat odd, its not actually strapped to his head, it looks very loose.
Never the less, I love it.

And lets hope you feel a lot better.

Originally posted by Windywoo
Is it possible to make it so the Sergeant Major is wearing a beret and the rest have helmets? I really liked that about Klown's 3.1 pack, dunno if it was historically accurate, but it looked cool.


Well the problem with 1.0 is that the British class allows for 2 types of headgear but its only the sniper that can have different head gear to the rest.

Originally posted by Devin Kryss but I'd have to say that the strap looks somewhat odd, its not actually strapped to his head, it looks very loose

Umm, thats because its not meant to be strapped to his head. :rolleyes:

Their supposed to be a a bit worn out looking, a bit dirty and battle worn but bear in mind, in combat you'd be nuts to have your helmet strapped to your chin.

Why? Because the concussion from a nearby mortar or grenade going off would whip your helmet back and probably break your neck. Better to leave it unstrapped and let it fly off than kill you.

- Jed

Wow, I just checked the server logs - 677 downloads so far. I hate to think what my bandwidth usage is going to be like this month.

Oh, and if anyone from Half Rules at http://213.172.59.11/ is reading this SORT YOUR BLOODY SITE OUT! :mad:

Some PHP script your running has been continually hitting my server downloading the screenshot pictures over and over again.

Nice try "amigo" - your IP address is blacklisted from the server. I hope you've got enough hard disk space for your error logs.

- Jed

You could easily make it so the sarge only has a beret or even give each class its own headgear. the only problem would be that you wouldn't be able to have helmets fly off as you would add the helmets to the head model.

Ska

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Nice try "amigo" - your IP address is blacklisted from the server. I hope you've got enough hard disk space for your error logs.

Set your old war buddies on them jed lol

Ska

You are officially my new best friend :)

Has no-one mirrored this yet to save Jed's bandwidth? We don't want him to have to spend all the paypal contributions on charges for overuse of bandwidth do we? :)

LOL. Nah, its ok. I dont pay for bandwidth thank god. Just glad I put a new hard disk in the server - I dont think the old one would of stood up to the thrashing!

Oh and thanks for the donation Windy. :D

- Jed

Great work jed, these are the best, well done m8......:)

bump ^_^ more people need these

Originally posted by SFC.Dockham
You are officially my new best friend :)


i'll invite you to my birthday party.

Originally posted by Spork
bump ^_^ more people need these

Yeah and I need more money. LOL :D

- Jed

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Yeah and I need more money. LOL :D

- Jed
you deserve it too:cool:

I think dod team should add these in the official release for British paratroopers ^^

Originally posted by Quakah
I think dod team should add these in the official release for British paratroopers ^^
i was thinking the exact same thing... and im not even kidding, these are such high quality models and yet theire as low poly as can be.
truly a work of art

Originally posted by gabagoo
i was thinking the exact same thing... and im not even kidding, these are such high quality models and yet theire as low poly as can be.
truly a work of art

Thanks for the compliment but if they asked to included them I'd say no.

I'm not 100% behind DoD/valve since the take over and 1.0 plus to be honest, I dont like the idea of somebody else getting rich of my efforts.

Hence the donations link on the download page was just a way for YOU guys to say "thank you" if you want to and it was a way for me to cover the costs of all the books and my flight to the Airborne museum to do research for the models.

- Jed

Jed these are awesome models!

Now I wet my pants everytime I play an English map :(

Originally posted by CplRusty
Jed these are awesome models!

Now I wet my pants everytime I play an English map :(

Ironically I've never actually seen them in a game. Seems the server I play on never has a British map in rotation. :(

- Jed

Does anyone want me to convert these models to replace the American Infantry/Airborne models for the US maps? And if so, do you want me to hack the anims so they use British instead of American weapons (in p_view at least).

Weapon map would be:

Enfield = Garand
Carbine = Carbine (the Brits did use it)
Thompson = Thompson
Sten = Greasegun
Bren = BAR
.30Cal = .30Cal


- Jed

i originally d/led the brits w/ berets, but i kept getting em confused w/ the fez-wearing gerbesjager (sp?) pack i use...


for this reason im using the helmeted brits.

Hmm.. It's a good pack.
Myself, being a re-enactor for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion... I can say that you need to find a better texture for the Over Smock on the Canadian Airborne skin, it just doesn't seem as detailed as the one I have...

Otherwise, pretty good job.

Originally posted by B. Gaines
Hmm.. It's a good pack.
Myself, being a re-enactor for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion... I can say that you need to find a better texture for the Over Smock on the Canadian Airborne skin, it just doesn't seem as detailed as the one I have...

Otherwise, pretty good job.

You got any idea how hard it is to recreate Dennison from scratch? Its the fact its a hand painted texture and it has so many subtle variation that makes it a bit of a hassle.

As for "finding" a better texture - its hand drawn from scratch, none of this cheapo phototexture rubbish. :D

- Jed

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Does anyone want me to convert these models to replace the American Infantry/Airborne models for the US maps? And if so, do you want me to hack the anims so they use British instead of American weapons (in p_view at least).

Weapon map would be:

Enfield = Garand
Carbine = Carbine (the Brits did use it)
Thompson = Thompson
Sten = Greasegun
Bren = BAR
.30Cal = .30Cal


- Jed

Sounds like a genius idea to me. The old brit pack made me so much better with the garand because the Enfield animation forced me to take my time between shots to aim. I'm not sure about the sten = greasegun, the tommy would be a better match, maybe have two models of sten one for each. The rest sounds very good

if u done that with the Para maps, wudnt it mess up the normal US maps, GIs running around with enfileds n stens? otherwise, yus plz!
gj

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Ironically I've never actually seen them in a game. Seems the server I play on never has a British map in rotation. :(

- Jed


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tbh tbh m8y :E

Originally posted by [Br.2nd]Beare
if u done that with the Para maps, wudnt it mess up the normal US maps, GIs running around with enfileds n stens? otherwise, yus plz!
gj

Yeah it would do to a degree. On a model by model basis I can still right the standard GI's to use the Garand, Carbine, etc. anims and the Para's to use the Brit weapon anims, its just borks up because of the p_models.

I'll think it over. I might just make Brits using US weapons.

- Jed

Beautiful. Your hard work shows.

/me uses instantly.