WIP: F-14 B/D
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Hi Stingray_SIX_TWO.
I follow the your work with great pleasure and impatience. When it’s over, it’s gonna be a perfect plane. I’m sure of that.
Do you plan to make the F14 cockpit after you finish the exterior model? If you do the cockpit, the community will be grateful.:bdance:
Best regards.
Burak
If (IF!) I survive the modeling, tex mapping and 3DS stuff in terms of DOFs etc. and it’s flyable and functional then that will probably be a confidence booster which might lead me to believe that I could embark on something like building a pit.
Long ways…
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I believe you can do it. I’m sure of that.
Best regards.
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My original Grumman blueprints actually show an actuator that is tilted in the other direction
That was my guess too As you said, best view is with the supersonic aperture configuration
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@SEG:
That was my guess too As you said, best view is with the supersonic aperture configuration
Trust me, it’s modeled correctly. Look at the airflow diagram:
Any other positioning of the cylinder wouldn’t make sense from a structural and pressure standpoint. The way it is designed is to minimize the amount of force the hydraulic pressure has to overcome while at the same time ensuring a solid and undisturbed base of the actuator and to minimize it’s drag in the inlet. Now turn that actuator around and you’ll see what the problems would be.
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Keep the AICS actuators as they are : It must be a question of perspective :rolleyes:
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Anyone need a jet engine or two?
As always in this business you find yourself needing to model everything in order to model everything else otherwise you have no realistic scale and reference so I built the GE F110. Characteristically much shorter than the original P&W F-111 leftovers.
Engines sit slightly tilted inward around 3 degrees.
Attaches pretty well to the shroud and nozzle as well as the intake.
Don’t get sucked inthere…
As you can see the engine pod is in rebuilt stage, currently attaching intakes to the pod. It now also has the characteristic shape of tilting slightly inward and then out to round off toward the center of the plane.
F110-400, Baby.
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Beaver will love this…aaaaall squares :). You can already see the silky smooth surface. Still finalizing the front end transition from square inward tilting intake to round engine pod.
Red circle marks the difference between the new ‘beltline’ and the old one. Basically the intakes were too narrow and sat too far inward and the shape didn’t make that outside in turn. Hence the intake and the engine face were misaligned aaaaand the entire pod was way too thick on the outside. Will have to correct the main landing gear doors. By the way this also explains why the MLG wouldn’t fit even though it was perfectly modeled to scale - there just wasn’t enough room in the fuselage due to my faulty line.
The front fuselage will get the same corrective surgery treatment once the bottomside is done.
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Rebuilding those areas after having spent soooooo many time in modelling them must be…:uham:
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THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A RIVET COUNTER!!! We need those big fat intakes to scare the crap out of the enemy when they see us on their six! Makes them feel like our engines will eat them if our weapons don’t first!(true IRL statement from an F-16 guy after getting beat by an F-14 Veteran-flight hours made the difference in this scenario)
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THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A RIVET COUNTER!!!
You know it man. Only way to go about this, it deserves nothing less. Thing is with the details it just adds up in terms of geometry, 2000 for the pit, 2000 for the engines, another 2000 additional tris for the engine pods. I’m rapidly moving up on 70k excluding AB. Upside is that the model will have a level of detail and accuracy that exceeds that of other ones out there (not mentioning names here) with at least double the poly count. Doesn’t help but it feels good :).
flight hours made the difference in this scenario)
Don’t they always…
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Some matcap shaded shots. Slowly getting the alignment intake-engine-shroud/nozzle right.
Engines, intakes, nozzles and ramps are at the moment within 95% authentic scale. So anything from here on out is more of an alignment within the ~5% range instead of a major correction. The inside walls of the inlet are not yet finalized.
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Your project is like 24 carat gold for me.
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Cant wait to see this beauty flying!
Have you already managed to port it in game? I haven’t seen any pic of it scrambling…
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Any RoseGold flavor? :rofl:
//Arty runs and hides…
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Cheers
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The tagline fitting this post the most is probably ‘Under Construction - We’ll be back soon!’ :).
The engine pod correction now spread to the ‘waistline’ meaning the side fuselage housing the landing gear and all kinds of other stuff. Check the original landing gear doors to compare to the shape it had before. Also in the front view close up you’ll see that the center of the engine compressor is moving closer and closer to the center of the intake. The bottom shots show the intakes being moved further and further apart.
All in all it’s kinda gutted at the moment even though it looks worse than it is BUT the takeaway is clearly that this correction gives the model the final and original Tomcat look. I see it during modeling that the intake positioning is moving all other parts into place (gear doors, side walls, etc.).
On a sidenote the part connecting the front fuselage with the engine pods in front is positioned much lower and closer to the bottom of the airplane in almost all other models and I was about to move it down as well until I check my original cutaway vertices view and this part on the original Tomcat is in fact right about where it sits in the model now so it will stay there - no need to change all parts just for the sake of it :D.
Anyway, the time spent on this correction is well worth it cuz it’s all about proportion and scale when it comes to authenticity of these models regardless of polycount and I intend to get as close as possible to the real thing. If you know the big cat and zoom out on these pics you will notice that it’s looking pretty good and much better than before.
Enjoy…
Matcap claystyle:
Moneyshot #1
Note the difference along the waistline, the MLG doors sit quite a bit too far out while the intakes sat too far inboard:
Moneyshot #2:
Epic stencil recreation, Baby…
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I like it.
I would also see lower LODs.Cheers,
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I like it.
I would also see lower LODs.Thanks! I don’t get it, you would like to see lower LODs? If that’s what you mean those will be generated later on. If I didn’t catch your meaning please clarify.
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He means LOD2/LOD3/LOD4/LOD5, which are the lower loads. Each is the aircraft at different LOD distances.
You know, you don’t see the entire aircraft in the lower LODS.
LOD1 you see everything>>>LOD5 you see basically a triangle. Or which ever LOD is last depending how many you make.
C9