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Post by mikeblaze on May 22, 2020 16:19:30 GMT -5
Not everything needs a concept paint, DAL didn't have 747s after the early 70s until they got NWAs in the late 2000s, and they were in the current livery. Again, I am not jumping down the deep rabbit hole of concept/speculative fleets. I will tend to some of the smaller DAL airframes in the coming months, but I don't have access to some of the modern HD paint kits, and I really don't have the patience to make my own (the AIG 757s have about 700 layers in the Photoshop master, for example). I've made a few inquiries, but those painters who have made them are keeping them pretty close to home. Chris G.'s aircraft paints are phenomenal, and other than to re-do the FAIB/FSPX paints in 2048 and expand a few extra serials, I may not address the AIA or PAI aircraft that Chris painted, as they are just fine as-is.
I really do want to slow down painting a bit, and focus on P3D-native modeling work and conversions. I currently have Dee's DC-8s all converted to P3Dv4 format (except for Series 70s), basic conversions with no modeling or lua tweaks, but they render just fine in P3Dv4 and use available paints when converted to DDS. I want to convert the NAAI 707 (whole model family), but I also need to check permissions on that one before I put it on AVSIM.
My immediate painting plans in the next week are the AZA 767s (almost done), FJI 767s (200/300), and a couple of owed favors. After that, I think I will focus for the next period of time on the modeling side of my workshop, and see where that goes.
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Post by KingOfTheSkies on May 22, 2020 17:45:55 GMT -5
Oooooo ive been waiting for the air pacific 747s!!!!! Absolutely gorgeous repaints as usual mike!!
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Post by icaro275 on May 22, 2020 17:48:32 GMT -5
Not everything needs a concept paint, DAL didn't have 747s after the early 70s until they got NWAs in the late 2000s, and they were in the current livery. Again, I am not jumping down the deep rabbit hole of concept/speculative fleets. I will tend to some of the smaller DAL airframes in the coming months, but I don't have access to some of the modern HD paint kits, and I really don't have the patience to make my own (the AIG 757s have about 700 layers in the Photoshop master, for example). I've made a few inquiries, but those painters who have made them are keeping them pretty close to home. Chris G.'s aircraft paints are phenomenal, and other than to re-do the FAIB/FSPX paints in 2048 and expand a few extra serials, I may not address the AIA or PAI aircraft that Chris painted, as they are just fine as-is. I really do want to slow down painting a bit, and focus on P3D-native modeling work and conversions. I currently have Dee's DC-8s all converted to P3Dv4 format (except for Series 70s), basic conversions with no modeling or lua tweaks, but they render just fine in P3Dv4 and use available paints when converted to DDS. I want to convert the NAAI 707 (whole model family), but I also need to check permissions on that one before I put it on AVSIM. My immediate painting plans in the next week are the AZA 767s (almost done), FJI 767s (200/300), and a couple of owed favors. After that, I think I will focus for the next period of time on the modeling side of my workshop, and see where that goes. :{)
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Post by icaro275 on May 22, 2020 18:21:17 GMT -5
Really nice to know about the AZA 767s. I remember both Alitalia and Iberia landing at GRU in the late 90s. If, in the future, you have an opportunity to also include in your plans the Iberia 767-300 and 737-300 (this last one short operated in their fleet) it will fill an availability gap of such models. Lots of thanks.
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Post by noob21 on May 22, 2020 20:59:27 GMT -5
I certainly am curious what that modeling will produce, considering all of the nice military models you've done that I really need to get in my sim somehow.
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Post by 747sp on May 23, 2020 3:26:40 GMT -5
Loving the Air Pacific Mike, thanks
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Post by mikeblaze on May 23, 2020 13:50:06 GMT -5
Here are the FJI 767s.... :{)
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Post by chasensfo on May 23, 2020 17:14:19 GMT -5
Back on the 747 trail..... View AttachmentView AttachmentThere will be more fleet work for FJI (737, 767, maybe 744), but I wanted to get the hardest out of the way first. Odd thing about most of the 742s, they were leased one-at-a-time from year to year more or less, and they were all named "Island of Viti Levu". :{) Oh hell yeah!!! Been hoping somebody would make these guys! They had their first 737-700 flying by 1998, and it was also the first plane in the new white livery. The 737-300, DQ-FJD, wore Air Pacific colors on one side and Royal Tongan colors on the other. Interesting fleet for this little airline. I never did do the DHC-6 regional flights operated by a subsidiary, I can go back and do them I suppose.
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Post by mikeblaze on May 23, 2020 20:39:35 GMT -5
I have no quality photo sources for the 744s yet (the photo islands on the sides of the aircraft), but the search continues. The 737s will be short work, with another upgraded 732 paint package for the one lone FJI 732 I did a few years ago. I still owe a PAO 738 from that time period as well, and the double-sided FJI/Tongan 737 is most intriguing.... Also, I am digging deeper into the vault for FJI, and you will see some very weird and wonderful 70s liveries on some old-school props in the near future. That fish on the 80s tail has other uses.
In all of the new ga-ga over the FJI paints, nobody has had the moxie to say to me, "hey dumbass, you forgot the black nose on the DAL Atlanta 1996 logojet..." It will be fixed soon enough.
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Post by mikeblaze on May 24, 2020 15:40:13 GMT -5
Here is version 2 of my original FJI 732 paint, I expanded a little bit (by a factor of five)..... Single serial, five different years, and one year opf Solomon Airlines. :{)
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Post by KingOfTheSkies on May 24, 2020 15:51:47 GMT -5
wow these Air Pacific liveries are looking amazing!!!
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Post by mikeblaze on May 25, 2020 1:31:09 GMT -5
Here's the fun one that Chasen turned me on to, I love the split-livery aircraft such as this FJI/HRH mix-n-match.... :{)
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Post by chasensfo on May 25, 2020 5:22:44 GMT -5
Awesome!!! It operated for each airline a few days out of the week alternating, so as such, it is included in the Air Pacific plans with all flights represented and not the Royal Tongan flightplans.
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Post by mikeblaze on May 25, 2020 11:39:43 GMT -5
The 767s have been corrected from the screenshots, somewhere between 747 and 737 the red stripe became very red in my workshop, and not the deep magenta that FJI used, problem solved. In case anybody was wondering......
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Post by mikeblaze on May 26, 2020 18:15:39 GMT -5
Deep-game retro for FJI..... 1960s-1970s FJI (originally called Fiji Airways). CalClassic covered roughly 1955-1965 pretty well, and most of the work at RAIG covers 1971-2000, but an important forgotten time period was the 5-year block of 1966-1970. Most of the large world airlines were transitioning into mainly-or-all-jet fleets during this time (pre-747/DC-10/L-1011/Airbus), and not a lot of painting or FP has been done in this period. The civilian jet world was mostly dominated by Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Convair, BAC, Hawker Siddley, Sud-Aviation, and Vickers in the free world (of the time), and Ilyushin/Tupolev/Yakovlev in the East Bloc. DeHavilland and Dassault played a smaller role during the same time frame. I am not embarking on a late 60s painting crusade, but I have been picking off various airlines here and there as I paint them (ALK, HVN, SVA, FJI come to mind). The AAL Astrojet fleet is not complete through the late 60s, and so forth. Food for thought.... :{)
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