@JettStorm Cheers!
I read your thread a while back about how to get more upvotes and was thinking; you shouldn't be building just for the upvotes. If you're building simply for attention from others, then you aren't going to be engaged enough in the subject material or in your modeling to really do something special.
Heck, I've put out things that have received zero upvotes, or one or two. It wasn't really an issue for me because I build stuff for me - the models I want to play around with and the features I want to have. I get as much satisfaction in building the bloody things and getting them to work properly as I do flying them around and blowing stuff up.
My advice would be to pick something that you are really enthusiastic about - if making replicas is your thing, pick a particular aeroplane, research it and really learn about it. If you just want to build something cool, try to add some advanced features and think of it like a special research project, for example, making a working VTOL aircraft, a helicopter, something with a working bomb bay, or working flaps, or even thrust vectoring, if you like the fiddly hingey rotatory things.
You have made some really nice models, and that is a good start - just keep building and trying new things.
I can't say much for mods like fine tuner, as I build on an iPhone, but if they help then great - try those out. But they are by no means a "must have" to build cool planes and I think people forget that sometimes.
Sorry - a bit of a rant, but I just wanted to give you the benefit of my experience so far.
Cheers @ChiChiWerx
I think this pretty much pushes my skills to their limit. Im not sure I can do better. Building in iOS is ok too, but I think 400 parts is really the limit. I lost count of how many times I crashed back to desktop...
Yeah, the Hawker Nimrod was a biplane. The BAE Nimrod was a later monoplane. Apparently Nimrod was a biblical character... @Skyfalcon
Thanks @Tang0five ! Yeah, the scrapping of the almost completed air frames has got to be one of the biggest eff ups in MoD history. Right up there with the TSR2.
@JoddyFubuki788 The FSX model of this is really good. I looked at it as reference material.
@JoddyFubuki788 Thanks!
This is meant to represent the last one - the MRA.4. At thedate of cancellation there were several nearly complete examples and one ready to deliver. I still remember the uproar in the UK when BAE were ordered by the MOD to break up and scrap the 90% complete air frames. Perfectly good aeroplanes broken up for scrap. What a waste!
There was actually an AWACS Nimrod - the Nimrod AEW.3.
It was ugly. Not in a good way. It was also an unmitigated failure and resulted in the MOD / RAF purchasing the Boeing E-3 Sentry... Wikipedia has a good page on it.
Please dont forget to mention that the Botha, originally designed for RAF Coastal Command as a maritime recon bomber, had very limited fields of vision for not only the pilot, but the navigator and the observers too... Oh, and the underpowered engines, the vicious spin and almost impossible recovery... And the tendancy to sink rapidly when ditched, a characteristic that was spot on for an aeroplane that would spend 99.9% of its operational life flying over water...
Im a big fan of your work and your subject material! Keep it up! Do something by Miles next!!
@Tang0five Thanks. That model has been in the works in various versions for a long time.
Yeah, the F.53 (iirc) was bought by Kuwait and Saudi. It had cannons and limited ground attack ability (could carry rocket pods, I think) but it also had limited use; the climate in the mid east and the lack of trained ground crew basically made them fancy ornaments.
I like this. For 54 parts it is very very good. Just a wee point; the earlier models of the lightning (F.1, F.1a, F.2 and F.2a) had cannon. This was removed from the F.3 but reinstated in the final F.6 variant. The F.3a also had cannon, but these were originally delivered as cannonless F.3 models and subsequently upgraded to the F.6 standard.
Yeah, the Lightning is my all time favourite aeroplane.
@doge Very sorry, but the model was just too complex to chop up and make a successor. Here is my entry;
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/Qr7XSb/Northrop-Grumman-B-2-Spirit-v2
Hope it is acceptable?
Ok... slight cock up... Dont use the Infernos. If you do you will detonate the torpedos - they have inferno missiles clipped into them for added boom. Remove the infernos or the torps. Up to you, they are both fine choices...
