What the heck is all that cross-hatching in the mid fuselage?
It's on everyone's template but I dont see it any where else.
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Workin' on the G4M1 Betty a bit ...
What the heck is all that cross-hatching in the mid fuselage?
It's on everyone's template but I dont see it any where else.
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What the heck is all that cross-hatching in the mid fuselage?
It's on everyone's template but I dont see it any where else.
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Lovely, Stu! 
Of what cross-hatching you´re talking about, m8?
Of what cross-hatching you´re talking about, m8?
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Right ahead of the meatball on the fuselage; if you look on the default void you'll see it better. It looks like Frankenstein stitching.
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Now, I see what you meant ... I presume the Japanese aircraft constructors had to sew the tail to the rest of the plane ... who knows? 
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Reason: My English sucked again ... had to correct a typo ...
Reason: My English sucked again ... had to correct a typo ...
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Ah the Japanese, A race of small people with little houses and small factories.
They probably had to build the thing in two parts and put it together just before a mission
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They probably had to build the thing in two parts and put it together just before a mission
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With a zip ?:FI:Wardog wrote:Ah the Japanese, A race of small people with little houses and small factories.
They probably had to build the thing in two parts and put it together just before a mission
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Actually, many aircraft were assembled in just that manner. The F-86 Sabre comes to mind.
Often aircraft were built in a modular fashion to spread the construction out among several contractors. This accomplished a couple three things:
All the eggs weren't in one basket, so to speak, keeping destruction of one factory from stopping production;
Production increased by allowing a work force to concentrate on one module rather than a complete plane;
Replacement of seriously damaged areas was simplified greatly, allowing a plne faster return to service.
Additionally, lack of some resources required certain areas of the plane to be made of other materials and it was simpler to collect those materials locally instead of long distance shipping.
I imagine the UPS and FeEx fees were exhorbitant.
Often aircraft were built in a modular fashion to spread the construction out among several contractors. This accomplished a couple three things:
All the eggs weren't in one basket, so to speak, keeping destruction of one factory from stopping production;
Production increased by allowing a work force to concentrate on one module rather than a complete plane;
Replacement of seriously damaged areas was simplified greatly, allowing a plne faster return to service.
Additionally, lack of some resources required certain areas of the plane to be made of other materials and it was simpler to collect those materials locally instead of long distance shipping.
I imagine the UPS and FeEx fees were exhorbitant.
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Yes Dan, I see, I see ...
that explains the problem I had when I first started skinning this thing.
Falnoc
that explains the problem I had when I first started skinning this thing.
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Falcon - you're crazy
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"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
- The history of Paul Revere's midnight ride, by Sarah Palin.