Nils's kind of ok repaints

[Nilsfr91]

Oct 4, 2024 15:43:41 GMT -5 Jason said:

That's crazy. LOL. Great job!!

Haha , thanks!

[Nilsfr91]

The Tunisair A320's pack is getting larger and larger...but at least in my frustration I've finally added a little detail to my already modded fspx a32x paintkit, the large vents located on the front right side of each CFM56A engines as showed here:



I'll apply this mod on existing FSPX A319/A320 paints equipped with CFM56A's.

[Nilsfr91]

Final update for the TAR A320's before release...



Very much like the Air Algerie's 737 fleet, all of TAR's A320 were named so I've included all of them (from the older ones delivered between 1990 and 2002 and a couple of leases from the 2000's, but also the few newer ones delivered between 2010 and 2013) with a lot of livery variations for some of them, as Tunisair kept some of the older ones for a lonnnnng time + loved repainting their planes in very inconsistent ways ++ some special stickers variations and anniversary liveries of course.

Right now here's the list of what regs are fully covered (circa early 90's thru early/mid 2010's):

TS-IMB - named "Farhat Hached", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1990)
TS-IMC - named "7 Novembre" until 2011, CFM56A equipped (delivered 1990)
TS-IMD - named "Khereddine", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1991)
TS-IME - named "Tabarka", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1992)
TS-IMF - named "Djerba", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1992)
TS-IMG - named "Abou el Kacem Chebbi", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1994)
TS-IMH - named "Ali Belhaouane", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1994)
TS-IMI - named "Jugurtha", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1995)
TS-IML - named "Gafsa el Ksar", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1999)

Regs left to do:

TS-IMM - named "Le Bardo", CFM56A equipped (delivered 1999)
TS-IMN - named "Ibn Khaldoun", CFM56A equipped (delivered 2000)
TS-IMP - named "La Galite", CFM56A equipped (delivered 2002)

PH-BMD - leased from DutchBird in hybrid DutchBird colors with Tunisair titles (mid to very late 2004)
HB-IJZ - leased from JetClub and painted in full TAR livery (early 2008 to very late 2009)

TS-IMR - named "Habib Bourguiba", CFM56B equipped (delivered in 2010)
TS-IMS - named "Dougga", CFM56B equipped (delivered in 2011)
TS-IMT - named "Aziza Othmana", CFM56B equipped (delivered in 2012)
TS-IMU - named "Sousse", CFM56B equipped (delivered in 2013)
TS-IMV - named "Ibn El Jazzar", CFM56B equipped (delivered in 2013)

[Nilsfr91]

And here are the Tunisair A320's circa early 1990 thru the late 2010's, because of the sheer number of livery variations I've separated the "normal" liveries from the anniversary specials/special stickers liveries, 57 variations for the "normal" part, 21 for the special liveries...


The special liveries includes several variations of the 50years anniversary special livery circa 1998/1999, same for the 60years anniversary circa 2008/2009, the pair wearing 14th Mediterranean Sports Games special markings circa summer of 2001, the pair of A320's that wore the stickers promoting the joint bid between Tunisia and Lybia for the 2010 Soccer World Cup circa late 2003, a bunch of regs whom wore the CAN 2004 (Coupe d'Afrique des Nations/Africa Cup of Nations 2004) stickers circa early 2004 and finally another bunch with the 2005 Handball World Cup circa 2004/2005.


I'm already starting the work on the A319 fleet, then will come the 737-600/700 fleet and I'll be done with Tunisair.



Here are the A320's thumbnails:

[Jason]

Impressive work, Nils. You're a glutton for punishment!

[Nilsfr91]

Haha thanks Jason, I prefer to torture myself into being as accurate as possible with fleet-packs like these to avoid having to go back to them later on to add things I potentially missed or didn't wanted to add at the time. + yeah here the mix of my usual timelines (90's thru late 2000's), a good number of named aircrafts and a black-hole of livery changes or quirks made this thing hell on earth for me lol...

