A-7 Corsair II

Prowler - As the guy that sold LTV all seven radomes that was on the A-7 aircraft, I can tell you that the Doppler radome was not on U.S. Navy aircraft. Only the Air Force versions had them.
 
I love this aircraft! I have one concern though. The F-102 you guys released looks amazing, I know the cockpit is way above par for FSX stuff these days. My concern for the A-7 is that the paints will be below par, as were the ones for the F-102 (from what I've seen). It almost looks too cartoonish/dry/crayonish. I don't know how to explain it, so hopefully this photo helps:

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Does anyone else see what I'm saying? I'm not bashing Razbam, I'm just curious if this is a certain painters style. I've seen shots of the landing gear for the F-102, and they look damn near real, yet the fuselage paint is dull and dry (when I say dull and dry I don't mean how some real world paints are made to be dull or shiney), I mean they just, I don't really know how to put it into words, sorry.

I know it's a WIP, so if I'm speaking to early, forgive me, but here is the shot you posted:

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It has the same feeling as the F-102 paint, and I know it's not your models, because Dag made an amazing paint for the F-102. Maybe you guys can take note of this, coming from a customer, and an A-7 lover!

Regards, Diego
 
Dimus said:
Hey Smoothie,

I just realised your hellenic origin! Good to have a Greek here, at least in origin. I have been to that show and seen this bird for real.
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yeah Born on Kos, lived near Larisa AB for a few years then moved to the UK when i was oooh.... 7 maybe, but am returning soon, my mrs lives out there and she flys out to see me or i fly out to see her, anyways yah i saw this Bird at Archangel 05 if i recall right, Tanagra AB.... brinngs back some memories... anyways back to my shadows :ernae: γεια μας
 
MenendezDiego:
It´s just a WiP of an unfinished model, is better to show it that way than this way:

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Those who have followed me long enough know that those WiP´s i post in early stages of development rarely make it to the release version.The reason you never had a chance to see one of such with the 102, it´s just because i didn´t post WiP´s pics of it, and those few ones, does look exactly like the SLUFF looks right now.

Best regards
Prowler
 
Prowler, I'm wrong. I guess later variants actually had them. See picture showing the differences between the US Navy and US Air Force types.
 
The Doppler radar was standard fit for the USN on the C and E models and the TA-7C, it wasnt standard on the A and B models, though it may have been fitted later to some but I've not seen one as yet.

Best

Michael
 
one reason I'd like this model - all those gorgeous bicentennial colour schemes ...
regs,
Ro
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yeah I'm with smoothie, the only time I've seen this aircraft was in Greece so I hope to see hellenic repaints!
 
How did you migrate the model from Gmax to 3DMax? I tried a method I found on the net, but it was really involved, and needed some extra apps from FPS games and such. I got a few models I would love to port over to 3DMax.
 
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