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Alpha T-50 Bobcat....No Engines?

I could sneak in a song bird paint...just need to find some good images to work from.

Thanks for persuading AS to release the Bobcat....it is one of my favorite Alphasim planes...and I have nearly every piece of freeware they ever released...dating back to some very old stuff...like CFS1/FS98 stuff that I dredged up from the dark dank corners of the internet.

Tim
 
Just a quick update on the Bobcat project:

I have reworked all the new skins to be usable on the float plane version of the Bobcat and gave the original skins for the wheeled version the same treatment. Doing this will give the float plane version as many clothes to wear as the wheeled version. Granted, I doubt any of the US Army Air Force UC-78s had floats....but who are we to allow historical accuracy to stand in the way of our sim enjoyment?

I have incorporated DrZGard's panel and VC mod into the original skins and the new skins.

I have incorporated the enhanced engine details into all of the original skins.

Painting has slowed a bit with the holidays, my father-in-law's failing health and my AADD kicking in and sending me down side streets to tinker on other projects. Not that many civie skins that are worth doing....some pretty boring paint jobs were put onto the Bobcat in civilian hands.....so I will be creating some skins with a bit more style and flair.

Working on a sound pack for the plane. I have 2 sound packs for the Jacobs R-775...and neither one of them really strikes my fancy, nor does either one really sound much like the Bobcats I have found videos of. The Bobcat has a pretty throaty and deep engine sound. I am currently using a sound pack based on Mike Hambly's R-985/GB Racer files with some files from Lawdog's sound packs thrown in the mix. This sound pack is the closest I have come to what the Bobcats in the videos sound like. This may end up being the Bobcat's voice...with some minor tweaks here and there.

I am trying to figure out a new way of adding water sounds to float planes....a way that will allow the floats to make nice splashy "boat" sounds when on water but still trigger the normal scraping sounds if you have to do an emergy landing and put the floats down on dry ground. I know that MoparMike did a how to on this...but I can't find it...it's here on the Out-House somewhere...I know I saw it here.

OBIO
 
The Bobcat restoration project will be reborn...was just going through the thread saving pics of the Collings Foundation UC-78 to my HD. I was THIS CLOSE to uploading the project....and had a major HD glitch and lost it all....along with 5 installs of FS9, a slew of Photoshop paint templates and a good number of other projects-in-progress. Now I have a clean slate....once I get my install of FS9 tweaked and improved I will install the Bobcat (and the Bobcat only) and get the project started again....with only the Bobcat installed I will have far fewer distractions to draw me away from working on it.

OBIO
 
Well, I lucked out a bit on the Bobcat project...I had backed up my Photoshop files a while back...so the paint template that I had backed up was basically done in terms of the lines and such....just need to redo the detail work on the exterior of the plane and redo the layered templates for the interior bits. So I am that far ahead at present....better than having to start from the bottom of the ladder.

I have the stock skins all modified with DrZGard's incredible panel mod and the enhanced engine detail that I attached to this thread. Also have the four stock skins for the wheeled Bobcat modified for use on the float plane version.

Just spent some time bouncing around the net grabbing the pics that I worked off of for the lost repaints....I thought I would never find the one....it is a very neat military paint. I searched under nearly every possible combination I could think of for Cessna T-50 Bobcat, Cessna UC-78, Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, Cessna Bobcat, Bobcat, Bamboo Bomber, AT-8....just when I was beginning to think I would never find it, it popped up.

Before I get involved in the repaints, I am going to spend some time tweaking the config file for the wheeled version to get the flight speed up to the 160 MPH cruise/195 MPH max speeds that the Bobcat actually has. Stock speeds on the Bobcat are far too slow...max is around 160 MPH. Also going to add differential brakes, do some tweaking to the panel config (swapping out the throttle quadrant and GPS and adding a CD Player...a touch of comfort for those like me who like to play music while flying).

OBIO
 
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