navychief Posted April 12, 2003 Posted April 12, 2003 The pictures of the A-7 progress are fantastic! Column 5, and Armourdave are to be commended! I am really looking forward to "flying" my beloved A-7! Chief W. VA-15 Valions, from 1981-1984, attached to USS Independence (CV-62) Quote
Hawker Posted April 13, 2003 Posted April 13, 2003 I'm just "itchin" to fly this plane! It looks so good. :D Quote
+column5 Posted April 13, 2003 Posted April 13, 2003 Here's a new shot for you guys. I spent a lot of time today putting detail textures in the main gear wells and re-dooing the wheel hubs on the main and nose wheels. Getting reeeeal close to being done with the basic skin now... Quote
navychief Posted April 13, 2003 Author Posted April 13, 2003 Looks fantastic, Column5! Just a question; can you make the canopy a little more transparent? Chief W. Quote
+Armourdave Posted April 13, 2003 Posted April 13, 2003 Is that an A-7B or A-7E? The outer pylon looks vertically shorter. Wonder if that's just an illusion because of the wing angle compare to the camera or if I made a mistake. Quote
+column5 Posted April 13, 2003 Posted April 13, 2003 Is that an A-7B or A-7E? The outer pylon looks vertically shorter. Wonder if that's just an illusion because of the wing angle compare to the camera or if I made a mistake. That's an E model in navychief's pic. Quote
Guest Sony Tuckson Posted April 13, 2003 Posted April 13, 2003 Column 5 how dare you call this "basic skin"!! This is all but basic Very good work, real nice looking Quote
Hawker Posted April 14, 2003 Posted April 14, 2003 Sony, My thoughts exactly! Great work column5! Quote
Guest Ranger332 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bb...c;f=55;t=004633 all I can fing to date(looks a little squat--but might just be my vid card) Quote
+column5 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Here is the latest screenshot for you guys, taken just moments ago! The decals are basically finished, but I'm trying to take the base skin to the next level... Quote
Guest Ranger332 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 lol you just want it all for your self sniff sniff lol Quote
Guest Ranger332 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 short or stubby might just be the mod. seems as I rember them being longer but dont rember the series. Quote
+Armourdave Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Well I've verified the model up against a top quality side drawing and it's 100% spot on. Quote
Guest Ranger332 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Iam not doughting you just seems some mods are longer see the diff? can you explaine? is this an older mod? there are some that look just like "yours" but Iam couriose about the "longer " one/ Quote
CrazyCraig Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Ranger that last pic is an F-8 Crusader, its the fighter that the A-7 was developed from. Really looking forward to flying this bird. Quote
Lud von Pipper Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Iam not doughting you just seems some mods are longer see the diff? can you explaine? is this an older mod? there are some that look just like "yours" but Iam couriose about the "longer " one/ This one is not an LTV A-7 Corsair, but a Supersonc fighter LTV F-8E Crusader. They can seem somehow similar but are two completely different planes Quote
+column5 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Just a bit of trivia: In Ranger's second A-7 photo, who can guess what the black and orange stripes on the wings represent? Quote
Lud von Pipper Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Just a bit of trivia: In Ranger's second A-7 photo, who can guess what the black and orange stripes on the wings represent? I don't know: it seems harshly overpainted on the wing. May be it's some fast id stripes along some mock up fighting exercise? (sorry for not having aswered you about the Draken FM, but I'm still testing it) LvP Quote
CrazyCraig Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Were they ID stripes during the attacks on Lybia in the 80's? Quote
Echo333 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Beautiful work! To me it seems as if the body of the plane should be a bit more streched, looking at the picture of the white plane with red/white stars and stripes. Am I wright, r is it just me? Cheers, Echo :P Quote
+column5 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Were they ID stripes during the attacks on Lybia in the 80's? Close, but wrong crisis. Quote
+column5 Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 To me it seems as if the body of the plane should be a bit more streched, looking at the picture of the white plane with red/white stars and stripes. Thanks! That longer plane is an F-8 Crusader. The A-7 had the same basic shape, but they were completely different aircraft. Quote
+Armourdave Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 Just for s**ts and giggles: I checked the length in 3dsmax and it came out at about 13.97 meters. I converted that to feet and that comes out at about 45 feet, 9/10 inches. Which according to the spec I have of the A-7A means its about 4 inces too short. These 4 inches could be lost due to either A, the basic way i'm measuring the model length, B, the model is not quite correct, C, The A-7A is slightly longer than the B or D, when I UNIVERSAL scaled it to the correct dimensions I made it about a hundred and fiftieth too small. Either way it makes no difference, theres no possible way you could tell if a 46 foot aircraft is 4 inches too short or not bye eye, especially not by comparing it to an F-8 ;) ! Quote
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