falcon409

This is not one of A.F.Scrubs best. . .not even close. Poor texturing, most textures don't match at all. The VC panel is borrowed from Milton Shupes Aero Commanders and not textured very well to boot. He has added a portion of the pilots seat for V2 but not all, yet the eyepoint still has the pilot sitting in the first row of seats aft of the pilots position. I adjusted the eyepoint to move the view forward to where it should be and found no reason that it couldn't have been done better the first time. I was hoping this version had fixed some of the irregularities I found in the first one, but it is not any better really. Even the nose wheel is missing the entire strut assy. I have a nose wheel tire but nothing attaching it to the airplane. Overall, it just appears that this project was rushed, which is a shame because the developer has done some very nice models in the past. . . .however this is not one of them.

Actually it's the "nose wheel". There is no "wheel" showing, only the tire. Also, unless I'm completely blind, there is no pilot seat. When you load into the VC you are actually sitting in the first row of passenger seats. The Co-Pilot is modeled, but not the pilot. This would be a nice plane to fly and on the side do some improvements to the texturing and also improve on the panel lines and external textures, but I have now downloaded 3 or 4 of this persons airplanes and while they are flyable, they show a lack quality control. Things wrong with texturing, modeling, missing sections in the aircraft.cfg file and so on that should be obvious and should be caught and corrected before releasing.

I would be interested to know why this was done? Was the original FDE poorly done and not representative of the actual aircraft or was it done to "beef up" the overall performance of the airplane to match the expectations of the person who posted it? I've never heard of him (not that it means anything), but I know Dave Garwood has produced many excellent airplanes over the years and my interest is peaked

Overall a nice airplane. There are inconsistencies/conflicting poly's in a few areas that should have been corrected before release as they are very obvious. Also, the texture mapping, especially in the interior is not the best. . .the left side (interior walls) doesn't match the right side. Finally there are two placeholders that have no textures and so produce a solid black rectangle rather than matching the interior (one is visible in the pic above where the compass is located and the other, which I never found at all, was for the two fuel gauges). I ended up moving them to an area on the main gauge panel.

 

Scrub produces nice airplanes that are certainly flyable, and could be far better if these modeling and texture glitches could be corrected before release.

Actually a few other sections missing (Electrical, Radio). Needed adjustments to engine specs, contact points, beacon/strobe lights (no Nav Lights). Normally wouldn't bother and just delete it, but the airplane is a fun flyer and so I felt it was worth staying with it to get everything right.

P-26 carried an internal fuel load of 88gals. It could also be fitted with external tanks (2) carrying 43gals. ea.

Noticed that too. I took the center tank info from Milton's Bearcat and dropped it in. Seems to work just fine. I'll have to look at the specs for the Peashooter and adjust if necessary.

An interesting design. After looking at their website to verify the pilots position, even on the prototype the pilot seems to sit back too far to interact easily with the displays. Looks cool but doesn't seem functional at all. As for the model, the pilot position is easily twice as far back as the actual plane, which is really saying something. For that reason I did not keep the model.

Excellent job John. Great to have another destination along the upper East Coast.

Excellent job John. Great to have another destination along the upper East Coast.

Just to be clear, my assumption was that Erwin had done this model from scratch since the description reads as though it is his model, but after looking over the original aircraft config file it is actually a model done several years ago by another modeler and all Erwin has done is enhance it somewhat. However my original assessment stands. . .the model needs to redone to correct the poorly modeled intake and the geometry and FDE don't really even match the aircraft.

A lot wrong with the FDE and the Geometry, not to mention the modeling of the intake which is not at all like the RW aircraft. I am not a modeler and I don't normally criticize any model, especially freeware since I have no abilities in that area. However when something is released, there is an expectation that the person who did the model has done his homework in all areas and it does not appear to be the case with the HA-200. A complete rework is in order.