dewoitine
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Hello Nigel, an another wiewView attachment 2974
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This is not a Wildcat! It's French, for a start...
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dewoitine
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Maybe this photo is interesting : the cockpit of G36-A with the bilingual instrumentation.
Regards.View attachment 2975
Regards.View attachment 2975
ndicki
Charter Member 2016
Well found, once more! I wish I could see that photo of the panel more clearly, because it answers a question I've been wondering for a long time. Apparently the gauges were graduated in metric, according to one FAA pilot who flew these, but the throttle, for example, had been replaced by the standard "push-to-go" unit found on American aircraft. (For those who don't know, pre-war French aircraft had their throttle inverted - you pulled towards you to increase speed.)
The other photo is interesting, too - note the polished prop blades without coloured tips, but with the maker's mark in the usual place.
I think I've got enough to do a skin for this one! For amusement only, because it was repainted in British Tropical Sea Scheme before delivery to the RN. But it's quite fun!
The other photo is interesting, too - note the polished prop blades without coloured tips, but with the maker's mark in the usual place.
I think I've got enough to do a skin for this one! For amusement only, because it was repainted in British Tropical Sea Scheme before delivery to the RN. But it's quite fun!
ndicki
Charter Member 2016
Yes, I've seen this on most/all Aeronavale aircraft of the thirties, but I thought it was discontinued at some stage around the outbreak of the war. I simply don't have the source material necessary about the Aeronavale...
dewoitine
SOH-CM-2025
Color of cockpit View attachment 3028Wildcat.
ndicki
Charter Member 2016
Thanks!
Slight problem - I'd forgotten there is a major mapping glitch on the starboard elevator... Which may make it look bloody awful if I try and paint in the tricolour stripes.
Somebody must have the source file, or where did we get the short-tailed version from anyway? The original had the tall tail. And the MAW version (which I have) which is a far better version of the same original external model, with separately mapped tailplanes, etc, does not have adequate LODs and hits FPS hard...
Slight problem - I'd forgotten there is a major mapping glitch on the starboard elevator... Which may make it look bloody awful if I try and paint in the tricolour stripes.
Somebody must have the source file, or where did we get the short-tailed version from anyway? The original had the tall tail. And the MAW version (which I have) which is a far better version of the same original external model, with separately mapped tailplanes, etc, does not have adequate LODs and hits FPS hard...