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Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 28, 2006, 08:10:15 PM

Messing with a few things for wear dirt and chips. Kudos to greebo for the template im so lazy.:lol

F4f3 Wildcat "Fox One" pilot John Smith Thach, VF-3 commander - USS Lexington - April 1942

Still playing with it.

Any comments?

(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g10613.jpg)
(Yea its dirty!!):D

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8193/ahss40copygn9.jpg)

(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1482/ahss401jo6.jpg)

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: USRanger on October 29, 2006, 01:36:02 AM

Wow, very nice bro!

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 29, 2006, 01:41:34 AM

Thanks! just noticed f4f has 6 50cals lol..

Also noticed the tail is wrong.

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: Saxman on October 29, 2006, 01:01:18 AM

Our F4F is an F4F-4. The aircraft in the photo is a -3.

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 29, 2006, 01:07:29 AM

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Originally posted by Saxman
Our F4F is an F4F-4. The aircraft in the photo is a -3.

True but htc will accept it.

Another im working on just slaped on some other things. :p

Need to fix tail on "fox one" and both 3rd gun smears.

VMF-221


(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9384/ahss46dz6.jpg)

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: Saxman on October 29, 2006, 08:12:14 AM

Is that roundel supposed to be upside down?

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 29, 2006, 01:43:12 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Saxman
Is that roundel supposed to be upside down?

LOL i said it was another skin i was working on.

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: SkyChimp03 on October 29, 2006, 04:07:16 PM

lol oops forgot to rotate it no its not.

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: Fencer51 on October 29, 2006, 04:18:13 PM

Check the roundel placement on F-1 from the picture, looks like it needs to be more inboard.

Cheers.

Title: F4F "Fox one"
Post by: Krusty on November 01, 2006, 11:55:37 AM

Normally I don't comment too much on USN planes (I have no base for comment, little knowledge of the arena), however as a small detail I'll point out:

You might have made the shadows on the control surfaces too hard. Look at the photo and see the perfectly smooth, unblemished ailerons. They may have been covered, but you couldn't tell from the outside. Not a single shadow or highlight and from that angle and with that much sun you'd see *something* in the photo. So as a compromise I'd make your shadows very subtle.