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Post by Dark Morelia »

I just whacked a bit of paint on to make it look a bit less like moby dıck :lol:
I was hesitant about posting it here, but I'm assured it counts as military :wink: Although I can't find any recent Russian AF pics.

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We're not so stuck in military AI that we couldn't appreciate something like this. Good work!
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No doubt, that would be sweet package since you see those things all over the world now.
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This plane is much needed since the model of PAI is totally crap and the only other alternative is a very high poly UI model from Tomas Ruth. I'm really looking forward to it's release.

And the AN-124 is actually a military cargo transporter. It's in service with the Russian Air Force 224th Transport Detachment based at Tver-Migalovo (UUEM) and the 566th Transport Regiment based at Seshcha.

It would be nice to have this airplane together with some good AI An-22, An-12 and Il-76 so we can make the complete transport fleet of the Russian Airforce :P

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Post by sprocky »

Some Russian Air Force flightplans are available already. Take a look here:

http://www.avsim.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=39899

It includes plans for Tu-154, IL-18/62/76 and AN-124.
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If someone wants to hunt down some info on the Russian AF ones, and maybe even make some new flightplans, I can take care of the model and the paints :wink:

Just another shot, to show that it does actually have landing gear, and lots of it ! :lol:

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Please excuse the very much WIP paintkit.
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Here's a photo of a Russian AF AN-124:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1220123/M/


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Post by Dark Morelia »

I went on a paintkit rampage today. Also reshaped the nose a bit, and fixed some other little bits and pieces.
I think I've finally got the nose right.

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Cheers for the Russian AF pic John.
All the pics around seem to be at least a year old, so hopefully they haven't changed much in a year.
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Hey Drew,

It's looking great. Are you going to have front and rear loading animation with the model in park mode.

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That looks like the real deal mate!! Great looking plane! 8)
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Post by CelticWarrior »

Drew,

The nose and the rest of the plane look spot on to me. Great work.
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Post by Dark Morelia »

Unfortunately no door animations :(. No matter what I tried it spoiled the smoothness, having the doors as separate parts.
Unless there's some trick to it I'm missing ?
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Post by CelticWarrior »

I'm sure the immense knowledge amassed by the modelling gurus here can come up with a solution to the door issue. It would be wonderful to see the beast 'kneel'. :D
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Drew

very nice bird you're modelling

If you wish and if you use fsds3, I can send you the source file of the galaxy so far. Maybe you can find out useful informations.

pm me your adress then

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Thanks Pascal, that should help. PM sent :)
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It does have this door though...

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Post by CelticWarrior »

It'd be a tight fit getting an Apache in through there tho :wink:

Looking good! :D
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Post by VulcanDriver »

Have you seen the post in the Real Life Military forum? Looks like you may want to forget about the Russian AF version!

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Post by Dark Morelia »

Yep, I saw and posted in it.
There won't be any military ones, so I guess I'd better stop previewing it here then :cry:

Experimenting to see if it's workable. I make NO promises I'll include it.

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I also make no screenshots from the other end, since it has no interior, and it's not kneeling, lol.
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Post by CelticWarrior »

Drew,

I hope you'll continue with this and release it. Almost every NATO country leases or contracts these aircraft at some point. I wouldn't mind betting that the Russian ones will end up in some Air Force or another.

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