Piper L-4 Grasshopper Skin Sets by Mick

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military skins - General

Description: Four skins for Allen's Piper L-4 Grasshopper on floats.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit L-4 Grasshopper Floater Skin Set
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Hint: What we need now is a clipped wing cub to complement the other Cub models. This model series and the paint schemes are great.

Normb
 
At lest on paper between the wheeled L-4 Cub and nose gear Cub I think I have everything but for the clipped wings in Blender and/or gMax for a CWC.

I think I can use the nose gear Cub as the base but pull the engine and landing gear from the wheeled L-4. This will let me flip the gear the right way for a tail dagger without having to re-animate the main gear and patch the holes in the engine cowling.

With that all that need to be done is cutting 40 inches or so off of each wing (times 3 or 4 thanks to LODs) and quick texture edits.
 
Allen said:
Lovely textures!
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Thanks!

Lovely model!

:ernaehrung004:

I had it in mind to paint this plane this plane since you released it, and I think I said I was going to do that. But the B-45 started to grow like Topsy and soon after that my old computer died an I was without a real one that I could work on for the better part of a year. So now I'm playing catch up.

I'm presently painting Grasshoppers on wheels. I have four wartime skins in mind and four post-war. As of this afternoon three skins are finished.
 
I'm going to slip a thread jack under right here and *Yoink*

I have successfully merged the L-4 gear and engine onto the J3 Tricycle Gear model and attached a new set of short wings. Now I have a basic exterior model of a Clipped Wing Cub.

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Still quite basic as it is using axis driven animations for most of the model but hopeful I can yoink the ailerons, rudder and tail wheel animations from the TG-8 Glider Cub for the main LOD later.
 
Piper L-4 / NE-2 WW2 Skin Set Pt.1

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military skins - World War II

Description: Piper L-4 / NE-2 WW2 Skin Set Part 1

Four skins for Allen's Piper L-4 Grasshopper.

A desert camouflaged L-4 ased at Camp Camp Clipper, a desert training base in California, in 1943.

An NE-1 that flew with the 1st Marine Air Wing of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Solomon Islands in the summer of 1944.

One of the first L-4s with the enlarged side windows and roof transparency, as it appeared in early 1942.

An L-4 that beonged to the 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron,based at Dulug, Leyte, P.I. in 1945. The 8th PRS's mission aircraft were the F-5 Lightning and the F-6 Mustang, and the absence of any trace of a serial number from this plane, with the oversized group insignia painted over the data block, suggests that is may have been a "midnight requisition" from a ground unit or a maintenance depot. Or perhaps it was a mash-up of parts from wrecks.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Piper L-4 / NE-2 WW2 Skin Set Pt.1
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Thanks for continuing the historical documentation. Great paints. Interesting commentary about the "midnight requisition".

normb
 
Oops!

I put the wrong blurb in the description!

The 8th PRG plane goes up with the second part of the WW2 skins, probably later today.

I just edited the description to show that the fourth skin is a352ndFighter Group hack.

The UI section in the ReadMe was correct from the beginning.
 
Piper L-4 / NE-2 WW2 Skin Set Part 1

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military skins - World War II

Description: Four skins for Allen's Piper L-4 Grasshopper.

- An L-4 of No. 4 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force based at Nadzab, New Guinea in early 1944

- An L-4 that was used to test the Brodie system for launching and landing light aircraft using an overhead cable and a hook attached to the airplane. The system worked but only in in perfect conditions and wasn't adopted for service use.

- An NE-2 that was transferred from the Army in 1944 or '45 and retained the Army's Olive Drab upper surfaced over neutral gray undersides with dark green splotches along the edges of the flying surfaces, but had the national insignia on the fuselage in the white-only style generally used on Navy aircraft with the overall dark sea blue livery.

- An L-4 that belonged to the 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, based at Dulug, Leyte, P.I. in 1945. The 8th PRS's mission aircraft were the F-5 Lightning and the F-6 Mustang, and the absence of any trace of a serial number from this plane, with the oversized group insignia painted over the data block, suggests that is may have been a "midnight requisition" from a ground unit or a maintenance depot. Or perhaps it was a mash-up of parts from wrecks.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Piper L-4 / NE-2 WW2 Skin Set Part 1
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Allen said:
So much Cub love lately :jump:
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If you feel like mixing and matching parts once more, while looking for images of L-4s and NE-2s to paint I came upon several good prospects for skins for an O-59 / NE-1 model.

That earliest of military Grasshoppers would have the extended roof transparency of the L-4 but the D-shaped rear side windows of a regular Cub.
 
Not sure I will get to that any time soon but will keep it in mind for later.
 
L-4 Grasshopper Post-WW2 Skin Set

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military skins - Cold War

Description: Five skins for Allen's Piper L-4 Grasshopper

- An L-4 of the New Mexico Army National Guard in the late 1940s.

- An L-4 that was based at Tinker Field (later Tinker AFB) around 1946 or 1947.

- A French L-4 warbird that's dressed up as a Korean War era U.S. Marines Stinson OY Sentinel.

- A Swiss L-4 that's dressed up as a J-3 Cub.

- An L-4 of the Alaska Air Command. This is the same plane that's included in the Grashopper floatplane set but these textures have the hucaps and landing gear leg bottoms painted the correct colors.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit L-4 Grasshopper Post-WW2 Skin Set
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
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