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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

P36 exclusive screenshots

Pam, based on those photos, I'm sorry, but I don't see any difference than in any other P-36 or H-75 windscreen photos you will come across - as the windscreens are all the same. All I am frankly concerned about, is the canopy profile shape, head on. While it may or may not be important from the exterior to some, this will be extremely pronounced, when actually sitting in the cockpit, looking forward and around. As in the photos I have linked to, showing the H-75/P-36 windscreen, there was no bent tubing used. The main beam, creating the shape of the canopy, is just that, a flat curved beam, with a strengthening support tube, as a cross-member, with two pieces of thick bracing wire, at the front. There is indeed a lip that comes out, from the main structural beam, extending a bit over the glass, which may be giving you some illusions, if just looking at old photos. The plexiglass, is how it has been modeled, as a single piece that wraps around. As you state that it is only an alpha version, all the better that any kinks get worked out now, rather than later.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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http://www.aircraftwalkarounds.be/Images/CurtisHawk75Part2CockpitIn/Hawk%2075%20Cockpit%2009.html

Some further great photos of the Fighter Collection's Hawk 75, can be found by scrolling down to the links coinciding with the aircraft (any and all details you ever wanted to see on the aircraft):
http://www.aircraftwalkarounds.be/Walkarounds_English.html
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By the way - the A-36, was a development from the original P-51 design, which was a whole generation (and several years) in aeronautical design following the P-36 and P-40. Of course the Curtiss fighter designs followed one another, using the findings secured from the model before. P-36 windscreen is very much the same structure that is incorporated into the P-40B/C models, except for the P-40B/C's introduced a panel of bullet proof glass.<o:p></o:p>
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I think I have said all I really can at the moment, and with the likelihood of making more enemies than ever, I guess I will just keep my mouth shut from here on out, unless you insist on further 'proofing' by a guy like me - and just to level the playing field, I am speaking as a developer myself, who knows exactly what it would take to redo what has been done, whether it be modeling or texturing, and not someone shouting from the sidelines, having had no experience doing the same work. As I have expressed before, I am one of the biggest, true fans there could be for having an accurate H-75/P-36 in FSX, and I look forward to the day it is released, as someone who will certainly be a customer.
 
stiz said:
very nice!!

by the way dean, an avro anson or airspeed oxford would be great if you dont know what to build next :icon_lol:
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Im still thinking hard about the Airspeed Oxford :salute:

But theres still another 2 aircraft that I havent announced yet and its going to be a busy year for us.
 
Deano said:
Im still thinking hard about the Airspeed Oxford :salute:

But theres still another 2 aircraft that I havent announced yet and its going to be a busy year for us.
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weren't you considering a Marauder too (yes please!)?
 
canopy revision :

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This is as far as we dare go before we have to alter any of the fuselage section
 
Deano said:
canopy revision :
This is as far as we dare go before we have to alter any of the fuselage section
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Dean, I am extremely impressed, that you, and the 3D modeler you have, are going to the lengths required to make the necessary changes, and the new windscreen is looking excellent! The more accurate curvatures are definitely there - which is very clear to see, after cross-referencing the individual photo I linked to in my last post.

I am very much looking forward to seeing the range of schemes you will include of those ten you mention. Again, I applaud the efforts, all around, to bring this historic aircraft into FSX!
 
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