Virtavia AJ-2 Savage is out!

[Cees Donker]

Assuming it is mirrored top and bottom, shouldn't something like the attached spinner texture give you a spinner with four quadrants? (I don't have this aircraft, or I would try it to be sure, but if you just drop this over the spinner area in AJ-2_01.psd, it might work, possibly with tweaking.) (Or it might not work at all - you have done these before and likely have had to work with lots of interesting design choices before, so you may have fiddled with something like this already.)

Well I'll be.........



AckAck thanks!



Cees

[Cees Donker]

Just a beta, the spinner needs some work still

Cees

[Cees Donker]

I should be doing something else, but......



Cees

[dvj]

I should be doing something else, but......



Cees

Keep up the good work. I may be tempted to add it to my hanger.

[Cees Donker]

I'll bring it out as a package of six repaints, including one original made more dirty looking. Give me a little week.



Cees

[tommieboy]

Is the turbojet engine required at all times, or only during heavy load and or high speed conditions?

Tommy

[Cees Donker]

Is the turbojet engine required at all times, or only during heavy load and or high speed conditions?

Tommy

Not at all! It flies perfect without it. I switch it off before landing on a carrier. Not a good idea to fry the hook, I think! Very amusing is the fact that one can move the arm rest out of the way to switch the engine off. It is very easy to put her on a deck btw.



Cees

[tommieboy]

Not at all! It flies perfect without it. I switch it off before landing on a carrier. Not a good idea to fry the hook, I think! Very amusing is the fact that one can move the arm rest out of the way to switch the engine off. It is very easy to put her on a deck btw.



Cees

Thanks Cees

Tommy

[StormILM]

Yes, they only used the J33 jet engine for takeoff and high speed dash over a target area. The interesting part is that both the J33 engine and the two PW R2800 Radial engines used the same grade of AVGAS to simplify to fuel system. The R2800 engines are powerful, robust, and combat proven (used on the F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair, P-47, A-26, F7F, F8F, C-46, and a number of other aircraft) and I have no doubt those engines alone could easily maintain a high cruise speed without jet augmentation. Regarding the use of AVGAS with the J33 jet engine, I do have experience with that as I used to service a privately owned T-33A. The owner/pilot used to have me add about 50-60% Jet-A fuel and then the rest was AVGAS. He said it actually helped the J33 run at cooler temps without causing any issues (lower TBO time, etc).

From all that I've ever read about the Savage, it was a noted as being a dream to fly and quite fast but it had it's share of significant to serious reliability issues. Those issues were caused by the speed in which it was rushed into production and into Fleet service. They eventually got it debugged and into a fine aircraft but by then, the A3 Skywarrior simply outclassed it.

This model looks great and is certainly on my buy list in the coming months.

[DaveB]

OT..

Happy birthday Cees. Hope you have a great day
Atb
DaveB

[Cees Donker]

OT..

Happy birthday Cees. Hope you have a great day
Atb
DaveB

Thank you Dave!



Cees

[fsafranek]

I'll bring it out as a package of six repaints, including one original made more dirty looking. Give me a little week.



Cees

If you are editing one of the blue originals please remove the blue from the stars-n-bars.

And looking forward to your repaints.

And finally, Happy Birthday!

[Cees Donker]

If you are editing one of the blue originals please remove the blue from the stars-n-bars.

I'll do that Frank!



Cees

[Cees Donker]

Frank,

What do you think of this one? Backup the original first!



Cees

[dvj]

[Cees Donker]

I see you added this one to you hangar!

Cees

[mal998]

Terrific paints! Thank you. Glad to see you guys enjoying our latest endeavor. More interesting types to come. One in particular, many of you are going to love.

[Cees Donker]

Terrific paints! Thank you. Glad to see you guys enjoying our latest endeavor. More interesting types to come. One in particular, many of you are going to love.

Now you're making me very curious!



Cees

[Duckie]

Although the AJ2 isn't on my radar these paints are looking real good! Nice work Cees.

[Cees Donker]

Thanks Steve! Here's another one....

Please guys, if you see anything that is not correct in the repaint, let me know?




Cees

[fsafranek]

Frank,

What do you think of this one? Backup the original first!



Cees

Yep, that's it. I removed the blue background on my own during testing as soon as the paint kit
was released so some different ones than what were included would be a nice change.

I like the weathering as well. Might have to ask you for those layers.

[fsafranek]

I should be doing something else, but......



Cees

Should the tips of the tail be orange as well?

[Sundog]

I love the repaints you guys are doing. I'll definitely be adding them to my Savage once they're released. Thanks.

[dvj]

I see you added this one to you hangar!

Cees

yes indeed, it's an odd enough duck to add to the collection. Although I still think it's priced a bit on the high side. I cashed in a few rewards points to ease the pain.

- d

[StormILM]

I too picked up my copy over at FS Pilot Shop earlier this evening. I'm impressed with the overall workmanship of the model and the piston/jet engine integration (throttles and sound). MAL, I know you pushed for a Savage model for a long time. Glad to see it come to fruition in this nicely done model.