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my DC-8 Project
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Alright been hard at work all morning correcting this and that and finally I finished with the nose section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doesn't mean I'm done with it ONLY means that I am moving away from the nose area and now I'm going to start modeling the tail and elevators, here are some pictures.
I didn't think I was going to get this far, wonder how many times I
said the F word, lOL.
Long, long, aircraft.
At some point, all those sections will come permanently
together, that I'll work out the smoothing errors, if any.
Thanks to all, I am happy to make this bird for everyone. There are some
DC-8s out there but most of them just feature black little dimples for the inlets, that is an insult for this aircraft because it is its most unique feature.
I am not degrading on the models out there, I do have the HJG DC-8 and its a wonderful plane and the Aerosim DC-8 is really nice as well but they
aren't in my taste of quality. I decided to do this when I was repainting some Air Transport International Liveries and realized my collection would not
be complete if I did not paint my very own DC-8 just the way I wanted it to look and then this project was born.
fx out, I'm done for the day with this, going out to the real world now.
Later folks.
I didn't think I was going to get this far, wonder how many times I
said the F word, lOL.
Long, long, aircraft.
At some point, all those sections will come permanently
together, that I'll work out the smoothing errors, if any.
Thanks to all, I am happy to make this bird for everyone. There are some
DC-8s out there but most of them just feature black little dimples for the inlets, that is an insult for this aircraft because it is its most unique feature.
I am not degrading on the models out there, I do have the HJG DC-8 and its a wonderful plane and the Aerosim DC-8 is really nice as well but they
aren't in my taste of quality. I decided to do this when I was repainting some Air Transport International Liveries and realized my collection would not
be complete if I did not paint my very own DC-8 just the way I wanted it to look and then this project was born.
fx out, I'm done for the day with this, going out to the real world now.
Later folks.
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The Dc-8 is beginning to get popular around the FS community! I have not found anything about the airfoil either, nothing comes up.
As for the inlets, I am well aware of that. I've read that they covered them up in later versions because it supplied way too much air to the AC packs at high altitudes, so they partially covered them up.
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Also, if you're doing this plane for FSX, you'd be the first one out there with a FSX native model.
Try to find a webpage with close-up photos of the DC-8s wings. Sometimes photos give away airfoil shape pretty well (they did for my 328).
Of course it's not as convenient as official documents from the manufacturer, but it helps.
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Also, if you're doing this plane for FSX, you'd be the first one out there with a FSX native model.
Try to find a webpage with close-up photos of the DC-8s wings. Sometimes photos give away airfoil shape pretty well (they did for my 328).
Of course it's not as convenient as official documents from the manufacturer, but it helps.
I have FSX but don't have the SDK installed nor am I familiar with it hopefully I can also reach out to FSX. Trust me, I will. I've noticed the spectacular reflections and shine that are seen on some aircraft, I could imagine a DC-8 with those shiny engine nacelles .... ooh sweeeettt!
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Update for the night.
I joined all the parts together, collapsed all of the vertices and did some clean up work, I only did this for an export test, I left the original file untouched and saved it as export_test.gmax I also created a shiny material and applied it to the model just for looks, lol.
The export was a success, I noted no shading errors, I did note one thing that I will have to work on. Once I attached all the sections together, I lost the sharp lines that run up from the nose up throw the windows, I created this by using a smoothing group but creating them when the model is completely attached creates some issues, I'll show them later, I think I know how to fix it but i'll have to modify the mesh work a bit for that.
As you can see, i've cut out the rudder for the tail section and work in that area is progressing along just fine, I'll be working on the tail till it is complete, then ... its off to the model the wing.
I joined all the parts together, collapsed all of the vertices and did some clean up work, I only did this for an export test, I left the original file untouched and saved it as export_test.gmax I also created a shiny material and applied it to the model just for looks, lol.
The export was a success, I noted no shading errors, I did note one thing that I will have to work on. Once I attached all the sections together, I lost the sharp lines that run up from the nose up throw the windows, I created this by using a smoothing group but creating them when the model is completely attached creates some issues, I'll show them later, I think I know how to fix it but i'll have to modify the mesh work a bit for that.
As you can see, i've cut out the rudder for the tail section and work in that area is progressing along just fine, I'll be working on the tail till it is complete, then ... its off to the model the wing.
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This is going to be sooooo awesome!
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Just like to point out that I have found the airfoil profile for the wing section. I have not posted updates because the detail work that has been added to the tail section is small; I will be working on the elevators this morning. I should have some preview work by the end of this week, keep tuned!!
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Hey Mr.FaosX,
one question. Are you going to model the CFM engines model as well?
Thanks and good luck!!
I really love the DC-8, pure beauty
The whole package, to the last very detail. CFM engines are my favorite for this aircraft.
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Just to answer a couple of questions. I got bombarded today with several private messages.
The faint line that you see running from the nose to the tail is NOT AN ERROR, that line is intended, the actual DC-8 has that line, look at the pictures.
Yes, I will do all of the variants!
Yes, it will have a fully detailed VC.
No, it will not be payware, it will be FREEWARE!
What the majority are telling me is that I have a smoothing error on the fuselage, I didn't know what they were talking about but them it became clear until someone submitted a picture with the faint straight line circled ... lol!! I got this on my e-mail address, apparently everyone in the flight simulator community seems to know I am making a DC-8 and they are already asking for release dates ..... I never expected this kind of feedback! Now I know why some people keep quiet about their projects.
Oh yeah, almost forgot ... here is an update!
LOL!! Let me know if you go cross-eyed!
The faint line that you see running from the nose to the tail is NOT AN ERROR, that line is intended, the actual DC-8 has that line, look at the pictures.
Yes, I will do all of the variants!
Yes, it will have a fully detailed VC.
No, it will not be payware, it will be FREEWARE!
What the majority are telling me is that I have a smoothing error on the fuselage, I didn't know what they were talking about but them it became clear until someone submitted a picture with the faint straight line circled ... lol!! I got this on my e-mail address, apparently everyone in the flight simulator community seems to know I am making a DC-8 and they are already asking for release dates ..... I never expected this kind of feedback! Now I know why some people keep quiet about their projects.
Oh yeah, almost forgot ... here is an update!
LOL!! Let me know if you go cross-eyed!
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There will be an FS9 version yes, that will be the first actually. I intend for it to be compatible with both FS9 and FSX.
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Update for today.
I calling it quits for the day. I had a bit of a problem earlier with this and now I am making some progress.
NOTE: Elevator is currently level and not tilted to make work easier. The mesh area with orange lines full of blue cross hairs is a spline section, it needs a lot of work.
I'm heading to bed now.
ZZZzzz...
I calling it quits for the day. I had a bit of a problem earlier with this and now I am making some progress.
NOTE: Elevator is currently level and not tilted to make work easier. The mesh area with orange lines full of blue cross hairs is a spline section, it needs a lot of work.
I'm heading to bed now.
ZZZzzz...
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I think that faint line is where the floor is. On the captain sim forums people where asking if it would be modeled on the 737-100, and indeed they are.
Keep up the good work! It will be in my virtual hanger the day you release it.
Keep up the good work! It will be in my virtual hanger the day you release it.
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Alright I'm done messing around with the tail section, I'll come back to it later. I attached all the spline sections around the nose area into one, mesh needs a bit of work but it looks good.
One last look at her before work on the wing root and wings begins.
I want to continue to add the bigger details and then worry about the smaller ones later.
It should be interesting to see this bird with wings, soon
One last look at her before work on the wing root and wings begins.
I want to continue to add the bigger details and then worry about the smaller ones later.
It should be interesting to see this bird with wings, soon