[Nilsfr91]

Finally here is the rest of my Tunisair fleet including the A319 and 737-600 fleets as well as one of the former Mauritania Airways 737-700 that flew for TAR for a bit in 2011 after MTW went bust, and also a Sterling European 737-800 leased for the 2001 summer season in hybrid colors.

As like the A320's I've included each individual A319 and 737-600's (thank god there was much less of these tho) in all different livery variations worn by them from the very late 90's to the mid 2010's.
For the A319's: TS-IMJ "El Kantaoui" and TS-IMK "Kerkenah" both delivered in late 1998, TS-IMO "Hannibal" delivered in early 2001 and TS-IMQ "Alyssa" delivered in early 2007.
For the 737-600's: TS-IOK "Kairouan", TS-IOL "Tozeur-Nefta" and TS-IOM "Carthage" delivered in mid/late 1999, TS-ION "Utique" in early 2000, TS-IOP "El Jem" and TS-IOQ "Bizerte" in mid 2000 and TS-IOR "Tahar Haddad" in early 2001.

Now that I'm finished with TAR, I'll move on into finished the few livery variations missing for my Royal Air Maroc 737-700/800 and A321 packs, then finally go into some "newer" territory: British Airways and BA colored BMED and GB Airways Airbuses circa early-late 2000's.

Here are the TAR thumbnails:

[Jason]

Congratulations on finishing this monsterous undertaking. Amazing work and patience, Nils. Thank you!

[Nilsfr91]

As promised the final form my take on Royal Air Maroc fleet is slowly coming tonight with the fairly big 737-800 pack: 38 variations addressing the multiple livery changes that happened between 1998, 2003/2004, 2008/2009 and 2011, but also a lot of headache inducing non-winglets/winglets/non-winglets and no eyebrows/winglets and no eyebrows, additional small dome or not sorting to do leading to a lot of individual regs liveries to fit the history of the fleet as close as possible. The only representative variations are few, mostly there for the newer livery and its test then definitive variants circa 2008 and then 2009/2011 apart for CN-RNJ whom was repainted in the (then) new livery only in 2014 but with a wayyy larger tail logo that the rest of the fleet at the time.
With the 2009/2010 "new" livery included that still perdures nowadays on some RAM 737's this pack can technically be considered as fully comprehensive fleet-pack for the 1998-2019 period.

The 737-700 fleet as well as the A321's will come very shortly, in the meantime here's the -800's thumbnail:

[Nilsfr91]

Annnd here the rest of the reworked RAM fleet: the 737-700's, the 767-300ER's and the A321's. All of those subfleets were small enough for me to include each single regs (only 7 737-700, 4 A321 and 3 767-300).
For the 737-700 this also meant a lot of different livery variations with a time-frame similar to the 737-800 pack with a similar timeline (here 1999-mid 2010's), with the only difference that 2 of the regs in the then "new" colors are not included because they remained in the old colors until something like 2016/2017.

For the 767 pack only two of the 3 regs have 2 variations each, here being CN-RNT and CN-ROG. The additional CN-RNT livery represents the airframe circa late 2009 and later with bigger fuse titles and some slight paint differences on the aft fuselage, because the aircraft sustained some substantial damage to it's nose gear and skin of it's front fuselage after a really rough landing in JFK in April of that year, and remained in an hangar there to have portions of the front fuselage replaced by Boeing for some months…
CN-ROG is represented in it's delivery scheme being the RAM colors but without any grey, and without a tail logo, this very "interim" livery was kept from January 2006 until July of that year. By July then, only a tail logo was applied and the plane flew in this livery until retirement in very early 2012.

