A-7 Corsair II

[Lewis-A2A]

Me wants, me needs! :ernae:

 

[Helldiver]

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.

 

[MenendezDiego]

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:

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:

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

 

[Matt Wynn]

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.

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

 

[Prowler1111]

MenendezDiego:
It´s just a WiP of an unfinished model, is better to show it that way than this way:

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

 

[Prowler1111]

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.

Are you sure Bob?

Best regards
Prowler

 

[Helldiver]

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.

 

[michael davies]

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

 

[Boomer]

Looking great Ron!

 

[Lewis-A2A]

well done you made me reinstall 'Wings over Vietnam' so I could fly one :ernae:

 

[Prowler1111]

..there will be a SF2 version as well, series 2 only...
Prowler

 

[rohan]

one reason I'd like this model - all those gorgeous bicentennial colour schemes ...
regs,
Ro

 

[peter12213]

yeah I'm with smoothie, the only time I've seen this aircraft was in Greece so I hope to see hellenic repaints!

 

[Piglet]

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.

 

[CG_1976]

That Spirit of 76 scheme would be a lock on sold sign for me Prowler.

 

[Prowler1111]

Tim, will gladly help, throw me an email...
Prowler