There's Nothing Like Fresh Mesh ...

**Milton Shupe** · February 12th, 2015, 21:10

... to get a simmer's heart going. :-)

Since my other "filler project" is about wrapped up, I thought I would try this one.

After several days of trying to find decent 3-views for a Grumman Mallard, I finally stumbled upon two.
One was original factory drawings with good dimensional data, wing specs, and CoG, incidence, and a few other nice to have thingies. :-)

The other drawing is more precise but has only a side view, tails, seats, and landing gear.

Anyhow, even without cross-sections, it was enough to do a decent modeling job.

So, water lovers, it will be a while, but it's coming. My thinking is to do a basic model, without a VC for an initial release, and maybe later, a VC can be added.
But, that's a ways down the road.

**expat** · February 13th, 2015, 02:18

OMG !! This is fantastic news Milton!

**expat** · February 13th, 2015, 02:22

My thinking is to do a basic model, without a VC for an initial release, and maybe later, a VC can be added.

If an FSX model could be created (in parallel), people could then easily splice in the default Goose VC which would suffice for many.

**albix** · February 13th, 2015, 03:31

Grat news! Looking forward to it.
Have you seen this manuals? Plenty of informations that could be helpful maybe.
http://www.grummanmallard.com/Mallard/Documents.html
Cheers.

Alberto

***Mick*** · February 13th, 2015, 05:03

Great news !!!

**Milton Shupe** · February 13th, 2015, 05:23

Originally Posted by expat

OMG !! This is fantastic news Milton!

I'm sure someone will step up for the FSX native side; at least I hope along with you Sir. :-)

Originally Posted by albix

Grat news! Looking forward to it.
Have you seen this manuals? Plenty of informations that could be helpful maybe.
http://www.grummanmallard.com/Mallard/Documents.html
Cheers.

Alberto

Alberto, thank you for this gift. I had not found the manuals.

Originally Posted by Mick

Great news !!!

I thought you might like that news :-)

This one will float in FS9, guaranteed!

**ViperPilot2** · February 13th, 2015, 08:45

Really looking forward to seeing this one being built... thank you Milton for taking this on!

-- Alan

**ViperPilot2** · February 18th, 2015, 14:33

Milton,

Is there anything we can do to give you a hand, like looking for photos, Tech Info, or other stuff like that?
If there is, please let us know!

Hope one of the outstanding Repainters out there will hop on board, and give the Mallard an awesome skin (or many)!

-- Alan

**Milton Shupe** · February 18th, 2015, 15:05

Originally Posted by Hurricane91

Hi Milton, that's some beautiful modeling of a graceful swan.

Thank you Sir. It's turning out a lot better than I thought it would. :-)

Originally Posted by ViperPilot2

Milton,

Is there anything we can do to give you a hand, like looking for photos, Tech Info, or other stuff like that?
If there is, please let us know!

Hope one of the outstanding Repainters out there will hop on board, and give the Mallard an awesome skin (or many)!

-- Alan

Thank you Alan. The area of reference I most need photos for is the cockpit aside from the panels. That is the floor, side panels, the walls behind the pilots, etc. Everything else I am pretty good shape for.

**Milton Shupe** · February 18th, 2015, 17:24

Well, I have finally started the work for the main gear assembly. But before anything can be modeled for gear, we need a place to stow it.

The last few hours have been focused on getting a nice wheel well compartment built. This is unrefined but a starting point.

I only have two good references for these wheel wells but I think enough to do a decent job.

Once the fuselage side work is done, then the wing bottom recess must be modeled to receive the upper main gear struts.