Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
Was this ever finished and passed along to Sylvain? Seems there was some question about panel lines and rivets -- things that can be sorted once it is on the model and mapped to a texture. I noticed some opening panel(s) with piano hinges at the top in the photo. But the plastic model version had none. Maybe the hinged openings were only on one side (which side?) and the model maker only had an image of the side not shown in the photo and decided it was true for both sides? If so, that would require a right and left side mapping, probably true in any case if there is an text. There is an RF-8G down the road at the museum at MCAS Miramar but I don't think it has any pylons attached. As far as cross section width I would think a pylon of an A-7 would be a good guide/guess.
Don't know if any of this is any help but here goes.
Looks that the USMC had machines to do all the bomb loadouts. The USAF did the same.
This is A-7 wing pylon, They look the same as used on F-8. Notice the safety pin on the inside wing pylon, holding the wing tank.
I think the wing rack was a universal left or right side use.
This is bomb load out on F-8E wing pylons -
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I made the Aero 7A pylons, MER-7 (A/A37B-6) & TER (A/A37B-5) bomb racks and the LAU-7/A Zuni pods in Blender. Someone (a well known pro) is now converting them to 3DS Max for me ..... so my hope is that Sylvain should have them within a week or so.
Regarding the panel lines.... the plastic model lines were totally incorrect. The actual Crusader pylon has piano hinges that are for three doors on the left side of the pylon and two doors on the right side.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any detailed pictures or drawings of them (despite having the F-8 Tactical Manual and the F-8 Crusader Safety, Survival, and Ordnance Systems Parts Flight Manual) so I did the best I could based on the few pictures I could find.
This is how things were looking at about 80% done. They actually look much better (and things line up properly) now.
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Glad you like it but all thanks go to Jan Kees Blom, whose paint work I took and doctored slightly with dxt/bmp and MS Paint ..
Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
This is more an observation for Sylvain's benefit but if you look at USMC Crusaders with that MER loaded with Mk82 bombs, they never attach any bombs to the fuselage side.
The Navy did the something similar with the inboard TER mounted under Sidewinders -- no bombs in the station closest to the fuselage.
It depended on what ordinance they were carrying......but for the most part....and especially in the case of the picture I just posted, you are correct. They didn't carry MK-82's on the inside of the pylons because of clearance issues.
I was just doing a quick and dirty check of the loaded TER (which will be used for other projects) to see how it looked as i was working on it.
Fortunately, I gave Sylvain a copy of the F-8 tactical manual, so he has all the necessary info concerning what could be carried based on whatever conditions applied.
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Yup, MK 82"s (500 LB) were the biggest they could carry and it was for clearance issues that nothing was loaded on the inside stations.
I was with VF-24 (F8-C), we didn't have the wing hard points to support that weight however, our sister squadron (VF-211) would have lots of bombing missions on Dixie station.
Make sure you copied the effects files and textures from the downloaded zip correctly into the main FSX effects folder. The three AB effects are
fx_cruz_afterburner_1_FSX.fx
fx_cruz_afterburner_2_FSX.fx
fx_cruz_afterburner_3_FSX.fx
They are called via the smoke system in smoke.13=, 14=, 15=. Unfortunately that's the extent of help I can be on this item.
Good Luck,
Steve
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Hi,
I known that the spot lights are not on FSX or even P3D these last tweeks, but I wanted to share this screenshot of the on-going work...
Regards,
S.
That is brilliant!! Any plans to bring it to MSFS??
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Fabulous news, Sylvain.
I know you’ve been working on this a long time.
DL
Great! Thank you for all your work👍🥂
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What almost of them said ^! Looks great! Good to see the work continues. Thanks.
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Well guys, FSX will very soon be relegated to the basement with the other legacy sims like FS9, CFS1/2/3.
There is still a lot of potential in P3D (the 64 bit versions), but FSX is dead. It's just not known yet by the user base. That is not an opinion, it's a simple fact. 32 bit is dead.
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I have been testing it (primarily with P3D) and it is coming along very nicely.
If you thought the original version was excellent, this Tacpack version will blow your socks off.
These are some screenshots I made last week.....they are in P3D, but it pretty much looks and works just the same in FSX...
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