@Tanner0501 Curtiss offered a simplified version of their export Hawk 75 that had a fixed landing gear. I can't upload a picture but You can Google the Curtiss Hawk 75 M, 75 N and 75 O for China, Siam and Argentina respectingly.
I used to build the Curtiss 75 M as a wooden toy plane, first of all because the fixed landing gear looked way cooler in wood than anything resembling the retractable one. Second because they looked way better when build in pair with an equally fixed gear Ki-27 for dogfighting
Top of my head: there are a couple of types of builds of which there are way too few, at least as far as I am concerned:
1) some simple but still reasonably detailed sports cars or regular passenger cars: you know: not the Porsches and Maseratis but the Fords, Toyotas, Peugeots and Volkswagens.
2) some nice scale models of actual civil helicopters
Not so much a SimplePlanes II, but I am really pining for a SimplePlanes spinoff optimized for gliders and sailplanes: wind, termic bubbles and slopes for slope soaring, plus the option for winch launch or tugplane towing. I think the current game would already do if it had a large landmass instead of all the islands and a mountain or two.
My second choice would be a game optimized for flying model aircraft. Again, the main change would be to build the appropriate scenery. Extras would include extremely limited fuel (electric cells, even rubber power) and a RC-transmitter type HUD.
Bonus points for an RC simulator spinoff optimized for RC glider slope soaring
I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
Depends upon what you are interested in: regular planes, helicopters, airships? Or cars, boats, ships, sailing boats etc.
For historical/ scale planes, honestly whatever I try to build, as soon as I started building, I found.ojt there are at least half a dozen instances of this plane for download already, most of them with far more detail than I can ever make.
However in my personal opinion, general sportsplanes, are vastly underrepresented, other than the ubiquitous Piper Cup. I could do with some more Piper, Beech and Cessna planes with a few Socata and Grob mixed in for good measure.
On battleships and tanks I don't really know because I don't really care, but on cars, there seems to be a lack of 'average' street cars like a Toyota or Volkswagen or even sportscars like a Ford Mustang.
@32 thanks. I didn't even thing about just grafting the new plane onto the old.one's cockpit. I was however prepared to rebuild the new plane from scratch and record myself doing it as part of a beginners instruction video. Thanks. I'll try it out right away
In Simple planes? That's not even a question. All the planes you build or download you have to fly yourself. No co pilot, no weapons officer and no tail gunner. Even if you were to fly a 10-person B.29. the only difference between a Simple planes one-seat early F.15 and a two-person F.15E is a longer custom-made canopy.
@Tanner0501 so you did it....
Love the paint job. Brings back memories to plastic model kits from the 1970's, when the one was still a demonstration prototype.
+1@Tanner0501 Curtiss offered a simplified version of their export Hawk 75 that had a fixed landing gear. I can't upload a picture but You can Google the Curtiss Hawk 75 M, 75 N and 75 O for China, Siam and Argentina respectingly.
I used to build the Curtiss 75 M as a wooden toy plane, first of all because the fixed landing gear looked way cooler in wood than anything resembling the retractable one. Second because they looked way better when build in pair with an equally fixed gear Ki-27 for dogfighting
The cup of tea at the radio operator's station did it for me. Congratulations on a truely remarkable built
+2Top of my head: there are a couple of types of builds of which there are way too few, at least as far as I am concerned:
1) some simple but still reasonably detailed sports cars or regular passenger cars: you know: not the Porsches and Maseratis but the Fords, Toyotas, Peugeots and Volkswagens.
2) some nice scale models of actual civil helicopters
3) some good scale sailplanes or motor gliders
Okay. If nothing to see here, I won't bother to look. Got any interesting planes to show off at least?
Not so much a SimplePlanes II, but I am really pining for a SimplePlanes spinoff optimized for gliders and sailplanes: wind, termic bubbles and slopes for slope soaring, plus the option for winch launch or tugplane towing. I think the current game would already do if it had a large landmass instead of all the islands and a mountain or two.
My second choice would be a game optimized for flying model aircraft. Again, the main change would be to build the appropriate scenery. Extras would include extremely limited fuel (electric cells, even rubber power) and a RC-transmitter type HUD.
Bonus points for an RC simulator spinoff optimized for RC glider slope soaring
+1I don't know what this has to do with single engine planes, but it looks like me like a typical case of the center of gravity being too far back. Try adding some weight to the nose, or moving the wings back a little.
+4@ToeTips do you know of any tutorials on how to learn it?
Depends upon what you are interested in: regular planes, helicopters, airships? Or cars, boats, ships, sailing boats etc.
For historical/ scale planes, honestly whatever I try to build, as soon as I started building, I found.ojt there are at least half a dozen instances of this plane for download already, most of them with far more detail than I can ever make.
However in my personal opinion, general sportsplanes, are vastly underrepresented, other than the ubiquitous Piper Cup. I could do with some more Piper, Beech and Cessna planes with a few Socata and Grob mixed in for good measure.
On battleships and tanks I don't really know because I don't really care, but on cars, there seems to be a lack of 'average' street cars like a Toyota or Volkswagen or even sportscars like a Ford Mustang.
And yes, there can always be more helicopters.
The Chinese version with the fixed landing gear please
Actually 'Fliegenkiste' translates as 'crate of flies'. You want 'Fliegende Kiste' for flying crate or 'Fliegerkiste', a pilot's vrate
+1@32 thanks. I didn't even thing about just grafting the new plane onto the old.one's cockpit. I was however prepared to rebuild the new plane from scratch and record myself doing it as part of a beginners instruction video. Thanks. I'll try it out right away
@32 Amy way to do this manually? Like if I build a plane based on a plane I started from scratch and never downloaded?
@F15EInbound I haven't flown any warplanes in real life so I can't judge here.
In Simple planes? That's not even a question. All the planes you build or download you have to fly yourself. No co pilot, no weapons officer and no tail gunner. Even if you were to fly a 10-person B.29. the only difference between a Simple planes one-seat early F.15 and a two-person F.15E is a longer custom-made canopy.