Nils's kind of ok repaints

[kekn]

Great to see you back here, Nils. Looking forward to see some great fleets from you. And of course there is nothing to apologize. Health is always the most important thing. Wish you the best.

[Nilsfr91]

Here's some previews of what has already been done on the FSPX Airbuses these last few weeks: the AFR A318/A319/A320/A321 fleets, the TAP A319/A320/A321 fleets and the IBE A320's (still in progress) and A321's.

Given that those are just "redos" of existing and quite extensive fleets painted on the FAIB models I'm only focusing on early to late 2000's/early 2010's variations to avoid staying on one airline for ages and end up going mad.
Only the AFR airbuses have some more "detailed" variations because of the sheer size of the airline's medium-haul fleet (at some point in the 2000's Air France operated some 40-ish A319's, 60-ish A320's and 20-ish A321's with some A318's sprinkled in the mix simultaneously). To give a bit more variation to alllll those buses in-sim I've divided each "era" into the aircrafts registrations (here an example with the A320's): the -100 F-GFKx reg ones, the -100 F-GGEx reg, the -200 F-GFKx reg, the -200 F-GHQx reg, the -200 F-GJVx, the 3 ex-Air Charter -200's reg F-GLGG, F-GLGH and F-GLGM and finally some individual regs with some liveries "differences". The A319 fleet has the same reasoning with variations for the F-GPMx, F-GRHx and F-GRXx regs + each of the -LR's whom flew the "Dedicate" services (F-GYAS with AeroServices titles, F-GRXG, F-GRXH, F-GRXI, F-GRXJ, F-GRXK and F-GRXN). The A321's with F-GMZx, F-GTAx and later F-GTAx with chevrons variations.

Here are some quick previews:

[piper]

Very nice Nils.
I'm looking forward to see Condor's B757 fleet as well.

[Nilsfr91]

Here's the first fully complete "re-work" using the FSPX small airbuses here with Air Luxor. Easier to complete since the airline only operated A319/A320's from 2000 to 2005/2006 until it's rebranding as HiFly, coupled with the fleet small size.

The only A319 operated by LXR (CS-TQC) is coming tomorrow, today it's the complete A320 fleet that's ready and all 9 of them are individually represented with slight differences in the tail logo and fuse titles, their antennas/domes configurations and CFM56 variants: CS-TNB, CS-TNE, CS-TMW, CS-TQA, CS-TQB, CS-TQE, CS-TQD, CS-TQG and CS-TQH.

Here's the thumbnail:

[Nilsfr91]

Annnd here's the LXR A319 CS-TQC, whom weirdly was the only A319 operated by the airline, but also even though it was an almost brand-new plane (built as OO-SSO for Sabena in july of 2001, then delivered to Air Luxor in june of 2002) was only operated for a year in Air Luxor's fleet and was replaced by a bigger but older A320 (CS-TQE was manufactured in 1991, then the last 2 A320's acquired by LXR in 2004 were ex-Ansett Australia built in 1988 making them some of the very early -200 variants).
Two livery variants are present here: the "normal" livery circa 2002 to early 2003 and a second one with a partially painted radome from early to mid 2003.

Here's the thumbnail:




I'll continue to focus on re-doing existing paints for the FSPX models for most of what I've already done on the FAIB ones. For airlines where the fleet-packs can go really big I'll mainly focus on the 2000's variations, and eventually I will complete them when time comes (much like the AFR A320/A321 and IBE A320's) mainly for the 90's, because I paint mainly for my own use and for now I'm still stuck in some early/mid 2000's nostalgia lol soooo.

A quick roadmap for those FSPX circa 2000's reworks coming in the next month or so will look like this:

- CCM A319/A320 fleet
- Aigle Azur A319/A320/A321 fleet
- Tunisair A319/A320 and 737-600 fleet
- Air Sénégal International 737-700 fleet
- Air Mauritanie 737-700 fleet (and the later "rebranding" sponsored by Tunisair aka Mauritania Airways circa 2006-2010 with their A320's and 737-700)
- Celestair/Air Ivoire A319 and Air Ivoire A321
- Air Algérie 737-600/800 fleets
- Royal Air Maroc A321 and 737-700/800 fleets
- Turkish A319/A320/A321 and 737-700/800 fleets
- EgyptAir A320/A321 and 737-800 fleets

Fully committing myself to paint on the FSPX models also give me an good excuse for me regarding other fleets, that could come in the foreseeable future:

