Gremlin's A-10

[Gremlin77]

No no, it's faced to the garden. Just thinking how funny it would be facing to the street......Sure, every two days some policeman in friendly green dresses would stand in front of my door asking dumb questions.....Do you have a permission for that....Does it still have the cannon installed......Are there any nuclear bombs on board.......have you got paperwork about disposure of the wings..... Can you begin the third world war with this jet

 

And after about 2 month there will arrive the friendly men with the white jacket offering me a room in the urban psychatry paying no rent......

 

I wondered that no one of the public order office came when the cockpit hang on the mobile crane so everybody could see it....I had some luck I think

 

Hip hip horray on German bureaucracy!!!!!!!!!!

Edited March 23, 2013 by Gremlin77

[BHawthorne]

No no, it's faced to the garden. Just thinking how funny it would be facing to the street......Sure, every two days some policeman in friendly green dresses would stand in front of my door asking dumb questions.....Do you have a permission for that....Does it still have the cannon installed......Are there any nuclear bombs on board.......have you got paperwork about disposure of the wings..... Can you begin the third world war with this jet

 

And after about 2 month there will arrive the friendly men with the white jacket offering me a room in the urban psychatry paying no rent......

 

I wondered that no one of the public order office came when the cockpit hang on the mobile crane so everybody could see it....I had some luck I think

 

Hip hip horray on German bureaucracy!!!!!!!!!!

 

Reminds me of a funny story of when I first got my F-84F. It was on the side of the house and the cops would roll by daily. Finally one of them was social enough to walk up and start talking. They weren't concerned over the aircraft -- his father used to fly one of them in the 50's. If anything they kept a close watch of it because they didn't want anyone messing with it. For a few weeks last year I was restoring the exterior of it in the front driveway. The neighborhood kids loved it and would come by in the evenings and just watch.

Edited March 23, 2013 by BHawthorne

[hegykc]

Are there any nuclear bombs on board.......

 

:megalol:

 

"Well, funny story: I actually got two of them back in Russia, for a price of a used bmw."

 

That'll get those white suits off you. Though you may expect a visit from the black suits department:D

[Gremlin77]

Started up with the curved screen this morning. On the vertical stanchions I'll fix a curved steel tube with 3/4'' on top and bottom which has the exact diameter of 9 meters. (I know a steel worker with a curving machine) Between these two tubes the projection screen will be spanned using rubber ropes every 20 cm on all four sides. Hope this will give me a nice curved screen without any wrinkles.

 

 

[Hypo]

Hi Gremlin

 

Forgive my ignorance; I am new to DCS. Can you point me to the right place to get the Helios software you mention? I've seen it mentioned in a few post and would like to check it out.

 

TIA

Edited March 24, 2013 by Hypo

[Gremlin77]

sure, it is a software form Gadroc. His Homepage is www.gadrocsworkshop.com. There you can download it. Search the Forum for manual to set it up. Great piece of software. You can get awesome results!

 

And don't forget to donate for Gadroc!!!!

[Hypo]

Thanks, Gremlin77.

 

You've got a great cockpit going on there:)

[Gremlin77]

Started to hang up the projection surface. For trying if the hole sh.. will work, I use a lorry cover that costs only 4€ / square meter and not a beamer projection surface at about 30 €. Have to wait for the remaining PVC tubes for the frame to span the hole thing. Then we'll see if the wrinkles from posting the coverwill disappear and if projection will look as good as I wish it should.

 

Tomorrow we'll know more..:cry: now I have to cool my arms .... fitting the eyelets was hell.....

[Aries]

Woow... hope wrinkles will be invisible in projector light... this is awesome!!! :thumbup:

[Deadman]

For that large of a screen am the fact you have 100x100mm sport all ready built in place. I would install a regular wood frame and cover it with 6 mm Gypsum Boards or thinner if possible then paint it with http://www.gooscreen.com/

no hassles no wrinkles :thumbup:

[BIGNEWY]

I have used 3mm 8'x4' sheets of foamex matt PVC board for my projector setup as it is flexible enough to bend and gives a perfect finish.

 

LINK

 

I am enjoying watching your build progress, keep up the good work :)

[Gremlin77]

Thanks for the tips. At first I also wanted to go the plate way, but I was wondering if the joints can be made without getting cracks over the time. I like the idea with the foam plates. Will take a look at the local shops

[Deadman]

did you use any thing on the edged of the touching sheets how did you attach it to your support frame?

@ Gremlin I am sorry but what do you mean but this"I was wondering if the joints can be made without getting cracks over the time"

are you talking about with the Gyps board?

Edited March 27, 2013 by Deadman

[Gremlin77]

I use a kind of rubber rope like installed in bicycle expanders but stronger. These go through the eyelets of the cover and over the PVC tube. The tube is fittet on every vertical wood with a special clamp. The advantage is, that the tube makes a perfect circle form.

 

With "cracks" I meant that you have to cover the space between the plates with some kind of cast what can get cracks over the time. The other problem I saw was, that if you wand a circle form with plates, your hole support frame has to have this perfect form, too. Didn't have an idea how to realise this the easy way in this dimension.

 

BTW, the picture is not the end result, the sheet is not spanned at all. Missing tubes at sides and bottom....

[Gremlin77]

Damn, this thing really works. Never had in mind it would be such a great feeling with the curved screen. Hope you can see it on the pics as good as it is reality!!

 

I'm very happy with my solution. And this is just the two projector solution, what would it look like with three.

 

As you can see have to make some warping adjustments on right side and purchase the registered program from Flight elise Imersive Desktop. Works great with nearly no fps loss.

 

YES I AM HAPPY:lol:

 

 

[Kubi]

Wow, that looks just great!

Congrats to this great Project.

[Deadman]

:thumbup:

[Hansolo]

Whoah that is great Gremlin :thumbup:

[Aries]

I suppose the software is for aligning projectors... isn't there some free solution?

 

...will you give an extra reflective coat to that surface?

 

I played only with one projector screen and the immersion skyrockets... can you describe the feeling in a real cockpit with such a wide screen?

[Gremlin77]

immersive was the only software I found working good with DCS and multiple Displays warped and not warped on one PC. Price is with 100€ acceptable I think regarding the result.

 

Shouldn't be able to coat the cover. It's a kind of plastic, not sticky enough for additional paint.

 

And thanks guys for the nice comments!

 

Hopefully tomorrow I can post pics with right alignment and cockpit displays running...

[whartsell]

Gremlin,

I have been working on your screen exporter utility. I have it mostly re-factored and will have it ready for initial release either Friday or Monday.

[Cali]

Talk about crazy, you sir take the cake.......Nice job, it looks great!

[Gremlin77]

whartsell these are really good news. Hope this prog will help many builders to make setups similar to FSX setups with dividing view rendering and interfacing/instruments.

Perhaps in future ED will make it possible to to render the views on several machines. this would be the real dream..

 

Happy, that we could do this small step as a team. Looking forward for the result. If you like, we can put the final prog on my download page, and if someone likes to donate, we can share.

[Gremlin77]

Some pics with cockpit running.

 

Before I will reinstall the ejection seat, have to do the cabeling of all the switches and panels. This will be lot of work to to and will make me busy the next weeks.

 

 

[Gremlin77]

made a short video of projection. Sorry for bad video quality, just used photo camera.