Thank you all for the support on the 757 project, which was posted ten days ago. I am now asking for your feedback on what airliner I will next make. It needs to be from Boeing, Airbus, MD, Embraer, or Bombardier. Douglas works too, but only the jets. I will pick from the top three upvoted comments. The aircraft will be finished around Christmas, and I'd like to get an early start on it. Hoping to make a 5,000 part build this time!
@KLM_747 Have you create the Airbus A220?
@KLM_747 okay
@hahanoob25 Lol sorry it's the 767-400, this post is two months old
You should make the boeing 777x
Boeing 787-9
pleaseI know I won't be able to download but I want to see if you@47parzival41
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Airbus is also too T H I C C
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Boeing is better than Airbus because Airbus made the Beluga
@47parzival41 The nose is really giving me a hard time. I've been starting but it seems like every option is impossible to make hollow body. The nose to cockpit window transition is very difficult for me. And I DO want to make a hollow body aircraft.
For a older one, a Boeing SA-307b Stratoliner?
You can make the AIRBUS A330
@KLM_747 I think I'll start withe the windows, as that is the best place to start a hollow body airliner. I'll do the lower deck windows first, and then panel the rest of the body around them. Hopefully I'll be able to make the seams and joints look nice with the new fuselage paneling options in the 1.10 update. I might even put in real glass windows if they look good. Hopefully the fuselage smoothing option also fixes the sides of the fuselage when paneling hollow-body creations, the edges were always the hardest part to get right for me. This will be good practice though. I don't have a computer currently that I can play SP on, but I'll let you know when I start making progress.
@47parzival41 Alright, I'll either look for a special livery or find one that is used by a lot of airlines. I will try my absolute best to make a good 747 nose, but if I cannot, I will most likely make an airbus to change things up.
@47parzival41 lol just know that I'll be able to make higher part builds. I'll be making the -400 version, from which I'll be able to stretch and lengthen if needed to form the other models. The only thing is, they all have different cockpits. Like every single model. Do you have any other suggestions for liveries? I'd like to do the PW2000 version FYI.
@Panthers4741 I usually aim to make each wing about 400 parts, on the 757 each wing is 450, and each engine on the 747 (which is conveniently the same engine as the 757) is about 100 parts. BTW, I'm building a new test bench PC with an overclocked RX 590 and I7 2600 that I scavenged, that technically is better than my current PC, and I MAY be able to make the Queen of The sky 7474 parts. DDR3 is so cheap, it's worth it to get 16GB or even 24GB DDR3.
Since you plan on doing a 6666 part airliner, why don't you make it a brand new superjumbo that's much bigger than an A380 (1000+ pax 3 class)? Because I've noticed there's been a lack of realistic fictional multi-decker airliners on SimplePlanes.
@KLM_747 or a Embraer 195-E2 because you don’t see them much on this website
@Panthers4741 You'll be able to download the hollow body version with no interior/cockpit. I suspect it'll be around 1,000 parts.
@CSTIJN I'll consider it!
Maybe a Embraer 190-E2
@Panthers4741 No worry about spam lol
I start every plane I make with the main fuselage section, the long straight part where the cabin is. I make it as long as the airplane should be with XML and then scale the blueprint so it fits perfectly. Then I make that piece the main fuselage and attach pieces to it to form the basic shape of the nose and tail. I do the tail first, then the nose, then the belly hump (wingroot thing) I make sure I look at the actual plane in real life to make sure I get the details right. For my 757, I went to the local airport and checked it out. For the 747, I have a 1:200 model in my room that I can refer to. Costed about 35$ and is quite accurate. Make sure you use blueprints for every part.
Nose, seats, landing gear (I watched gear swings of the 757 to make sure it worked properly). The cockpit was one of the hardest parts. Very time consuming. dozens of hours. 747 cockpit and nose shape will be the hardest part. I'll keep you updated once I start because you seem interested.
@Panthers4741 I feel that it would be hard to make the upper windows properly, since they are slanted weirdly. I might have to use a new paneling technique. The entire fuselage and upper deck will need to be paneled for the inside to look proper. ++ parts. Any request for liveries?
@Panthers4741 The most part-intensive region of any aircraft with interior is the seats. 344 seats on the 747, and with the current seats I have, (no part count savings) the seats alone would be 9200 parts. I might need to make each seat about 10 parts if I'll even have a chance of making them all fit. that way they're only 3440 parts. then I could make the rest of the airplane 4034 parts, bringing the total to 7474. Cockpit on the 757 is about 3,000 parts, and I bet I could reuse a lot of the dials, switches, ETC to make the 747 much easier to build.
@Panthers4741 747 sounds nice, I haven't seen a 5000 part version here. I might make a really detailed one with full interior. The interior is the easy part, except for the spiral staircase. The cockpit is the harder part. I'll think about the 747 nose and experiment a little bit. If I can get a good nose shape I'll try.
Dash 8 Q400?
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