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Last winter Milton started a series of tutorials on modelling for beginners. Is anyone still working on a project, let's see what you've got! To start things off, here's my own to date.

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but I hope no-one else wasted as much time as I did trying to animate a complicated undercarriage mechanism. It all works now, but I didn't half chase up some blind alleys to get there.

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Thanks for sharing the progress ... looks like you have fought and won the good fight. :ernae:

Keep after it and keep us posted please. :applause:
 
MiG-1 thru MiG-3 series

Granted, I started in Gmax a few months before Milton's tutorials came out, I did learn much from them. Also learned a great deal from the Multi-sub-object material tutorial. Thanks Milton!
Five of this early MiG series aircraft for CFS2 up-loaded here at SOH. Thanks to Goopney who still had his Makemdl interface for CFS2 available.That was the most difficult part of the process. Next I will attempt the CFS3 SDK.
Cheers Thicko
 
Early MiGs???

And they'll get a warm welcome from the CFS3 community; we have too few Eastern Front aircraft so far! :applause::applause::applause:
 
I messed about with this a few months ago. It was more an exercise in modelling than making a start on an FSX aircraft. If Hairyspin's Tempest is for FSX, I'll keep it at the back of the hanger.

Best wishes
Steve P
 
Steve,

Great to see you in process. Given the newness and difficulties some have (like me) in doing anything for FSX, I know that anything you can contribute would be highly encouraged and warmly welcomed. Keep up the good fight my friend. :applause:
 
thicko said:
Granted, I started in Gmax a few months before Milton's tutorials came out, I did learn much from them. Also learned a great deal from the Multi-sub-object material tutorial. Thanks Milton!
Five of this early MiG series aircraft for CFS2 up-loaded here at SOH. Thanks to Goopney who still had his Makemdl interface for CFS2 available.That was the most difficult part of the process. Next I will attempt the CFS3 SDK.
Cheers Thicko
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Man, that looks awesome Thicko :medals:
 
Milton Shupe said:
Steve,

Great to see you in process. Given the newness and difficulties some have (like me) in doing anything for FSX, I know that anything you can contribute would be highly encouraged and warmly welcomed. Keep up the good fight my friend. :applause:
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Milton,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm very much a novice with doing stuff for fsx. From time to time I think that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but its so dark in there that I might be going in the wrong direction. :d

Hairyspin,

Drat!!! I'd better get pulling those polys then. :costumes:

Best wishes
Steve P

Best wishes
Steve P
 
All these models look great! I'm going to have to sit down and think of a project for myself to take a shot at.

All the resources are out there!
 
Help me

Hello everybody,I want to start doing my own planes,but I dont know anything of programming,can anyone please help me?
 
I'd start with the sticky thread New links for old on this forum - this tells you where to find Milton's tutorial material which I've been making great use of.

Just be warned that you'll need a lot of patience to get used to the tools - if you're as technically minded as a disco queen you might have difficulty, but a year down the line I'm fairly at home with gmax now.
 
Thank you,I will start looking for,and thanks for the warning,indeed I dont have much patience but I will do my best to make something of value in my life
 
I really should get back to practicing this stuff. Maybe if I watch some vids about old air racers for inspiration.. I really want to do Macchi M.C.72 and Curtis RC-3.. maybe even armed version of the latter one.
 
And now she flies......

Well it's one thing building your aircraft in gmax, can you get it to display in the sim?? I won't pretend these are from the first flight, but with the model hierarchy better understood, progress is now progressing! :jump:

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And since I'm building for Combat Flight Simulator 3, we also have working guns....

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Still lots to do and some to re-do (see another thread here) and all textures are very provisional. Anyone else still slogging away?
 
Yee haa! That looks great!

Yes, I am plugging away at the Grizzly, near wrapping another Dash 7 version, but put the brakes on the C-162 since there is a payware version coming out soon.
 
n4gix said:
Milton, those are some of the best looking tires I've ever seen... :wavey:
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Thanks Bill ... I have a thing about gear in general and its contribution to realism, without outdoing the rest of the model of course. Hope that new project is coming along ... looks great!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the tire tread bmp was provided by Manfred Jahn ... I love it!
 
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