CK FM2 in fs9

[l'iguane]

Hi folks,

As Captain Kurt kindly released a great looking Grumman FM2 series for CFS2, here is an early WIP, reworked to fs9.
No idea where this painting project his heading to, this WIP is a quick&dirty paint I did experiment with last night. Maybe a couple of liveries may come out of this.

Again, many many thanks to Captain Kurt for keeping our sims alive !

Cheers
L'iguane

 

[Mick]

The FM-2 was widely used by the Composite Air Groups aboard the escort carriers (CVE's). They had a wide variety of interesting identification markings.

http://www.pmcn.de/English/USN Markings IV/CVE-Time II.htm

 

[mcanx]

There is also an FSX version over at Avsim by Jerry Beckwith. It comes with a fully functional plane and an aircraft carrier and support ship. I fly it in FSX-SE. A lot of fun trying land on that carrier. Just type FM2 WILDCAT AND ESCORT CARRIER GROUP in search box. Robert

 

[huub vink]

Looks good l'iguane And you are right the model by CK is really a nice looking model.

Cheers,
Huub

(No not CFS2, it is the Midway package by Yanco)

 

[hertzie]

Thanks MCANX for the info, have been looking for this for sometime .

hertzie.

 

[Motormouse]

Can we have a Royal Navy version?

Please?

Ttfn

Pete

 

[l'iguane]

Can we have a Royal Navy version?

Please?

Ttfn

Pete

Yes I have one FAA livery planned for this one
Cheers
L'iguane

 

[l'iguane]

Looks good l'iguane And you are right the model by CK is really a nice looking model.

Cheers,
Huub

(No not CFS2, it is the Midway package by Yanco)

Thanks Huub,

Yes, that one is a keeper, as the F6F.

Cheers
L'iguane

 

[l'iguane]

Another WIP - FAA FM-2 Martlet MkVI

Cheers
L'iguane

 

[rohan]

Just gorgeous - thanks very much for this

 

[Shessi]

Superb L!

I love how you get those very thin, but excellent panel lines and dzus fasteners, subtle and realstic....

Don't forget the pilot's tex!


And yes I shined my FM2, what MDLC shine settings did you use?

Cheers

Shessi

 

[jackryan172]

That Martlet is superb. Great paint very realistic

Sean

 

[l'iguane]

Superb L!

I love how you get those very thin, but excellent panel lines and dzus fasteners, subtle and realstic....

Don't forget the pilot's tex!


And yes I shined my FM2, what MDLC shine settings did you use?

Cheers

Shessi

Hi Shessi,

I only use MDLC to turn non reflective mdls to reflective ones.

Then with MDLMAT I adjusted the shine :

All airframe is LOD01 - Part 01
Material properties :
Diffuse : Whatever, no impact on shine
Ambiant : 100 100 100 255 (improving mdl self shadowing, up to fs9 limitations...)
Specular : 80 80 80 255 (values from OBIO's mdlmat tutorial, works fine !)
Specularity box : 50

Canopy & propeller are listed as Part 03 of LOD01 and not texture is assigned to canopy but propeller has one so I had to find a medium transparency value to fit both
Diffuse : 140 140 140 80
Ambiant : N/A - black
Specular : 240 240 240 255
Emmissive : N/A black

specularity box : 1000

I found MDLC to have less parameters to adjust, MDLMAT is a more complete solution when it comes to shine.

Cheers
L'iguane

 

[Shessi]

Thanks L,
Yes agreed, I use MDLmat mostly, but a lot people use the simple MDLC.

S