F-18 Hornet WIP
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@Radium haha yes, absolutely right on this one, i had to move the vertices without any axis to make it look real, and it gave good result
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Hello everyone, front landing gear door are done!
this part was new for me haha but very fun to do. Next one would be rear landing gear doors. -
@Stevie can you elaborate on this point, you mean the last pylon from both wings is different?
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@Radium - that’s actually a pretty nice graphic!
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@okayasugf - yes - the stores stations are numbered 1 though 11 from left to right, as viewed from the pilot’s seat/POV. The outer two are not the same pylon as the inner four, or the centerline. The outer two are SUU-80, the inner four are SUU-79, and the center one is a SUU-78. They are all three different shapes.
If you look over the instruction sheet from the RoG kit it will show you the difference in the shapes.
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@okayasugf - you may find some VERY good shots of tires (and the rest of the jet) in this book -
https://www.reidairpublishing.com/books/the-modern-super-hornet-guide-2nd-edition
This is one of the better references I’ve seen, short of having a real jet to look at!
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@Stevie Just made a comparison with the landing gears. Very huge difference.
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@Stevie sorry i cannot afford that, but i did find this book at my local online ebook store
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Hi everyone, back with another update
pretty close to unwrapping this monster haha, taking alot of time to get it right.
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@okayasugf - That’s not a bad one either!
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@LIGHTNING35 - Yes. The Super Hornet main gear are beefier, yet a bit simpler mechanically. The nose gear strut is also a bit taller, I think…but the tires are the same size, as I recall.
I didn’t really start to notice some of these kit problems until I put a couple of my earlier 1/72 D and F kit builds side by side…then the errors really showed up. The F kit was a good example in shape, but clearly under-sized overall. And they had clearly recycled the landing gear from their A-D kits, so the F model was also low-riding!
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@okayasugf - that’s more the shape of the respective pylons…you could go a bit thicker and taller, though. The SUU-79s are a bit more like barn doors…check those RoG drawings again!
…and the D&S book!
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uvmapping started, sorry for long delay -
@okayasugf - here’s a pretty good depiction of a SUU-79…yours are still a bit pointy.
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starting the texturing of the jet! Major milestone for me -
@okayasugf - this part is the really fun part…!
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@okayasugf - now you’re into the details!