Show Off The Aircraft, Jet,Prop,Cargo,Passenger,Glider,Fighter etc That You Put Loads of Time Into Getting Just Right.

[Piatzin]

Well since my last post I've tweaked the dragonfly punks (name pending) and recorded a video with them. While editing I found a pretty cool shot. Haven't cleaned it up yet but it showcases the plane pretty nicely (play with sound):

 

Edited May 3, 2022 by Earthlinger

[Sidestrafe2462]

1 hour ago, Earthlinger said:

recorded a video with them

Hella camera shake there, same boats you showed me as targets?

[Piatzin]

57 minutes ago, Sidestrafe2462 said:

Hella camera shake there, same boats you showed me as targets?

Yeah, the shaking is pretty light in real time, but at X3 speed it gets all over the place

Nah these are old Axon boats. I'm not sure the planes would be able to get so close if they were going up against lasers and missiles. In the video I shot the whole defending fleet had nothing but dakka spam (and with barrage set to true lol).

Well, and a single laser.

[adsii1970]

From an older KSP game (1.3.0) and is the game I most often play. This was a patrol craft I put together and still use in the game.

And the other one that took a while to master? Yeah, going to share that one, too. Sure, it's a space shuttle and it took me forever to get things to work just right. As always, I probably over-engineered things (and over-thought things, too). But it did fly, and I still use it to ferry cargo and passengers to my LKO space station. It's also in my 1.3.0 version of the game.

 

 

[Piatzin]

This thread is oddly inactive.

I have made a prototype VTOL:

It can also dock to a carrier to refuel. At least in theory. I haven't tried yet.

Edited May 11, 2022 by Earthlinger

[ColdJ]

21 hours ago, Earthlinger said:

This thread is oddly inactive.

When I started it I hadn't realised there was another very much like it. Don't know if it is still going. I just come here when people post, to see their hard work.

[Piatzin]

3 hours ago, ColdJ said:

Don't know if it is still going

Ah it'll chug along. In any case here's another plane:

Carrier-compatible VTOL, 20k ΔV altogether, though this is in reality less as some liquid fuel has to be kept aside for the aerospikes. The intended operating procedure is to have them splash down into the water, then sidle up to the carrier deck and step up onto it with the aerospikes.

It's a bit difficult to get them to align properly, but it's manageable.

The carrier in the picture is a work in progress; I might make it a little bit wider so that the planes have more elbow room. And of course the superstructure is missing (as is hopefully evident).

[Sidestrafe2462]

Have another Mosquito, a historically accurate Swordfish, and a mildly pixel dropped shot of some B25s and an actually historically accurate Swordfish getting their teeth kicked in by B17s offscreen

[Piatzin]

4 hours ago, Sidestrafe2462 said:

historically accurate

With...Sidewinders?

[Sidestrafe2462]

On 5/12/2022 at 1:43 AM, Earthlinger said:

With...Sidewinders?

And two nukes!

oddly enough when I tried to argue that this was in fact a real loadout used by the squadron of Swordfishes that attacked Bismarck to provide air cover and that I should be allowed to submit this for competition I was denied, the injustice!

[Piatzin]

1 hour ago, Sidestrafe2462 said:

oddly enough when I tried to argue that this was in fact a real loadout used by the squadron of Swordfishes that attacked Bismarck to provide air cover and that I should be allowed to submit this for competition I was denied, the injustice!

Buncha paid-off judges, those, it must have been rigged

[ColdJ]

[ThatBattleCow]

Jeb tentatively stands in front of his rocket plane, ready to make him the first Kerbal in space, after being escorted by KSAF officers to the KSC runway.

[Piatzin]

On 8/7/2022 at 6:22 PM, ThatBattleCow said:

Jeb tentatively stands in front of his rocket plane, ready to make him the first Kerbal in space, after being escorted by KSAF officers to the KSC runway.

Landing gear!

Edited August 9, 2022 by Earthlinger

[Piatzin]

I made some flying cannons. They're great fat buggers but surprisingly maneuverable.

They were supposed to be the bane of navy craft, but unfortunately the AI settings don't provide enough options to program them right :'(

Also they tend to pitch into the water while maneuvering. I had six against one boat and all six overestimated their ability to pull up and went splash.

Edited August 11, 2022 by Piatzin

[Joseph Kerman]

Blackbird, fly!

[ColdJ]

Ooooh, me too.

[Sidestrafe2462]

tanks in field

BVR duel

Antishipping strike, inbound

Hits scored

Combined Fleet

heavy cruiser sinking fast

Light cruiser, lost in action

Edited November 24, 2022 by Sidestrafe2462

[Ariel Kerman]

My F-16 Block "X"












And my Su-57 "Fella"






 

Spoiler

Mods used:

- BDArmory  (for weapons and missiles)
- Airplane Plus  (for engines and some intakes)
- Nice MK2 Bodies  (For real stealth cockpits, radars, and bombays)
- OPT Space Planes  (for wings)
- QuizTech Aero Pack Continued (for some extra mk fuel tanks)
- MK2 Expansion  (for extra mk2 tanks, intakes and structurals)
- All its dependencies...

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by Ariel Kerman

[Mignear]

I very rarely build heavy aircraft and this was my first properly designed build that wasn't just parts placed together haphazardly

A modification of that airliner led to a larger version later on.

 

[Sidestrafe2462]

[Piatzin]

I remade my flying cannon prototypes (from a previous post halfway up this page) as I'm coming back from a hiatus and couldn't remember how the heck I built them. The good news is that the remake came out several times more maneuverable. The bad news is they somehow ended up at 75 parts instead of 65, and I can account for like four extra parts, but there's apparently some mystery objects somewhere that are eating up the rest. It might be struts. I can't remember if the original prototype had struts (I haven't re-downloaded it yet).

Anyways, the remake:

These things are supposed to inhabit a very particular niche, but I haven't figured out how to properly configure the AI pilots yet. See the thing is that nowadays a BDA+ navy ship will have three things: first, lasers, to completely and utterly negate missiles and fast attack craft; second, very powerful, part-effective armor; and third, large guns to counter that same armor on enemy ships.

The craft I make are all white and unarmored. The aesthetic looks robotic and futuristic to my eyes, and I don't want to change it, but it leaves me in a sticky spot. My boats with big guns can't hit on the same level as armored ships, and my smaller, fast attack craft get skewered by lasers. Even if I stay out of laser range and restrict combat to punching it out long range with cannons, my boats will crumble faster because, again, they have no armor.

So I need to stay out of laser range and be much, much harder to hit with heavy guns. But navy ships can only get so small. To be that elusive, they'd need to like, fly or – ohhhh.

A large plane with big cannons that can stay out of laser range fits the bill exactly. Only issue is the AI doesn't want to stay out of laser range, it's very enthusiastic and it's terrible for my strategy lol.

Currently I haven't put lasers on these things, but they have space up top for one, or a missile turret. That being said, MK2 plane parts are tough and it can take as many as five missiles to knock out the planes. I'd also like to configure the AI so that it ignores missiles, because all the squiggly evasive maneuvers aren't really necessary if it can shrug off a few hits, but I'm still working on that.

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Piatzin

[Sidestrafe2462]

 

Dropships, Battlemechs, and a little bit of Ork technology.

[ColdJ]

On 2/7/2023 at 7:09 AM, Sidestrafe2462 said:

Dropships, Battlemechs, and a little bit of Ork technology.

Very Cool.

[Sidestrafe2462]

Video this time.