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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 27, 2024 14:17:44 GMT -5
Hey Nilsfr91 do you have any plans to paint Bwee Express (BWIA Express) Probably yes! I completely forgot that there were some BWIA liveried Dash 8's at some point haha |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 27, 2024 19:45:00 GMT -5
Here's the second part of my EWG fleet, which includes the ATR42-300/300QC/500, ATR72-200/210/500 and CRJ-100/200 fleets. The ATR42-300QC's (D-BCRP and D-BCRT) are just "cosmetics", they were officially build as QC's but seem to have flown only flown with a passenger cabin config for EWG. The CRJ's includes all four of the -100ER/LR and the -200ER leased by Eurowings while waiting for the delivery of their first batch of brand-new -200LR, a variation of said -200LR's and also a representative of the then new Lufthansa Regional livery (circa late 2003) as at least 9 -200LR's got repainted between late 2003 and late 2005. All of those are now uploaded on the Drive, the final part of the fleet will be the BAe146-200/300 fleets (including of course some DLH Regional liveries, but also some AFR/ AFR Express  ), and mayyyybe the CRJ-700 to have a matched livery for the CRJ-200 in the DLH livery. Here are the thumbnails:    |
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Post by cgold on Feb 27, 2024 23:39:28 GMT -5
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 28, 2024 6:38:37 GMT -5
Ooohhhh yes definetely, I just saw on planespotters.net that for some reason they only had 1 of them and kept it for a year, which explains why I forgot about it haha |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 2, 2024 20:05:41 GMT -5
Annnnd here it is, finally: the final touch to my EWG fleet: the BAe146-200/300 (including the pair of -200 flown by Eurowings for Air France Express in the late 90's) and D-CATS, the only Do328-100 to have flown for Eurowings. But there's also a little surprise: while making the AFR Express colored BAe's for Eurowings, I remembered that there was also one but flown by CityJet, and a pair of -200 and a single -300 by Jersey European: so I painted them. The only thing is that while doing the Jersey ones I was surprised to see that some of them kept flying in AFR colors in the AFR Galaxy era of the "Air France by xxx" franchises. First with Jersey European titles, but by mid/late 2000 then in British European titles and the biggest surprise was that even when British European became FlyBe in 2003 there was still a -200 and a pair of -300 flying in cooperation with AFR in that livery until late 2005, but with "British European Flybe' titles... I haven't done any variation of the basic Jersey/British European liveries as I was not sure If anyone had already done them recently, but I'll definitely add some early FlyBe variations in the future. The only plane missing now for the Air France Express fleet is a BAe146-200 flown by Debonair reg G-DEBH, I'll add it to the mix tomorrow. chasensfo I don't remember if you already have done some fp's for Air France Express or some that need those liveries in 98, but at least most of them are now here lol Here are the thumbnails:       |
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Post by ludo66x on Mar 3, 2024 2:09:24 GMT -5
Amazing paints Nils can't wait to see some of these when flying around lfpo/lfpg, and I think that the af express flights are in chasen af fp.
