Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:11 amThis is a semi-fictional repaint. There really is a D-EGEA and she really did fly in this kind of condition - I have photos.
But I have taken a few liberties with the graffitti
(Incidentally, if anyone was in Celle (HEER helicopters) in the 70's, you may remember a line up of CH53s (or was it Hueys?) that were subject to the similar C and S treatment, either side of the "HEER". I do recall the German commandant may not have been too happy and i do suggest this may be an urban myth. But it was too funny not to be true, and I would have believed that my colleagues at 73 A/C workshop may just have done this for real)
The wings of my previous paint were stored leading edge up and collected a load of dirt, as did the top of the fuselage. The real D-EGEA also had a door borrowed from D-EAWW. The top of the fuselage is also caked with grot and there's generally a lot of "mix and match" about this plane. In the meantime, the real plane has a shiny red nose cowl and clean enging cowlings.
Now as we don't yet have the "bandy legged" Dornier model (yet) - the A5 etc... I have decided to go semi-fictional.
She's a right tramp, but she is loved to bits...
Enjoy! Maybe I'll do some more tweaks, so she's not uploading yet.
Sorry if the screenshot size is too big for the viewing public.
But I have taken a few liberties with the graffitti
(Incidentally, if anyone was in Celle (HEER helicopters) in the 70's, you may remember a line up of CH53s (or was it Hueys?) that were subject to the similar C and S treatment, either side of the "HEER". I do recall the German commandant may not have been too happy and i do suggest this may be an urban myth. But it was too funny not to be true, and I would have believed that my colleagues at 73 A/C workshop may just have done this for real)
The wings of my previous paint were stored leading edge up and collected a load of dirt, as did the top of the fuselage. The real D-EGEA also had a door borrowed from D-EAWW. The top of the fuselage is also caked with grot and there's generally a lot of "mix and match" about this plane. In the meantime, the real plane has a shiny red nose cowl and clean enging cowlings.
Now as we don't yet have the "bandy legged" Dornier model (yet) - the A5 etc... I have decided to go semi-fictional.
She's a right tramp, but she is loved to bits...
Enjoy! Maybe I'll do some more tweaks, so she's not uploading yet.
Sorry if the screenshot size is too big for the viewing public.
)
