F7F Tigercat New VC for FSX & P3D

[Flyboy208]

Gordon thanks for continuing and meticulous efforts. This Tigercat is a pure labor of love from it's beginnings in Milton's most capable hands and it's ongoing transformation by you. Thanks for the update and have a Very Merry Christmas and prosperous 2017. Mike

[PhantomTweak]

I would like to add my gratitude to all the others for your incredible work on this fantastic little lady of a plane! We all appreciate the update to. Gives us hope
A very Merry Cristmas and most prosperous New Year to you sir!
Pat☺

[jankees]

That looks just brilliant.
Outstanding work, Gordon!

[stansdds]

Awesome!

[rsgunner]

That is fantastic!

Russ

[txnetcop]

OMG Amigo that is just way beyond WOW!!!
Ted

[Stickshaker]

Beyond excellent! Very much looking forward to this plane!

[gman5250]

I sincerely appreciate all of your kind comments gentlemen.

My equipment/operating system repair is in a minor holding pattern, with the equipment installed but waiting for some special software to arrive. While I'm waiting I still can work at a limited level, but still able to produce new work.

The second civilian VC is in progress, with attention to details like radios. Anyone familiar with this particular airplane know it utilizes LORAN, not Garmin, but I modeled the more popular radio sets for this stage of the build. Still very nice and quite comfy to fly with all of the bells and whistles for navigation. I decided to go with a clean "restoration" look and chose a basic grey lower on this one, and will move into the typical blue ala Patrona when I get further into the process. For now I like the subtle tones of this VC.

My desire is that thread this is inspirational for other modelers who wish to take the plunge into airplane development. I didn't know one end of the SDK from the other when I started, now after a couple years of serious study and work, I'm becoming comfortable with the process. If I can learn this...anyone can.

For this model, I'm beginning the process of learning gauge development. Daunting, but very doable with some dedicated practice.

Some pics...

[ryapad]

Looks amazing!
Ryan

[PhantomTweak]

You DO realize this is just making the waiting harder and harder??
Looking fantastic. I can't wait for all this!
Pat☺

[PRB]

Dang!! That looks spectacular.

[TuFun]

Thanks "G" for the peek and inspiration!

[Daveroo]

epic,just epic

[dvj]

Looks better than most payware releases quite honestly. Your work is first class.

-d

[Taco]

HOT DOG! Whoa! great looking, looking forward to burn some avgas in the coming months.

[Roger]

That vc looks good enough to eat...if you don't mind getting gauge glass in your teeth!

[modelr]

Sorry Gordon, but I'm absolutely speechless. Beautiful!

[thefrog]

Definitely payware quality!

[gman5250]

If it's going to be payware quality, I suppose that I should get the size of the radios correct.

One of the reasons I post these progress shots is to get feedback from our deep knowledge pool at SOH. I got caught up in the minutia, and totally missed the fact that the radios are 6.25 inches wide...all of the radios. I went back and corrected the modeling and live panels.

Of course, I still remember the moon (or maybe Mars) landing where the American scientists did their calcs in standard, and the European team used metric. They augered the lander after a major communication malfunction. The comm problem was not with the lander...it was with each other. I guess I'm not the only who makes an occasional error!

Couple of shots of the adjustments to the Garmin stack.

[txnetcop]

Gordon that ol' Tigercat never expected that kind of upgrade...SUPERB!!!
Ted

[Milton Shupe]

Gordon that ol' Tigercat never expected that kind of upgrade...SUPERB!!!
Ted

Ha! I knew when he took over the Tigercats, good things were coming but Gordon keeps raising the bar. Super pleased with where its going and happy he left the old stuff behind.

[jeansy]

beautiful work Gordon

truly a work of art

[PhantomTweak]

Of course, I still remember the moon (or maybe Mars) landing...

Just fyi, it was a Mars lander, and NaySay are the ones that got the metric to standard conversions mixed up. Needless to say, that agency underwhelms me these days. They are just a bloated bureaucracy mostly engaged in justifying their own existance. No "will" like they had in the 60's any more. By now, we should have solar and lunar LaGrange colonies, moon colonies, asteroid mining, whatever. Instead, we can't even supply the space station, such as it is, ourselves. Oh, yeah, we can send a probe out to see things...
Sorry, touchy subject with me...

I still say, though, that those panels are really amazing. Every time I see them I start to drool...
Pat☺

[gman5250]

PhantomTweak..."By now, we should have solar and lunar LaGrange colonies, moon colonies, asteroid mining, whatever."

Of course, had we taken Mr. Tesla a bit more seriously we would be farther along than that. Instead we subsidize Mr. Musk with gozillions of tax dollars, for...errr... just what....exactly?
Imagine if the technology of transportation had developed at the pace that computers have in the last fifty years. We would be traversing space/time in the quantum field and seriously exploring the real potential of zero point for infinite energy.

Sore subject with me also....thanks for expanding on the Mars lander debacle Pat.

I'm up early this AM...lots to do.

[stansdds]

This looking awesome!