Author Topic: Me163 materials (Read 472 times)

moot · « **on:** February 22, 2008, 04:04:15 AM »

Were any parts other than the wings made of wood?

Thanks..

lyric1 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2008, 01:47:50 PM »

I don't know the answer to your question this web page has a lot of great pictures & links to web sites that may have what your after. http://www.xs4all.nl/~robdebie/me163/australia.htm

Krusty · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2008, 02:39:10 PM »

Well...

- I've never read anywhere any mention of wood in the 163

- wood is heavier and weaker than simple aluminum

- it's a rocket, weight would be CLOSELY monitored, wood heavy metal not

- It had to tolerate much stress due to the speeds it flew

- Germany tried doing wooden planes and it didn't work. They had problems with the glues binding sheets of plywood together.

All in all I doubt there's any wood in the construction.

moot · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2008, 03:15:34 PM »

Thanks lyric1, I found that page right after I posted here. It looks like unless someone here has already done the research, I'll have to figure out which schemes are feasible for AH, and what all the correct colors are, etc, all on my own.

Krusty, initialy I was wondering about it in case there was enough of it to affect the materials reflection setting. So far I don't have anything conclusive. The good pics I've found all show the same paint reflectivity, so it doesn't seem to matter.
I found the wood reference in the wikipedia article. It says the wings were wood at some point, mentioning they didn't want to make the fuselage in wood too because of the stoff fuels. I only quickly scanned the articles when it started to look like it'd take a lot of time to find good schemes as well as filter everything to make a case for each skin that could or couldn't pass AH criteria...

A bit tedious

Krusty · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2008, 04:05:23 PM »

The material wouldn't affect the "material" settings as much as the paint on top of said material would.

You wouldn't have to change it unless it was totally unpainted. Also, I'm not sure if the "old" 3D models use this file at all. I don't think my Hurr1 did, and I submitted it that way.