First of all, good afternoon.
I dont usually come to these forums much, but after what I've read, I cannot go without speaking my mind, as the rest of
you have done so well, already...
I'm Rui Cristina, the guy responsible for the Caravelle master textures.Yes, its been a long time,...
after completing the Dreamfleet/Flight1 B727 Models textures, which took me about a year as well, I just had to go ...
I was tired, believe me...Paul Golding and the rest of the team understood that, not sure Paul Springthorpe did...
Then health problems, my mother had heart complications, and also fell, broke her left arm, been in bed, etc,...so 2006 was a year I dont want to remember anyway....but why am I saying all this!?
You guys dont even know me,...maybe some of you know my work, in the FS community, ...I started working with Barry Blaisdell in the Twin Otter, and his Canadairs...then I joined Dave McQueen and his Stratocruisers, then came Project Freeware, where I learned a lot from those guys,...bless them !
...did a few repaints on David Maltbys gorgeous TRIDENT, sadly he never liked my metal textures on his Trident....
Done some metal on the Viscounts and Vanguards by Rick Piper, hi Rick !
Enjoyed repainting in an almost photoreal way that gorgeous Dragon Rapide in BEA
colours too!
Then DreamFleet / Flight1 Boeing 727 drained me....never had done something so detailed.....
the Caravelle was put on hold....the thing is, AFG has been there for me, ALWAYS, and I cannot thank them enough, Hakon, Esa, Ari and Ziggy, for even responding my emails and cheering me up....after all, theres a real life going pararell did you know that!?:)
The Caravelle....she is coming along pretty well, thank you, the interest is back for a few weeks now, since Ziggy started doing his King Air wonderfull textures....he got me going ...
But sadly its those remarks that even makes me think why do I bother!?
Here she is, a highly detailed FS model, for free( I had not mention it yet had I !? ) and still, some of you go complaining, why
has the King Air come out first, etc, etc!?
(which is also another HQ freeware model by the way!)
This type does very little to 'light my fire', if I want a dull twin, the default Beach is still there
thats the difference, this is NOT one DULL Twin...if you have ever tried Esas models, like the YS11, you wouldnt have said that in the first place.
If theres something AFG does well, thats FS models, and we like to keep the "dull" aspect out.
Vegas Express???
He would have been better doing Cherry Patch Air
Great, email me some detailed pictures of that particular bird, and it shall be done.Vegas Express is not real, just something I did for fun and that has been accepted to go on the package...
Thing is, Ziggy is a Speedy Painter....
he does it well, and fast,...still has not told me how he does it...
not this old school turtle, (me!) ....I go for every detail, here and there, rivets , rivets and more rivets.,...check everything again and again,.. pixelman, thats me ...
they've called me a perfectionist...I AM. a slow one too....
I have over 100 layers in my Caravelle master textures template....I keep going back to my books, and check every picture I can, for more details I have passed by,...and I include them there....its not just a FS model, its a piece of FS History here, a well researched one too, If I may say so....
these past few days I have been "merging" some of those layers, in order to release a paintkit, YES, we're releasing one,...never been very keen on that stuff, but I'll do it,...
I guess I'm getting old, thats all....
I hope that among you, there'll be someone who will truly appreciate the amount of time ( hundreds and hundreds of hours by the way !) spent on this bird.
I am happy to realize I will have left something this good to the FS community, in cooperation with AFGs good folks, Esa and Hakon who have always believed in me and my work...
I dont think theres much more to say now,...I'm back to the model, now, Royal Air Maroc next.....
have a good life people !
rui cristina / AFG
ps.......testing,1,2,3...testing....nope, it doesnt work for me,...I cannot post agorgeous1280x1024 shot of that RAM Caravelle,...
oh well, here:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0234300802/carIII.jpg
) and if you post an image that is 1024 x 768 it means lots of left to right scrolling for them to see it.