Plain, white and still ugly

[DaveB]

The title sums it up

Fed up with Bristow, Bond, Bond or Bristow.. I decided some weeks ago to give the Nemeth Super Puma L2 a new set of clothes.. and then forgot about it. This is as far as I got.. a base white which at some point, will probably end up with RAE red and blue added


I tried hard this morning to find an attractive, flattering angle for it but gave up.. there isn't one The original Puma could never be called a handsome looking airframe but I think AS employed a Russian design team for the stretched model! I may also throw some BHC paint on it and use it for the Penzance-Scillies run.. that is if I'm not overcome with nausea first
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DaveB

[J0hn]

Dave, if it's possible for you to upload that plain paint somewhere, I'd be very grateful, size permitting of course.

Don't know what you mean with the original Puma, though, I though they looked great - a bit cramped inside (spent many hours in them as a passenger)

[basys]

Hi Folks

Dave -
Gobsmacked that 5 years after release
they still haven't fixed/patched those navlights.

Or corrected its naming & physical confusion
between being an AS332 or an EC225.

AS332 4 blade main 5 blade tail
EC225 5 blade main 4 blade tail

More so that it ever got through beta in that state.

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Paul

[DaveB]

Hi JD

You can have the plain white paint matey. I'll dig the relevant bits out and upload it here

Paul.. in my experience.. ND don't update/fix navlights which, it has to be said, are diabolical for the most part. Its not so bad if they're external (not modelled).. a quick swap with something more suitable will suffice but for the others.. it's a trip into MCX then Notepad++ to change them . The model I've put that paint on is the AS332puma.. 4/4 (as opposed to 4/5)

EDIT: Here you go John.. WHITE
It's heftier than it should be at 38.2mb.. I've not walked my way through what I can and can't get away with yet so you have the lot for that paint. There's a cfg entry inside the zip too

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DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Amzing Dave...I've always thought of the Puma as one of, if not the best looking Helicopter of all time...the species is inheritantly ugly

[J0hn]

Thanks very much for that, Dave

I've been wanting to repaint my Super Pumas for years, but I don't think I got on too well with the texture sets when I looked - admittedly a long time ago now.

No worries about size for me now I'm on FTTC. Yesterday afternoon I downloaded the entire P3Dv2 and SDK (10.6GB) in just 42 minutes - and that at half speed!

By the way, Dave, have you tried 7zip? It's a free archiver and a small download. It works with all archive formats that I know of, but is much more efficient. That 38.3 MB file you uploaded got squashed to 28MB with it!

http://www.7-zip.org/

I've been using it for donkeys years - even preferred it over the payware one I bought. Highly recommended.

[DaveG]

Red & green nav lights are swapped...

[basys]

Hi Folks

Red & green nav lights are swapped...

Exactly my point,
and 4 years on from identifying.

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Paul

[DaveB]

I don't usually turn them on on this model as they're so bad! In fact, I don't fly this model much anyway despite the fact its not a bad FD. Will sort the navs IDC;)
edit:BTW Paul, that IS an old model, I've had it for years and rarely flown it.
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Dave:)

[DaveB]

In addition Paul(I'm on the pc now and not on the Windows phone) I see what you mean about ND not patching the lights now. The majority of folk complain because they're too darned big and nothing ever comes back from ND I've had a look at the model and they're listed incorrectly in the mdl itself. I have some suitable replacements (courtesy of DG who's nav lights adorn a great many of my models ) so I'll change them in the model. Can't do anything about the rotors though

EDIT: Here we go..

The only problem is.. there are another 7 mdls to change I had a look at the 3 patches available.. 2 of them are the same (despite being listed as patch 2 and patch 3.. patch 3 is an exe file version of patch 2 that you have to rename in order for it to work!!! ) and none of them address the navs being the wrong way round let alone their size. Pee poor in reality as these are NOT cheap models. CBA to download the full version again (in case they were changed without them telling anyone).. I'll chip away at doing the other 7 by hand

Oh.. and John.. I have 7zip but didn't use it for the upload in case you didn't have it!

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DaveB