WWII Trainers?

Possibly your best bet then is deal directly with your preferred payware modelers with your requests/demands and not publicly derate other developers who get frustrated and stop developing.

I am quite happy with a lot of the obscure WWII aircraft being released and with the work put into them.

There are many pensioners and low income people on this forum who cannot afford what you are suggesting which seems to point at high quality payware.
 
I've been a fan of the T-6/SNJ ever since I built the old Aurora plastic kit way back when. So not surprising that I have grabbed every decent FS rendering of the plane that's come out, and I like 'em all. :) And... I have enough of 'em.
Kiwikat, you may want an even more detailed version than what's been done so far and you're willing to pay for it, but probably the vast majority of flight simmers are quite happy with the selection that's already available. Once the market is saturated, it's not worth it for a payware modeler to spend the time and creativity to even re-work a previous product, let alone create a brand-new version if nobody buys it.
Let's see what happens with the two payware versions of the C-17 now available. I should hope one of the two (or both) would satisfy most of the cargo-hauling simmers out there, but ya never know.
 
I just had Wozza's freeware T-6 Texan up in FSX. Now, I'm not a real pilot, have never sat in a Texan. But 10 days ago I stood inches away from a real life T-6 Texan....for a good 30 minutes. The Texan is my Number 1 favorite aircraft of all time....hands down, no questions asked. I spent a lot of time studying that real Texan and have done the same thing to Wozza's Texans (which I have been flying for a while now...started with his CFS2 version, then his FS9 version...which I still fly the most....and now his FSX version). His FSX version is, to the best of my ability to judge, SPOT ON visually.

Complicated? Yeah...it takes me at least 10 minutes to get the bird started so I can fly it.

Is it payware quality? I would say YES. I only have 3 payware birds in FSX. Lionheart's Dynamic and Skylark packages and the GAS Lockheed L-12. So, the pool of payware that I can compare it to is limited...but I would say that it is on par with the payware that I do have.

If I were a payware developer (I am not, just saying), I would be hesitant to produce a Texan package knowing that a superb freeware package is already out. I can't see what more could be done to make a payware Texan that much better than Wozza's freeware one. A2A could do an Accu-Sim work up on a Texan. Vertigo Studios could do up a Texan with authentic WW2 clothing on the pilot. Maybe a payware package could have some oil dripping from the engine or something...but really, there isn't much room for improvement over Wozza's Tex. Yeah, from my point of view (as a non-developer mind you), I would not spend the hundreds and hundreds of hours needed to develop a payware Texan just to get meager sales because...let's face it...there's a superb freeware Texan readily available.

OBIO
 
I know I have a tendency to bash, but lets stop this nonsense. Some people can't make their own aircraft, and thats just the way it is. I lack that particular skill set too, but I am going to try my hand.
Lets return to civil discussion here.
 
The original question is one I've seen many times in many forums. Frankly it's one for which I feel there is no real answer to as we all have different opinions regarding what we feel is a good product. There has been some friction here. Please don't let this turn into a thread I have to kill.
 
As the graphic abilities of the computer flight sim have improved, what is possible has increased. However the perfect is the enemy of the good, to achieve cutting edge quality work has increased the work load to the edge of what is financially possible even for very dedicated developers.

FSX incresaed the standard, but there are fewer offerings due to the present level of expectations.

Regards to all: T
 
Kiwikat said:
For some reason there's no larger scale plastic T-6 model either... :mixedsmi:.
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Nothing wrong with the slightly elderly 1:48 Monogram offering, and the T6/Harvard series was done to death in smaller scales.
If you are hoping for something ridiculous like 1:32 or 1:24 it will be a long time coming .......... :173go1:
 
wombat666 said:
Nothing wrong with the slightly elderly 1:48 Monogram offering, and the T6/Harvard series was done to death in smaller scales.
If you are hoping for something ridiculous like 1:32 or 1:24 it will be a long time coming .......... :173go1:
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I don't know if it was intentional but that's an excellent analogy to the flightsm aftermarket as well!
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wombat666 said:
Nothing wrong with the slightly elderly 1:48 Monogram offering, and the T6/Harvard series was done to death in smaller scales.
If you are hoping for something ridiculous like 1:32 or 1:24 it will be a long time coming .......... :173go1:
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I built the Monogram 1/48 kit shortly after it was introduced. It is a really nice kit.
 
wombat666 said:
Nothing wrong with the slightly elderly 1:48 Monogram offering, and the T6/Harvard series was done to death in smaller scales.
If you are hoping for something ridiculous like 1:32 or 1:24 it will be a long time coming .......... :173go1:
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1:48 is just too small. I would LOVE a 1:32 scale T-6 to put on my desk at work.

As you said, they've overdone it in other scales. It is definitely time for someone to release a larger scale version. My dad said there is a vacuform and resin large scale T-6 out there but I'm not quite ambitious enough to try building a kit like that yet. :mixedsmi:
 
Kiwikat said:
My dad said there is a vacuform and resin large scale T-6 out there but I'm not quite ambitious enough to try building a kit like that yet. :mixedsmi:
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Have a go at it, you won't see anything from anyone like Tamiya or Trumpeter.
:kilroy:
 
Kiwikat said:
1:48 is just too small. I would LOVE a 1:32 scale T-6 to put on my desk at work.

As you said, they've overdone it in other scales. It is definitely time for someone to release a larger scale version. My dad said there is a vacuform and resin large scale T-6 out there but I'm not quite ambitious enough to try building a kit like that yet. :mixedsmi:
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How many do you want??

http://www.amazon.com/American-Aviation-Single-engine-Advanced-Aircraft/dp/B0043CPSN0

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?pq=t-6&hl=en&cp=14&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=T-6+1:32+scale&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1920&bih=955&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=15320843546717605676&sa=X&ei=sWUfTsv3Gsr40gHB96CgAw&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ8wIwBg

http://www.texanflight.com/texanflightstore.html


http://www.warplanes.com/model-airplanes/t6-snj-texan-model-airplane
 
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