• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Martin Marauder Gold for FS9 has been released

Peacemaker said:
Great work, incredible to see how quickly you churn out these aircraft!

Any chance of a civilian version? Something you could throw in a gtn750 gps and fly around the modern skies on vatsim? I understand that is not everyone's cup of tea. I find civilian versions of military aircraft very enticing for some reason.

FH000083.jpg


5965588193_072e342ef8_b.jpg
Click to expand...

That is interesting, although I think there were very few civilian conversions of the Martin B-26. My preference would be a military model with modern radios and a gps to simulate a restored warbird.
 
Hi,
When the undercarriage is retracted, those 2 covers close and it'll all go dark...I would imagine there must be some kind of internal floor/cover in there as well, otherwise you could drop something down there, or trip up moving about!
Andy.
 
Found the entry hatch answer, but not a picture ...
 

Attachments

  • HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-005.jpg
    HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-005.jpg
    46.3 KB · Views: 3

Attachments

  • B-26_NoseCompartment.jpg
    B-26_NoseCompartment.jpg
    40.4 KB · Views: 3
  • b26_radio.jpg
    b26_radio.jpg
    18.1 KB · Views: 3
  • b26_nav.jpg
    b26_nav.jpg
    17.1 KB · Views: 3
Limekiller said:
Milton Shupe said:
Trying to work on the nose section but have very little to go by re: details. If anyone has anything better, I would appreciate you sharing that. :)


Posting in case these are helpful.
B-26 under restoration (pics are from this site- yes I know pics 2&3 are not the nose)
Click to expand...

Thanks LK; I do have those pics.

I found the "walk-a-round" at the following link quite helpful throughout the aircraft but that did not have nose section available.

For those painters interested in doing interior paint work, this link is helpful for moving about the aircraft. Keep in mind that the lighting makes the interior look bright but notice in the background areas where there is no lighting how dark the interior is. That's the way it should be of course; dark and subtle.

http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/028/B-26G Flight Deck View.html
Click to expand...
 
Those walkarounds are great reference. I used the one for the NASM Boeing 307 Stratoliner to redo the JBK interior on his. Much more realistic looking now.
 
I went thru my walk-a-round pics and found some snippets that may help with the doors.

You can see what appears to be two sliding doors on each side and that there is a sliding stop in the center of the forward area.

It is difficult to see how these doors might be moved as heavy as they are. I seriously doubt they were closed by hand.
 

Attachments

  • HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-013.jpg
    HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-013.jpg
    78.9 KB · Views: 0
  • HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-012.jpg
    HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-012.jpg
    63.9 KB · Views: 0
  • HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-011.jpg
    HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-011.jpg
    59.4 KB · Views: 0
  • HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-010.jpg
    HOMEUNIT-2017-mar-10-010.jpg
    80.8 KB · Views: 0
Peacemaker said:
Great work, incredible to see how quickly you churn out these aircraft!

Any chance of a civilian version? Something you could throw in a gtn750 gps and fly around the modern skies on vatsim? I understand that is not everyone's cup of tea. I find civilian versions of military aircraft very enticing for some reason.
Click to expand...

Thanks Peacemaker. A civilian version will not be done as the hours invested to do that far exceeds the time I am willing to invest. Revamping the exterior fuselage, interior walls and floor, and building a new cabin interior is not a trivial task. I will however be making the gmax source available for anyone who feels inspired to do that. :wiggle:
 
Milton, the highlighted piece in the pilots manual about the entry through the nose well confirms my feeling that it was indeed a crew entry point. Looking at the photos I can see that the silver bit at the front is the track for the doors to slide on, with the stop in the middle as you described, and on looking a bit closer I can see a door slightly sticking out of a recess on the left and there appears to be a hole recessed into the side of it to put a hand into it to pull it out of the recess. Being made of aluminium I don't think they would be that hard to pull.
 
mrogers said:
Milton, the highlighted piece in the pilots manual about the entry through the nose well confirms my feeling that it was indeed a crew entry point. Looking at the photos I can see that the silver bit at the front is the track for the doors to slide on, with the stop in the middle as you described, and on looking a bit closer I can see a door slightly sticking out of a recess on the left and there appears to be a hole recessed into the side of it to put a hand into it to pull it out of the recess. Being made of aluminium I don't think they would be that hard to pull.
Click to expand...

Mark, the entry/exit was never in question in my mind as the manuals and videos make that clear. The doors were the question but finding a picture of them in action or closed was the issue.
 
Hi,
this is cheating really, but here goes with a beautifully made plastic kit which seems to show what happens with the nose wheel and entry for the crew, behind the seats it looks like. Doh, Andy, couldn't be in front of the seats:dizzy:.
attachment.php
attachment.php
attachment.php


Andy.
 

Attachments

  • jamisonb26e.jpg
    jamisonb26e.jpg
    62.6 KB · Views: 3
  • marauder0006.jpg
    marauder0006.jpg
    70.5 KB · Views: 3
  • marauder0007.jpg
    marauder0007.jpg
    105 KB · Views: 3
Andre19 said:
Not sure if you've seen the pictures in the following link. Probably more confusing as I don't see the sliding hatches.

http://www.b26.com/page/inside-martin-b26-marauder.htm
Click to expand...

Ah! I see the door! It opens by dropping down into the wheel well! And there is what could be the top of a ladder fixed to the wheel well back wall, but there's not enough evidence to show that it actually is.
No wonder they could not be seen in the other pictures. I thought there might be sliding doors but that was wrong. The hole I thought was for a hand to slip in may be the recess for the door lock to click into, or maybe not. Great find Andre.
 
another texture done...

:wavey:

Nater:

here's another texture to use re: comments (done some refining but still WIP)

33237331891_d67cd7cc0c_o.jpg


:ernaehrung004:

G.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top