Absolutely amazing interior, that this is around 530 parts is a bit hard to believe given the amount of stuff. I wouldn't have used the dummy models personally, but hey, it works. Congratulations on a great build!
Wow, I definitely wasn't expecting this one! There were a lot of truly great planes here, and I'm honoured to have lived up to the same quality standards.
@MrVaultech I'm really glad you liked this airplane that much. That was my impression too, it's one of the most fun I've had with one of my own builds in a while. It keeps you busy just enough to be interesting, and responds well in most cases.
And yeah, cockpit view was something I really wanted to try out on this one. I tried to make it as simple as possible while still keeping it interesting. Thanks a lot for your comment.
And like I said in the post just below, the stories just write themselves in my head as I build the plane, so I've got to put them somewhere, lmao
@Baldovino That was the inspiration, for sure, but it's not a 1:1 replica. I take a lot of inspiration from RL designs, but I usually don't do replicas, both because I don't consider my skills to be good enough to make something worthy being called a replica, and also because I like being a bit more free, having leeway to change some things, give it my own spin.
So yeah, it's most definitely inspired by the Flapjack, but put the two planes side by side and you'll see they're not the same. I make planes just for fun and nothing else, writing up backstories is part of it.
It's great that you mention Charles Zimmermann though, a lot of people tend to neglect/not care about the engineers behind the projects. To me, they're the soul of the aircraft, especially in the early days where you'd have one guy that essentially overlooked everything and took the decisions. His work with the V-173 and XF5U is impressive and gave us some of the most unique planes out there.
@Mustang51 Most assuredly! I'm not sure whether I'll actually end up doing something, but interested I sure am. If I can get an idea until then, I shall, and well there's plenty of time.
Caprichei bem meu mergulho, foi do barulho, o alvo eu atingi!
Really nice paint scheme, and a very hard one to do too. I had the pleasure of seeing two birds like this, one when the TAM museum still existed and another one when it still guarded the gates at the Air Force Academy. Thanks for making this, screenshot looks absolutely rad too!
@ErickvCamilo If you want to, you can place it yourself, just make a successor to this plane
Like I said, my potato laptop is already dying with the amount of parts this has lmao
Se tu quiser, pode fazer a modificação nesse avião você mesmo, baixa aí e cria um sucessor
A batata do meu notebook já quase se mata com as 570 partes desse aqui, se aumentar colocando mais coisa isso aqui vai fritar lol
@JohnnyBoythePilot Thanks! That was pretty much what I was going for, yeah. Though its sole reason to exist was that I wanted to try making a cockpit, lol
@Mustang51 My next one is pretty much done in fact, I just gotta write down a description and wait for the right time to post it, lel. On the meantime though, I've posted a fighter just yesterday, and if this thing pulls too many Gs at low speed, that one would probably kill its pilots IRL... lmao
Is it allowed to make a new/adapted version of a previously posted aircraft? As a sucessor to this post, of course. I only ask because, while that would would technically not be a reupload, it wouldn't be completely brand new either, so I fear it'd be on a bit of a weird grey spot on the rules and I wanted to make sure.
The reason I ask is because one of the ideas I had on my mind for the future would fit almost perfectly here, but some adaptations would be required (namely on the countermeasures, and perhaps some extra detailing for good measure since I don't usually do much of that).
@Mustang51 I thought about trim tabs but they took some control surface real estate... Since I'm lazy I usually just leave flaps to be used as trim, but yeah, in this bird the flaps are too big and too sensitive. In hindsight, I probably should've taken some of that area for trim.
@MSGamezYXZ360 Thanks! It should be noted, however, that I don't actually build planes daily. As I've said a few times before, I've been building planes in and off for quite some time now (Almost 2 years, I believe), but very sparsely, and only a few days ago did I decide to create an account and share the ones I took to be worth posting. I have many more, but a lot of them are very crude, have poor flying characteristics from when I was still learning, or are just overall not worth it to post here. the Flecha right here, for instance, was the first fighter I made which I felt "whoa, okay, now this is decent". Naturally, I've done small touch-ups in some older planes before posting them.
