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A2A Connie is released!

JK love the paints but Brain and Brown? did they ever have a Connie? Is Qantas in the pipeline? bare metal or later white paint?
 
Excellente, Jan Kees ! :encouragement:

You might want to have another look at the size and position of the AF logo ?

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Btw, if you run out of ideas for L-049 liveries : https://get.google.com/albumarchive...wFHr?source=pwa#slideshow/5963215711009270290

Will be hard to find any that are not portrayed here.. :cool:
 
Jan , not sure what it is but the link you posted with those photo's .. that longer nose really just add's to the look of the Connie, its a Great link, funny as you study the aircraft it really seems to add to its good looks.
 
Jan, thank your for that link, I found some new inspriration.
As for the AF logo, I was aware of that, and other errors, these were shots from my first testflight. I am still working without a paintkit, and thus figuring out the texture layout.
KLM, lots of people said they were going to paint that, I'm sure it will come..
 
scotth6 said:
The HARS Connie is usually at the Avalon Airshow, which is on again soon; February 28th through to March 5th, 2017. I went on board, as they let you hop on and sit and wander around for a few dollars donation. It's an awesome experience, even if it is just sitting on the tarmac. I did get a bit of vertigo just climbing the stairs to get on board though. It's a long way up.

I suggested they should put it back in to commercial service, as I would have loved to have flown somewhere in it.

Cheers,
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Scotth6 - Did you happen to notice what colour the seats were and cockpit panel? I have a suspicion looking at the B&W photos from 1947 that there were black or grey/blue and the instrument panel wa a light grey!
 
Ian Warren said:
Jan , not sure what it is but the link you posted with those photo's .. that longer nose really just add's to the look of the Connie, its a Great link, funny as you study the aircraft it really seems to add to its good looks.
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Unlike humans she remains the gorgeous and gracefull lady she's always been no matter what plastic surgery they have inflicted upon her. :cool:

The radar nose does do her well indeed. I cannot remember the time i did *not* study the Connie, Ian. To me it's the most beautiful and impressive airliner ever. I once covered the 1:72 Heller model completely with household aluminium foil. (after careful modification into a L-049, including new engine nacelles and sanding off the unindented panel lines and engraving new indented panel lines). Panel by panel to avoid wrinkling. Took one and a half year. Yep, i love the Connie. :smile:
 
jankees said:
Jan, thank your for that link, I found some new inspriration.
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Great to know, Jan Kees !

As for the AF logo, I was aware of that, and other errors, these were shots from my first testflight. I am still working without a paintkit, and thus figuring out the texture layout
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Figured it would be something like that. No doubt it will be absolutely perfect !

KLM, lots of people said they were going to paint that, I'm sure it will come..
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Yes, Marcel will do the early scheme and someone at the A2A forum will be doing a later scheme with white roof although based on the 749.

Thanks! :encouragement:
 
Hiya,

Indeed working on a KLM livery. Stewardess and airstairs are finished:
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Awaiting the paintkit, i already did some work on the stripe on the fuselage, which is a big challenge due to the curve of the fuselage and the way the textures are mapped.
Straid line on the texture will give a curved line on the aircraft, so to make a strait line on the aircraft you need to make a curved line on the texture. For this i really need the
repaintkit with a mesh-layer to see how the fuselage is curved is in relation to the textures.

Also already ran into a problem with the "passing light" runs strait through the KLM crown logo on the nose. Even with all the textures removed (normal/spec/bump) it still show because of the material i think.
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Asked Lewis (A2A) if there is a solution for this.

Regards,

Marcel
 
I guess it is getting out of turn but does anybody know whether some variants of the Constellation are planned by A2A, namely the L749 (An 049 with more tankage) and the L1049 (long nose and tip. tanks). I really like all the Constellations and well really getting to know the aeroplane again via the 049 is no bad thing either. But for design and style then the long nose tip tanked L1049 has to be it.

On a personal note it was a trip to PNG in the Qantas Connie as wee youngster that really inspired me to get into aviation professionally. The sound of those engines is burned into my memory as was the view from the windows which was pretty amazing and there is nothing like the sound of that synchronised rumble of a Connie (and the DC-3) going overhead at altitude to make you heart skip a beat. Alas it is the one thing that FSX cannot do recreate that doppler sound shift of an aircraft going overhead.
 
Going to download today! It seems that many people want the long-nose Connies, but I prefer the snort nose. Not that my opinion should be of concern to anyone, but I would not want A2A to think that the short nose isn’t preferred by at least some of us.<o:p></o:p>
 
Javis said:
Unlike humans she remains the gorgeous and gracefull lady she's always been no matter what plastic surgery they have inflicted upon her. :cool:

The radar nose does do her well indeed. I cannot remember the time i did *not* study the Connie, Ian. To me it's the most beautiful and impressive airliner ever. I once covered the 1:72 Heller model completely with household aluminium foil. (after careful modification into a L-049, including new engine nacelles and sanding off the unindented panel lines and engraving new indented panel lines). Panel by panel to avoid wrinkling. Took one and a half year. Yep, i love the Connie. :smile:
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The things we do with our plastic model kitset's , funny how one aircraft has created so much interest, You like me and everyone here who's Connie mad dose really get to look at the nuts and bolts, me I have a personal story from childhood, then on the HARS aircraft one crew member said two me, here comes the Spy again , tho it was a 1049, one thing a visitor said was "WOW look how big the cabin is" .. an aircraft from a different era.
 
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