One year only? The communists always made 5-year plans… and then took 50 years to complete them. Well, the two or three that actually got completed, that is… 😂
@Ferrarivsenzoslapp what should work is to just DL the plane, when you get the error about the mods hit unto, then hit redo. Plane should load, modless...
@Falco7 Right -but that's always going to be the discussion, isn't it? There's no such thing as "mobile friendly" anyway, since it all depends on which mobile device you have. People shouldn't complain about the part count of a build, but rather about the limits of their device.
@iniMiiW still haven't found a reliable method to catapult a 3-ton plane off a ship's deck in SP, I'm sorry to say. Putting it on a Bismarck will be no problem -flying it off one will be a bit more tricky...
@EngineerOtaku No, it's not -you use much less parts, and still manage to capture the plane's forms perfectly. Your version just has less nuts & bolts & trimmings, for which I'm sure all mobile users will thank you. An absolute thumbs up!!
@Random04 Same drill as always: load the plane, when getting the error about the mod hit the "undo" button and then the "redo" button. Plane will load without the mod.
@DJ2keroni "Schwenkflügeln", yes -but the "Schwing Ving" was intended as nothing more than a little joke in 'allo 'allo -style language... think Lt. Gruber :D :D
Look up the show on Youtube... the jokes do get stale after about one season, but even the repetition is good for a few laughs.
@NaONCo2HCH2 I'm going to respond just once -SP isn't the right place for this type of discussion... already sorry I brought it up. Can't help it -I'm allergic to gods, religions, hoaxes, phishing and scams in general. Sure, the WHO probably has lots of interesting info on secondary causes of death, but these say little about the root cause. Many of the conditions listed are lethal only because of poverty, which is usually a result of (civil) war and politicial issues, which in turn are almost always related to religion. People die of heart disease because there's no decent hostpital; there's no decent hospital because there's no money, there's no money because some asshole spends it all on a pointless war, and there's a pointless war because of some silly discussion about a point or comma in a "holy book". A book that nobody reads, by the way, since they're too poor to send their kids to school, hence none of them can actually read the holy books they're quoting.
@Mateuspilot True, the missiles are not perfect. Don't forget this is a 1945 plane; there were no Sparrows or Sidewinders back then. Air-to-air missiles simply did not exist before stuff like the Ruhrstahl X-4... these things were wire-guided, and the plane's pilot had to steer them to their target with a kind of joystick. He had to keep a good visual at all times, and when either he or the target were going too fast, were manoeuvering, were too close or too far apart etc. it simply didn't work. In this build, these difficulties are emulated by a very narrow range (1.5 to 3.5 km) and the fact that you have to maintain the lock until the missile hits. And that's making it easy; I might have made missiles that effectively have to be guided by the pilot, but since that would mean switching cam views (and abandoning control of the plane for the duration) the current setup seemed like a good compromise.
Bottom line: no "fire-and-forget" with computer-controlled targeting in 1945, sorry.
@FujiwaraAutoShop It's a cool rendering of the old "Wankel Wagon" -but let's face it; it wasn't very reliable, fast or stylish at any time. It's original, yes -but that about sums it up.
@MAHADI bah.. there's already a mod that does the job -all they have to do is make it a standard part of SP. Strange, though; a game that's all about building planes doesn't have the right geometric shapes to build a wing.
@MAHADI I know. But that's a rather thin wing, and it has the same thickness throughout. You get a nice & smooth transition to the control surface, but the wing itself looks unrealistic.
@MAHADI yes, I know what you mean -tried it a few times, but abandoned it. You get a smooth fit, but I don't like the overall result; too chunky for my taste. Like my own system, it's a rather poor substitute for a "real" wing shape. Whatever you do, it will always look wrong somehow -unless you spend a million parts on a wing. Anything can be built in SP, if you're willing to spend the parts. Me, I prefer using them to make the planes more detailed/realistic in other ways.
@F104Deathtrap I wouldn't call the MiG-21 -or any other old Soviet plane, for that matter- technologically less advanced than the US equipment. A different design, resulting from a different mindset, but no less effective. But you (and Moltke) are right; no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. The US planes and pilots were at least every bit as good, but the people calling the shots were not too bright...
