Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Guys,

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'.

Hope you like them











Rgds

John

Very well they have turned out too John


A nice job

The titles worked out well.did you make them up in the end?

Garry

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.

Rgds

John

Hi John

Glad you found something

There are a few variations of Dak windows.

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

I think it was 'PZ that was 1st ever a/c I flew in at Greeham Common in the 70's!

Hi,

If anyone wants them they are at Avsim now and should be at CBFS Files sometime soon.

fs9_dc3s_airanglia.zip

Rgds

John

Tks John.. you took the question right off the end of my fingers

ATB

DaveB :tab:

They're up at CBFiles now too.

http://classicbritishfiles.com/index.ph ... nfo&id=691

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.

Tks Rob.. that was easier than going to Avsim

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Just had a quick look and very nice they are. Pity about the reversed reg on the RH side of the fin. Nice one M$!! :curse:

ATB

DaveB :tab: