@Trainzo Yes, well... my version may look posh, but I needed almost exactly 5x as many parts to achieve that effect. Kudos for making something viable with only 220. You're actually much closer to the actual number of parts the Soviets used to build a plane in those days ;)
Love the concept! A bit blocky in some places though -and this is constructive criticism, don't get me wrong. You can build anything in SP with prolific use of paneling, but you gotta make all the connections manually and maximize the effect of the "smoothing" function. With some more (quite tedious) work, this can be a phenomenal build instead of a great one...
@ollielebananiaCFSP what can I say... my PC doesn't mind, so neither do I. Too many silly details? Probably, yes. There's lots of other folks who build low-part mobile-friendly stuff, so I don't feel the need to join in :D
@EngineerOtaku No, it's not -you use much less parts, and still manage to capture the plane's forms perfectly. Your version just has less nuts & bolts & trimmings, for which I'm sure all mobile users will thank you. An absolute thumbs up!!
@ChiChiWerx Thanks! Making it capable of spot landings is probably not that hard... just fool around with the rotators of the exhaust nozzles so they can point slightly further forward. But looking at the Yak-36's nozzles on photos I don't think it could actually do that -ergo, almost impossible to really come to a stop when airborne. The Harrier was probably a smarter design. But I suppose the Yak could indeed land on small-ish carriers, as it was intended to do. You can put this one down on the USS Tiny ;) :D
@CharlesDeGaulle that was probably the only way to get a kill with this plane. A real pity the name "Narval" was already taken by the S.O. 8000... it would have fit perfectly for the Yak.
@RandomUser09 Yes, the thumbnail background. One is just plain grey, the other two are Maywar. Doesn't the Android version of the game have (grey) runways and Maywar?
@Random04 Same drill as always: load the plane, when getting the error about the mod hit the "undo" button and then the "redo" button. Plane will load without the mod.
Looks absolutely great, and I love the plane. But truth be told, the paneling for the nose and landing gear doors is more than a bit sloppy. Guess it's the price you pay for being "mobile friendly"... I never understood what that means, by the way, since my (quite standard) iPhone does just fine with builds up to 2000 parts, and slacks off only a bit if the part count is higher. So what's with all the chunky bits..?
Perhaps you should trick it out a bit, no? Add some nice decals, put the 3rd (turbojet) engine on top like they did with the C-119 firebombers...
Or you could just turn it into Cabbie from "Planes" :D :D
@DJ2keroni "Schwenkflügeln", yes -but the "Schwing Ving" was intended as nothing more than a little joke in 'allo 'allo -style language... think Lt. Gruber :D :D
Look up the show on Youtube... the jokes do get stale after about one season, but even the repetition is good for a few laughs.
@MRpingouin Paste below link into your browser:
http://www.simpleplanes.com/a/AlXW7Q/SPPU-gun-pod
AG6 extends/retracts the gun... you can change that to whatever you like of course
It's a real pity I can upvote this only once. This plane is one of the few I actually save to HDD and keep around. 51 upvotes is not what I expected... a few more certainly would do no harm.
@NaONCo2HCH2 I'm going to respond just once -SP isn't the right place for this type of discussion... already sorry I brought it up. Can't help it -I'm allergic to gods, religions, hoaxes, phishing and scams in general. Sure, the WHO probably has lots of interesting info on secondary causes of death, but these say little about the root cause. Many of the conditions listed are lethal only because of poverty, which is usually a result of (civil) war and politicial issues, which in turn are almost always related to religion. People die of heart disease because there's no decent hostpital; there's no decent hospital because there's no money, there's no money because some asshole spends it all on a pointless war, and there's a pointless war because of some silly discussion about a point or comma in a "holy book". A book that nobody reads, by the way, since they're too poor to send their kids to school, hence none of them can actually read the holy books they're quoting.
@Mateuspilot True, the missiles are not perfect. Don't forget this is a 1945 plane; there were no Sparrows or Sidewinders back then. Air-to-air missiles simply did not exist before stuff like the Ruhrstahl X-4... these things were wire-guided, and the plane's pilot had to steer them to their target with a kind of joystick. He had to keep a good visual at all times, and when either he or the target were going too fast, were manoeuvering, were too close or too far apart etc. it simply didn't work. In this build, these difficulties are emulated by a very narrow range (1.5 to 3.5 km) and the fact that you have to maintain the lock until the missile hits. And that's making it easy; I might have made missiles that effectively have to be guided by the pilot, but since that would mean switching cam views (and abandoning control of the plane for the duration) the current setup seemed like a good compromise.
