A silly little project that I'm working on... a late 1960's era Cessna T-37B trainer to battle with WWI Wings of Glory.
The answer to your first question is... YES, marijuana is legal in Colorado. Here is why I've rounded up a Shapeways T-37 and a bunch of decals...
In a few weeks, I’m traveling to my parent’s house for a reunion. I plan on introducing my father to Wings of Glory. He is a retired Air Force pilot and I found the training aircraft in which he solo’ed. It is a Cessna T-37, serial number 14745. I thought it would be fun if he could play a T-37 in the game, so I had Shapeways make one in 1/144.
This is serial number 14745 in 1967, fresh from the factory:
The T-37 has a length of 29 ft and a wingspan of 32 ft, so it is very similar in size to a WWI large fighter or small 2 seater. After that things get a little silly…The performance is wildly different, but max speed with gear down was 150 mph, so the Shapeways model has the gear down. The trainer has no weapons, but The T-37C model even had armament in one .308 cal machine gun in the nose.
Here is what I've painted up. Decals not yet applied, but gloss coat is dry enough now. It has a gimbal ball/ring magnet installed.Fortunately, the plane is just white with a bit of black glare paint in front of the cockpit, so that is about as easy as it gets.
I thought I would play it with an M maneuver deck, like the Sopwith Snipe uses. I’ll probably fly a Fokker D.VII against it, so that will be fair enough. I'll go with the same M, A, 16 stats that the Snipe uses. The Albatros in the pic is just for reference... like Tim, I measure everything in Alabtrossiness, "Just go about 100 Albatros lengths down the road and hang a left".
Now all I need is a plane card. Anyone? I have weak graphics skills. But it would look something like this:
The description would simply be:
Cessna T-37B “Tweet”
Lt. Col. Richard Scharf
United Sates Air Force
I've uploaded these graphics into one of my profile photo albums. Contact me if you're game. I'm going to send the pre-eminent plane card master, Mike, a PM to see what he thinks.
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