If I remember correctly, the Airacuda was intended as a bomber destroyer. An aerial battleship, as it were. Not a bomber or attack aircraft.
Could be Im wrong...
Either way cool beans.
@ChiChiWerx Good job there with notifying the guys that can actually do anything about this. In hindsight, I probably should have done the same thing...
@Smoker Yeah, thats not going to happen. I build on iOS (iPhone6) and this causes a lot of issues as it is. More parts will only make it worse, performance wise.
@Kevinairlines Youre a good man.
Thanks! @ChiChiWerx I would say that mine has more parts... but yours is a way more accurate shape. I like it a lot!
Very nice!
Hey @Kevinairlines I had to delete this and re upload, and now it is no longer a sucessor, despite using the pit from your challenge F-4.
Can you accept this entry, pretty please?
Thanks! @Tang0five
You're doing things in iOS that I can't quite figure out. Respect.
@JettStorm Cheers!
I read your thread a while back about how to get more upvotes and was thinking; you shouldn't be building just for the upvotes. If you're building simply for attention from others, then you aren't going to be engaged enough in the subject material or in your modeling to really do something special.
Heck, I've put out things that have received zero upvotes, or one or two. It wasn't really an issue for me because I build stuff for me - the models I want to play around with and the features I want to have. I get as much satisfaction in building the bloody things and getting them to work properly as I do flying them around and blowing stuff up.
My advice would be to pick something that you are really enthusiastic about - if making replicas is your thing, pick a particular aeroplane, research it and really learn about it. If you just want to build something cool, try to add some advanced features and think of it like a special research project, for example, making a working VTOL aircraft, a helicopter, something with a working bomb bay, or working flaps, or even thrust vectoring, if you like the fiddly hingey rotatory things.
You have made some really nice models, and that is a good start - just keep building and trying new things.
I can't say much for mods like fine tuner, as I build on an iPhone, but if they help then great - try those out. But they are by no means a "must have" to build cool planes and I think people forget that sometimes.
Sorry - a bit of a rant, but I just wanted to give you the benefit of my experience so far.
@JettStorm Crikey, that was quick - many thanks.
Thanks matey. @Tang0five
@Tang0five
"Excuse me, is that an Uzi?"
Love that film!
Cheers @ChiChiWerx
I think this pretty much pushes my skills to their limit. Im not sure I can do better. Building in iOS is ok too, but I think 400 parts is really the limit. I lost count of how many times I crashed back to desktop...
Yeah, the Hawker Nimrod was a biplane. The BAE Nimrod was a later monoplane. Apparently Nimrod was a biblical character... @Skyfalcon
Thanks @Tang0five ! Yeah, the scrapping of the almost completed air frames has got to be one of the biggest eff ups in MoD history. Right up there with the TSR2.
@JoddyFubuki788 The FSX model of this is really good. I looked at it as reference material.
@JoddyFubuki788 Thanks!
This is meant to represent the last one - the MRA.4. At thedate of cancellation there were several nearly complete examples and one ready to deliver. I still remember the uproar in the UK when BAE were ordered by the MOD to break up and scrap the 90% complete air frames. Perfectly good aeroplanes broken up for scrap. What a waste!
There was actually an AWACS Nimrod - the Nimrod AEW.3.
It was ugly. Not in a good way. It was also an unmitigated failure and resulted in the MOD / RAF purchasing the Boeing E-3 Sentry... Wikipedia has a good page on it.
@Liquidfox
Many thanks!
@Tang0five Many thanks! Im now working on the mandatory "Thanks for making gold" release...
@jlewisifer Wow! Thanks! She took a while to built, yeah. Then another good while to balance and make usable.
You made a great challenge!
@Tang0five
Very cool.
