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AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 28 Dec 2014, 01:31
by jamesmc
Just bored and drawing conceptual stuff = subject being the AC-130 gunship used from Vietnam until present.

Re: AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 05 Mar 2015, 18:47
by Steve
late to the party with this one

Modelling planes? go go go

Re: AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 06 Mar 2015, 06:34
by Dragneye
The AC-130 is a good place to start James. Deadly lil aircraft ain't it?

Re: AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 06 Mar 2015, 17:06
by jamesmc
Dragneye wrote:The AC-130 is a good place to start James. Deadly lil aircraft ain't it?
There are so many variations of the C-130. The H model gunships are the same air frames used in Vietnam and Afghanistan (just different outfitting armament, capabilities, etc).

One could spend a lifetime just modeling the variatons.

Re: AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 06 Mar 2015, 23:06
by Dragneye
That was my point; that airframe's been around for Ages and still useful/lethal.

Re: AC_130_Deviant

Posted: 08 Mar 2015, 00:38
by Steve
As a legacy frame it's starting to reach the end of its useful life, they're extending it by selling to civvies but before too long it'll become cost prohibitive

AC-130s certainly are becoming obselete fast, not as a concept but as an airframe. There was actually talk of replacing the 130s with the new C-27s for the job...