Ito's FJ-1 Fury

[delta_lima]

I'm in the process of porting over Ito's FJ-1 to FSX. There are some fantastic repaints for it (Mike Wilson), and I'm hoping it'll all work out.

Anyone tried this? Any good panel suggestions that would work? 2D, preferrably.

Many thanks!

dl

 

[mikew]

Wow! I'd almost forgotten about the FJ-1. It seems I did those paints eons ago. I'm glad you like them. I'm not much of a port over guy, but if you get the Fury working, I'd be interested in your mods.

Regards,

Mike

 

[delta_lima]

From the man himself!!

Yes, love the RCN paint, and the drone paint too.

As with the Razbam T-2, no tailhook - grrrrr. Applied some of the fs9 fixes someone sent me a while back (modelr?), and it still seems to fly fast. Lovely bird, would love to get it working.

I've added the AS F11F tiger 2D panel as an interim - again, with a few fixes, could be a lovely plane for fsx.

dl

 

[falcon409]

I know I did at least two repaints for this one after making a new layered paint kit. I also remember redoing the VC bitmap as well. . .pretty sure it's all saved on my external HDD. . . which, by the way, quit working last week, lol.

I'm taking it to a friend of mine who has his own Computer shop and see if he can get anything off of it. . .Tons of stuff saved to it and it's probably all gone.

 

[delta_lima]

I'd love to get these mods if you get your files back.

many thanks,

dl

 

[falcon409]

I don't want to duplicate what you've already done DL, so what have you done to upgrade the Fury so far?

 

[Rich]

The tail hook does work if you fix it in aircraft.cfg, look for the hydraulics entry and amend it to

[hydraulic_system]
normal_pressure=1000.000000
engine_map=1,0,0,0

A number of Mr Ito's models have hook or wing fold not working because there is no hydraulic pressure, not sure if the real thing had wing fold but this model does not.

 

[falcon409]

Excellent, thanks Rich. . .that actually answers a problem I had with several of Ito's aircraft related to the tail hook. I was assuming I had a problem with the hotkey and never thought about the cfg file or the pressure settings.

Also, here is a shot of the mods I've done to the cockpit. The main panel is the final project. The variation in color from one side to the other is the shadow rendering inside FSX. . .I didn't make those two different colors, lol. The avionics shown are non functional. . .simply eye candy, but much sharper than the original which is all I wanted. . .I did also darken the cockpit a bit. . .never liked white or light gray or baby blue, lol.

 

[delta_lima]

Brilliant catch Rich - would never have thought of that. I'm going to check the razbam T-2, in case that was why the hook never came down in fsx.

Falcon, my "fixes" are just applying some that the members here already did - a new aircraft.cft, etc. I can send it if you need ...

dl

 

[Rich]

The hydraulic thing happens on a fair few port overs but was ok in Fs9, just had a bit of fiddling with it got it blasting off Victorious ok.

Made on the wrong side of the pond for me and to busy with RN stuff.

Glad you have the hook working though you could still have caught a wire without the visual hook it is nice to see it

 

[Rich]

There are a few British naval aircraft that Mr Ito did that I would love to port to FSX but they have prop problems in as much as the prop disc is not transparent, they would fit in nicely on the period HMS Victorious one being the Fairey Barracuda another is the Boulton Paul Sea Balliol and of course the Fairey Gannet AEW, we have Rob Richardsons ASW Gannet native FSX but no AEW.

 

[falcon409]

Aside from moving some gauges and switches just a tad. . .the VC texturing is complete:

 

[XLR8]

Aside from moving some gauges and switches just a tad. . .the VC texturing is complete:

That looks wonderful.

 

[delta_lima]

Looks awesome Falcon!!!

 

[falcon409]

Thanks, I'll zip that part up and upload it tonight. At least you can use that part if you want. I'm starting on the exterior now. I had already done a lot of it and then went on to the cockpit and when I saved the first portion of what I'd done on the cockpit textures, I inadvertently saved it to the same name as the fuselage, lol. . .soooooooo. . .I had to start all over again on the fuselage, lol.

Oh well, lol:salute:

 

[falcon409]

VC texture has been uploaded. The zipfile also contains the current gauge set I used for replacing all the '98 version gauges that were incompatible with FSX along with the panel.cfg file. Be aware that every gauge moved and was resized per the new panel texture, so if you have a gauge set in place that you like and want to keep, don't use my panel.cfg file. Also, if you keep your current gauge setup, be aware that it will most likely not match the panel. If you have FSPanel Studio or have the uncanny ability to move and resize gauges the old way (basically with your eyes closed, lol), then this won't be a problem for you.:salute:

 

[Bone]

Once again, good job, Ed.:salute:

 

[falcon409]

Thanks, hope it works for everyone. . .quite a few downloads already.

Here are a few WIP shots of the updated default livery. I did a new layered paint kit and the shots show the side portions of the fuselage and a shot of the right side showing the difference between the original panel work (on the wing) and the newer version.

 

[falcon409]

One more with the Wings and Hor_Stab redone:

 

[falcon409]

. . . . .and a bit closer now. Just needs rivets in a few places. . .I few decals added to the fuselage and some shading in a few areas. I may or may not do any other liveries, but if anyone wants the paint kit I'm using, let me know and I'll get it to you.