Classic British Flight Sim

Garry Russell wrote:The thing that strikes me about the top pic of those three is the intake and undercarriage just do not match the rest of the paint .

Or the tail pipe for that matter. I don't recall ever seeing a Greek A-7 with a yellow tail pipe. Maybe on the USN examples, which are the default paints with that IRIS Corsair - probably why it's been kept yellow.

ianhind wrote:

you can't beat a 100% hand drawn texture,

Try doing the Thomas Cook tail

Like this?



The fuse textures are the ones that come from Posky, with a couple hours work of my own on the fin.

If I was doing this as a full repaint, I'd probably replace the logo with a photo one, because my copy is a bit naff.

My Thomas Cook version was my photos of the tail but with the globe scanned from a brochure and resized since it was distorted in the photo.

So similar idea.

heh, reverse of my way of doing it :think:

The textures that came from POSKY had a hand drawn fuse, and photo tail, which looked odd for a start! The tail had some obvious shine from the sun, static on the textures, which looks strange when your flying about, especially in dusk, dawn, night, in bad weather, when facing awy from the sun... etc.. etc...??!!

Andy

Now I understand what you meant.

But if that globe was freehand by you - pretty good effort. I would definitely have looked for a ready made source.

But then most of my work is locked away here for my own use and doesn't have to stand too much scrutiny.

Ian

The logo is my own work (except for the text, which I nabbed from a copy of the logo on the web to save searching for the font, or actually drawing the letters!!) , at a quick glance it would pass I guess, but its not really good enough for a repaint.

Thats the only time I would really use an actual photo in a repaint, where a logo would be too time consuming to draw by hand. And it would just be the logo, not the entire fin.