As such, in a few days you'll probably see me suddenly stop posting and then you're only going to see me very rarely around these parts - that's when the pile of stuff I'm sitting on to post ends, lel. I'm almost there, in fact. Of course, I still build stuff, but not all the time.
As for inspiration... I love planes! That's about it. I really love planes, and they decided my career choice. I love reading about them, I love looking at them, I love drawing them, and I love creating my own in SimplePlanes. The inspiration just comes by itself. This one, for instance, was obviously inspired by the Super Tucano; I think I got the idea planted in my head after watching a documentary on the Tucano family, called Tucano 35... It's on Youtube if you want to check it out (put there by the company that made it themselves, by the way; they made the documentary as a free-to-watch collaboration with the Brazilian Air Force to commemorate the 35 years of the T-27), and though it's in Portuguese there are subtitles in English. They're a bit wrong at several times, but hey, it might be worth the watch.
@Mustang51 Thanks! The handling this thing has at low speed surprised me a bit, but my favorite parts are those torpedo/missile tubes. They really give the look that extra "oomph", IMO.
In any case, enough about that, since I dropped in to comment, might as well talk about your ship right there, lel. Great lines as always, part count doesn't seem too large for the level of refinement its shape has. I'm a big fan of the Skipjack's looks, with that nearly perfect teardrop. Not exactly the best engineering compromise ever, but it does the job very well and damn, it looks great.
@MintLynx I'm not the guy who made the comment but thought I'd clear things up, lel. No, it wasn't built yet, though they might have started building the sections (I don't think so though, would have to look into it). The SN-10 Álvaro Alberto, which is the enlarged Riachuelo-Class (which itself is a longer Scorpène) with a nuclear reactor is going to be the last of the Riachuelo "family", so to speak, to be built. The Riachuelo was finished last year, later this year they're planning on launching the second (I think it's the Humaitá), and then there's going to be other two to go before we even get to the Álvaro Alberto. Needless to say, given the complexity and utter seriousness of everything involved in building a country's first nuclear submarine and preparing the Navy to recieve it, we're probably looking at several years between the comissioning of the last diesel-electric Riachuelo-class and that of the SN-10.
Original plans were for this sub to be delivered in 2020, but that's from way back. More recent chronograms had its delivery planned for 2025, which is a realistic number considering the Riachuelo was delivered in late 2018; however, due to recent budget cuts, that was postponed to 2027. With the Navy getting more cuts this year, who knows when that's actually going to happen. I'm betting in somewhere around 2030, personally.
@Mustang51 Thank you! By the way, I uploaded that boat I was talking to you about some days ago. I did put a VTOL engine and a lot (in exeperiments, more than what's in the uploaded version even) of RCS nozzles, but sadly that didn't correct control inversion at high speed. It did improve low speed handling though, so it was a great help!
@Mustang51 Thanks! Had some predator vibes, but it was mostly me messing around with fuselage parts and eventually a shape came up which I thought, "hey, I could make a drone out of this", so I did, lel.
There are, of course, many other great guys with amazing stories, Rex Beisel, Jack Northrop, R.J Mitchell, Jack Northrop, the aformentioned Jiro Horikoshi and Willy Messerchmitt, the list goes on. Just like with the planes, there's too many to count.
A plane that gets special mentions for the looks alone is the Mirage 2000, beautiful bird. The F-16 and MiG-29 also get a special mention for having marked my childhool (thank you Novalogic) and to this day they're among my favorite modern-day fighters.
Then there's the planes I'm biased towards - the PBY-5 Catalina and P-47D Thunderbolt are planes I absolutely love but a good part of that is probably because Brazil used them in combat during WWII, lel. Then there's the planes designed here (or in partnerships like the AMX A-1/A-11 Ghibli), especially the Tucano family, with the T-25 Universal, T-27 Tucano and A-29 Super Tucano. They're amazing birds in their own right, and they follow that design philosophy of simplicity, low cost and effectiveness - I guess you could call it advanced simplicity, if it makes any sense - but then again, I'm biased, lel.
Btw, sorry for over-extending myself like this, but this topic really gets me going, lol. I love talking about planes.
