Released! Spitfire Mk IXc for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Very very early WIP of my next project/repaint.

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It's difficult to get the grey/silver-aluminium paint right.

Marcel
 
Do FlyingIron have any way to report bugs (forum)? I just wish to mention that the trim tabs seem to move in reverse way, both the rudder and the elevator ones.
 
Dimus said:
Do FlyingIron have any way to report bugs (forum)? I just wish to mention that the trim tabs seem to move in reverse way, both the rudder and the elevator ones.
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They're on discord, maybe there?


Ziet er goed uit, Marcel!
 
Dimus said:
Do FlyingIron have any way to report bugs (forum)? I just wish to mention that the trim tabs seem to move in reverse way, both the rudder and the elevator ones.
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While you're there could you gently mention that Flap Deployment leads to very unrealistic nose up attitude. Just needs to be toned down a bit that's all.

Otherwise, encourage these guys - they've built a good airframe.

We at the old Outhouse are the real Testers of warbirds so let's help them to get it good.
 
Here is an extremely early work-in-progress look at PT879, the "Russian Spitfire", which is one of the most recently completed Spitfire restorations, belonging to Peter Teichman/Hangar 11 Collection at North Weald. PT879, I believe, is the last known surviving Spitfire to have served with Russia, having been one of the 1,185 Spitfire Mk.IX's provided as part of Lend-Lease. It served in the Murmansk region and was involved in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1945 over the Kola Peninsula, with the pilot bailing out successfully. The battered but well-preserved airframe was recovered by Peter Monk in 1997 and later sold to Peter Teichman in 2001. The restoration was completed just this past fall at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, and was flown home to North Weald earlier this year.

The colors are all new and accurate, based on authentic color chips. The layout of the camouflage is just about completed, but what you see here is just a "guide", just to make sure everything aligns correctly. I will use this to go back in and reproduce with an airbrushed/feathered edge to the green paint (the ocean grey paint already has been airbrushed on, below the green). The top coat of camouflage paint has not yet been applied to the cannons. It will probably take me until next weekend to get it finished as it looked in this delivery scheme, and then I will be working on adding the Russian paint and markings applied over the British insignias. Lots and lots of stencils to add too, as this one has got them all - including some stencils, authentic to original, that I don't think have ever been seen on any other restored Spitfire (pretty cool). When everything is completed, I will upload the paint scheme both with and without the Russian paint/markings.



 
Bomber_12th said:
Here is an extremely early work-in-progress look at PT879, the "Russian Spitfire", which is one of the most recently completed Spitfire restorations, belonging to Peter Teichman/Hangar 11 Collection at North Weald. PT879, I believe, is the last known surviving Spitfire to have served with Russia, having been one of the 1,185 Spitfire Mk.IX's provided as part of Lend-Lease. It served in the Murmansk region and was involved in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1945 over the Kola Peninsula, with the pilot bailing out successfully. The battered but well-preserved airframe was recovered by Peter Monk in 1997 and later sold to Peter Teichman in 2001. The restoration was completed just this past fall at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, and was flown home to North Weald earlier this year.

The colors are all new and accurate, based on authentic color chips. The layout of the camouflage is just about completed, but what you see here is just a "guide", just to make sure everything aligns correctly. I will use this to go back in and reproduce with an airbrushed/feathered edge to the green paint (the ocean grey paint already has been airbrushed on, below the green). The top coat of camouflage paint has not yet been applied to the cannons. It will probably take me until next weekend to get it finished as it looked in this delivery scheme, and then I will be working on adding the Russian paint and markings applied over the British insignias. Lots and lots of stencils to add too, as this one has got them all - including some stencils, authentic to original, that I don't think have ever been seen on any other restored Spitfire (pretty cool). When everything is completed, I will upload the paint scheme both with and without the Russian paint/markings.



