Conspicuous by Their Absence

Another view of the engine bulge and oil cooler.

Drawings of this area are unreliable. I reviewed a LOT of photographs to get this and I still am not sure I got it right.

There are also comments that the C.202 did not have an aerodynamic balance on the stabilisers but from photographs, it appears that the late C.202 did have a balance. The Smithsonian C.202 in theory is a Serie IX.

- Ivan.
 
As can be seen in the prior post with a screenshot next to a photograph, the blades on my propeller are much too narrow.
I believe the contour is pretty good (still too narrow at the root though but this is intentional).

Now the next trick is how to widen the blade while maintaining the contour and length?
To do this, I modified a utility program called "MoveIt" to something called "StretchIt" which takes three scaling factors instead of three offsets and multiplies each coordinate by that factor. The result is a part that is Wider (or Narrower) than the original.

The original propeller blade was 0.64 feet at its widest. The dimension gotten by counting pixels on a photograph should be 0.88 feet.

- Ivan.
 
Here is a side by side comparison.

Next step is to revise the fairings for the cylinder heads.

- Ivan.
 
Cylinder Head Fairings

Here are a few screenshots of the revised nose area.

The cylinder head fairings should not be tapered toward the front as they are here, but the appearance looks fairly close to me.
This used up the remaining component and 11 more Parts to bring the total up to 1145.
There was actually more time spent in redoing the textures here than actually creating the modification.
Without the textures, the shape is much harder to see.

I can think of more detail to add, but this project is pretty close to the limit of AF99.
Time to redo the rather tedious SCASM stuff.

- Ivan.
 
BTW, Folks might have noticed the change from using the Folgore to using the Veltro for development.

The reasoning is that the Veltro has fewer resources left and anything developed for Veltro should transfer to Folgore without any issues but the reverse isn't as sure.

Good Night Folks.
- Ivan.
 
Cowl Scoops

I just spent the last couple hours adding a couple hood scoops to this aeroplane.
They were just textures before this.

There are certain recognition features for each aeroplane that are absolutely essential to model.
Without those characteristics, it simply isn't a proper model. A Corsair, for example, simply would not be a Corsair if it didn't have the inverted gull shaped wings. I

find my attention drawn to the rather large number of scoops, vents, bumps and openings on the nose of this plane.
The two scoops in front of the gun troughs on the cowl are fairly essential for this model.

I also added two sets of slot shaped scoops as textures on the underside of the nose. The funny thing is that the front set of slots just behind the spinner is only two pixels wide on the texture. The rear set of scoops almost inline with the front of the exhausts is actually just ONE pixel wide.

Now I am up to 1157 Parts of 1200 allowed and still haven't broken anything in AF99. Perhaps I should quit while I am still ahead.

Good Night.
- Ivan.
 
SCASM Finishing

After about 3 hours of messing around, I now have both aircraft back to the stage of where the C.205 was before all the model changes in AF99. The coding this time around is also better. I also seem to be having an issue with my Hex Editor for the Collision Bubble modification.

The first cut at SCASMing the C.205 Veltro took more like 5 hours just to do one aeroplane because I had to find everything and figure out what all the numbers meant. This time, it was a comparision with original code, test, then save.

Next comes the paint job and flight model.

- Ivan.
 
Macchi C.200 Saetta

Hello All,

Is there any interest in a rebuild of this critter into a radial engine Macchi C.200 Saetta?

- Ivan.
 
obviously, have't been posting,
but still, following with interest.
if you're up for it,
it would be nice to see
the progression of the beast.

not much simming out here.
h20 heater issues instead.
it's always somethin"
 
Ivan said:
Hello All,

Is there any interest in a rebuild of this critter into a radial engine Macchi C.200 Saetta?

- Ivan.
Click to expand...

Now is this a daft question or what, of course we want you to do a Saetta but we all know what you are like and it wont be a rebuild but a brand new aircraft.
 
Guys,

This was a question that was supposed to draw responses such as:
"....A Saetta would be cool, BUT we would much rather see a Raiden or a Me 309."

I was looking over the drawings for a Me 309 earlier today.
It seemed like a cool idea and would certainly be unique, but it isn't very pretty.

There must be more interesting projects that have been neglected thus far.

- Ivan.
 
from the sound of it,
you would rather be doing something else.
i'd say, do what you want.
it's a hobby, remember?

personally, i'm not that interested in a raiden.
but that's just me.

me309....now, that's funny.
'twas my very first af99 project.
unfinished, of course.
how long ago was that?
i wonder which dusty old hd it's on.

___:sheep:__

relax Dave.
i've got other irons in the fire.
 
Guys,

This was a question that was supposed to draw responses such as:
"....A Saetta would be cool, BUT we would much rather see a Raiden or a Me 309."

I was looking over the drawings for a Me 309 earlier today.
It seemed like a cool idea and would certainly be unique, but it isn't a very pretty aeroplane.

There must be more interesting projects besides the Saetta that have been neglected thus far.

- Ivan.
 
Hello Smilo,

That Hiccup was probably operator error. I was probably interrupted while posting. We had guests over last night for my daughter's 13th Birthday. Now she's a teenager. I wonder how long it will be before her parents become idiots?


Hello No Dice,

I already have an untextured SBD-3 Dauntless with a fairly good flight model. If we hang floats on it, where would the bombs go? As for floatplanes, I looked at a bunch of photographs and drawings for the A6M2-N which should be an easy SCASM assembly of floats with my A6M2 project.


Hello Womble55,

The reason I even thought about Saetta was because in doing research on the Veltro, I came across a lot of stuff for the Folgore and also on Saetta. The Folgore was pretty much a trivial modification but the wings, landing gear, and much of the tail transfers pretty well to the Saetta. The mid fuselage area and nose are quite different though as you pointed out.

There are a lot of simple little conversions I can do with existing projects. The FW 190A should eventually become a FW 190D. The La-5FN should be easy to change to a La-5 razorback and even a LaGG-3. The P-40C could be made into a P-37 or P-36. The F4U-1A Corsair can be made into a F4U-4 or a FG2.

I have at least a dozen projects in consideration and was just wondering if any matched up with other's wants.

- Ivan.
 
Ivan I do not know how to do that quote thing:

Hello No Dice,

"I already have an untextured SBD-3 Dauntless with a fairly good flight model. If we hang floats on it, where would the bombs go? As for floatplanes, I looked at a bunch of photographs and drawings for the A6M2-N which should be an easy SCASM assembly of floats with my A6M2 project."

But I do have pictures that I will find that will show the bombs on the outer wings and even one with one between the struts. As soon as I dig them up I will forward.
Warning: As smilo will tell you...I have a way of driving people crazy until the mission is done and released " released" being the key word", LOL

I may not offer much, but I do find....with a little help from myself....planes actually make it to the "release stage".

Straight Up, Will you PLEASE stop messing with any one of them and release one for us to fly.

Luv ya dude,

Dave
 
The Quote Thing is easy. Just look up --------------------------------------------------------------^


Trying to convince me to do a floatplane Dauntless is a waste of time. I don't really have any interest in the project. I have a couple ideas about floatplanes and SCASM that I want to try out, but a A6M2-N is a better candidate in my opinion.

Why all the interest in floatplane from such unlikely candidates? Why not a Supermarine S.6 or a Spitfire floater?

Besides, there is a lot more that needs to be done on the Dauntless to get it to completion than the A6M2.
Don't forget all the other projects that have gotten to the same stage as the Macchi 205 and haven't gotten any attention past that. The Ki-61 really deserves better and all it really needs is a real paint job and possibly a check list to complete.

- Ivan.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top