@Mustang51 Hard question right there. I like all of them, but I suppose I have a strong preference for military aircraft and, somewhat, for general aviation/sports aircraft. I have some specific planes that rank among my favorites but that's too many to list, lol. For the most part though, I generally have a weak spot for planes that are simple but high-performance nonetheless. To me, that's the essence of engineering, make things as simple and easy to maintain as possible while keeping their effectiveness, and it requires a great deal of effort. So there's stuff like the A-4, Folland Gnat, F-5 and derivations, well, most fighters around. Why not, the Bf 109 and the Zero as well. The Zero was designed with several restrictions due to Japanese industry at the time, especially on the engine department, yet Horikoshi made such a well-refined design that it was one of the best fighters out there for quite some time until it just couldn't keep up anymore. The 109 was also designed to be as smooth, simple and high-performance as possible; Willy had experience with gliders and sports aircraft, and took the lesson of keeping weight down to the heart. Even after it had long been surpassed by other designs, its more advanced late variants could keep up a fight with some of the best Allied fighters around. And since I got myself started of WWII planes, why not mention the F4U Corsair - it doesn't exactly follow this "philosophy" I've been describing so far, but something about it just drags me in, lel. IMO, it's the finest fighter America produced during WWII.
And the men behind these aircraft are also something I enjoy reading about. Both the pilots who flew them and the engineers who designed them. There are many great engineers behind these machines who I admire a lot, and in the specific case of light fighters, these guys were going against all trends and made something that was absolutely successful. Ed Heinemann with the A-4, Ed Schmued with the F-5, W.E.W Petter didn't have much luck with the Gnat (though it was a plane that proved a point and led to many follow-ons like the G.91) but he had the very successful Canberra, and then we've got the absolute legend that is Kyle Johnson, which also made something following these principles, kind of a light fighter: the F-104. It gets a lot of bad rep, but when you really look into it, it's an amazing little machine too.
There are, of course, many other great guys with amazing stories, Rex Beisel, Jack Northrop, R.J
@Mustang51 At the risk of sounding tiresome, mind giving an estimate of more or less how many hours + or - from now that would be? Usual times could be different and besides, college has kind of destroyed my sense of time, lel.
@Rakoval500k It is of "my head" origin, lol. But it absolutely isn't mirror-friendly, it's quite complex in some areas and it requires some work to deal with.
Astonishing job on this one! Not only is it likely one of the most realistically performing Tiger-family birds in SP, it looks absolutely gorgeous too, smooth and with all the curves of the real thing. You really didn't pull any brakes on this one!
A fantastic build for a fantastic plane. The Tigershark is an amazing, IMO underrated bird, and such a fine replica is indeed a great addition to this site.
This is something I've been thinking about ever since Funky Trees came out. I fear it might take quite a bit of effort for the devs due to the fact it's relative movement and all, but I'd love to try making some auto-tracking gun turrents and radar-assisted gunsights. I sure hope this goes forward!
Absolutely beautiful build of a very unique aircraft! Great job.
+1@teodor99 That's high praise considering the planes I've seen around on this site! Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it.
+1@Mustang51 Thanks man! It's just a mashup of the other one, but I quite liked how it came out so decided to enter it as well lel
+1Absolutely amazing interior, that this is around 530 parts is a bit hard to believe given the amount of stuff. I wouldn't have used the dummy models personally, but hey, it works. Congratulations on a great build!
+1Wow, I definitely wasn't expecting this one! There were a lot of truly great planes here, and I'm honoured to have lived up to the same quality standards.
+1More Ki-61 is always good. Amazing level of accuracy for such a low part count, too.
+1Amazing execution of the Svärdfisk paint scheme. A great build right there.
+1@MrVaultech I'm really glad you liked this airplane that much. That was my impression too, it's one of the most fun I've had with one of my own builds in a while. It keeps you busy just enough to be interesting, and responds well in most cases.
And yeah, cockpit view was something I really wanted to try out on this one. I tried to make it as simple as possible while still keeping it interesting. Thanks a lot for your comment.
And like I said in the post just below, the stories just write themselves in my head as I build the plane, so I've got to put them somewhere, lmao
+1@Treadmill103 Haha what can I say, the stories write themselves in my head and I've got to put them somewhere! Thanks, man.
+1@Mustang51 Doesn't it? I've been meaning to make some drawings of my other builds for quite some time in fact, lol. Thanks!
