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Released!! F9F Cougar by Rob Richardson

Cees Donker said:
Have you noticed that the bulge onder the nose isn't properly textured? Also the stabilizing fins of the Wings should be white on the front.

Cees
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Are you referencing this particular paint? No, didn't notice that. :engel016:


Maybe the author will read what you mentioned and correct it.
 
Cees Donker said:
Have you noticed that the bulge onder the nose isn't properly textured? Also the stabilizing fins of the Wings should be white on the front.

Cees
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The gun ranging radar dome was normally a dark gray fiberglass, but later when the Reserves and Training Command were using them without the radar they were often painted over. The "stabilizers" are wing stall fences and usually left bare metal along the line of the bare leading edges
 
Mike71 said:
The gun ranging radar dome was normally a dark gray fiberglass, but later when the Reserves and Training Command were using them without the radar they were often painted over. The "stabilizers" are wing stall fences and usually left bare metal along the line of the bare leading edges
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Thank you for pointing that out! Visually it should look a bit different than this though.

:wavey:

Cees
 
Hello,


-GrayEagle,i use:

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.1=-30.00, 0.0, 0.0, fx_Sea_Venom_smoke
Smoke.2 = -12.05, 0.05, -0.02,fx_AfterBurnerFire1.fx // X----Y----Z

And it work ! ;)


Alain

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alain0568 said:
Hello,


-GrayEagle,i use:

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.1=-30.00, 0.0, 0.0, fx_Sea_Venom_smoke
Smoke.2 = -12.05, 0.05, -0.02,fx_AfterBurnerFire1.fx // X----Y----Z



Alain

-
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It works for me too. :encouragement: Thanks.

Untitled.jpg
 
gray eagle said:
This is another great work of art by Rob. I enjoy this one as well as the Banshee,

One minor thing is that I wish the wheel chocks were yellow like they were in the Banshee,
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If you look at the main fuselage texture from the original download, yellow chock texture can be seen above fuselage side view.
I may have missed this in the paintkit.
 
Cees Donker said:


I think Rob initially planned to include this one... Very much a WIP!

:adoration:

Cees
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Nice one. Ya know, some of these repaints show the IRF refuel probe on the nose and some don't. The basic model doesn't feature this.
Any repaints that have this nose will not show I guess mainly because the model doesn't feature this.

I like the ones without the IFR probe, the ones with that probe remind me of a unicorn. :untroubled:
 
Mike71 said:
The gun ranging radar dome was normally a dark gray fiberglass, but later when the Reserves and Training Command were using them without the radar they were often painted over. The "stabilizers" are wing stall fences and usually left bare metal along the line of the bare leading edges
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Just passing.
Always following threads relating to Rob's aircraft.
:encouragement:
Back in the day when I was enthusiastically kit-bashing styrene my interest in USN/USMC aviation had me researching details like a man obsessed!
Typical IPMS behavior.
IIRC the 'bare metal' leading edges on most of the carrier borne aircraft were painted with 'Corraguard', or something named like that.
It was a long time ago.
 
gray eagle said:
Nice one. Ya know, some of these repaints show the IRF refuel probe on the nose and some don't. The basic model doesn't feature this.
Any repaints that have this nose will not show I guess mainly because the model doesn't feature this.

I like the ones without the IFR probe, the ones with that probe remind me of a unicorn. :untroubled:
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IIRC you can configure it however you want.. In the VC, the 3 upper left arming switches.
I believe also that the switches use unused flight sim commands/variables so the configuration may get saved in a saved flight.
It is all in the readme.

Roman
 
wombat666 said:
Just passing.
Always following threads relating to Rob's aircraft.
:encouragement:
Back in the day when I was enthusiastically kit-bashing styrene my interest in USN/USMC aviation had me researching details like a man obsessed!
Typical IPMS behavior.
IIRC the 'bare metal' leading edges on most of the carrier borne aircraft were painted with 'Corraguard', or something named like that.
It was a long time ago.
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The coating you are talking about was translucent, sort of an anti-corrosion feature. The leading edges/fence leading edges were bare metal.
 
IFR Probe

When using ther "L" lights key, I noticed that there are a couple other visuals that take place

1. Under wing fuel tanks/bombs show.

2. IFR fuel probe (toothpick) visiable.

Is there a way to configure just the lights to function and not (1) and or (2) above?

I see photos of the real cougars without that IFR probe and some with and, wonder how

the models without that fuel probe on the on the nose could refuel inflight.

Edit: I did find this article that explains some of the retrofits and modification to the real planes.
It mentions the retrofit of "Splitter plates" which may relate to the retrofilt of the IFR probe.
Other photos I see of cougars show no evidence of a fuel probe at all.

Seem like the IFR probe was an afterthought.

http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2014/12/f9f-8-variations.html
 
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