Another Duck?

Just can't get enough of Murphy's War - The first flight with the Grumman duck. It's soo wild, the engine coughing away. Icarusgold Grumman duck is not worth 26$ I feel because their VC is nowhere near close to what the one from the movie and their sounds are shot. The external model is not bad however would of been great to have HD textures with chipped away paint, oil stains. I just have in mind A2A simulators as well when writing that. Somehow I felt such a strong connection with this aircraft the moment I watched her fly, crazy. But I am quite amazed by the work at hand here :medals:

Gabe
 
quote: ' Icarusgold Grumman duck is not worth 26$ I feel because their VC is nowhere near close to what the one from the movie and their sounds are shot. The external model is not bad however...'
Replace "not" in above statement with 'crazy', and you're in the ballpark. Pauls got it hammered down, so does Swingmans Duck. The Iky-arus... well. Its a biplane with a float. The modeling puts it off into the 'what if (He'd worn glasses and looked at a picture of one when he did this)' category. Despite all the howls of piracy from 'over there', no one would even steal that dog. Nice that there are a couple of excellent Ducks now! BTY. Send Icarus a critical E-mail about it. Not nasty, just a couple of comparison photos. He then freaks out and shuts off all access from the server you're on. All of it, not just a single IP address. If a few hundred folks do this, he will shut off his own access and engineer his own DNS attack, cutting off his own markets. Hehehe.
Keep on keep'in on, Paul.
 
I just got the engine out of the shop. I went with the early G series of the R-1820 which was approximately 950 hp. First we installed rods extended 1/8 inch and high dome pistons to boost compression ratio to 9.5 : 1. We had to have the pistons specially made for skirt length and valve flycuts. We bored out the old cast iron cylinders beyond service limit and pressed in high grade steel inserts and used three piece gapless compression rings on the pistons. The intake ports were enlarged and over size silicon carbide valves installed plus high carbon valve seat inserts. We pressed out the old brass rocker arm bushings and replaced them with sealed rollers. She’ll be a bear to start but should put out an extra 180 hp. Now I have to rebuild the Holly. Hey, does anybody know how to set the timing on this thing? :icon_lol:
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The links for the full size pics are here if you want to see more detail but be kind because the textures aren’t quite done yet.
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/engine.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/engine2.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/engine3.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/engine4.jpg
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I’m almost ready to reinstall the exterior model in FS, I’ll post an update when I do then I can jump back into the VC work.
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Paul
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Unencumbered by the thought process :sleep:
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A man and his art.... what more can I say.

Nice job in the machine shop!

Cheers,
Mark

PS: To all viewers, click on the external image links, the detail shown there is awesome.
 
I'm not sure I'm worthy enough to view this thread after that last batch of pics! :icon_lol:
That engine is freakin' awesome!!! :applause:
 
I’m almost done with the exterior model.
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I have been walking around and around it tweaking this adjusting that and playing with textures. Textures are quite new to me but I’m experimenting and learning.
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I finished the main gear. The main gear has been the hardest part of this model for me so far. The design and animation had to be created early in the development of the model because the pontoon and thus the fuselage and all the rest had to all align correctly when retracted. All the parts and pivot points had to be rotated -3.5 degrees from the perpendicular of the line of thrust on the Z axis. This made it a challenge (meaning big pain) when mirroring the animation. The guys at FFDS were of invaluable help when I started tackling the animation and a Max Script (Milviz Mirror Tool) that I got from here was very helpful. I don’t know who wrote it but thanks to who did.

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The links to full size and additional pictures are here. There is also an AVI if you want to see the animation.

http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck01.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck02.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck03.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck04.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck05.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck06.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck07.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck08.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck09.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/duck10.jpg
http://lpad.horizon-host.com/images/maingear.avi

Next on the agenda are the armament sets, fragmentation bombs, 100 lb bombs and a depth charge. Also the tow target turbine. Then maybe I can get back to work on the VC.

Paul
 
Did I say that I would buy you a beer ?....make that a carton of beer . Stunning work . Really looking forward to this. Thank you.:applause:
 
Paul:

Wonderful work, look forward to seeing the final product.

BTW can you point me inthe right direction to the Script tool by Milviz (Milviz Mirror Tool).

Thank you

Jim
 
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