@F104Deathtrap true -only, in this case size doesn't matter. A missile hit from a small plane is just as deadly. Back then, it all came down to how good the pilots were.
@AircraftoftheRedStar depends on what you mean by "follow"... I have a look at 'em, certainly. But building with some cluttered blueprints on my screen in the background puts me off more than a bit :D :D
@blackvultureaeroespace it's not any unit's symbol. It's some kind of "badge of excellence" awarded to the plane/unit's ground tech crew for good maintenance... so you would see it on many a Soviet plane. Personally I think it's a strange practice, since it means that planes not carrying this badge are perhaps not properly maintained..??
@sam1333 sure you do! It's a very nice Fw-190 -and at only 1/5th of the parts I used on mine :p
+1The very recognizable shape of the Sparviero is definitely there!! And yes, this is a tricky one to build... good luck!
+1Love this Italian stuff! Just waiting for someone to do a convincing "Sparviero"... :p
+1Smooth & simple -I like it!
+1@Random04 nope...
+1@TheDesignate It was actually more the Ju52's daddy :p
+1@Sergio666 Thank you very much!!
+1@GuyFolk as Ennio Morricone would put it: <whistle whistle> wa wa wa...
+1Horten hears a who!
+1One year only? The communists always made 5-year plans… and then took 50 years to complete them. Well, the two or three that actually got completed, that is… 😂
+1A puffer fish starfighter :D :D
+1Nice! I'm building a slightly less potent Junkers myself :D :D
+1@PSsyalperdna u don’t need the mod… just makes the cockpit look nicer. Everything else works just fine without mods. DL, hit undo & redo.
+1@hjonk sure, go ahead... see what u can make of it.
+1Happy B-day, anyway :D @Augusta
+1@Tookan LOL the Revell model only has 190 parts, so you could be right...
+1@LieutenantSOT Thanks! The score looks good, so far at least... wait & see what others come up with...
+1@LieutenantSOT sure... I have something partly cooked up :P
+1@Ferrarivsenzoslapp what should work is to just DL the plane, when you get the error about the mods hit unto, then hit redo. Plane should load, modless...
+1@LaunchAttempt yes, YAK-36 "Fishface" would have worked
+1@Falco7 Right -but that's always going to be the discussion, isn't it? There's no such thing as "mobile friendly" anyway, since it all depends on which mobile device you have. People shouldn't complain about the part count of a build, but rather about the limits of their device.
+1@NightmareCorporation who..???
+1@iniMiiW still haven't found a reliable method to catapult a 3-ton plane off a ship's deck in SP, I'm sorry to say. Putting it on a Bismarck will be no problem -flying it off one will be a bit more tricky...
+1@CRATE52PART2 LOL... ah well, there's probably more than a few Russians around in France, so why not.
+1@Luxray102 should be listed under "required mods" in the Specifications...
+1@DuneBoi of course you can detach the whole thing and save it as a subassembly
+1@asteroidbook345 so you're actually telling me to take my old Mirage, slap on the MiG-21's wings and add the lift engines from the E-7PD..? ;) :D
+1@EngineerOtaku No, it's not -you use much less parts, and still manage to capture the plane's forms perfectly. Your version just has less nuts & bolts & trimmings, for which I'm sure all mobile users will thank you. An absolute thumbs up!!
+1@Trainzo Ah.., thanks, you're almost making me blush ;) remind me to pay you a beer (or a glass of wine) next time I'm in France...
+1@AuroraPolaris yep... and to top it off, the damn thing sticks out its tongue at you with every takeoff :D
+1@Random04 Same drill as always: load the plane, when getting the error about the mod hit the "undo" button and then the "redo" button. Plane will load without the mod.
+1@DJ2keroni "Schwenkflügeln", yes -but the "Schwing Ving" was intended as nothing more than a little joke in 'allo 'allo -style language... think Lt. Gruber :D :D
+1Look up the show on Youtube... the jokes do get stale after about one season, but even the repetition is good for a few laughs.
@urbanculture simple: your boat has no keel. I added two fins at the back, and now the boat behaves quite decently.