- British Airways A319/A320/A321 fleet (will maybe include the World Tails for the A320)
- Royal Jordanian A320/A321 2000's fleet
- NWA A319/A320 in both the 90's scheme and 2000's colors
- mayyyybeeee some very early JetBlue A320's
- United A319/A320 with both Battleship-grey and blue tulip liveries
- KLM early 737-700/737-800 fleet
- Finnair A319/A320/A321 fleets
- Austrian A320/A321 fleets
- CSA A319/A320/A321 fleets
- Travel Service 737-800 fleet
...and other potential surprises

[iflyfsx214]

Hi,
Are you still considering BWIA dash 8's (Bwee Express) or is not in your roadmap either way I appreciate all the work you have done and will do.Thanks

[Nilsfr91]

Jul 23, 2024 7:52:28 GMT -5 iflyfsx214 said:

Hi,
Are you still considering BWIA dash 8's (Bwee Express) or is not in your roadmap either way I appreciate all the work you have done and will do.Thanks

Hi! Of course, I'll try to add them along the FSPX version of BWIA's 737-800 fleet

[Nilsfr91]

The second airbus fleet to be completely redone for the FSPX models is done, aka the CCM Airlines A319 and A320 fleets.

In reality, CCM (before rebranding directly as Air Corsica in 2010/2011) operated a fleet of 2 A319-100 and 4 A320-200 that all came as replacement for the older Fokker 100 fleet and to boost capacity, but I added a little something: apparently the airline was going to add a third A319 to the fleet at almost the same time as the pair of A320's back in early 2004. That aircraft was formerly operated by Khalifa Airways and ended up being repainted in CCM colors and re-registered in France as F-GYFN and was pictured once in Châteauroux in storage, but for some reason ended up as "not taken up" by the airline.
So in a break of tradition, given that this specific aircraft was almost part of the airline's fleet and painted I decided to add livery variations based on that one picture, at least for the base livery regarding the CCM titles size on the fuselage, the placement of the "têtes de Maure" representing the Corsican flag on the engines and the tail logo.

Regardless, a brief summary of the liveries looks like this: for the A319's F-GYFM, F-GYFN and F-GYJM are all painted in the base livery, the base livery + special tail logos for the 15y anniversary in 2004 and the base livery + the webtitles applied in real life on F-GYFM and F-GYJM in 2006, + a pair of additional variations for those 2 circa late 2007-late 2010.
Same story for the A320's with the original pair F-GYFK and F-GYFL, but as they were delivered in early 2004 they immediately got the special 15y tail logos, and then in early 2005 got the webtitles applied. Those 2 have other variations too, but there is also liveries for the 2 other A320's that joined the fleet back in late 2009/early 2010: F-HBEV and F-HBSA. Those two were named, and got those names applied below the CCM titles, but also had shortened webtitles painted. I've added a livery for both of them slightly dirtier for the late 2010-very early 2014 period when they still flew in old CCM colors while the airline was rebranded Air Corsica and had a livery change.

Here are the thumbnails:





Now that those are done, I'm going to start the next "rework": the Aigle Azur A319/A320/A321's.

[Nilsfr91]

The FSPX Aigle Azur A320's are done!
It took a bit more time than expected as I want to be really accurate, each A320 flown by the airline in their old colors are included with their tail logos, fuse titles, engines logos and other details reproduced as close as their real-life counterparts : F-HBAC (delivered december 2004-retired april 2011), F-HBAD (delivered november 2005-retired june 2009), F-HBAE (delivered december 2005-retired july 2009), F-GJVF (delivered february 2006-retired may 2013), F-HBII (delivered brand-new april 2009-retired march 2015), F-HBAO (delivered brand-new february 2011-repainted in NC early 2017), F-HBAP (delivered brand-new april 2011-repainted in NC early 2017).

Even though there's only 7 regs represented, I've included each time each reg had a little mismatched engine(s) cowlings, which happened a loooot (especially for F-GJVF). I made me to also divide some regs variations into "eras" in-between those engines "incidents" to better represent the level of grime on those aircrafts.

The thumbnail will give a better representation of these, so here it is:



Now that these are done I'm already starting the work on the A321's, crossing fingers that there's not too much mismatched cowlings from these... 

[Nilsfr91]

The Aigle Azur's Airbuses are finally done! Along with the fspx versions of my Air Mauritanie 737-700's, and the new paints representing the Mauritania Airways (2007-2011) pair of 737-700WL's and single A320-200. Next stop fspx paint-wise will be the quick rework of the Air Ivoire/Celestair A319 and A321, then it will be the turn of the Tunisair and RAM Airbuses and Boeings.