+1@Mustang51 @edensk @Trainzo @ThePrototype @botto28 Thanks a lot, guys!
+1Now that is an amazing plane and an absolutely beautiful screenshot! Congratulations, good sir.
+1Nice! The Cutlass is one of my favorite-looking planes. A real shame it underperformed the way it did. If only it had better engines...
+1@Baldovino That was the inspiration, for sure, but it's not a 1:1 replica. I take a lot of inspiration from RL designs, but I usually don't do replicas, both because I don't consider my skills to be good enough to make something worthy being called a replica, and also because I like being a bit more free, having leeway to change some things, give it my own spin.
So yeah, it's most definitely inspired by the Flapjack, but put the two planes side by side and you'll see they're not the same. I make planes just for fun and nothing else, writing up backstories is part of it.
It's great that you mention Charles Zimmermann though, a lot of people tend to neglect/not care about the engineers behind the projects. To me, they're the soul of the aircraft, especially in the early days where you'd have one guy that essentially overlooked everything and took the decisions. His work with the V-173 and XF5U is impressive and gave us some of the most unique planes out there.
+1An amazing build for an amazing plane! I've been wanting to see this bird around here for a while now.
+1@Mustang51 Most assuredly! I'm not sure whether I'll actually end up doing something, but interested I sure am. If I can get an idea until then, I shall, and well there's plenty of time.
+1@AerialFighterSnakes Well yes, but actually no
+1It's more like an adapted, slightly more realistic take on the Bm-335 Lindwurm from ACZ
@Mustang51 nose cone checks out, lmao. Great work!
+1Caprichei bem meu mergulho, foi do barulho, o alvo eu atingi!
Really nice paint scheme, and a very hard one to do too. I had the pleasure of seeing two birds like this, one when the TAM museum still existed and another one when it still guarded the gates at the Air Force Academy. Thanks for making this, screenshot looks absolutely rad too!
+1@Strikefighter04 here you go
+1@Strikefighter04 Thanks! I made it just for those screenshots lol, I wasn't planning on posting it but I could upload it if you want.
+1@ErickvCamilo If you want to, you can place it yourself, just make a successor to this plane
Like I said, my potato laptop is already dying with the amount of parts this has lmao
Se tu quiser, pode fazer a modificação nesse avião você mesmo, baixa aí e cria um sucessor
+1A batata do meu notebook já quase se mata com as 570 partes desse aqui, se aumentar colocando mais coisa isso aqui vai fritar lol
@JohnnyBoythePilot Thanks! That was pretty much what I was going for, yeah. Though its sole reason to exist was that I wanted to try making a cockpit, lol
+1@Mustang51 My next one is pretty much done in fact, I just gotta write down a description and wait for the right time to post it, lel. On the meantime though, I've posted a fighter just yesterday, and if this thing pulls too many Gs at low speed, that one would probably kill its pilots IRL... lmao
+1Rare bird! Nice to see one of these Fokkers around.
+1Is it allowed to make a new/adapted version of a previously posted aircraft? As a sucessor to this post, of course. I only ask because, while that would would technically not be a reupload, it wouldn't be completely brand new either, so I fear it'd be on a bit of a weird grey spot on the rules and I wanted to make sure.
The reason I ask is because one of the ideas I had on my mind for the future would fit almost perfectly here, but some adaptations would be required (namely on the countermeasures, and perhaps some extra detailing for good measure since I don't usually do much of that).
+1@FranzPeterSiegfried Now with 100% less plot armor, 200% more missiles
+1@CaptainEssen You might notice a fair amount of my stuff is inspired by Ace Combat, lel. I've got a Not-A-Lindwurm in the works right now.
+1@Mustang51 I thought about trim tabs but they took some control surface real estate... Since I'm lazy I usually just leave flaps to be used as trim, but yeah, in this bird the flaps are too big and too sensitive. In hindsight, I probably should've taken some of that area for trim.
+1Very nice Super Sabre! Also, water power... man, that's a blast from the past! Thanks for reminding me that existed.
+1@Aeromen @Sadboye12 Thanks a lot, guys! In fact, let this comment be directed to all of you who upvoted or just enjoyed this aircraft.