Bottom line: no "fire-and-forget" with computer-controlled targeting in 1945, sorry.
hehe... this thing looks familiar :D not bad at all, considering you're on a phone or tablet. Quite good-looking for such a low part count! Pretty unstable if you fly it with keyboard controls, though -jumps all over the place. Probably better if you have a joystick (or yes, on a phone or tablet). Check your flaps, too; they don't seem to work.
@FujiwaraAutoShop It's a cool rendering of the old "Wankel Wagon" -but let's face it; it wasn't very reliable, fast or stylish at any time. It's original, yes -but that about sums it up.
@TatsuTheCleaningFairy hmm... that would be the "regular" '21, I suppose. This STOL thing would never have survived an encounter with a Phantom ;)
@asteroidbook345 so you're actually telling me to take my old Mirage, slap on the MiG-21's wings and add the lift engines from the E-7PD..? ;) :D
+1@Trainzo Yes, well... my version may look posh, but I needed almost exactly 5x as many parts to achieve that effect. Kudos for making something viable with only 220. You're actually much closer to the actual number of parts the Soviets used to build a plane in those days ;)
Love the concept! A bit blocky in some places though -and this is constructive criticism, don't get me wrong. You can build anything in SP with prolific use of paneling, but you gotta make all the connections manually and maximize the effect of the "smoothing" function. With some more (quite tedious) work, this can be a phenomenal build instead of a great one...
+2Erdolf's Luftwaffe..! :D
@ollielebananiaCFSP what can I say... my PC doesn't mind, so neither do I. Too many silly details? Probably, yes. There's lots of other folks who build low-part mobile-friendly stuff, so I don't feel the need to join in :D
@EngineerOtaku No, it's not -you use much less parts, and still manage to capture the plane's forms perfectly. Your version just has less nuts & bolts & trimmings, for which I'm sure all mobile users will thank you. An absolute thumbs up!!
+1My Blinder gets a mobile-friendly brother at last... cool!
+2A kitchen chair with wings and a lawnmower engine. I love it :D
@ChiChiWerx Thanks! Making it capable of spot landings is probably not that hard... just fool around with the rotators of the exhaust nozzles so they can point slightly further forward. But looking at the Yak-36's nozzles on photos I don't think it could actually do that -ergo, almost impossible to really come to a stop when airborne. The Harrier was probably a smarter design. But I suppose the Yak could indeed land on small-ish carriers, as it was intended to do. You can put this one down on the USS Tiny ;) :D
@RandomUser09 The Griffon is a nice piece of work, certainly. But there are already really good ones on SP, no reason to build another one.
@CharlesDeGaulle that was probably the only way to get a kill with this plane. A real pity the name "Narval" was already taken by the S.O. 8000... it would have fit perfectly for the Yak.
@RandomUser09 Probably not. The '27 doesn't interest me at all, so...
@RandomUser09 sure...
@Trainzo Ah.., thanks, you're almost making me blush ;) remind me to pay you a beer (or a glass of wine) next time I'm in France...
+1@AuroraPolaris yep... and to top it off, the damn thing sticks out its tongue at you with every takeoff :D
+1@RandomUser09 Yes, the thumbnail background. One is just plain grey, the other two are Maywar. Doesn't the Android version of the game have (grey) runways and Maywar?
@RandomUser09 I don't get the question, really, Nothing special about the background, is there? That's just Maywar...
@Random04 Same drill as always: load the plane, when getting the error about the mod hit the "undo" button and then the "redo" button. Plane will load without the mod.
+1Gets you higher than some planes... :D
Heheh... this thing is absolutely fun to zoom around in!
Looks absolutely great, and I love the plane. But truth be told, the paneling for the nose and landing gear doors is more than a bit sloppy. Guess it's the price you pay for being "mobile friendly"... I never understood what that means, by the way, since my (quite standard) iPhone does just fine with builds up to 2000 parts, and slacks off only a bit if the part count is higher. So what's with all the chunky bits..?
Thanks all! This "quickie" doesn't deserve all the attention and upvotes, but still -it's appreciated...
