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MSFS20 North American T-28 Trojan

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Using some technical drawings for modeling. AircorpsLibrary has drawings (and manuals) for about 70, mostly WWII, aircraft so if you are looking for some drawings for your next project it may be worth a look to see if they have anything.

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Lagaffe said:
Hi,
I find that the price of manuals is a bit expensive, there is also Avialogs.com which is much more affordable
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Yes, AircorpsLibrary is very pricey. It's $15 to download each drawing and that's after you've already paid to subscribe (I just screenshot the drawings and save them as png for use in Blender). Same with the manuals, you have to pay extra to download them otherwise you can only read them in a browser. At least with Avialogs you can download the files without having to pay extra (I hope they still do that, it was like that the last time I used them where I downloaded everything they had on the T28). On the other hand, Aircorps has technical drawings which Avialogs doesn't (at least the last time I looked)
 
Each site has its pros and cons. I gave this link for information only ;)
For Avialogs, they didn't change their policy.
 
Here's the radio panel. Most of the textures here are hand drawn/composited because most T28s don't have these radios installed nowadays and even finding halfway decent pictures on the internet is difficult. I need to redo the textures for the fixing screws. I'm not happy with these ones and I have some pictures of others which are better. A few more screws needed too.

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Hi,

For hand drawn textures, I find that their rendering is very good and almost photo realistic.
 
I had done the throttle quadrant quite a while ago but looking at it again yesterday I wasn't happy with it so I've updated it a bit more.

For comparison on the left is the very old version from FSX/P3D, on the right is the latest new version.

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The very first time loaded into the sim. There may be a few issues that need to be dealt with (this is what happens when you copy the .cfg files for a taildragger to use as the basis for a tricycle gear aircraft).

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ebay is actually a really good place to trawl for instrument pics. I've got quite a collection from over the years.
 
Are the screw-nuts movable? They seem so... So will you add a virtual wrench for testing? Holy cow, what an amount of details....
 
This is getting ridiculous. Hartwell H5000 flush latch. I even tried looking for a 3D model of this rather than do it myself but no luck so here we are. The most ridiculous thing is from the normal eye position you can't even see the underside like this. Anyway, I still thought I'd do this so there is somewhere to stow the GPS and Tablet.

Very funny story about this. In the first post I said I was using technical drawings so I know that this console is the correct width. The radios have a known published width so I know they are correct and I know the map case lid has a certain width from the drawings. The only problem is the radios and map case lid don't fit within the console width. I had been putting off resolving this problem until now and in the end I just shortened the width of the map case lid by an inch to squeeze it into the space.

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