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 3, 2024 9:40:51 GMT -5
Here's the Debonair BAe146-200, I could only find one photo of it wearing its AFR colors but it seems to date back to March 1999 when it exited AFR Express's fleet, so I don't know if it was still in full colors or if some titles were already removed but anyways I painted it accordingly: only Air France titles on the fuselage without additional small Debonair titles near the doors but with the Debonair logos on the engines. Here's the thumbnail:  |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 7, 2024 11:40:06 GMT -5
Little post today, a cool little rework before I jump into the BAW 777's/Airbuses and regionals: the Air Seychelles 767-200/-200ER and 767-300ER fleets. Some time ago I did a late 80's to early 2010's SEY fleet including the 737-700, 767's, Twin Otters, Shorts 360's and the Islanders/Trislanders and I already did a rework of the 737-700 a year ago. Now it's the 767's turn to be brought up to the quality of my most recent paints, by remaking the tail logos (the pair of birds now appear more streamlined and less "chunky" as my older versions) remaking the doors outlines, adding some fuselage emergency cutouts, adding the underwing regs and most of the titles are in far better quality that the old ones (+ corrected some errors in the livery depending on the regs). Air Seychelles was for a long time long-haul focused airline in addition of it's inter-island services, which is mostly just the shuttle service between the two major islands of the archipelago Mahé and Praslin, even though some regular flights are operated between Mahé and Denis Island, Desroches and Bird Island. Historically the network consisted of Paris, London, Frankfurt and Zurich. As the airline grew (by receiving it's second 767-300ER replacing the original 767-200ER, and a brand new 737-700) a small regional network was developed and Singapore was added, in the mid/late 2000's when the airline was at it's peak with 3 767-300ER, one 767-200 and one 767-200ER Milan, Rome and Moscow were added to the rest of the network until the airline restructured itself completely in late 2011/early 2012 and returned all of the 767's to their lessor. So this rework inludes all 4 767-200's used by SEY (S7-AAS 'Aldabra' with the old Seychelles flag circa mid 1989 to late 1996, S7-AAS with the current flag circa late 1996 to early 2001, S7-EXL 'La Belle Creole' circa late 2007 to late 2008, S7-ILF 'Amirantes' a replacement for S7-EXL circa late 2008-late 2011 and S7-SEZ 'Isle of Bijoutier' circa mid 2009 to late 2011) and all 4 of the 767-300ER (S7-AHM 'Vallee de Mai' with AFR stickers circa late 1996 to mid 2002, VH-NOE a very short term lease circa May to October 2000, S7-ASY 'Aldabra' circa early 2001 to the late 2000's, S7-AHM without the AFR stickers circa mid 2002 to early 2006, S7-AHM after a probable quick repaint with displaced 'Vallee de Mai titles) circa early 2006 to late 2011, S7-ASY with much more weathering as it appeared from 2008/2009 to early 2012 and finally S7-FCS 'Isle of Fregate' the only -300 to wear the updated livery with newer titles and no grey/metallic belly but it also had a partially incorrectly painted tail logo). I'll probably add at some point S7-AHM wearing the current SEY livery as it was repainted during the autumn of 2011 but only flew in this livery from december 2011 until mid january 2012... Well, now here are the new thumbnails:   |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 8, 2024 14:02:27 GMT -5
It has begun...  The pack will consist of every reg that received one of the 'Utopia' art-works, the exceptions being for the few who got the 'Utopia' version of the Union Flag tail (then named 'Chatham Historic Dockyard') as there was from the start more than two of them so there will be just a representative livery for the GE variant and the RR variant. A lot of them were painted in early/mid 1999 when Oneworld was created and the stickers already applied, but some of the earlier GE powered 777's got painted in late 97 or in 98 so for them there will be a without and a with Oneworld stickers. For now I'm at 17 different variations, but that's without counting the pre-Oneworld, Landor, Interim and "modern" Union Flag liveries. Weird thing, I thought that I was just doing a clone, as Juergen's magnificent Utopia tails packs includes the 777 (circa 1998-2001) on the TFS model, but for some reason he did not include the early Union Flag liveried RR powered ones that started to be delivered around early/mid 1999 lol. Also I was very pleasently surprised while browsing photos that some of the 777's still flew with the likes of the Chealsea Rose, Animals and Trees and my favorite Whale Rider by mid/late 2004 and some even in early 2005. It may take some time, but I'm a bit better at handling Photoshop's tools than when I did the 767's haha, so it shouldn't take 1 month + I'll keep posting updates along the ride. |
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Post by theflyingmobian on Mar 9, 2024 8:19:48 GMT -5
Are the remaining World Tail 747s planned after the 777s? As only Waves and Cranes and Rendezvous have been done on FAIB models.
