Wimpey released

IanP said:
Having dug a bit further, it appears that the "general" release of this one won't be until the first half of December - as has already been stated by noddy above. I wonder how many of those shots are beta models?

I guess we'll find out next month.

Ian P.
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I do hope it turns out better than I'm anticipating - I would honestly love to be proved wrong on this one.
 
I thought it looked OK from the pictures Ian linked to, however as he says, we'll find out next month.
 
gajit said:
Need I say more - bit naff is an understatement. I am always suspicious when there is a lack of detailed screenshots of a product and have learnt the "hard" way - being optimistic with my "hard" earned case.

It would be great to have a decent Wellington but this does not show much promise at the moment.
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Fair enough I suppose. I just thought saying it was cow **** was a little bit harsh based on some screenshots. :wiggle:

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one personally, I'd love a good FSX Wellington.
 
The "Wood effect" is weird but I hope these comments will reach the developers before release and perhaps the Wellie will be good.
One thing that amazes me (and undoubtedly Nick too) is the ubiquitously poor quality of shots that developers take of their projects. Anti-aliasing...who needs it? Anisotropic filtering...bah humbug!
 
Looking forward to this, but some little errors, notice the texture inside the oil cooler or carb duct ontop of the nacelles, on the CC variant, one has white inners, the other black (which looks much better IMO). And agree on the texture quality, unless they sort that, I won't be buying. Hopefully, these wil be Beta'd out because the model looks great. And a short stirling to follow, or is that just dreaming ?
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For £25, I would expect this to be right
 
If I knew how to link to Photobucket I'd show you some shots of the airfield that comes with it. RAF Driffield

I'll try uploading. There we go.

Also following release there'll be a Freeware AI Wellington traffic package by Bob Baum of Team SDB with Wellingtons painted as 104 Sqn by Frank Safranek. Youl'll find it on Flightsim.com. No fewer than 10 Wellingtons taxi and take off for a raid " somewhere in Germany".
 
I was looking forward to this, since I fly RW from an old Wellington base.

Externally, the model is pretty nice, although the supplied paints are awful - no geodetic structure in the wings, instead showing traditional stringers, and so overcooked that it's more like an audition for painting Warhammer miniatures! And wood grain? On a fabric-covered aircraft? No opening doors/hatches. The VC is fine, so long as you don't move. Then you discover they haven't modelled the wings, or the nose or... (the prop spinners are visible, in bizarre isolation!). There are only two views (2D/3D). The only popups are Garmin 295 and standard Sperry autopilot. There is no interior.

From my one flight so far, it taxies easily, but has lateral instability in flight (it rolled straight onto its back when I let go of the yoke! Cockpit visibility is so poor in the type that it's virtually impossible to fly without moving your head around - leaning up, sideways, forwards etc, and so the missing parts become an annoyance very quickly


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Considering its high (£22) price, only 2/5
 
What a great shame - another product released that looks unfinished.
 
Tim, from what I have seen in the shots, yours seemed like a pretty fair assessment of the aircraft. Pity, the VC looks nice, to bad they didn't have the foresight to include the rest of the aircraft.
 
The texture is definitely overcooked, but I disagree greatly with your assessment of the flight dynamics. I had mine trimmed to fly hands-off within seconds of taking off.

Edit: Looking at photographs, the geo structure in the wings isn't particularly visible anyway - nowhere near as clearly as it is in the fuselage.

Edit 2: Pressing ctrl-e opens the windows, so there are opening hatches, even if they're not the ones you want. I have no problems at all taxying or flying this aircraft without moving from the default seat position.

Indeed the only problems I have with the package are texture related (I like Mickey's carefully sighted screenshots to avoid the pretty poor texturing on the outside of those C-Types and in some other places! :icon_lol:) - it should also, as you said, be fabric coated, not woodgrain. We were looking around it trying to work out what the various woods were other than "wrong"! We settled on mahogany for the spinners.

Anyway. There'll be a full review in the new year. I'm hoping there'll have been enough feedback that there'll be a texture patch before then... Dan? Mickey?

Ian P.
 
Thanks for the review and shots TimA. The floating props look just plain silly and are enough to put me off the purchase so you've saved me from a disappointing purchase. Too bad they didn't realize how important those kind of visuals are to the immersion factor. If the engines and wings were added to the VC in an update then I would probably purchase it.
 
Again, what Tim's shot doesn't show you is that he is leaning forward on top of the instrument panel to get that shot of the floating prop. That's not entirely realistic either. Basically, what he's given there is all the bad points, without showing the good ones. "There's no interior" is also incorrect. The entire cockpit area is modelled - in places very well, in others, less so. If you leave the cockpit area, there's no remainder of the model. Most aircraft don't model the entire interior for very good reason (waste of polygons/lower frame rate).

While the package is far from perfect, the comments above aren't exactly balanced either. Having just done two more quick flights to take screenshots of the problems with the Driffield scenery, I can tell you that in the FS generated ground effect at very low level, yes, the bomber is unstable. The Tiger Moth I just flew as well was even less stable. Once out of ground effect, I trimmed it to fly easily.

Just trying to bring some balance, not talk the product up. I agree that it needs a patch.

Ian P.
 
Mickey D said:
If I knew how to link to Photobucket I'd show you some shots of the airfield that comes with it. RAF Driffield

Also following release there'll be a Freeware AI Wellington traffic package by Bob Baum of Team SDB with Wellingtons painted as 104 Sqn by Frank Safranek. Youl'll find it on Flightsim.com. No fewer than 10 Wellingtons taxi and take off for a raid " somewhere in Germany".
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The AI package has just been uploaded here and to Flightsim.com
Look for it soon.
Sorry it took so long, but the holiday season kept me too busy to mess with it.
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Paul K said:
Mentioned this over at CBFS.The model itself looks okay, but is ruined by this ludicrous wood grain effect. I just can't understand why things like this get past whatever quality control regime there may be. What on earth were they thinking of ?
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LOL... I thought the textures made it..


Nice looking bird.


Bill
 
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