posted 07-29- 11:13 PM               

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As you can tell I'm obsessed with the Me163 Komet, and have a few questions (IF ANYONE CAN ANSWER THEM).

1: Will it have droppable carriage??

2: How will you model the glide (So it doesn't drop like a rock)??

Note: Pictures taken from Nations: WWII Fighter Command

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posted 07-30- 01:26 AM               

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The gliding part is easy, just make the right wing area value and not too much drag.

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posted 07-30- 02:10 AM               

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The wheel detaching is easy. Just put a breaking DOF on it.

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posted 07-30- 02:13 AM               

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Wanna read a good book? Check out Baptism of Fire. Its the story of the Me163 told by a guy who flew em, got up to page 57 in 2 and a half hours.

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posted 07-30- 04:53 AM               

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How do you add BRreaking DOF's to a plane in SD? I need to know!!! Can you assign the DOF to break on a key stroke?

Know what you mean about a good book. Read an auto biography on the RED BARRON in 3 days flat....felt upset when I'd finished...wanted to read more...so baught a book on early WW1 AND READ IT IN 1 WEEK....

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posted 07-30- 10:32 AM               

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Well, first time I read R.S. Tucks biography, I finished it in a day, then I found Clostermanns The Big Show in the basement, and was finished reading it 48hrs later. Both were excellent!

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posted 07-30- 01:02 PM               

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Just so you know, I have access to a working model for SDOE of the 163 already. We was working on mapping it but i was never sent the final model. If you would like i can dig it up and send it to you. Plus i'm still working on the betty, It's taking longer then i though since i have to line up all the frames to get the glass to meet.

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posted 07-30- 01:06 PM               

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MrBlob, look at my Mistel 1 or Mistel 3 or the P-47D to see breaking DOFs in action. Razer, could you send that Me-163 to me aswell?

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posted 07-30- 01:30 PM               

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Yeah, send it over yonder! Maybe I could help.

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posted 07-30- 01:51 PM               

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Excerpt from Baptism of Fire:

"Now everything happened at once. Joschi's aircraft dropped like a stone, hit the airfield at an angle and skidded along the ground for some fifty metres before coming to a standstill. All this had taken place at least two kilometres from our flight line where we had been standing, and we ran as fast as our legs could carry us behind the racing fire tender and ambulance in the direction of the crippled aircraft. Surely it could not be too bad. Perhaps a few broken bones. Both the fire tender and ambulance reached Joschi's machine within a minute of the crash, but Joschi was no more. The T-stoff from the fractured fuel lines had seeped into the cockpit and poor Joschi, probably unconcious as a result of hitting his head on the instrument panel, had been literally been dissolved alive! Nothing could have saved him. Not even those thousands of gallons of water that the fire tender poured over the aircraft to neutralize that accursed T-stoff."

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posted 07-30- 05:27 PM               

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A friend of mine told me about that incident. The impression he got from that book was those planes blew up all the time. The blew on on engine start. They blew up on takeoff. They blew up when landing. Sometimes they blew up just sitting there. Apparently everyone was surprised that this plane flipped upside down and didn't blow up.

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posted 07-30- 06:30 PM               

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That looks very cool Aladar.

Wow, that's some story. What a horrible way to go!

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posted 07-30- 08:28 PM               

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Hey Pete, did you find the model???

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posted 07-30- 09:49 PM               

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Hey Pete The one in FSDOE, how much work has to be done % wise

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posted 07-31- 03:02 AM               

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Gotta put it a the top

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posted 07-31- 03:14 AM               

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Aladar,

I never did get the file from Panzer. If anyone (Razer?) has a more complete one could you send me a copy and I'll work on it? The one I have needs to be started from scratch. The 3D model itself is basically done but the cockpit shell/canopy need lots of work still, and then the importing of all the parts into OPS needs to be done, the FM, the cockpit, etc. It has a long way to go that's for sure. Working hard on it alone would take me a good solid 2 weeks to get it decent. Maybe a little less if things went smoothly. But right now things are hectic around here so I can't devote as much time as I'd like right now.

I am working on it though and have been tonight. Need more time though. Razer, could you send it to me, the version you have?

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posted 07-31- 03:23 AM               

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I really dont mind helping, if needed I could map, import, whatever you need help with, I'll try. Everybody needs help sometime I'd LOVE to help, just let me know.

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posted 08-01- 06:12 PM               

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YES!!!! I JUST BOUGHT Nations: WWII Fighter Command!!!!!

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posted 08-02- 12:10 AM               

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Aladar,

How about a short review of it!! And let us know how the Komet is too

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posted 08-02- 12:19 AM               

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Well, it might take awhile, the only place I could find it was on EbaY, they have auctions for EVERYTHING!

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