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FSX: The 1940 Fokker T.5 bomber released

As I already said many times before Daan, the model looks absolutely stunning. I'm glad the model is nearly done. Now the mapping and texturing can begin!

I admire your perseverance. There are not many developers, who are able to finish a project as complex as this one, on their own.

Cheers,
Huub
 
It's fascinating that the combination rendering technology and craftsman skill are bringing us portraiture like this where you can actually see enough to appreciate how the aircraft was engineered and constructed.

It also displays quite clearly how confining the interior of this particular machine was. One has to wonder how vunerable a crew member would feel climbing down into the tail gun position, and face off against a tailing enemy fighter.

It looks to me like he wouldn't wear his parachute down that corridor (so much to tangle on...), and that even without it, there's no room to turn around. Shimmy head first to the gun position, shimmy backwards to retreat. Or is it tall enough for a crouching or kneeling access...?

Could the glazed tail housing be ejected in case a bail out was required?

Naw....he'd still need his parachute...looks grim...

Stunning work, Sir.
 
huub vink said:
As I already said many times before Daan, the model looks absolutely stunning. I'm glad the model is nearly done. Now the mapping and texturing can begin!

I admire your perseverance. There are not many developers, who are able to finish a project as complex as this one, on their own.

Cheers,
Huub
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What Huub said Daan!

:applause::applause::applause:

Cees
 
I like the reference to 'Marconist'....my father 'graduated' from the Marconi school of Wireless in Sydney [Aust] in the late 30's and went on to the Army Signals WW2 before Flight Service for 30 years with the DCA running various Aerodromes in the 50's, 60's and 70's ending up at YMML, only to retire and be a Ham until he turned up his toes...VK3-DEK ....;)

....and yep, the model's looking superb....;)
 
Up-and-running!


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Texturing the tail section.

Cheers, Daan
 
Very well done Daan! I just realised this project is entering its six year now................. :dizzy:

Cheers,
Huub
 
Thanks guys!

Yup, I started work on it in September 2014... Remember I joked to you, Huub, when we were at the Crash museum? You pointed me the T.5: "That would be a nice project too". Well, I said, that's five 'cockpits' so the five-fold of the D.21 development time.
We'll see where it ends. As for now, the progress is pleasing me, and I'm having fun at it again. I've been through difficult times, and my life was so different when I started this project.

Cheers!
 
Thank you Erik! Happy new year to you as well!

So, most of the basic texturing of the tail interior is done.


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And a nice shot of the fuselage.


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Cheers, Daan
 
Looks good Daan, what is still on your "to-do list" as the model must be nearly finished by now.

Cheer,
Huub
 
[FONT=&quot]Thanks Huub! As for now, I'm implementing most leftover functionalities, but I'm pretty much finished with that. Next up would be either updating the exterior model or creating spec maps for the interior. The latter has been done, somewhere in 2016, but after the September 2016 beta, I retextured the complete interior.

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That's an astounding compilation of creative work.

Just amazing.

You must have gone a long way to gather research material for this project. Have you been in contact with any museums or historical archivists during the process?

The reason I ask, is that this project seems well beyond all but a few flightsim creations, and in my view describes some real historic clarity about this aircraft, and what it would have been like to conduct operations in it. ( I would not want to be in the tail and see a Messerschmitt racing up behind me!!)

Certainly, the strength, the fragility, and the claustrophobic reality of the machine seem perfectly illustrated in your work.

I could definitely see this model on a computer at a Dutch aviation or war museum, as an interactive display for visitors.
 
Thank you magoo for your comment! Indeed I have been in contact with archives and museums. The model we see is a documentation of everything I know about the plane.
There's something paradoxal on this: on one hand, we want to know how it was back in the days, operating and seeing this airplane. On the other hand, the only way of finding out, is recreating it. So I'm re-living those days in my own creation, which gives both a good and a strange feeling.

In the past few weeks, I've spent a lot of time on the T.5, although most of it is not directly visible.
Among others, I reviewed and updated the flight dynamics, according to the available data. Now it's pretty much on the numbers.
I also did some systems modelling and spec texturing.


Although I'm pretty well progressing, it's not finished yet.
 
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