+1cute "knochensäge"...
+1@NaONCo2HCH2 I'm going to respond just once -SP isn't the right place for this type of discussion... already sorry I brought it up. Can't help it -I'm allergic to gods, religions, hoaxes, phishing and scams in general. Sure, the WHO probably has lots of interesting info on secondary causes of death, but these say little about the root cause. Many of the conditions listed are lethal only because of poverty, which is usually a result of (civil) war and politicial issues, which in turn are almost always related to religion. People die of heart disease because there's no decent hostpital; there's no decent hospital because there's no money, there's no money because some asshole spends it all on a pointless war, and there's a pointless war because of some silly discussion about a point or comma in a "holy book". A book that nobody reads, by the way, since they're too poor to send their kids to school, hence none of them can actually read the holy books they're quoting.
+1@Mateuspilot True, the missiles are not perfect. Don't forget this is a 1945 plane; there were no Sparrows or Sidewinders back then. Air-to-air missiles simply did not exist before stuff like the Ruhrstahl X-4... these things were wire-guided, and the plane's pilot had to steer them to their target with a kind of joystick. He had to keep a good visual at all times, and when either he or the target were going too fast, were manoeuvering, were too close or too far apart etc. it simply didn't work. In this build, these difficulties are emulated by a very narrow range (1.5 to 3.5 km) and the fact that you have to maintain the lock until the missile hits. And that's making it easy; I might have made missiles that effectively have to be guided by the pilot, but since that would mean switching cam views (and abandoning control of the plane for the duration) the current setup seemed like a good compromise.
+1Bottom line: no "fire-and-forget" with computer-controlled targeting in 1945, sorry.
@FujiwaraAutoShop It's a cool rendering of the old "Wankel Wagon" -but let's face it; it wasn't very reliable, fast or stylish at any time. It's original, yes -but that about sums it up.
+1@MAHADI bah.. there's already a mod that does the job -all they have to do is make it a standard part of SP. Strange, though; a game that's all about building planes doesn't have the right geometric shapes to build a wing.
+1@MAHADI I know. But that's a rather thin wing, and it has the same thickness throughout. You get a nice & smooth transition to the control surface, but the wing itself looks unrealistic.
+1@MAHADI yes, I know what you mean -tried it a few times, but abandoned it. You get a smooth fit, but I don't like the overall result; too chunky for my taste. Like my own system, it's a rather poor substitute for a "real" wing shape. Whatever you do, it will always look wrong somehow -unless you spend a million parts on a wing. Anything can be built in SP, if you're willing to spend the parts. Me, I prefer using them to make the planes more detailed/realistic in other ways.
+1@Revan13152 nope... the mod is cosmetic only, to make the cockpit view a bit more realistic.
+1@F104Deathtrap I wouldn't call the MiG-21 -or any other old Soviet plane, for that matter- technologically less advanced than the US equipment. A different design, resulting from a different mindset, but no less effective. But you (and Moltke) are right; no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. The US planes and pilots were at least every bit as good, but the people calling the shots were not too bright...
+1@F104Deathtrap true -only, in this case size doesn't matter. A missile hit from a small plane is just as deadly. Back then, it all came down to how good the pilots were.
+1@russianspy qué... no es alemán?
+1What's all the fuss about beans? Looks like a pillow to me...
+1@AircraftoftheRedStar depends on what you mean by "follow"... I have a look at 'em, certainly. But building with some cluttered blueprints on my screen in the background puts me off more than a bit :D :D
+1@ChiChiWerx haha... well, nobody seems to like these old Soviet stovepipes much ;) no worries. Already cooking up my own Su-11...
+1@MrACEpilot no need -just download, when you get the error hit undo and then redo, the plan will load without the mod.
+1@blackvultureaeroespace it's not any unit's symbol. It's some kind of "badge of excellence" awarded to the plane/unit's ground tech crew for good maintenance... so you would see it on many a Soviet plane. Personally I think it's a strange practice, since it means that planes not carrying this badge are perhaps not properly maintained..??
+1It looks quite nice... but on second thought; what's with the ailerons popping out of the wings..?? Custom controls would be a minimum :s
+1