I've also "painted" a livery representing a derelict aircraft, aka SU-DAS a A300B4 of ZAS Airline of Egypt that was seized by French authorities in the mid 90's and stored at LFPO's maintenance area, until it was moved in mid 2000 to a remote part of the airport and is used since then as a fire training plane. The Aerosoft scenery did not include it, so I've added it with some bogus flighplan file etc...



Also alsooo, finally found what bgl file of Aerosoft's LFPO with all of the scenery objects, so I managed to both add some pseudo dynamic night-lighting and remove the original static jetways to add animated ones via GSX, like I did with the FIMP scenery.

[Nilsfr91]

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing great. I've got some (very) big updates regarding the upcoming paints. As previously said I've started re-working my Tunisair and Royal Air Maroc fleets for the FSPX models, the slight twist is that I started on the RAM fleet but ended up in a rabbit-hole of hyper-fixation/detailling on the 737's (screenshot of the madness down below lol) because RAM decided that it would be fun to NOT have a homogeneous fleet (difference of dome/antennaes config, mix of old livery/revised livery planes, planes equipped with or without the "eyebrows" windows, winglet/non winglet variants equipped with or without the EB...). This means a lot of detailing but mostly a lot of variations, and the "newer" and interim liveries of the very late 2000's/early 2010's are yet to be done. But the 737-700, 737-800 and A321's are at least 90% done.










(examples of the madness)

When I was finished with painting all of the 90's and early-mid 2000's liveries (also includes a quick rework of the 767's) I wanted to take a little break from RAM, so I did the Air Senegal International and Air Ivoire reworks, but also started the Air Algerie 737's rework that ended up being another rabbit-hole too (goddam...).

But this time it's another kind of madness. See, Air Algerie, like Tunisair and EgytpAir at that time, named most of it's planes. BUT sometimes the airline would take delivery of some newer planes that wouldn't get a name, YET. Here with the 737-800 fleet for example this meant that the first 3 -800 delivered new (7T-VJJ, 7T-VJK and 7T-VJL) were immediately named but the 7 others delivered between very late 2000 and early 2005 (7T-VJM/VJN/VJO/VJP and then in 2005 the WL equipped 7T-VKA/VKB/VKC) were not. So both of those situations are included in the pack, but wait! All of the unnamed ones eventually got names between 2006 and 2009, adding a bunch of variation...

Of course it doesn't stop here: DAH seemed to have a thing with mismatched engine cowls and radomes, so yeah that's several other variations. The final boss was the seasonal leases, aka Air Algerie leased a bunch of 737-800's between 1999 and 2010: 3 from Pegasus (TC-APG between 1999 and 2001, TC-APN for the first time from late 2000 to early 2001, and a second time between late 2003 and early 2004 for which I couldn't find photos for that period so I painted 4 options of what the plane could have looked like during that time, and finally TC-APH from mid 2004 to late 2005) and 2 from Saga Airlines (TC-SGF from mid 2008 to early 2010 and TC-SGG from mid 2008 to late 2010).
Very much like the RAM 767's, I did a "quick" rework of the DAH 767's in the 2000's livery: their 3 non-er -300 (7T-VJG, 7T-VJH and 7T-VJI) each represented, but with a lot of variations, a -300ER leased from Neos circa mid 2009-early 2010 and the 767-200 TF-ATY leased from Air Atlanta Icelandic in 2004.



Now that all of that is done I've slowly started working on the Tunisair A320's, that will be followed by the A319's and 737-600 fleet, and then I'll finish the RAM 737NG's and A321 fleets with the 2008-2009 liveries.
Finally, here are all the thumbnails of all the fleets that are done (and uploaded to my Drive):

[Jason]

Simply gorgeous work! Well done!!!

[Nilsfr91]

Quick preview of some of the Tunisair A320's liveries that are already done...









Spoiler for the full fleet-pack that's coming: each reg is included with their respecting names, I've discovered that there was at least 2 "variants" of the full stripes livery, several variations of the livery without the fuselage stripes, the 50y and 60y anniversary special liveries as well as several special stickers liveries etc.

[Nilsfr91]

Here's a second little wave of TAR Airbuses previews...+ a little idea at what the final pack would look like

[Jason]

That's crazy. LOL. Great job!!