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Hey Cees,

I see you are working in FSDS. A couple of the guys have found ways to export super high poly count models into FS9 as well as getting past the 4MM weld limit. You might want to give it a look through. You can make some really nice, smooth, high poly count parts now and once you learn the technique, its not that difficult.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20064

Bill

(Im using Gmax, so its a sligthly different technique for me).
 
Lionheart said:
Hey Cees,

I see you are working in FSDS. A couple of the guys have found ways to export super high poly count models into FS9 as well as getting past the 4MM weld limit. You might want to give it a look through. You can make some really nice, smooth, high poly count parts now and once you learn the technique, its not that difficult.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20064

Bill

(Im using Gmax, so its a sligthly different technique for me).
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Thanks Bill!

Cees
 
time for a little update!

I must have the addiction-gen! It's hard to tear myself loose from the modelling! Here's a little update. Soon I will begin overhauling some parts, but for the moment I've got a plane and it already looks like a Fokker! There's even a VC!

:salute:

Cees
 
Cees, the drawing I e-mailed you came from a different book than the book Stickshaker is referring to.

I did find the drawing below, which seems quite accurate. I have e-mailed it to you in a larger format. It is the drawing on the cover of the booklet "Fokkers in uniform". The only picture form a D.XVI inside is the well known picture from the 275.

Cheers,
Huub

D-16voorkantboekje_klein.jpg
 
Your next addiction will be finding the right effect textures for your planes... Hours just for a right engine photo, rust exhaust photo, tire photo... 'nope.. that wont do.. nope, nope, no, too bright.. nope... ' (days later... ) THATS IT!!!!
 
Lionheart said:
Your next addiction will be finding the right effect textures for your planes... Hours just for a right engine photo, rust exhaust photo, tire photo... 'nope.. that wont do.. nope, nope, no, too bright.. nope... ' (days later... ) THATS IT!!!!
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too bright? photoshop and adjust the exposure.... same for most images adjust the exposure, for fabric convert to greyscale and lighten/darken as neccessary and use as a multiply or overlay layer ;) piece of cake :wiggle:
 
One of the first aircraft with swept back wings! The Fokker D.XIV. However when the prototype crashed and the pilot was killed, the project was abandoned.

A pity as it was a really revolutionary aircraft in its days (1925).

Cheers,
Huub
 
Smoothie said:
too bright? photoshop and adjust the exposure.... same for most images adjust the exposure, for fabric convert to greyscale and lighten/darken as neccessary and use as a multiply or overlay layer ;) piece of cake :wiggle:
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With my repainting experience that will be no problem!

Cees
 
yup no problem for you Cees, i normally use a seamless canvas texture on my private work adjusted so that it's an overlay (have to make underlying colours slightly darker as a result) and adjust opacity and *poof*.... insta-canvas surfaces :icon_lol:
 
Smoothie said:
yup no problem for you Cees, i normally use a seamless canvas texture on my private work adjusted so that it's an overlay (have to make underlying colours slightly darker as a result) and adjust opacity and *poof*.... insta-canvas surfaces :icon_lol:
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But Huub will do the paintwork on this one. He's good! Here's som progress. Landing gear! Spinner!

:wiggle:

Cees
 
Bump

Screenies previous post: landing gear in working order (animations and all!)

:salute:

Cees


BTW: Can anyone here help me to material about the cockpit of this wonderful bird?
 
Thanks guys!

I'm of to the Aviodrome tomorrow. Made an appointment to search through the archives. Of course the D.XVI is my main goal, but I'll go for anything D.XIV, C.V and T5 related! Let's put some Fokkers on the menu!

:jump: :jump: :jump: :jump:

Cees

Edit: Been working on the engine. So far I've got an Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah. That one was used in the Koolhoven FK.51. Seven more cilinders and we have an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar that was used in the D.XVI!
Edit 2: And here's the Jaguar!
Cees
 
I guess becoming a world authority on early Fokkers goes with the job!
Something bemuses me...looking at that landing gear.
At the exact point where the cross brace carries highest bending stress, it crosses its counterpart, and goes to 1/3 thickness!
Why didn't they just kink the struts??
 
Wing_Z said:
I guess becoming a world authority on early Fokkers goes with the job!
Something bemuses me...looking at that landing gear.
At the exact point where the cross brace carries highest bending stress, it crosses its counterpart, and goes to 1/3 thickness!
Why didn't they just kink the struts??
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Beats me! But it took me quite a while to get that right! As it took me a while to merge the engine in the airplane model. Huub, you got mail!

:wiggle:

Cees
 
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