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# 121 08-11-2011 , 01:30 PM

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well they gotta get their ref from somewhere, I doubt they would make it up. I bought a P51 kit a month ago - very useful

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# 122 08-11-2011 , 06:49 PM

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Have a look at this link they take out the engine you get abetter look at the landing gear, I know its a F8F-2...........dave

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# 123 08-11-2011 , 07:20 PM

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np that it's a dash 2. The gear are the same. The major difference it the tail is a foot taller on the dash 2 and there is a subtle opening at the bottom of the cowl to dump air through the oil cooler. The dash ones had a pair of flaps between the landing gear kicker doors in the fuse for dumping oil cooler air. Thanks for tanking the time to look around Dave.

someone passed this on to me there are a couple and they should help Fahrwerk klp.avi - YouTube

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# 124 17-09-2012 , 12:21 AM

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Still working on this. I just have the cockpit and the landing gear to get finished. I have just been very busy.

But here is the model up to where I am so far using the p3d.in viewer.

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# 125 17-09-2012 , 08:05 AM

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Nice one, I see you and Jay have been visiting the same bars? hmmmmm you both have this viewer....

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# 126 17-09-2012 , 09:22 AM

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This viewer is just great, so much better than stills.....

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# 127 04-10-2012 , 03:02 AM

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I like th p3d site. I found and corrected a couple of geometry problems that had slipped by me.

I found a floating vert, a couple parts with inverted normals, and a couple hidden parts that were still in the main group.

The only thing I don't necessarily like is that hidden parts in the exported model become unhidden. But I have mixed emotions about that in that sometimes I forget I have them buried in the model which adds to the weight of the final scene file so I guess it's not a bad thing.

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# 128 04-10-2012 , 06:06 PM

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Jesus. I'm really just blown away here.

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# 129 04-10-2012 , 06:30 PM

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Thanks Travis.

I still have a lot of details to model. The main landing gear being the most complex, there is also the internals of the folding wings and I intend to model out at least a moderately detailed cockpit. I just have not been able to work on it for a number of reasons but it's on my todo list and I'll get around to it at some point I hope.

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