The MILVIZ / Blackbird sub-range Shrike has announced their F=86 will release on 3oth March for US$19.95
Exclusive: Shrike Simulations F-86 Sabre Coming Soon, Trailer Released - FSElite
The MILVIZ / Blackbird sub-range Shrike has announced their F=86 will release on 3oth March for US$19.95
Exclusive: Shrike Simulations F-86 Sabre Coming Soon, Trailer Released - FSElite
I'm sure it will be a great airplane. Hopefully they will review and correct the provided paint jobs before release. Lots of errors visible even in the quick clips in the trailer.
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Oh dear and I went to bed feeling so pleased and excited about this Sabre release last night.....!!
We hope...it's a bargain price, which may be indicative of the target audience...but hopeful for this one.Followed by an update of corrections.
Have previous Shrike releases been updated?
Will be interesting to compare with Ryan's imported Sabre...
The Freeware one is very nice, if you don't mined un-clickable cockpit, which is not an issue for me:
Milviz F-86 Sabre - Full Aircraft (Native Conversion) for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS
According to screenshots of the imported F-86 (don't have it myself) atleast the main- and various other panels and instrument bezels are black, which is what they are supposed to be. Not some more or less 'unindentified' brownish/greyish colour like can be seen in the Shrike F-86 promo video... What's up with that ??....
Modelingwise the cockpit looks fantastic but i have never seen a photo of an F-86 cockpit in 'brownish/greyish' colour. Did the Shrike painting department run out of black colour ??.... ( maybe it has to do with a paint technique that automatically adds some kind of 'weathering' to give it all a heavely used look...? If that's the case i'd fumble around with the slider a bit more...)
F-86 afficionados (like myself) know but this is what a common F-86 cockpit looks like :
Not anything like this :
Later lighter panels and surroundings appeared, very light greyish/blue or even white in Sabres still flying today but gauge bezels always are black.
Very nice to see Shrike going the extra mile by adding a period correct pilot figure. However not entirely correct ( why not.... it's not that difficult....) they have their dashing Sabre pilot wear a WWII oxygen mask ( USAAF A-14 developed by the Ohio Chemical Manufacturing Co.) which was quickly replaced after the war by the USAF MS-22001. Certainly THE O2 mask worn by Sabre drivers during the Korean conflict.
As a purist i say not a biggy but i won't be flying this F-86 if the cockpit remains in this very unusual brownish/greyish state... blehh
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