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Eswube, it's a very good question, and I think it also stems from Planebucket, where the majority of SB scale aircraft have gear up. I personally prefer the "in-flight" look, and that's what I've always drawn, or done, since my days making model aircraft.

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I think it just has something to do with the general laziness of the FD scale and style, where only one view of the plane is shown (as opposed to a traditional and correct three-view drawing - front, elevation, and plan). I'm guilty of this myself but I view it as a pretty serious shortcoming of the style in general.

This could also be said for Shipbucket drawings, as most warship profiles include a plan view (something that until recently not a lot of SB drawings have had).

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I can only speak for myself. The main reason for not drawing the landing gears was that the planes were taildragger (Il-2, Messerschmidt) another could be, that the sample had no gears. It was never lazyness. If it was possible I drew the landinggears (nearly all of my helicopters, exept the NH-90, the Pilatus, the L39, etc.) I did not draw the left side on the other hand mostly of laziness and rules (even I draw of some vehicles left sides (BTR80, Pandur, Mil Mi-24), but never published it, because I think it is against the rules). But I must say that I like caddaric79s drawings.

its not about lazyness, but about what the style is all about.
SB has always been sideway linedrawing style, to be presented in uniform sheets, and thats how it has evolped into FD scale as well. Another factor that FD scale has inherited from the SB is the position, since the waterline has always been the axis of SB scale drawings position, naturally it translates into drawing planes horizontally around their longitude view, or "in the air" view... but it could be seen as their floating position as well, (with the exception that in FD scale the positioning factor on the sheets is the bottom of the object, compared to waterline in SB)

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It's still lazy.

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I look forward to your full alaska drawing then colo

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It's in the works...

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You make me very happy saying that.

Okay then, splitting the topic.

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Yep... I had wanted to do a plan, forward, and rear view of Alaska but had just lost steam by the time I had the P&S elevation views done. Who knows when the full thing will arrive as I have been extremely busy at work but we'll see...

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