It blows my mind that this was featured in the front page, seriously. I'd like to thank every single one of you guys, you're awesome.
+1@MSGamezYXZ360 Thanks! It should be noted, however, that I don't actually build planes daily. As I've said a few times before, I've been building planes in and off for quite some time now (Almost 2 years, I believe), but very sparsely, and only a few days ago did I decide to create an account and share the ones I took to be worth posting. I have many more, but a lot of them are very crude, have poor flying characteristics from when I was still learning, or are just overall not worth it to post here. the Flecha right here, for instance, was the first fighter I made which I felt "whoa, okay, now this is decent". Naturally, I've done small touch-ups in some older planes before posting them.
As such, in a few days you'll probably see me suddenly stop posting and then you're only going to see me very rarely around these parts - that's when the pile of stuff I'm sitting on to post ends, lel. I'm almost there, in fact. Of course, I still build stuff, but not all the time.
As for inspiration... I love planes! That's about it. I really love planes, and they decided my career choice. I love reading about them, I love looking at them, I love drawing them, and I love creating my own in SimplePlanes. The inspiration just comes by itself. This one, for instance, was obviously inspired by the Super Tucano; I think I got the idea planted in my head after watching a documentary on the Tucano family, called Tucano 35... It's on Youtube if you want to check it out (put there by the company that made it themselves, by the way; they made the documentary as a free-to-watch collaboration with the Brazilian Air Force to commemorate the 35 years of the T-27), and though it's in Portuguese there are subtitles in English. They're a bit wrong at several times, but hey, it might be worth the watch.
+1@Evenstsrike333 Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
+1@Mustang51 I feel this might be my build. Thanks for letting me know.
+1@Mustang51 Thanks! The handling this thing has at low speed surprised me a bit, but my favorite parts are those torpedo/missile tubes. They really give the look that extra "oomph", IMO.
+1In any case, enough about that, since I dropped in to comment, might as well talk about your ship right there, lel. Great lines as always, part count doesn't seem too large for the level of refinement its shape has. I'm a big fan of the Skipjack's looks, with that nearly perfect teardrop. Not exactly the best engineering compromise ever, but it does the job very well and damn, it looks great.
+1@MintLynx I'm not the guy who made the comment but thought I'd clear things up, lel. No, it wasn't built yet, though they might have started building the sections (I don't think so though, would have to look into it). The SN-10 Álvaro Alberto, which is the enlarged Riachuelo-Class (which itself is a longer Scorpène) with a nuclear reactor is going to be the last of the Riachuelo "family", so to speak, to be built. The Riachuelo was finished last year, later this year they're planning on launching the second (I think it's the Humaitá), and then there's going to be other two to go before we even get to the Álvaro Alberto. Needless to say, given the complexity and utter seriousness of everything involved in building a country's first nuclear submarine and preparing the Navy to recieve it, we're probably looking at several years between the comissioning of the last diesel-electric Riachuelo-class and that of the SN-10.
Original plans were for this sub to be delivered in 2020, but that's from way back. More recent chronograms had its delivery planned for 2025, which is a realistic number considering the Riachuelo was delivered in late 2018; however, due to recent budget cuts, that was postponed to 2027. With the Navy getting more cuts this year, who knows when that's actually going to happen. I'm betting in somewhere around 2030, personally.
+1@Mustang51 Thank you! By the way, I uploaded that boat I was talking to you about some days ago. I did put a VTOL engine and a lot (in exeperiments, more than what's in the uploaded version even) of RCS nozzles, but sadly that didn't correct control inversion at high speed. It did improve low speed handling though, so it was a great help!
+1@Mustang51 Thanks! Had some predator vibes, but it was mostly me messing around with fuselage parts and eventually a shape came up which I thought, "hey, I could make a drone out of this", so I did, lel.
+1@LlamaIndustries Thanks man! Hope you enjoy flying it around.
+1There are, of course, many other great guys with amazing stories, Rex Beisel, Jack Northrop, R.J Mitchell, Jack Northrop, the aformentioned Jiro Horikoshi and Willy Messerchmitt, the list goes on. Just like with the planes, there's too many to count.
