Both nearly finished.
Cees
Both nearly finished.
Cees
Nice one. Ya know, some of these repaints show the IRF refuel probe on the nose and some don't. The basic model doesn't feature this.
Any repaints that have this nose will not show I guess mainly because the model doesn't feature this.
I like the ones without the IFR probe, the ones with that probe remind me of a unicorn.
Just passing.
Always following threads relating to Rob's aircraft.
Back in the day when I was enthusiastically kit-bashing styrene my interest in USN/USMC aviation had me researching details like a man obsessed!
Typical IPMS behavior.
IIRC the 'bare metal' leading edges on most of the carrier borne aircraft were painted with 'Corraguard', or something named like that.
It was a long time ago.
"Illegitimum non carborundum".
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When using ther "L" lights key, I noticed that there are a couple other visuals that take place
1. Under wing fuel tanks/bombs show.
2. IFR fuel probe (toothpick) visiable.
Is there a way to configure just the lights to function and not (1) and or (2) above?
I see photos of the real cougars without that IFR probe and some with and, wonder how
the models without that fuel probe on the on the nose could refuel inflight.
Edit: I did find this article that explains some of the retrofits and modification to the real planes.
It mentions the retrofit of "Splitter plates" which may relate to the retrofilt of the IFR probe.
Other photos I see of cougars show no evidence of a fuel probe at all.
Seem like the IFR probe was an afterthought.
http://tailhooktopics.blogspot.com/2...ariations.html
I found this interesting link to the development of the real deal and the variants:
Looks like that IFR probe was added to the F9F-8 model - which was that last variant.
So, the earlier version just didn't have the IFR probe
Scroll to bottom of link for variant info:
https://www.militaryfactory.com/airc...ircraft_id=369
I'll start uploading by the end of the week. Seven repaints in all. Three single seat Cougars, three Banshees and one Cougar trainer.
These planes deserve far more repaints than have been done so far!
Cees
Beautiful work Cees, looking forward to the download. Keep em coming.
Regards, Tom Stovall KRDD
Really liking the VX-5 Cougar Cees. The green stripes really make it pop. (I like the old AMT Tigercat model that had the green cowlings and wing/fuselage bands too. Not the same unit though. It was a Marine bird.)
Very nice, all!
Duckie
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Really nice work Cees. Looking forward to them.
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Great looking aircraft and paint. Saw several of these on the ramp at Pensacola in 1968 while visiting a buddy there.
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Forgot to include the readme!
Cees
This is a repaint of the wonderful F9F-8T Cougar by Robert Richardson. It's based on the provided paintkit. To install these repaints: 1. copy the contents of the zip-file to the Grumman F9F-8T Cougar-map in the airplanes folder, 2. copy the content of the aircraft.cfg.txt file in this download to the aircraft.cfg in the Grumman F9F-8T Cougar-map in the airplanes folder. Change the 'x' to the correct number. Done!
Have fun!
Cees Donker
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