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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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ELCO PTboat, pilotable, FREE

lazarus said:
....Do let us know if a complex repaint is possible.
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It appears, as you rightly note above, that most of the craft is textured with swatches of color; so far I can't figure out how a "complex" repaint might be possible. HOWEVER: I have discovered that it IS possible to exercise a degree of artistic (?) license with the life raft on the foredeck - this can be any color you want (although I doubt anyone - including me - would want this one).

cs
 
Jim. I would love them.. Admittedly i'm kinda still learning the basics but yes, i would love to use that as a learning tool..
Pam
 
A question for Pam (I think). . .is there a way to incorporate a slight roll into the visual of the PT-Boat? Currently the boat sits flat in the water and even in tight turns remains flat, not many boats are designed that way. Or is that a design function that requires coding in order to function?:salute:
 
falcon409 said:
All this baby needs is a driver. . .any chance that might be added later?
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I could add one (like in one of versions of the LCM-3 I made), but it would mean to intrude the 3d model....

I've been down with a bad case of flu for the past week and am slowly catching up. Holy cow, what happend in this week! Great!
I've got to download Pam's FDE now.

[edit:] I also tried to retexture the PT boat before, just for fun, but the fun went away fast. It would be extremely time consuming because the mesh is unstructured. The model is sparsely textured to begin with, the textures are mainly made of solid colors which also generate huge drawcall loads. Not easily redone, and intrusions of 3d models are a nono without the permission of the author, at least for me. Oh well.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Good to see you back here Mark, if anyone can do it you can. Love your LCM. It will be one of the featured water craft in Marianas 1945.

Keep getting well.
 
Just to annoy Pam, I picked up the Revell PT-109 last night. I'm thinking of painting it to look like a certain PT home ported in Thailand:icon_lol:
 
yup yup, i can add roll.. but you may not like it.. the boat only drew a couple feet of water, but then it had approximately ohhhh, a whole lotta weight ( yup my most exacting measurment of this time of the morning ), sitting a few feet up in the air, not to mention the weight of the rest of the boat above the cg also sticking up in the air. Soo, if you turned left, it rolls right. All ships do this. All except the LCSC which thinks its a motor cycle, and the littoral which thinks the sea is an ice rink it can just skid across. Oh wait.. the littoral isnt a ship. its a trimaran.. That explains that..

heheh.. these are precious..

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and now for the oddballs..

The LCSC.

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and the Littoral.

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The littoral is definatelt the perfect old mans ship.. Sexy, spacious, wont spill his drink in a turn.. ::lol::;
 
strikehawk said:
Just to annoy Pam, I picked up the Revell PT-109 last night. I'm thinking of painting it to look like a certain PT home ported in Thailand:icon_lol:
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:::LOL:: Awesome.. *I want p8icture.. tried working on my P-61 model last night, and ended up gluing my fingers together.. it was hopeless.. ::LOL::
Went back to working on a schnellboat.. i'd been having problems with: watched john Wayne in Flying Tigers ( Gods what a schlokey piece of film ) and went to sleep watching "trinity and beyond" ::;lol::
 
You'll get your pics. I just have to work out a couple of issues with the 20mm mount and then I'll be starting it out. Going to fly in a bit, maybe in a the tilt wing.
 
Compromising between fixed wing and rotor?? ::chuckles:: i'm amazed :lol:;.. Love the tilt wing.. :0..

Ok.. i added in roll.. its probably not realistic but unless your actually on a real boat, that counter roll can get way disorienting.. So i figured, if the LCSC can do it, and seeing as theres three rudders on this beast with at least two of them digging in hard, maybe a positive roll isnt so far off..
get it here..
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63691108/ELCO_PT-117_FDE-RC2.zip
 
Ah a Osa1, quick park it at Nicaro, Cuba and steer clear of MUGM NAS lol. Also did my ears detect right a USCG Cutter?? I would love to have one please:salute:.
 
I put my mouth before my brain on the 126ft CG cutter,CG. I ran across a FS2004 scenery pack that (redacted) had uploaded to (redacted) that had a 126ft in a bgl. When I looked it over, something seemed familliar about some of the scenery objects. It seems that this site is not exercising due dilligence(suprising-its a mainstream one). Further research seems to indicates that the objects should not have been UL'd for reasons best guessed at, I think; so hot potato and jettison, flipped the admins a PM to have a look and verify. Looks like it any way, I'm not touching that one. No names, no pack drill. I am picking away at one, but the zillion ft lattice mast is giving my exporter fits. Tubes are a sonufa&!+?# for vertices. The lattice masts are also killing me on the Sprucans and DDH280's.
 
lazarus.. please pm me the url of that site, as i'm always doing research and downloading and would like to avoid it.. Thanks..
ONNN another note..
maybe i cant bring you a cutter, but I AM working on a 114 foot 93 tonne boat at the moment.. Was faster than a PT boat too.. :)
 
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