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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)

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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...

 

bcshot1.jpg

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Looks fantastic, Column5!

 

Just a question; can you make the canopy a little more transparent?

 

Chief W.

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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.

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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.

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Guest Sony Tuckson

Column 5 how dare you call this "basic skin"!!

 

This is all but basic

 

Very good work, real nice looking

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Thanks, Sony! :D

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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...

 

bcshot2.jpg

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Guest Ranger332

lol you just want it all for your self sniff sniff lol

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Guest Ranger332

short or stubby

 

might just be the mod. seems as I rember them being longer but dont rember the series.

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Guest Ranger332

Iam not doughting you just seems some mods are longer

 

 

a7e_corsair.jpg

 

a7e_%20corsairII.jpg

a-7-dvic153.jpg

 

 

Crusader_9199.jpg

 

 

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/

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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.

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Iam not doughting you just seems some mods are longer

 

Crusader_9199.jpg

 

 

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

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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?

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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

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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

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Were they ID stripes during the attacks on Lybia in the 80's?

 

Close, but wrong crisis.

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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.

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Just for s**ts and giggles:

 

a-7_length.jpg

 

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 ;) !

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