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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Anyone port over the Tu-142 to FSX?

The white stripes either side of the black-out nose on the Aeroflot are supposed to line up with the frames on the nose nav window....

.....about 3 hours later [don't ask] .... I got them about as close as I could in the res/size of the image. I 'should' have scaled it up a squillion and chase the pixels that way....;)

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These two have been submitted here...;)

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The Canadian North Airlines skin is worked from a current 737 aircraft [very definitely a 'what-if' only].

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The Aeroflot version is a repaint of the 'default', albeit with metal finishes and a realignment of various bits....particularly the black-out nose now aligns with the Navigator glass frames.

I'll have a go at the other 'default' ones similarly ...;)
Maybe also some photo-real weathering.....
 
Nostrovia, comrade!

As with the Avenger repaints - you sir, have an uncanny way of reading my mind as to what I was hoping for!!!

Yes, the glareshield line-up is far better - splendid. Don't know if this will ever see your "weathering" wire brush ... but I'm already very happy - thanks so much!!!

DL
 
delta_lima said:
As with the Avenger repaints - you sir, have an uncanny way of reading my mind as to what I was hoping for!!!

Yes, the glareshield line-up is far better - splendid. Don't know if this will ever see your "weathering" wire brush ... but I'm already very happy - thanks so much!!!

DL
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There's a bunch of good photos of some sad-looking 114s that'd possibly do for photo-real weathering....they look that ill though you might not 'want' to get airborne in one...;)

Mostly I skin via painting...so clip-art photorealism might be 'interesting' ....;)

Edit... early days of the second Aeroflot ver....not liking it so far....
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Edit 2 .... Improving a bit....View attachment 78225
...but I really need a decent Cyrillic font rather than painting the darn letters....;)
 
Am a long time fan of flying this Tup port over in FSX and enjoying very much the new paints. Anyone finding that the a/c loads in the sim overweight with fuel? Have to drop the three tanks down to about 40% to get her below MTOW.

Messing around with a private/VIP "BBJ" version that will change the payload weights down and fuel up ..
 
expat said:
Am a long time fan of flying this Tup port over in FSX and enjoying very much the new paints. Anyone finding that the a/c loads in the sim overweight with fuel? Have to drop the three tanks down to about 40% to get her below MTOW.

Messing around with a private/VIP "BBJ" version that will change the payload weights down and fuel up ..
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Yep...I just halved the max fuel weight/capacity in the aircraft.cfg....otherwise [for those that know my end of the world]....taking off at YMML heading north would have you rotating at Sunbury.
Heavy ain't the word...;)

Edit....

It's coming along....stripes are still fuzzy....tossing up whether to repaint them clean per-pixel....;)

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Speaking of which...my old man was an FSO3 at YMML [Melbourne airport] and told me of the [unreported publicly] tale of the Jumble that took off North only to emulate one of these....looked like it wasn't going to lift so the pilot dialled in full thrust and 'just made it'. There's a church with pine trees, etc just North of the runway.... When the plane landed in Sydney the ground crew removed the tree branches in the undercarriage.....;)
 
The rework of the Khrushchev skin has been driving me nuts....probably really should have upped the nose and fuse to 4096 and get things to join up 'easier' [maybe]....;p

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Edit ...... finished.... after checking another photo and reverting the anti-glare to the wider style...as is correct on this version.
It's sorta 'clean', with sooty wings. Next ver I'll add some weathering...;)

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Edit 2 .... wasn't finished...needed to realign the doors to match the model's doors ...;)
 
Jafo, can you test your paints at night or dawn time, and see if you get see threw engine nasals?? When I got to UHPP on approach I went outside camera night time and didn't see the engines or there textures. I need to see if you have it on your end or if it is my computer having it's monthly attitude.
 
CG_1976 said:
Jafo, can you test your paints at night or dawn time, and see if you get see threw engine nasals?? When I got to UHPP on approach I went outside camera night time and didn't see the engines or there textures. I need to see if you have it on your end or if it is my computer having it's monthly attitude.
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How about that?
Just loaded the latest one....the modern ver of the Aeroflot...and the chrome trims of the nacelles is transparent.
Not sure if that's even fixable...but will have a look...;)

Could be a limitation of a 2004 model.
 
Fixed/solved.
I'll have to check the original aircraft release to see if it had one...but you need a 'Tu114engines_l.bmp' [or .dds]

If you haven't got one in any of your texture folders.... copy an existing 'Tu114peredok_l.dds' and rename it.
Then put it in any/all the texture folders...and low-light texturing on the engines will be OK....;)

Edit.... just checked....and yes, there was one in the original...so you should have it....and can copy it to any of the skins of mine you use.

Darned if I know what happened to mine....

Gremlins....;p
 
Before I upload the recent ones I had a go at more clearly defining the sections of the bitmap for the fuselage....there's more dead space than I'd imagined...quite weird, really.

So here's an early go at the next one...;)

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