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 9, 2024 11:55:25 GMT -5
Are the remaining World Tail 747s planned after the 777s? As only Waves and Cranes and Rendezvous have been done on FAIB models. For now unfortunately no, the FAIB 747 paintkit is still way too complex (to me) for this kind of tail/fuselage logos especially for artworks that precise, if one day FSPX rolls-out a 747 series with the kind of paintkits like the 777/767 ones I'll definetely do them (I'm crossing my fingers on that as they replied to a comment in january that they were focusing back on P3D on after some regional planes would probably go on a retro spree...). For now on my part it's only the 777's to go alongside my older 767's, then will be the turn for some early A319's, A320/A321 (including the opb British Mediterranean ones) and finally the regional subsidiaries. |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 9, 2024 13:38:07 GMT -5
 First Union Flag variation is fully done |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 13, 2024 19:08:42 GMT -5
2nd update for the BAW 777's (see preview below): all of the Utopia era Union Flag/current era Union Flag liveries that I wanted to do are done + the "Benyhone (Mountain of the Birds)" tails, next on the line will be G-VIIK wearing the "Animals and Trees" tail.  The preview includes in chronological order: G-VIIJ "Benyhone" pre-Oneworld G-VIIR "Benyhone" Oneworld stickers G-VIIJ "Benyhone" Oneworld stickers G-VIIV "Chatham Historic Dockyard/United Kingdom" - representative for all GE powered 777's wearing the first iteration of the Union Flag from 1999 to 2006 G-YMMA "Chatham Historic Dockyard/United Kingdom" - representative for all RR powered 777's wearing the first iteration of the Union Flag delivered between early to mid/late 2000 until being repainted by 2006/2007 G-YMMB "City of Phoenix" - brief name applied in early 2001 for the first flight(s) (?) of a BA 777 on the LHR-PHX route G-YMMG - the first of the 777's to be delivered in late 2000 to wear the then new (and first version) standard BA Union Flag livery, representative of that livery for all of the RR fleet in those colors G-ZZZA - the first of the GE powered 777's to be repainted in the standard livery (with a different version than the RR ones) in early 2002, also included as it was one of the few non-ER -200's, representative of that livery for all of the non-ER's in those colors G-VIIF - first of the ER GE powered 777's to carry the new livery circa mid 2002, representative of that livery for all of the GE fleet in those colors G-YMMI "Backing the Bid - Premier Partner" stickers - circa early 2005 to early 2006, BA was part of the same initiative than Virgin in 2005 to support/sponsor the city of London's bid for the 2012 Olympics, a sticker was applied to this single 777 but also to some Airbuses and at least a pair of 747's. |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 14, 2024 10:47:25 GMT -5
While browsing the web for quality photos of G-VIIK's tail I found an interesting article about the World Tails with some very interesting images of some of the artworks that never made it to the real planes (sigh...), showcasing 3 or 4 of those: one representing the Caribbean, one Norway, one for the US West Coast but surprisingly there was TWO planned World Tails representing the Seychelles... seeing the dates of the drawings I think it's a shame that those ones never made it to the real world, when a lot of the other tails were represented (in my opinion) way too much. BA really should have just limited each artwork to one plane each, with an exception for Chelsea Rose, Color down the side and Benyhone while painting the rest with the Union Flag, also sorting the overseas representations to long-haul planes and european ones to the short-medium haul ones. I truly believe this era could have been more accepted if from the get go there wasn't just a weird mix of 5-6 artworks with no plan of making them special, but just the norm (really weird to see that they really didn't wanted to have a common, well, logo, as the Speedbird logo doesn't really translate into a clearly UK thing for non avgeeks). Well I digress, it's just a shame because those tails are truly something, especially the "cancelled" ones, see HERE. I'll need to refresh my 767's World Tails as some point, and I mayyyy or may not add those Seychelles ones as fictional paints, especially since (I don't know if it was truly the case?) but as per the MRAI su04 plans BA still flew to FSIA Seychelles Intl via Nairobi once a week with a 767?? I truly believed that they stopped flying there alongside Air France in the late 90's/early 2000, especially since the last picture of a BA plane there (until the brief revival of the LHR-SEZ route circa 2018-2020) is a 747 in 2000. Might as well add a fictional "Caribbean" 777 on one of the EGKK based ones...we'll see I guess |
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Mar 14, 2024 15:38:57 GMT -5
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), and mayyyybe the CRJ-700 to have a matched livery for the CRJ-200 in the DLH livery.
I am curious: Is there anyway this Dornier could make it into the mix? 
