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F7F Tigercat New VC for FSX & P3D
- Thread starter gman5250
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SOH-CM-2025
Having built a 1:32 scratch model of a Comet in the before-dad years, I have a soft spot for that plane and its amazing shape. I have come up close to G-ACSS at Shuttleworth and the guys there were great in letting me get close to it and take some photos. The FS9 model was great but a new one by you would be even greater.
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silverghost
Charter Member
The Hornet is a wonderful plane, reckoned to be just about perfect by 'Winkle' Brown.
Really good models by Rob Richardson keep me entertained.
One of my favourites, alongside Dave Garwood's Mosquito.
The Tigercat is looking superb I really don't know how you produce such wonderful work, something to be proud of. Really looking forward to getting my hands on it.
silver
gman5250
Charter Member
The VC is at a point where the modeling is worthy of scrutiny from the experts here. Bear in mind, it's not complete and details are being added.
This video focuses on the factor clean "vintage" cockpit as it would have appeared in service. The POH references multiple aircraft, so there are numerous variations of radar, radios and gun sights that would be "accurate".
The main thing a wanted to convey was the sense of light and color at this stage. Also, I tried to fly more or less by the POH, so you can note the MAP, RPM and mixture for your flying. I also included my own HU radio popups for convenience. Night lighting is live in all of my variants, just not shown in this particular video. The civilian version and night lighting will be in the next vid.
If you watch closely, you can see my latest volumetric vegetation populating the airports at KBIH and KMMH. Beta testing is showing extremely good performance, even at high saturations. And it looks pretty convincing.
Trivia:
I used EZDok 2 for the startup, taxi and takeoff segment to show the lovely vibration aspects, horizon hold and other bits. I switch to EZDok 1 for the cinematic camera in the flight segments. Both are used with TrackIR active.
gman5250
Charter Member
I figured you would pick up on that Rick. I tested quite a few various combinations in the glass texture setup for the model. I finally settled on this one. If you look close, you can see the canopy plastic is slightly fogged around the edges. It shows really nicely in the night version with the UV lighting on.
Working on that video now.
gman5250
Charter Member
And I might add , what a beautiful landing ! Mike
Thanks Mike...every so often I get one right.
Cheers,
Mark
gman5250
Charter Member
That's something I'll be re-visiting as I finish animating the new 3DS Max exterior model. It's close too.
When I originally did the skins, it seemed there were two interpretations of the Glossy Sea Blue. Color charts were pretty varied also. I settled on the lighter and more green variant purely on aesthetics. My PS work files are layered to allow for very simple color adjustments.
doublecool
Charter Member
Well Done gman
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