SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer

**Milton Shupe** · November 12th, 2011, 06:05

Beautiful work all over that aircraft Marcel

***stansdds*** · November 12th, 2011, 08:01

She's looking absolutely beautiful!

Once converted to FSX, I can see me slapping an "N" number on one of these and flying it as a restored aircraft.

**aeronca1** · November 12th, 2011, 08:09

Originally Posted by fliger747

We used to call this Armistice Day, memorializing the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the war to end all wars. Both of my grandfathers served in that war, one army, one USMC.

We went over a bit on this thread achieving the 1111 th response a bit before 11-11-11.

Thoughts to all who go in harms way past present and future.

T

This year, I reflected that this was a once in a lifetime thing for us. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year this century.

Thank you to all the fallen who made our lives what they are today, FREE!

**tankerguy72** · November 12th, 2011, 15:57

Working on the A getting the basic colors down

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**tankerguy72** · November 12th, 2011, 18:29

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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**Milton Shupe** · November 12th, 2011, 20:21

That looks great TG; a lot of painting going on there.

I will try to have those updates to you Sunday.

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

**patful** · November 12th, 2011, 20:35

Originally Posted by tankerguy72

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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**tankerguy72** · November 12th, 2011, 20:48

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

That looks great TG; a lot of painting going on there.

I will try to have those updates to you Sunday.

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

Thanks Milton! Which effects are those?

I gotta say when you learn to edit and paint things in flight sim it does take away from your flying time because you always want to fix something or find something to fix, but once i finished this paint I actually took her up for a nice 30 minute flight around Riverside County. Thanks for the great aircraft! masterful work!

***PeteHam*** · November 12th, 2011, 20:49

Beautiful work TG

Now all I need is someway to add a red stain to the aprons in my scenery's for these tanker guys.

Pete.

***gribouil*** · November 12th, 2011, 23:23

Originally Posted by mgr

I'm really sorry to disturb you again with some WIP shots of the Trader repaintkit/repaint

For 90% finished, next stage is adding dirt and oil stains.

Enjoy!

Marcel

Fantastic job!!! This one will certainly be my hangar's favourite!!!

**tankerguy72** · November 12th, 2011, 23:30

Havin' fun now

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***gribouil*** · November 13th, 2011, 01:43

Your nickname should be luckyguy at the moment!!!

**nigel richards** · November 13th, 2011, 02:58

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

Can't a guy even take a shower round here?.....

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Now, where did you say that fancy 3-1 red shampoo is, and give me a towel.....can't see a darn thing with soap in my eyes!

**nigel richards** · November 13th, 2011, 03:01

Originally Posted by tankerguy72

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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P M M E !

I'm firebombing!!!

**Milton Shupe** · November 13th, 2011, 08:38

I was just reviewing some requests from TG and Mgr regarding some miscellaneous mapping and texturing changes.

All of these aircraft have over 1200 parts. As such, a lot of the miscellaneous parts get some "general mapping".
That is, you select a whole batch of appropriate like-items, map them together and apply one generalized texture to them.
Otherwise, I would never get these project done.

The subject texture here is the "white1.bmp" texture.

There are probably 300+ parts mapped and assigned to this texture (exterior and interior).
Some of them are external parts that you probably do not pay a lot of attention to, but that the eye sees and helps with realistic appearances.

I made this screen shot of 96 of those parts just to give you a sense of how intense this can get.

I am also attaching a parts list for the C-1A, that has interesting info, and thought some of you who like to see the "behind-the-scenes" stuff would be interested in browsing it.
You can open it with Notepad after unzipping.

By the way, once this project is done, the gmax source will be available for anyone who would like to change, improve, borrow from, and just satisfy curiosity.
Any use of the source must be personal or freeware.