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Fantastic work John!!! :applause::applause::ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:
Cheers

Stéph.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Here is an extremely early work-in-progress look at PT879, the "Russian Spitfire", which is one of the most recently completed Spitfire restorations, belonging to Peter Teichman/Hangar 11 Collection at North Weald. PT879, I believe, is the last known surviving Spitfire to have served with Russia, having been one of the 1,185 Spitfire Mk.IX's provided as part of Lend-Lease. It served in the Murmansk region and was involved in a mid-air collision on May 18, 1945 over the Kola Peninsula, with the pilot bailing out successfully. The battered but well-preserved airframe was recovered by Peter Monk in 1997 and later sold to Peter Teichman in 2001. The restoration was completed just this past fall at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, and was flown home to North Weald earlier this year.

The colors are all new and accurate, based on authentic color chips. The layout of the camouflage is just about completed, but what you see here is just a "guide", just to make sure everything aligns correctly. I will use this to go back in and reproduce with an airbrushed/feathered edge to the green paint (the ocean grey paint already has been airbrushed on, below the green). The top coat of camouflage paint has not yet been applied to the cannons. It will probably take me until next weekend to get it finished as it looked in this delivery scheme, and then I will be working on adding the Russian paint and markings applied over the British insignias. Lots and lots of stencils to add too, as this one has got them all - including some stencils, authentic to original, that I don't think have ever been seen on any other restored Spitfire (pretty cool). When everything is completed, I will upload the paint scheme both with and without the Russian paint/markings.



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Superb! Looking forward to this one.
 
This is the first time I make a request for a repaint but I am very much connected with this Spitfire since my childhood. It was probably the reason I got plane crazy and most specifically Spitfire crazy since I remember myself.

MJ755 is a veteran that was displayed outdoors in the War museum for years, (where we first met) then moved indoors to the HAF museum in Tatoi. Recently restored and flew at Biggin Hill:

https://www.memorialflightclub.com/blog/spitfire-mj755-and-veteran-pilot-george-dunn

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Looking forward to seeing this beauty fly at local airshows when these start again after the pandemic. In the meantime it would be good to fly it in the sim.

I know it has the wrong rudder shape but I don't mind at all...
 
Thank you, Stéph and Brad! It will of course look better/more the part in a few day's time with the green paint properly "feathered/airbushed" and numerous stencils.

Dimus, that one has been done, but it has got some issues due to the painter not noticing the inherent problems with the product paintkit (a number of parts, such as the exhaust stacks, wingtip lights and tires not being textured properly), and there are some elements of the paint scheme itself which could be made more accurate: https://flightsim.to/file/11441/hellenic-airforce-spitfire-mj755

If a better version doesn't come along, I plan on doing my own version of MJ755, as like PT879, I have a lot of "behind-the-scenes" detail photos. MJ755 is planned to be sent back to Greece, but at this time it still remains with the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar in the UK, where it was restored, due to continued COVID restrictions.
 
Brad617 said:
After seeing your work on PT879, Bomber_12th, I went back and refined MJ627 - even tried messing with the 'COMP' files. Quite pleased with the result...

Brad
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Just taking a wild guess here Brad - but is that the area of Normandy between Caen and Le Havre?

I flew it the other day on the way to Paris from Guernsey.
 
OK, So I did some poking around in the flight_model.cfg files as I was also experiencing the extreme and uncontrollable pull to the left. What I found was that they had set the P-Factor in their tuning section to a scalar of 2.5. The Default setting on that which we've all come to lovingly hate over the years, is 1.0. SO!
Open your flight_model.cfg file in a text editor and scroll down to the flight tuning section (above [Reference Speeds) cand change P-factor_on_yaw from 2.5 to something <1.0. Dont touch anything else, but P-factor is safe to modify..

I also noticed that with My copy of the aircraft it will constantly do loops without any input and it will not trim the elevator, so perhaps theres more than meets the eye here.. I will wait for them to make adjustments and send out an update for that..
 
Ganter said:
Just taking a wild guess here Brad - but is that the area of Normandy between Caen and Le Havre?

I flew it the other day on the way to Paris from Guernsey.
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It's just to the North of Coningsby actually on a quick test flight to see how the new textures reacted to the lighting. I can see how it could be mistaken for Northern France though.

Brad
 
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