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The Staff of SOH
NAS N3N-1 Floatplane
- Thread starter Shessi
- Start date
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
What changes did you make? A new crew is self-explanatory, but what else did you do?
BTW, it's listed as an N3N-1, but it's still a -3. The -1 had a very different rear fuselage and vertical tail. I just checked out your textures and you seem to have re-instated Steven Grant's original metal panel lines as they would appear on a -1, but the model still has the shape of a -3, which had a fabric covered rear fuselage.
The confusion goes way back to the original Steven Grant model; he modeled a -3 and erroneously called it a -1.
Where I'm going with this, lest the hint somehow be missed, is that it would be very nice to see a model of a -1 with the fabric fuselage and angular rudder. All the pre-war and wartime paints would be appropriate for both versions. The -1 would need the metal panel lines and the -3 would need the fabric formers, but both versions of the textures already exist. The post-war paint, of course, would only be appropriate for a -3, since there were no more -1s left by then.
I know, it's easy for me to suggest a -1 model, since I have no hint of a clue as to what would be involved in making one.
TBH I'm so confused I don't know who I am or where I live now?????????!!!!!
I really did this as a 'quick and dirty' update to follow the wheeled trainer I did, so gave good crew and rudder painting options. Maybe I should have taken more time to look into it....
Sorry Mick, but I'm not going to re-visit this anytime soon, as I've got so many other projects pressing.
What's the best way, pull it and rename everything as a -1, and re-upload or just leave it?
Cheers
Shessi
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Aw, I thought maybe we'd get a -1 out of this. To complete the set, so to speak.
I Dunno. If you were to pull it and re-upload, you could replace the -1 fuselage textures with my -3 ones and call it an upgraded -3, which is what it is.
Or even simpler, just delete the texture folders (paints that N3N affecionados must already have) and call it an upgraded -3.
If you leave it the way it is, it's a -3 model painted as a -1 and called a -1, which is isn't. Not such a terrible thing, but not completely satisfying either.
(Still gotta look at he new crew and what else you did.)
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Excellent! Or as they'd say in the Navy, Well Done!
Now I have to put it into GW and check out your mods. Maybe today if I get a frew free moments.