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Lockheed P-2V7 Fire Bombers?

Well as you all know now that warchild is retiring from doing flight modeling and will nolonger be doing a flight model for us.:frown: I wish her the best.

If anyone know of someone that could help in this area please see if they are willing to help if not then this project is dead in the water.
 
It's not "dead in the water". You have plenty of modeling work to do yet, and based on what I have seen so far you have the ability to learn as you go. I think one of two things will happen...you will find another person that can help, or you will take on the challenge and do it yourself. The knowledge is out there, and if you want it to happen you will find a way.

Stay on course. You're doing fine! :salute:
 
N2056 said:
It's not "dead in the water". You have plenty of modeling work to do yet, and based on what I have seen so far you have the ability to learn as you go. I think one of two things will happen...you will find another person that can help, or you will take on the challenge and do it yourself. The knowledge is out there, and if you want it to happen you will find a way.

Stay on course. You're doing fine! :salute:
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That is the nicest thing that anyone could have said and thank you so much for your support, you are right I will find a way to get this set of models in the air even if I have to learn how do the flight models.

Thank You

Bill
 
Keep em coming Bill, we've got a couple members in the project that are going to be working the flight modelling. I'm dabbling in it myself at the moment, and another member that has some experience is working on them as well. Don't get discouraged, these are the best Neptune tanker models anywhere! Can't let them stall now! :running:
 
airattackimages said:
Keep em coming Bill, we've got a couple members in the project that are going to be working the flight modelling. I'm dabbling in it myself at the moment, and another member that has some experience is working on them as well. Don't get discouraged, these are the best Neptune tanker models anywhere! Can't let them stall now! :running:
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Not going to give up just having some computer problems at the momet, did a internet explorer update, norton update and vareious windows updates and now I can't get Photo Shop to work, I have been useing photo shop to setup my BMP textures so I can map the aircraft and now it is not working, will try to reinstall and see if that does anything:isadizzy:
 
No worries we will get these birds flying, still working on the textures for tanker 44 model and will then get it mapped and sent to tankerguy72 for photo textures, he is doing a awesome job. If anyone needs a model to do flight modeling I have one that is done minus the cockpit details and VC. PM me with an email and I will send you a zip file.

Thank you for all you support and help. They will fly and fight fires.

Bill
 
Have good news, I have sent the Aero Union model to Airattackimages to do flight modeling and will be sending Stealthshadow the tanker 44 model when I get the textures applied for flight modeling. I will also be sending the tanker 44 to Tankerguy72 for photo textures:isadizzy:
Lots going on, that is a good thing. Moving ahead with these models:applause:

I am still having a problem geting Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI to work on my computer I have tryed to reinstall
many times and am not able to get it to start up, I will be doing a upgrade to a newer verison and hope that it will work.

Thank you all for your help and support.

Bill
 
Man, when this is done, i can finally do all the things i wanted to do to the PV7 in the real world i wanted to in FS! :icon_lol: :mixedsmi:
 
If you mind me saying this but it seems the photo real textures look a bit blurry to me. have you ever considered using very hi res photos to put on the aircraft?
 
tankerguy72 said:
Working on the textures already, heres what i have so far

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Cag40Navy said:
If you mind me saying this but it seems the photo real textures look a bit blurry to me. have you ever considered using very hi res photos to put on the aircraft?
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Wow Tankerguy72 that looks supper good, keep up the good work.

Cag40Navy it might have to do with the texture size that I am using(2048x2048) I can resize them to 1024x1024 and see if that helps.
 
BillgjCook said:
Wow Tankerguy72 that looks supper good, keep up the good work.

Cag40Navy it might have to do with the texture size that I am using(2048x2048) I can resize them to 1024x1024 and see if that helps.
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Its aight Bill, no need to put for you to do that. I can live with the textures. :) I am just happy to her done and from what i can see, your a talented modeller with awesome potential!
 
Thank You Cag40Navy, I have started on a VC for one of the models and will be doing another for the P2V-5 version, that way we can get these models flying and release them as they get done. I am sending Stealthshadow1 the tanker 44 model for flight modeling and Airattackimages is working on the Aero Union flight model. We are getting one step closer to getting some flyable models to start bata testing.:applause::wiggle::jump:
 
Bill, we can't say enough about the craftsmanship of these models... both Stealthshadow and I have been collaborating on the two flight models, Stealthshadow is a wizard on this stuff, we already have things probably 95% finished, with his expertise making up the bulk of both flight models. I've added the J34 power range to the P2V5 model (the J34s are running and providing thrust at 80% throttle and beyond.) The parameters and performance numbers are working well. Aircraft handling is very smooth and fits the manners of each actual aircraft.

Cool thing is both Stealthshadow and I know each other off the board. Not only do we both document (chase) fires together pretty often, we both live less than a half mile from Hemet-Ryan Air Attack Base (myself on the south, Stealthshadow on the north - funny eh?) and having grown up around these aircraft and spending considerable time watching them fly both around the base and on fires, we just can't get over the beautiful models you've created. FINALLY, there are actual Neptune air tankers in FS. This is great.
 
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