NZFF

Taking my time, this one to pretty



Lots to do

Upgraded to Haswell,

All Done " ERE " when approved

or "Here"

Don't you love having a specific target and going for it ... a WIP that looks brilliant , very detailed on the tail .. superb MJ

Looking good so far!
Awful paintkit though, I admire your perseverance

jankees wrote:

QUOTE (jankees @ Oct 4 2013,7:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looking good so far!
Awful paintkit though, I admire your perseverance

Hells Bells MJ , From the master in today's world of PC aircraft painting ! ... Good on ya JK

jankees wrote:

QUOTE (jankees @ Oct 4 2013,4:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looking good so far!
Awful paintkit though, I admire your perseverance

Hmm ye, i did two of the original twotter, being waiting on this one, had to learn gimp at same time. still learning, ye its a pain but there are some nice schemes out there, just might do one more for aus than dont know whats next. Try get this one finished this weekend.

Almost happy with the tail.

It shows great detail , i think that would have to be the best MC paint for the aircraft , SUPERB!

Getting there and this is only the left side.



51 a good age for painting you get patient

51 Arr yes .. member 51 from Area 51 at 51

Please tell me in 2 sentences or less how you go about getting those curved lines along the fuselage.....and don't tell me it is free hand
I have always wondered about this painting lark....one of the dark arts.

I use Gimp. get a photo of the plane. crop it to get the section you want, drag in and it forms a layer.Its good to change transparency on the photo layer, it helps to see what you are doing. There is a tool which can use a colour to form a selection, than fill, than its a matter of tidying up. the other option is same basic method but trace around the lines. You need to scale the imported image to get as accurate as you can. problem is most photos are on an angle so its never perfect. It doesnt matter is the line in between is messed up as you can run a selection in center, and that i forget the term, but tell it to erase say 4 pixels width. Used it first time few days ago. Stil lmuch to learn, only using default fonts, havt got my head around that bit yet.

mjrhealth wrote:

QUOTE (mjrhealth @ Oct 8 2013,9:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Used it first time few days ago. Stil lmuch to learn, only using default fonts, havt got my head around that bit yet.

Sometimes its easy to scan in the font and maybe if required edited , generally i use CoerlDraw - now using CS5.5 Illustrator due to it large font selection but not sure what freeware drawing packages there are out in the big wide world with a large choice .

Progressing almost happy, nose to fix up and bit around struts



Cheers

Looking Great MJ , The wheel texture gives it that extra Oomph , looking forward to the final result

looking forward to getting my fingers on this repaint,
-{Top quality work mate]

Migrated to other side almost done.



DOes anyone know if this plane had its id under a wing the photos i have only show left side and cant see an id.

I did see one years ago 'last century' i did'nt recall markings , this was one coming into Christchurch in a N/west wind , thing that stuck in my mind was i did not know who operated the aircraft . At one stage i did see one operating out of Tekapo but again no under wing markings recalled in my brain case .

Done, just need to copy to specular layer which shouldnt take to long after i had my Lovely bath ( old man thing)






Couple of errors but i need to ask aerosoft a couple of questions.

Avliable "ERE " when approved

Or " Here "

MJ ! Couple off errors , nah .. blame it on the loaders working around the aircraft that afternoon !

mjrhealth wrote:

QUOTE (mjrhealth @ Oct 20 2013,8:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

... but i need to ask aerosoft a couple of questions.

Like why they made the paintkit so b****y hard to work with?

Great job!