The Air Anglia DC-3's will always be fond memories for me as I have flown on them many times, my first ever flight being in G-AMPZ from Norwich to Rotterdam. Having made several requests for numerous repaints recently, I didn't want to push my luck so I broke out my own paintbrushes to make my first ever repaints for a flight simulator model. The default DC-3 is not the easiest of aircraft to repaint I was told and it certainly gave me a few headaches. Whilst not up to the quality of our regular resident artists work I think I have captured the spirit of them and certainly they will satisfy my needs for a while. To a certain extent they are clones of a 'base' repaint with a slight variation for 'PZ which had the old Rig Air logo behind the cockpit window, and the later repaint of 'JV when it was converted to dedicated cargo operations.
Thanks to Garry Russell for pointers in the right direction and to Mark Beaumont for his 'white top' paint kits of the default DC-3.
NB. They are best viewed from the port side as the reg' gets mirrored on the starboard side. I wanted at least one view to be relatively 'accurate'.
Thanks Garry, not homemade logo's I'm afraid, I managed to dig out some old paperwork with the logo on and scanned and then cleaned/resized it. I also had a pic of 'JV in the 'cargo' paint. Interestingly, G-AOBN's windows are slightly different to the other three which 'throws' the paint schemes a bit. On the starboard side it appears to have one missing at the front end with an 'extra' smaller window to the rear where the galley would normally be. On the port side there are 7 windows rather than the normal eight.
If it was ex BEA converted to Pionair it will have more windows and the double rear door replaced by a pax door and hatch
This is why I dislike cut out windows so much as there are variations that make painting a particular livery difficult with the model putting windows where you don't want them.
Still you got there and there is no stopping you now
BTW the last Cambrian Dak livery is one that you should be able to paint as there is no reg on the tail
Kestrel is another as is British Westpoint.
Garry
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
There is currently a trial over there where people I trust not to upload porn and viruses can add things directly to the site without one of us having to activate them
If it works then i'll roll it out to a few more people in the next few weeks.
