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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 6, 2020 21:43:03 GMT -5
That photo might work. Eventually, they covered the entire left side of the aircraft with the drawings, so I might fudge a little bit and replicate basic shapes here and there. The aircraft is a celebration of Nelson Mandela's Children's Fund foundation, and I have a solid graphic of that logo which is on the forward left window area in the vicinity of the L1 door. This will be one of those that will be in the spirit of the exercise rather than being completely true to life.
Thanks for the find, Chasen.
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Post by KingOfTheSkies on Aug 7, 2020 10:20:09 GMT -5
Amazing repaints mike!!! Theyre gotgeous. Tradewind cargo and gemini cargo next?
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Post by cgold on Aug 7, 2020 17:53:19 GMT -5
ranmori did a Gemini MD-11 for the FSPX model some time ago. An updated Tradewinds fleet would be nice but let’s see what Mike has in store for us. I’m diggin’ these SAA Jets.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 8, 2020 12:17:25 GMT -5
Yeah, let's see what Mike has next....
I am still revising the SAA fleet, it always goes like this when I have multiple aircraft types in a fleet project. Every next aircraft I do, I always find the little mistakes that have to be corrected back to the original model I started with. I am focusing on SAA right now until it is done, and then I do have a 'next project' planned, fairly sizeable, and it involves no 747s ('cause I painted them last year, lol).
I'm also doing some odd technique to generate some specific logos I need, I am printing out blown-up pictures, and with tracing paper I am hand-drawing the logos in crisp high-res, then scanning them back into the computer for use. My wife is helping out because she does calligraphy as a hobby and has steadier hands than I do.
Back to SAA for now.
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Post by noob21 on Aug 8, 2020 12:48:49 GMT -5
Modern problems really do require modern solutions, don’t they? Sounds great though, are you planning on any more SAA airbuses? Not gonna lie, I’d like to see a theoretical A340 paint in the old SAA colors, but that’s obviously just if you want to go out of your way to paint that.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 8, 2020 14:06:44 GMT -5
I already did the A342 for the FSPXAI model last year or so, the A343 and A346 aren't out of the conversation yet even though they didn't show up until the later 2000s.....
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Post by noob21 on Aug 8, 2020 18:24:42 GMT -5
I already did the A342 for the FSPXAI model last year or so, the A343 and A346 aren't out of the conversation yet even though they didn't show up until the later 2000s..... :{) Airliners.net seems to indicate that the -600 was the first to enter service just ahead of the -200, and the -300 entered service about a year after the -200. But if we’re to work on those, it’d also probably have to include the later 737s if those were in service around then. Though I certainly don’t object, as more paints on up to date models are definitely needed for early 2000s flightplans, but you’re ultimately the content creator, and you’re the one who decides what to work on, be it more SAA jets or whatever next project you have in store, which I’m frankly curious what it is anyways, I always love 747 paints.
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Post by wernerw on Aug 9, 2020 10:20:29 GMT -5
Ascending variant numbers normaly indicate continued development. The A340-200 and -300 started airline service in 1993 (Air France and Lufthansa), the -600 only in 2002 (Virgin Atlantic).
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 9, 2020 11:25:07 GMT -5
According to RZJets, SAA got their first A346s in 2002, A342s in 2003, and A343s in 2004 (Noob was right). It's worth a few paints to reflect pre-Star Alliance use of these aircraft. I will look at early 2000s 737s as well.
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Post by wernerw on Aug 9, 2020 15:43:18 GMT -5
Oh, sorry. It was only about the SAA birds.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 9, 2020 16:45:55 GMT -5
So, here is another AIA 747 retired..... The A30Bs and the L-1011F are already done and on AVSIM and/or Flightsim, plus all manner of early 2000s FP. These 747s are color-matched to the other paints. :{)
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Post by KingOfTheSkies on Aug 10, 2020 9:44:42 GMT -5
Ah tradewinds!!!! Love it! Thank you for this mike!!!
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 10, 2020 11:14:15 GMT -5
For the younger hobbyists on this forum, just a note about the history of FS AI traffic. Project AI started in 2002 with FS8, so from that point forward, there have been a multitude of flightplans which are available through AVSIM, Flightsim, and PAI's file repository (search it on the internet, it's not hard to find). There is still a perpetual need for late 1960s-through 2000 repainting and flightplanning, but the 2000s are well-covered in mainstream flighplanning at this point.
The fact that this part of the hobby has become multi-generational now is refreshing.
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Post by noob21 on Aug 10, 2020 13:13:10 GMT -5
Well you’ve got people like Chris and I on the young end of the spectrum in our twenties, and then people as old as Pklitofsky in their eighties. It’s a unifying thing, and hopefully the advent of this new flight simulator will bring more content creators to our community, because the more the merrier.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 11, 2020 17:14:10 GMT -5
Not perfect, but perfectly representative. 1998 and 1999 variations of the same serial, the airframe was broken up in 2000. This was a piece-together of about six photos and two or three emblems, trying to make everything look like it came from the same photo was a nightmare, but I got it the best I could. :{)
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