Mikey's Models: The P3Dv4/5 Frontier

[mikeblaze]

Jon Murchison gave his kind permission to publish the Concordes, so these will be moving out of the special folder into the main models folder, and getting re-packaged for AVSIM this week. I'm going to also add the BAC/Aerospatiale demonstrator livery, so there will be an even dozen paints for this package.

Also, I am putting the TCAI Tu-154 through its paces this week (both B and M). The B models are done (24 of them in two formats), and the M models (23 of them) will be done later this week. I will sort out all of the repaints next week and still make my end-of-September deadline to get these published.

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[mikeblaze]

The TCAI Tu-154s are available in pre-release (models and common textures only) on the G-drive. Due to the large number of model variants per aircraft, just the base model packages are about 45MB each. I will sort out the paints soon and figure out how I will package this for AVSIM, most likely separate P4 and P5 packages. I am trying to keep the total file size under 100MB, but I may not be able to do that with this aircraft.

Also, I forgot to run the DWAI L-1011 model through RADiator, that has been done now, and the model package is updated on the G-drive.

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[shaggy22]

Sept 22, 2021 13:01:26 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

The TCAI Tu-154s are available in pre-release (models and common textures only) on the G-drive. Due to the large number of model variants per aircraft, just the base model packages are about 45MB each. I will sort out the paints soon and figure out how I will package this for AVSIM, most likely separate P4 and P5 packages. I am trying to keep the total file size under 100MB, but I may not be able to do that with this aircraft.

Also, I forgot to run the DWAI L-1011 model through RADiator, that has been done now, and the model package is updated on the G-drive.

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Top work as always Mike, the only thing I'll say is the B model Tu-154's don't really smoke all that much, if at all really. Which is odd for an old Soviet airliner like that. The M models most certainly do smoke

[mikeblaze]

I used the Tu-154 effects as they were written for the original model, but I hard-coded them to the throttle trigger XML. The TCAI models use a two-stage smoke effect with two different effects in play for each engine. I will drop one for the B-models before I publish them on AVSIM.

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[cgold]

Sept 23, 2021 14:49:35 GMT -5 shaggy22 said:

Sept 22, 2021 13:01:26 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

The TCAI Tu-154s are available in pre-release (models and common textures only) on the G-drive. Due to the large number of model variants per aircraft, just the base model packages are about 45MB each. I will sort out the paints soon and figure out how I will package this for AVSIM, most likely separate P4 and P5 packages. I am trying to keep the total file size under 100MB, but I may not be able to do that with this aircraft.

Also, I forgot to run the DWAI L-1011 model through RADiator, that has been done now, and the model package is updated on the G-drive.

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Top work as always Mike, the only thing I'll say is the B model Tu-154's don't really smoke all that much, if at all really. Which is odd for an old Soviet airliner like that. The M models most certainly do smoke

And here I thought the NK-8’s were worse than the D-30K’s… Very keen observation.

[mikeblaze]

I guess that also means the early Il-62s (non-M) have the same issue. I will fix those as well, but I'm not issuing an AVSIM update for now, they will be updated in my G-drive sometime next week.

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[shaggy22]

Sept 25, 2021 8:52:29 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

I guess that also means the early Il-62s (non-M) have the same issue. I will fix those as well, but I'm not issuing an AVSIM update for now, they will be updated in my G-drive sometime next week.

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I imagine so as they had the same engines, but honestly I don't know. There's not many videos out there featuring the older 62's

[mikeblaze]

The other big Russian project in the works is the re-release of the Il-96-300s, and this time they will be joined by the -400s with some new models. I modded the Il-96-400 into the VIP and FSB variants (lots of extra antenna and domes), used for ACCC and ELINT work, plus there will be paints for these and all three of the POT freighters. Atlant-Soyuz had one of the -400 freighters ready to go in 2007, and it was painted (very beautifully), but the aircraft was NTU and went to POT instead, so I am not doing the aircraft that was NTU.

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[mikeblaze]

More converted models in the drive today, some in the Boeing folder, some elsewhere.....

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[mikeblaze]

There are some new things in the special folder, three models for a family of aircraft. I put two of them there earlier today, but I forgot to actually put the contents into one of the zips (sorry). All is good now.

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[mikeblaze]

Six new/updated models in the special folder, one is an update and is another one I forgot to put contents in the zip the first time around. You'll figure it out.

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[noob21]

Any updates on the DC-8 and 707 as of late? Figure painting has taken up most your time lately but I was hoping there would be some headway made with those two families. The more DWAI models with far too many cycles that can be sent off to the boneyard the better.

[mikeblaze]

I just posted 33 64-bit converted models to the website, nothing new, just everything that was in my public release G-drive folder. There might be some new converted models showing up this week, we will see.....


.... actually, there are four newly-converted models on the website now, the AIA DC-9-10/30/40/50. The AIA DC-9-30v2 was posted earlier today, and has been on my G-drive for about a month.

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[mikeblaze]

There were two NWA posts and about six 64-bit model posts that had missing/improper download links from this morning's upload-fest, those links have all been corrected now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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[darrenvox]

sweet there is a god