Stephen1918 Posted Tuesday at 08:48 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:48 PM I'm still thinking of the Polish-Russian war. This is the Fokker D.VIII, which was released during the final months of WWI, and was used by the Poles and other nations, in the years after. The model is pretty much finished, now I'm working on the cockpit and the LODs. Then I have to do all the FM stuff - min/max extents, collision points, remove and detach nodes, etc. I'm planning to make a German skin, and maybe a camo. 11 3
whiteknight06604 Posted Wednesday at 01:40 AM Posted Wednesday at 01:40 AM thank you!!! After all these years nothing gets me more excited than seeing new aircraft being released for FE. 1
erafitti Posted Wednesday at 07:49 AM Posted Wednesday at 07:49 AM Thank you for your beautiful airplanes. Un saludo. 1
Coupi Posted Thursday at 07:33 PM Posted Thursday at 07:33 PM I didn't know this plane ! Many thanks ! 1
Wrench Posted Friday at 05:31 PM Posted Friday at 05:31 PM Just out of curiosity, was this supposed to be the plane that Moraine parasol was 'standing in' for at the end of "Blue Max"???
Stephen1918 Posted Friday at 08:13 PM Author Posted Friday at 08:13 PM 2 hours ago, Wrench said: Just out of curiosity, was this supposed to be the plane that Moraine parasol was 'standing in' for at the end of "Blue Max"??? As I recall, in "Blue Max" they were acting like a monoplane was a radical new concept and so it failed, and killed George Peppard, during the test flight. We of course know that monoplanes had been around since before the beginning of the war. The writers may have been thinking of the Fokker D.VIII when they made the film, but it was not named and it's failure in testing was not realistic. 4
Silberpfeil Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago No CGI back in the mid-'60's, so the Blue Max movie used a Morane-Saulnier MS.230 for the flight-test monoplane that Bruno Stachel used to create a smoking hole in the ground. That aircraft model was primarily a two-seat trainer so for film-making purposes, the front cockpit had to be covered in order for it to remotely resemble a single seat fighter. And among many other discrepancies, FE aficionados will immediately recognize the use of incorrect Luftstreitkrafte insignia for late 1918. Not really sure why I had trailing in my archives (except maybe I was going to model it at some point)... 3
VonS Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago "...now show us some real flying Stachel." Looking forward to the Fokk. D.VIII Stephen - it will be a welcome update to the old (Laton?) model. Cheers all & good flying in the FE2 skies. 2
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