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[Blackbird686]

This is GREAT!!! New paints to put on the Lodestar, a revised FM... Makes flying the model very enjoyable in the developmental stages. OK, nuf' said. I already have too many posts in the FS9 Forum for one day.

BB686

 

[Milton Shupe]

Flight Model Updates for the Lodestar L-18 and C-57-C60A

Attached are both the FS9 and FSX FM's for the L-18 and the C57-C60A WIP releases.

These are very different between the sims so use the correct ones please.

Please make a backup of your cfgs so that you can copy over any [fltsim.x] changes you have made.

 

[Andre19]

Sabena Lodestars

Thanks for the info Okami, great to hear from you again. I will be doing the other Sabena schemes, just need a few days to finish them.

Thanks Milton. When the camo textures are available for download you can experiment. Sounds like you can't have both matt and glare in the same model.

Other Sabena WIP's

 

[Okami]

Hi André,

Glad to be of help!

Two minor corrections, though: The two 'civvy' Lodestars of Sabena (OO-CAI & OO-CAJ) were L-18-07s with P&W Hornet engines, rather than the later Twin Wasps.

http://www.bamfbamrs.be/Bahl/displayimage.php?pid=1561&fullsize=1

Also, the Lodestars never had a white top in Sabena service, this livery was only introduced in about 1952-ish. I know a picture exists which appears to show OO-CAJ with a white top - however, this is merely the sun's reflection on her bare metal roof!

http://www.bamfbamrs.be/Bahl/displayimage.php?pid=1549&fullsize=1
http://www.bamfbamrs.be/Bahl/displayimage.php?pid=1543&fullsize=1

 

[Andre19]

Thanks Okami. I'll make the necessary changes.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Here's a nice Lodestar interior ...

 

[Willy]

I think my personal ride Harpoon is coming along nicely. Still a bit more detail work to do, but I just did the first test flight with the alpha layers. Also a shots of the VC. And a custom Harpoon logo that I did for it.

Almost ready to start a round the world flight.....

 

[Milton Shupe]

Willy,

That looks great! Looks like a lot of fun fixin' to happen there.

BTW, the cowling intakes you show are very light colored, by design?

That was an area I remapped by Nigel's request so he could darken that area of teh cowling under the upper lip.

Not sure you have the latest engine templates so I attached here.

 

[Willy]

That is an area that I hadn't figured out which part of the texture mapping covers. Thanks for the texture mapping! I'd about decided to just leave it be, but now I can revisit it. Also, I think I got one of the P&W logos on the side of the cowlings upside down.

 

[Milton Shupe]

That is an area that I hadn't figured out which part of the texture mapping covers. Thanks for the texture mapping! I'd about decided to just leave it be, but now I can revisit it. Also, I think I got one of the P&W logos on the side of the cowlings upside down.

Yes, the bottom right of both maps shown in attached.

The area highlighted is beneath the upper intake housing and part of the cowling surface beneath it.

 

[mrogers]

They look good Andre!
Willy that looks good too. I like the repaints.
And Milton, that cabin interior in that photo looks nice too. I plan to paint the cabin so it might look something similar to that in the photo. The wall behind the cockpit seats has both sides mapped to the same texture though as I found when painting the vc. The vc textures i'm doing are coming along nicely so I'll post a couple of screenshots later today.

 

[Milton Shupe]

They look good Andre!
Willy that looks good too. I like the repaints.
And Milton, that cabin interior in that photo looks nice too. I plan to paint the cabin so it might look something similar to that in the photo. The wall behind the cockpit seats has both sides mapped to the same texture though as I found when painting the vc. The vc textures i'm doing are coming along nicely so I'll post a couple of screenshots later today.

mrogers,

I mapped the sides separately as shown here. Are you saying that both sides get painted when you do the cockpit side?

 

[mrogers]

Yes, that's right, both sides. That template you're showing looks a bit different from the Lodestar template though? Or is there an update I've missed?
Edit:I think that must be the template for the Mallard?

 

[Milton Shupe]

Yes, that's right, both sides. That template you're showing looks a bit different from the Lodestar template though? Or is there an update I've missed?
Edit:I think that must be the template for the Mallard?

LOL Yup it is. Got my hands crossed with so many things happening now.

I am working on the Ventura, looking at Willy's Harpoon paint, and watching the Mallard progress, and got confused on what you were working on and what I needed to look at.

I will change the mapping to add the cabin side of that Lodestar panel next to the cockpit side, just to the right of it.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Lodestar Model Updates

The attached contains updates to the four Lodestar model folders.
Corrects the cockpit/cabin wall mapping so they may be painted differently.

4-model replacement folders for the L-18s and the C-57 and C-60A
1-2048 template of the cabinwalls.bmp
1-texture replacement for the FS texture folders
1-readme

 

[mrogers]

Excellent, thank you very much, Milton.

 

[mrogers]

Here is the Lodestar VC , still a WIP in progress. Note that I'm now texturing the seats with my own WIP textures - might have to color the frame a different color and also give the cushions a bit more color depth too. I haven't started on the passenger cabin yet - doing one thing at a time, and when the cockpit is done I'll move on to the cabin. Having some fun and enjoying doing the texturing in my own time.

 

[Maarten -]

Here is the Lodestar VC , still a WIP in progress. Note that I'm now texturing the seats with my own WIP textures - might have to color the frame a different color and also give the cushions a bit more color depth too. I haven't started on the passenger cabin yet - doing one thing at a time, and when the cockpit is done I'll move on to the cabin. Having some fun and enjoying doing the texturing in my own time.

Jawdroppingly fabulous!!!

Cheers,
Maarten

 

[expat]

Excellent work Mark!

 

[Andre19]

Great progress on the cockpit textures Mark

I think I'm done with the Sabena textures, but if anyone spots a problem it can be easily fixed.
fwiw. Any changes that I do for new paints i.e. panel lines etc I also do for the other WIP textures. Use the existing links to download the updates.

OO-CAI
https://app.box.com/s/5u56rra5dvbh14zj117opqbjju7oqems

OO-CAR
https://app.box.com/s/0g9hxg1bbfwyje9j2h8t1nyg372l6awc

OO-CAJ
https://app.box.com/s/j2ylxhrzx5eeeh4p8kxqv3x8d7ed42im