Please dont forget to mention that the Botha, originally designed for RAF Coastal Command as a maritime recon bomber, had very limited fields of vision for not only the pilot, but the navigator and the observers too... Oh, and the underpowered engines, the vicious spin and almost impossible recovery... And the tendancy to sink rapidly when ditched, a characteristic that was spot on for an aeroplane that would spend 99.9% of its operational life flying over water...
Im a big fan of your work and your subject material! Keep it up! Do something by Miles next!!
At last. Someone got the joke... @Tang0five Thanks!!
I think we share a passion for post war British stuff. Bloody awesome job!
Im glad you enjoyed it! I really had fun building and testing her.
@Tang0five
Thanks. This is based on one of my first uploads. I wanted to revisit the model and see if I could improve it. I think it turned out ok?
Very very nice. @GINGER01
@jlewisifer Thanks! This was me building up to a Firefly, but I just dont think I have the resources, time or talent to do the Firefly justice.
@Treadmill103
@Ephwurd
Thanks guys.
This is very good. Double super especially since it is done on iOS.
Real men aren't scared to build on iOS...
Ok, I dont get it. This is a lovely model, really, but it is broken. It cant fly.
It is only good for looking at.
@Tang0five Thanks. That model has been in the works in various versions for a long time.
Yeah, the F.53 (iirc) was bought by Kuwait and Saudi. It had cannons and limited ground attack ability (could carry rocket pods, I think) but it also had limited use; the climate in the mid east and the lack of trained ground crew basically made them fancy ornaments.
I like this. For 54 parts it is very very good. Just a wee point; the earlier models of the lightning (F.1, F.1a, F.2 and F.2a) had cannon. This was removed from the F.3 but reinstated in the final F.6 variant. The F.3a also had cannon, but these were originally delivered as cannonless F.3 models and subsequently upgraded to the F.6 standard.
Yeah, the Lightning is my all time favourite aeroplane.
Good job on this one!
Very nice.
@doge Good news shoes. Thanks.
@doge Very sorry, but the model was just too complex to chop up and make a successor. Here is my entry;
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/Qr7XSb/Northrop-Grumman-B-2-Spirit-v2
Hope it is acceptable?
Ok... slight cock up... Dont use the Infernos. If you do you will detonate the torpedos - they have inferno missiles clipped into them for added boom. Remove the infernos or the torps. Up to you, they are both fine choices...
@Warbrine Thanks!
If I remember correctly, the Airacuda was intended as a bomber destroyer. An aerial battleship, as it were. Not a bomber or attack aircraft.
Could be Im wrong...
Either way cool beans.
@Mumpsy Thanks. She did alright, huh?
This is the best replica I have seen so far. I wish I could upvote more than once for this.
Just a note; she is substantially slower than thecreal deal. This can be partially fixed by clipping the smallest turbojet into the rear fuselage.
Either way it is a wonderful model.
Very nice. I like your building style.
@EliteIndistries1 Christ, that was quick. Many thanks.
@JoddyFubuki788 Many thanks - you too!
Not too bad.
But I feel the need to point out that the name you are going for is ;
F4U Corsair.
Looks like a simplified deHavilland sea Vixen. I like.
@ZephyrSystems I would say that it has elements of the Gustav and the Emil, personally.
For only 158 parts this is a work of art.
@ChiChiWerx Good job there with notifying the guys that can actually do anything about this. In hindsight, I probably should have done the same thing...
Must be tech issues... Ah well, hope it gets fixed with minimal hassle @Leehopard
@mikoyanster I am in. Not brown nosing or anything, but I really enjoyed the AJTC, so this should be great fun!
Oh, and one more thing; "serp" is sickle in Russian, if Google Translate is anything to go by (winkey smiley face).
@vonhubert Thanks, I didnt know that. Good info!
@ChiChiWerx Da komrade. Stronk like babushka pulling plow.
@Smoker Yeah, thats not going to happen. I build on iOS (iPhone6) and this causes a lot of issues as it is. More parts will only make it worse, performance wise.