A plane that gets special mentions for the looks alone is the Mirage 2000, beautiful bird. The F-16 and MiG-29 also get a special mention for having marked my childhool (thank you Novalogic) and to this day they're among my favorite modern-day fighters.
Then there's the planes I'm biased towards - the PBY-5 Catalina and P-47D Thunderbolt are planes I absolutely love but a good part of that is probably because Brazil used them in combat during WWII, lel. Then there's the planes designed here (or in partnerships like the AMX A-1/A-11 Ghibli), especially the Tucano family, with the T-25 Universal, T-27 Tucano and A-29 Super Tucano. They're amazing birds in their own right, and they follow that design philosophy of simplicity, low cost and effectiveness - I guess you could call it advanced simplicity, if it makes any sense - but then again, I'm biased, lel.
Btw, sorry for over-extending myself like this, but this topic really gets me going, lol. I love talking about planes.
+1@Mustang51 Hard question right there. I like all of them, but I suppose I have a strong preference for military aircraft and, somewhat, for general aviation/sports aircraft. I have some specific planes that rank among my favorites but that's too many to list, lol. For the most part though, I generally have a weak spot for planes that are simple but high-performance nonetheless. To me, that's the essence of engineering, make things as simple and easy to maintain as possible while keeping their effectiveness, and it requires a great deal of effort. So there's stuff like the A-4, Folland Gnat, F-5 and derivations, well, most fighters around. Why not, the Bf 109 and the Zero as well. The Zero was designed with several restrictions due to Japanese industry at the time, especially on the engine department, yet Horikoshi made such a well-refined design that it was one of the best fighters out there for quite some time until it just couldn't keep up anymore. The 109 was also designed to be as smooth, simple and high-performance as possible; Willy had experience with gliders and sports aircraft, and took the lesson of keeping weight down to the heart. Even after it had long been surpassed by other designs, its more advanced late variants could keep up a fight with some of the best Allied fighters around. And since I got myself started of WWII planes, why not mention the F4U Corsair - it doesn't exactly follow this "philosophy" I've been describing so far, but something about it just drags me in, lel. IMO, it's the finest fighter America produced during WWII.
And the men behind these aircraft are also something I enjoy reading about. Both the pilots who flew them and the engineers who designed them. There are many great engineers behind these machines who I admire a lot, and in the specific case of light fighters, these guys were going against all trends and made something that was absolutely successful. Ed Heinemann with the A-4, Ed Schmued with the F-5, W.E.W Petter didn't have much luck with the Gnat (though it was a plane that proved a point and led to many follow-ons like the G.91) but he had the very successful Canberra, and then we've got the absolute legend that is Kyle Johnson, which also made something following these principles, kind of a light fighter: the F-104. It gets a lot of bad rep, but when you really look into it, it's an amazing little machine too.
There are, of course, many other great guys with amazing stories, Rex Beisel, Jack Northrop, R.J
+1@Mustang51 At the risk of sounding tiresome, mind giving an estimate of more or less how many hours + or - from now that would be? Usual times could be different and besides, college has kind of destroyed my sense of time, lel.
+1@Gabriel747 Sim senhor, vivíssimo! Só dei uma parada com o jogo... de vez em nunca passo aqui pra ver como a galera tá indo haha
@Rakoval500k It is of "my head" origin, lol. But it absolutely isn't mirror-friendly, it's quite complex in some areas and it requires some work to deal with.
Glad to see this beautiful bird around! That's a (rather sadly) rare one.
Astonishing job on this one! Not only is it likely one of the most realistically performing Tiger-family birds in SP, it looks absolutely gorgeous too, smooth and with all the curves of the real thing. You really didn't pull any brakes on this one!
A fantastic build for a fantastic plane. The Tigershark is an amazing, IMO underrated bird, and such a fine replica is indeed a great addition to this site.
This is something I've been thinking about ever since Funky Trees came out. I fear it might take quite a bit of effort for the devs due to the fact it's relative movement and all, but I'd love to try making some auto-tracking gun turrents and radar-assisted gunsights. I sure hope this goes forward!
@SnoWFLakE0s So this means all builds previous to this will be hopelessly borked? That's somewhat saddening. But, thank you for clearing it up.
Probably one of the best F-16s on this site in terms of usability and performance. Very well earned upvotes, good sir.