NAS N3N-1 Floatplane

[Shessi]

Hi Folks,
Just uploaded the updated floatplane version of the Yellow Peril wheeled trainer, same tweaks as new crew, and slightly tweaked texs.

Go and see the sights of Pensacola.......

Cheers

Shessi

[huub vink]

Nice, thanks!

Huub

[Mick]

Looks very good in the screenies. Goodness knows when I'll get a chance to see it in the sim. Hopefully soon!

What changes did you make? A new crew is self-explanatory, but what else did you do?

BTW, it's listed as an N3N-1, but it's still a -3. The -1 had a very different rear fuselage and vertical tail. I just checked out your textures and you seem to have re-instated Steven Grant's original metal panel lines as they would appear on a -1, but the model still has the shape of a -3, which had a fabric covered rear fuselage.

The confusion goes way back to the original Steven Grant model; he modeled a -3 and erroneously called it a -1.

Where I'm going with this, lest the hint somehow be missed, is that it would be very nice to see a model of a -1 with the fabric fuselage and angular rudder. All the pre-war and wartime paints would be appropriate for both versions. The -1 would need the metal panel lines and the -3 would need the fabric formers, but both versions of the textures already exist. The post-war paint, of course, would only be appropriate for a -3, since there were no more -1s left by then.

I know, it's easy for me to suggest a -1 model, since I have no hint of a clue as to what would be involved in making one.

[Shessi]

You spotter!!!! ha ha...

TBH I'm so confused I don't know who I am or where I live now?????????!!!!!

I really did this as a 'quick and dirty' update to follow the wheeled trainer I did, so gave good crew and rudder painting options. Maybe I should have taken more time to look into it....

Sorry Mick, but I'm not going to re-visit this anytime soon, as I've got so many other projects pressing.


What's the best way, pull it and rename everything as a -1, and re-upload or just leave it?


Cheers

Shessi

[Mick]

...I'm not going to re-visit this anytime soon, as I've got so many other projects pressing.

Aw, I thought maybe we'd get a -1 out of this. To complete the set, so to speak.

What's the best way, pull it and rename everything as a -1, and re-upload or just leave it?

I Dunno. If you were to pull it and re-upload, you could replace the -1 fuselage textures with my -3 ones and call it an upgraded -3, which is what it is.

Or even simpler, just delete the texture folders (paints that N3N affecionados must already have) and call it an upgraded -3.

If you leave it the way it is, it's a -3 model painted as a -1 and called a -1, which is isn't. Not such a terrible thing, but not completely satisfying either.

(Still gotta look at he new crew and what else you did.)

[Shessi]

Righto, Mick,
Changed all to N3N-3, added your No. 47 texs (if you don't mind?!), and going to re-upload it and get Rami to replace the original one, so we have a bit of accuracy here.

Cheers

Shessi

[Mick]

Righto, Mick,
Changed all to N3N-3, added your No. 47 texs (if you don't mind?!), and going to re-upload it and get Rami to replace the original one, so we have a bit of accuracy here.

Cheers

Shessi

Excellent! Or as they'd say in the Navy, Well Done!

Now I have to put it into GW and check out your mods. Maybe today if I get a frew free moments.