DaveQ
Charter Member
I think I might be persuaded to contribute the Mark 20 to the project.
Many thanks gman5250, that brilliant! If you send me a pm with a link I'll attempt to add it to the K cockpit.
DaveQ
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SOH A-26 Invader, the story continues ...
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Many thanks gman5250, that brilliant! If you send me a pm with a link I'll attempt to add it to the K cockpit.
DaveQ
gman5250
Charter Member
Let me package it up with the support textures and I'll zip that up for you. The A-26 is one of those projects I would love to tackle like I did the F7F Tigercat, but I don't have any open space in my work flow. I'm more than happy to share a bit here and there if it helps you with your project Dave.
JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
I have been riveting the fuselage and tail last evening.. Boring, but important part of the textures. I temp new spec texture for these parts as well and Dave will help out with the bump file. Quite a jobb left with the wings and engine nacelles. For the wing the K model will need to have the special strengthening straps running for the entire wing length painted on. This was special for the K and important to get right with both the texture itself and maybe more importantly the bump texture.
A question for the SoH crowd:
-The K had a white pointed antenna on top of the fusealge which I think was for the VHF-101 radio, it was commonly seen on many aircraft from the Vietnam war era. It has a blue symbol with text, anyone which can help me with what kind of logo this was? The first which comes to my mind is a Bendix king logo, but from what I can find does it not match.
A question for the SoH crowd:
-The K had a white pointed antenna on top of the fusealge which I think was for the VHF-101 radio, it was commonly seen on many aircraft from the Vietnam war era. It has a blue symbol with text, anyone which can help me with what kind of logo this was? The first which comes to my mind is a Bendix king logo, but from what I can find does it not match.
DaveQ
Charter Member
We're getting there slowly.... Jens-Ole's new textures are coming through and this is the first draft of the fuselage map. I have the gunsight ready to install though my skill set doesn't stretch to more than mounting it in the currently rather simple vc.
The crew can now be removed. One thing that doesn't seem to go well is nose-wheel steering. Rudder authority is gained and the nose can be steered after about 50kts which is not a lot of good for taxying you'll agree! Am I missing something (nose-wheel lock??) or can this be fixed?
DaveQ
The crew can now be removed. One thing that doesn't seem to go well is nose-wheel steering. Rudder authority is gained and the nose can be steered after about 50kts which is not a lot of good for taxying you'll agree! Am I missing something (nose-wheel lock??) or can this be fixed?
DaveQ
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DaveQ
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Let me package it up with the support textures and I'll zip that up for you. The A-26 is one of those projects I would love to tackle like I did the F7F Tigercat, but I don't have any open space in my work flow. I'm more than happy to share a bit here and there if it helps you with your project Dave.
Got it and a thousand thanks again! It looks glorious!
DaveQ
The nose wheel was modeled as c_wheel and set to castoring in the original aircraft.cfg.
You can change that if you wish with contact point.0 by changing the 180 degrees to 40~ or what ever your preference is.
point.0 = 1, 10.85, 0, -8.033, 1600, 0, 1.504, 180, 0.248, 2.5, 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 140.8, 235.84
to
point.0 = 1, 10.85, 0, -8.033, 1600, 0, 1.504, 40, 0.248, 2.5, 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 140.8, 235.84
You can change that if you wish with contact point.0 by changing the 180 degrees to 40~ or what ever your preference is.
point.0 = 1, 10.85, 0, -8.033, 1600, 0, 1.504, 180, 0.248, 2.5, 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 140.8, 235.84
to
point.0 = 1, 10.85, 0, -8.033, 1600, 0, 1.504, 40, 0.248, 2.5, 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 140.8, 235.84
JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
Regardring the decal on the VHF antenna. Bellow is a link for a picture of what I think is a simiarl decal on an UH-1 (blue decal on white antenna):
https://www.enaer.cl/images/fondos_pantalla/uh1h_8.jpg
Anybody with info about the decal itself?
https://www.enaer.cl/images/fondos_pantalla/uh1h_8.jpg
Anybody with info about the decal itself?
That looks a bit like the inverted version of a Dallas Avionics logo, a company that manufactures these antennas.
On most photos I saw they had that antenna painted over though, black or OD.
HTH,
Mark
On most photos I saw they had that antenna painted over though, black or OD.
HTH,
Mark
JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
I'll do some more searching with that input and see if we can find the original logo.
On the K as delivered from On mark it seems judging from photos that the antenna was in white with the logo. This is seen on A-1s, UH-1 and Bird dogs from the same time period too. But as you say, the antenna was often painted later on.
I have search with all kind of inputs and it is very strange to not find any close ups showing the antenna.
On the K as delivered from On mark it seems judging from photos that the antenna was in white with the logo. This is seen on A-1s, UH-1 and Bird dogs from the same time period too. But as you say, the antenna was often painted later on.
I have search with all kind of inputs and it is very strange to not find any close ups showing the antenna.
No idea. But I think this thing is depicted wrong on many plastic model decals or paintings. On some the blue logo is solid, on some it is split in the middle. None has the emblem in the middle.
I think this could be the logo of the antenna manufacturer.
Cheers,
Mark
I think this could be the logo of the antenna manufacturer.
Cheers,
Mark
JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
On Mark Engineering has been busy at their hangars at Van Nuys.. Riveting and putting on the wing straps..
I hope we don’t step on any’s toes with trying to update this marvelous old model. A big thank to Milton and the others involved for the Invader family models!
Here is the first production K, 64-17640, as it looked in 1964 in the rather smart green/grey On Mark scheme. The black rear section which housed a light on 640 was not a feature seen on the rest of the production batch. The USAF used the scheme for the first years of K service before they got the SEA camo. We also have a RB-27K with camera bay and glass nose coming.
The BLU-27 is just there for load testing.., Mark is helping us out with some freeware weapons to go with the release.
Scrshot640 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on Flickr
Scrshot645 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on Flickr
Scrshot649 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on Flickr
Scrshot655 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on Flickr
I hope we don’t step on any’s toes with trying to update this marvelous old model. A big thank to Milton and the others involved for the Invader family models!
Here is the first production K, 64-17640, as it looked in 1964 in the rather smart green/grey On Mark scheme. The black rear section which housed a light on 640 was not a feature seen on the rest of the production batch. The USAF used the scheme for the first years of K service before they got the SEA camo. We also have a RB-27K with camera bay and glass nose coming.
The BLU-27 is just there for load testing.., Mark is helping us out with some freeware weapons to go with the release.
Scrshot640 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on FlickrScrshot645 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on FlickrScrshot649 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on FlickrScrshot655 by Jens-Ole Kjølberg, on Flickr
That looks great JensOle 
Keep up the great work!
Keep up the great work!