Strike Eagle/ Super Hornet kitbash

[NARSES2]

Superb sir

[tanktastic43]

Love it! 

tt43.

[Old Wombat]

Actually, the more I look at this creation the more I would like to see one in real life, coz I think it would be a brilliant real-world F/A fighter!

[Eddie M.]

Thank you all very much! I really appreciate the kind words concerning this build!!

[jsport]

Yes sir, that is a superb build. 

[Ed S]

Looks good Eddie. It really looks designed that way and not cobbled together like most "frankenfighters".  Well done.



Ed

[Scooterman]

Mudbug!  HA!  LOVE IT! 
Can't wait to see this one in person Eddie!

[chrisonord]

That looks so right Eddie, it really does. The build is flawless and as others have said it will certainly leave a few heads scratched raw.
Chris.

[KeiichiRX7]

Not plastic, but with Eddie's permission a few friends and i have been working on a model of the Mudbug for YS flight simulation system.  We are working with it under the project name "F/A-24 Buzzard" as a tri-services fighter.  We call it the buzzard because it looks like a big mean mature old cuss.


Some revisions made along the way include addition of Strike eagle conformals because they turned out to be a drop on fit, the rear landing gear have been moved aft by 60cm to alleviate tail strike issues when landing on carriers.  We added EO pods and antennas to give it a look of a technologically mature system

Still waiting on final paint, but i think ive got weapons fully integrated for the "strike" variant.  some small changes to be made for a variant without conformals, and a couple different conformal variants, including a recon variant.

As with before Body by bombcat, addons and animation by me, and hopefully we will have a couple finished versions up for free download soon.
Weapons by Iceman, SDB by Dragon029.  We can all be found over at YSFHQ.com

[Eddie M.]

Outstanding Gents! Looks very good so far...

[KeiichiRX7]

Just finished figuring out the fuel capacities... Carries 8 tons of fuel internally, 10 and a half with the conformals on.  with the F-15 style variable intake ramps it loses a lot of drag that the hornet had.  and due to the eagle style weapons carriage, it can carry lots of fuel AND a devastating number of weapons.  Your concept is amazing, and thats why we just had to build one.

Sadly i cannot set the sim up to simulate the full range of loading possibilities, because we lack the ability to create conditional hardpoints, or hardpoint specific models.  I could model them but they would be fixed configurations, unlike the present set up which is variable.  Those are actually pairs of JDAM under the wings, but in order to accomodate them on the body as well i had to model them as single bombs instead of MER's.  Which is fine, because it's actually common for the JDAM to be carried singly. Sadly they are also just dumb bombs dressed up fancy.  but hopefully we can talk the developer into giving us some support for more configuration options.  Thinking about swapping the mavericks out for pallets of brimstones.

[John Howling Mouse]

This is (truly) what I call "ridiculously good" Eddie.  Yowza!  Burning a whole on my screen, she's so hot.  Way to go.  This is an enormous triumph for you.  What a beauty.  Okay...heading out to play with my mud-pies, as BdaB would say!   

[ysi_maniac]

Just One of the BEST!

[KeiichiRX7]

i suppose this calls for an image of the YF-115 and MudBug together

[McColm]

Wow, great work.
Got to start building 1/48 scale models