+Timmy Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 MiG-9 WIP. It still needs some work but it's getting there. http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w202/birdysauce/MiG9.jpg Quote
eraser_tr Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Looking good! We've needed one of these for a while. Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Wow! Thanks for working this neat plane. Right now, I'm using Kesselbrut's Yak-3 cockpit inside BUFF's Seahawk F.1 model. Quote
+Wrench Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 I"m liking it!!! That'll fill a gap in the late 40s!! Wrench kevin stein Quote
+101tfs Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 I love this plane! Our PLAAF used it in early 50s. Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 I love this plane!Our PLAAF used it in early 50s. It is a sweet plane. I'm gonna add little afterburners for the boosted version in my (dreamboat) Siberian Sky campaign. Keep us poasted Timmy. Don't let this one get Voodooed. Thanks!! Quote
+whiteknight06604 Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 It's lookin greally good,Thanks for doing this much needed plane. Quote
Nicholas Bell Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Thanks for working on this, Timmy. Looks good and will be a great addition. Just what we need for attacking the Berlin Airlift Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 that and the early yak and lagg jets. ewww...new La jet book out now...link about the middle of this Thudwire thread page ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.p...10&start=64 Quote
eraser_tr Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 I know they're eww, but still cool to have and fly. Quote
+Timmy Posted July 18, 2007 Author Posted July 18, 2007 If anyone is interested in working on the Flight Model I'll be happy to send you the beta to play with. I'm just now getting it skinned so I should have something new to show in a couple of days. Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 If anyone is interested in working on the Flight Model I'll be happy to send you the beta to play with. I'm just now getting it skinned so I should have something new to show in a couple of days. Thanks. That would be cool but I am not an FM person at all. How do you even get started with a blank FM? Quote
+Timmy Posted July 18, 2007 Author Posted July 18, 2007 I started with Column5's F-80C flight model which is in my estimation the closest existing FM to the MiG-9. I change all the mesh names and animations etc to match (I still have to change all the collision points and whatnot to reflect the Mig's shape and size) and that gets it into the game for testing. I'm going to try to get the FM more suited to the MiG but that's going to take time as I'm no math wiz and have little understanding of the process. Of course, I didn't know how to use Max until last November so I'm confident that I can do it, but it will take me a while to figure it out. Alas, on to skinning... Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 mmm, I could give a shot at the collision boxes and maybe the two engines. Guns and pilot. This could be a good way for me to start learning FM, starting with the simple stuff. This is an important plane for me -- the first PVO interceptor that can really get past the F-47Ns, F-51Hs, and F-82s to the B-29s, as the F-80s are left far behind due to short range.. Quote
+Wrench Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Hey Lexx, looks like you best get started assembling the Fargo's cockpit too!!! :yes: Kesselbrut is very about such things, I'm sure if you ask, he'll say OK. He did when I tweeked the Spitpit for the Vampire & Venom, and the Beau pit for the Meteors. This bird is too important, historically, to get stuck with Scooter pit!!! Go for it man!!! Wrench Kevin STein ps: may even have a hangar screen done somewhere for it...have to take a look around..... W Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Heavily re-skinned, and with a little chopping like lowering the cockpit rear wall, the A-4B cockpit would work great as it does for the F-80. Most important is the roundish forward canopy frame that the MiG-9 had. Timmy, I'll give it a shot. Quote
+Wrench Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Knew I had Hangar Screen for it.... This is a lo rez jpg. I may re-do and clean up the bmp some this weekend, if you want it Timmy Also have one for the Flora (but not for Fauna ) Wrench Kevin Stein Quote
+Timmy Posted July 20, 2007 Author Posted July 20, 2007 Kevin - I'll take it! Lexx - PM me with an email address and I'll send you the unskinned beta to play with. TD Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Kevin - I'll take it!Lexx - PM me with an email address and I'll send you the unskinned beta to play with. TD Sent! hehe, I didn't realize it, but I used the same title for my PM -- "MiG-9" Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 On the wayyyyy! Got it. First ... wow, AwSim!! This is sweet. This is going to be interesting indeed. Starting out small, I got the left gun located. I'll spend some time starting tommorow night and into the weekend. I'd like to try something possibly never done before -- exchange ideas here in the open, I guess in this thread. Others can learn and the old timers can step in to save us. Quote
+Timmy Posted July 20, 2007 Author Posted July 20, 2007 That sounds fine to me. I have the left wing mapped but I probably won't get much time to work on it until Monday. Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Yough! I'll be poking round the DATA file. Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 I got a chance to poke round here. I can start with the engines -- something simple that I enjoy thinking I understand. A question for the crusty old timers: How do you initiate a DATA file from scratch? Do you take an existing aircraft's file and gradually gut it and replace data? Quote
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