• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

General Motors FM-2 Wildcats posted

Captain Kurt said:
Thanks all

DW It is made from scratch.

And yes it has breaking parts. BUT evidently no good deed goes unpunished.

ACWai let me know that the fuselage is breaking into two halves. I never have any success getting breaking parts working right. I'll fight it today and see if I can get it working right. If that fails I will just remove the breaking parts. I'll be posting an updated dp one way or another.
Click to expand...

Kurt,

Thanks for all these new aircraft.

I am writing a detailed tutorial on how to build break apart aircraft. Hopefully you can use the instructions that I had already sent via email. This tutorial will also include details on how to animate the VC and a quick way to animate the landing gears (not that you need any help on the landing gears). Hopefully this tutorial will help some new FSDS users.

Andrew
 
Captain Kurt,

My son took a look at these this weekend and that is no bomb loads or rocket load outs in the dp.The 1 pic you have shows 6 rockets,they could also carry 2 x 250 lb bombs instead.Since you made the rockets for it I'm sure it was just an oversight.

Hiede
 
Beautiful model Kurt...superb!:applause:

Many thanks. I love the detail, especially the engines, and the overall accuracy ( I know there'll be a rivet counter out there to say otherwise! lol). VC's are very good and skins likewise.

Why the hell didn't you start making models earlier!!! ;)

Cheers

Shessi
 
Thanks all.

Andrew, that would be awesome.

Hiedi,

Thank you for pointing that out. The VC4 model has no rocket rails and therefore its .dp has no rockets. I don't know how I did it (must be getting senile, dang) but I got that VC4 .dp copied into all the other upload aircraft folders instead of the correct .dp. I'll get that fixed sometime later today.

Regarding the bombs, the specifications for the FM-2 list it capable of carrying 2 x 250lb bombs. However, I've left them out on purpose. I have not been able to find a single picture of an FM-2 with bombs, and the multiple reference works I have don't have a reference to bombs. Further I've read an autobiography of a VC pilot who describes many ground attacks but never mentions using bombs, only rockets. My conclusion is evidently they weren't actually used.
 
OK the download files have been updated to include the correct .dp files, and an LSO was added to the cfg file as well.

For those who already downloaded the planes,the VC-4 version has the correct .dp file. For all the others, here is the correct .dp file which has the rockets.

View attachment FM-2.zip
 
FM-2 Wildcat

Another excellent aircraft from a wonderful designer !!!
Thank you Captain Kurt !

Please continue with your wonderful work,
Regards,
1150
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top