+2Definitely one of the better 109's on Simpleplanes. Great job!!
+3@Parehare you don't need the mod. Plane works fine without it, the cockpit will just look somewhat less fancy.
Perhaps you should trick it out a bit, no? Add some nice decals, put the 3rd (turbojet) engine on top like they did with the C-119 firebombers...
Or you could just turn it into Cabbie from "Planes" :D :D
@TheMrPilotMan sure, why not
@spectre118 Annoying, to be sure. Still points to the same page though, just cut & paste the URL
@KnightOfRen Yes, still alive -just a bit busy, 's all. Too much work, hence no play :D
LOL this looks extremely familiar... ;)
nice pic of Eddy Wally... LOL, I thought the guy was always just bragging when he claimed to be big in Japan
+2@Hedero nope... drawings of the Thunderstreak, combined with photos.
@MajorSix
@LieutenantSOT
@LieutenantSOT Thanks a lot! It seems both my "naughty nazi's" did quite well...
@DJ2keroni "Schwenkflügeln", yes -but the "Schwing Ving" was intended as nothing more than a little joke in 'allo 'allo -style language... think Lt. Gruber :D :D
+1Look up the show on Youtube... the jokes do get stale after about one season, but even the repetition is good for a few laughs.
@MRpingouin Paste below link into your browser:
http://www.simpleplanes.com/a/AlXW7Q/SPPU-gun-pod
AG6 extends/retracts the gun... you can change that to whatever you like of course
@urbanculture simple: your boat has no keel. I added two fins at the back, and now the boat behaves quite decently.
+1cute "knochensäge"...
+1@ThisSnowyKid nope, you don't need any mods
It's a real pity I can upvote this only once. This plane is one of the few I actually save to HDD and keep around. 51 upvotes is not what I expected... a few more certainly would do no harm.
+3Can't wait until someone makes a Tuscany-mod, so at least I can ride this thing through the right scenery...
@NaONCo2HCH2 I'm going to respond just once -SP isn't the right place for this type of discussion... already sorry I brought it up. Can't help it -I'm allergic to gods, religions, hoaxes, phishing and scams in general. Sure, the WHO probably has lots of interesting info on secondary causes of death, but these say little about the root cause. Many of the conditions listed are lethal only because of poverty, which is usually a result of (civil) war and politicial issues, which in turn are almost always related to religion. People die of heart disease because there's no decent hostpital; there's no decent hospital because there's no money, there's no money because some asshole spends it all on a pointless war, and there's a pointless war because of some silly discussion about a point or comma in a "holy book". A book that nobody reads, by the way, since they're too poor to send their kids to school, hence none of them can actually read the holy books they're quoting.
+1@NaONCo2HCH2 Well, you thought wrong, then.
@Belugasub gods and religions are still the #1 cause of death worldwide -how so, respect??
@Mateuspilot It's only 1k parts, so that can't be the problem I guess
@Mateuspilot True, the missiles are not perfect. Don't forget this is a 1945 plane; there were no Sparrows or Sidewinders back then. Air-to-air missiles simply did not exist before stuff like the Ruhrstahl X-4... these things were wire-guided, and the plane's pilot had to steer them to their target with a kind of joystick. He had to keep a good visual at all times, and when either he or the target were going too fast, were manoeuvering, were too close or too far apart etc. it simply didn't work. In this build, these difficulties are emulated by a very narrow range (1.5 to 3.5 km) and the fact that you have to maintain the lock until the missile hits. And that's making it easy; I might have made missiles that effectively have to be guided by the pilot, but since that would mean switching cam views (and abandoning control of the plane for the duration) the current setup seemed like a good compromise.
+1Bottom line: no "fire-and-forget" with computer-controlled targeting in 1945, sorry.
hehe... this thing looks familiar :D not bad at all, considering you're on a phone or tablet. Quite good-looking for such a low part count! Pretty unstable if you fly it with keyboard controls, though -jumps all over the place. Probably better if you have a joystick (or yes, on a phone or tablet). Check your flaps, too; they don't seem to work.
@Mateuspilot same way you shoot all missiles in SP, I guess...
@FujiwaraAutoShop It's a cool rendering of the old "Wankel Wagon" -but let's face it; it wasn't very reliable, fast or stylish at any time. It's original, yes -but that about sums it up.
+1Bellissima!