And finally for the A321's all 4 of this weird airbus subfleet are included, the 2 originals delivered in 2003 CN-RNX and CN-RNY, represented here in 3 different eras: in the old livery, then in the old livery with the chevrons retrofit for the CFM56's, and finally after the pair flew a bit for RAM's low-cost subsidiary Atlas Blue and painted in the then new colors.
The 2 other frames, regs CN-ROF and CN-ROM were originally delivered brand new to Atlas Blue in early 2006 for the first and early 2007 for the second, and so they only flew for mainline RAM when Atlas Blue was shut-down in early 2010.
All 4 of those A321's flew for BMM until 2010 (CN-RNX and RNY were transferred to Atlas Blue between 2007 and 2008) but only remained in the fleet until 2012, still a pretty long longevity in my opinion for such a out of place subfleet for an airline that flew only Boeing planes (and 737's of almost all types at that)…

Anyways, I'll now be able to embark on some new projects but will still do some fspx reworks for my other existing fleets (ie BMI, Air Méditerranée, Egyptair, Air Malta, Volare, Qatar, Royal Jordanian, Alitalia, MyAir, Eurofly, SN Brussels, Luxair, SkyEurope, Air Europa etc...)

Here are the RAM thumbnails:

[Nilsfr91]

The first brick of the BA Airbuses packs is laid...


Huge shout-out to mh88 whom really kindly shared with me his own BA material for the Union Jack's dotted pattern, but also shared the colors he used for his British Airways fleet so that I can color-match mine to his. But also huge thanks to him for agreeing to share with me his base file for his BA 744's so that I, very much like what I did with Michael Pearson's VIR 747's, can add to his mix some more early to late 2000's Union Jack's (mostly to bring the Oneworld logo variants to the world, but also some logojets like the Backing the Bid, London 2012 Premier Partner, Change for good and some of the early Oneworld logojets)...so a lot of coll little things to come soon.

Regarding the airbuses I've started here with the A320's, those will mostly (for now) include base liveries representing the CFM powered ones in the Union Jack livery (both -100 and -200 variants) as well as the one in the photo above representing the brand-new IAE powered ones delivered from 2002 and onwards. In separated but related packs will lay the BA liveried but opb BMED or GB Airways A320's that for the most part got the Utopia version of the Union tail but also some world tails that will be included.

I will also in the midst of this slowly update my 777 fleet to be color-matched but also to replace my old "highlights" method for the Union tails to the dotted pattern.

**edit: the photo in this post as been updated to show the now completed version of this livery**

[Nilsfr91]

Two new previews, this time here are some GB Airways birds: G-TTOA being the first A320 delivered to the airline in 2000 and the only one wearing the BA Utopia era "Chatham Historic Dockyard/United Kingdom" tail and titles, and the second one is G-TTOB serving as a representative livery for all of the A320's delivered to GB Airways from 2002 onwards.

[Nilsfr91]

Another day, another set of previews, today with a preview representing the bulk of the Union Flag tails worn by the older CFM powered A320-100 and -200 part of the fleet. Including the only case (at the time) of a mainline BAW A320 being transferred for a short time to a franchise, G-BUSJ to GB Airways circa 2005 and also the only CFM powered A320 to have worn the original Utopia era Chatham Historic Dockyard livery, G-BUSI.
Now the only others left to be done in the Union Flag department are the BMED planes, then we'll move to the other World tails...

[Jason]

[Nilsfr91]

All of the BMED A320's in the Union Flag livery are done, a bit more easy than the mix of CFM and IAE variations of the mainline fleet as only 3 BMED A320's wore the Union flag livery: G-MEDE in the Utopia era version of the tail from 2000 to 2007 (includes several sub-variations with 4 of them shown in the teaser below), G-MEDH delivered brand-new in the now standard Union tail from 2003 to 2007 (also includes a pair of sub-variations, one without any BMED markings and the other without BMED markings and without the Oneworld logos circa 2006-2007) and G-MEDK whom immediately got to wear the new BMED logos on its nose from 2005 up to 2007.

I've also included in the pack G-MEDA as it looked like in BMED own colors from 1994 to very late 1997 as the then sole aircraft in BMED's fleet before it got franchised by BAW, and also added G-MEDB and G-MEDD wearing the "Interim" BA colors from their delivery in early 1997 up to the very end of that year when G-MEDB got the "Rendezvous" World Tail and G-MEDD the rare "Crossing Borders" one.

Here's the teaser: