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Build Update [5/21/24]

1,210 Raptor77  25 days ago

Hello all!

Thanks so much for the upvotes and downloads on my T-8D. I took a long time working on it, and I'm very proud of the end result.

Right now, I have a lot of planes that are semi-ready, but one is much more semi-ready than the others (lol).


This is my T-32E 'Piglet', a lightweight single seat, single engine CAS aircraft. I originally wanted to remake my T-17, but ended up with this twin boom design instead (on a side note, I have noticed a lot more twin boom designs on the site recently 👀).

Really all I wanted to do with this plane was to make it fairly realistic in flying well at low speeds, having a good loiter time, and carrying a decent amount of armament.

I also wanted to make a better pylon cluster (definitely not what they're called, but you know what I mean), because my previous designs bend when you pull mid-high Gs, which didn't look very nice (and isn't super realistic). Right now I've got this, which is completely made up of fuselage cylinders (whereas the previous design had a structural wing for the main body-type part). It's much better functionality wise, and is a bit lighter than the previous iteration (and looks better/more realistic).


I'm happy with how the main body, wing area, and canopy are looking, and all I have to do now is start on the inside cockpit area.

I'm also messing around with a different paint scheme, with one wing section a different, more bold color and the other plain, which you can see in the photo

I'm gonna try and get this plane done before I keep on working on my T-29C or other projects (though I have gotten some progress on the -29C build, but I'll do a separate update for it at some point).

-Raptor77