A2A WOPIII P-47 Out Now!!!

ooohhhh, colour!!!

OK, then, in colour it is!

Here's a few shots of my first test flight. I was lucky, the checkers connected up brilliantly, so things look OK...except in close up that is, now what is this? Alpha? Spec file? Spec alpha? back to the drawing board..
 
OK, once you've done the checkers, the rest is easy...
Looking at some of the pics of the 353rd, I noticed that some have a black cowling with yellow checkers, while others have a yellow cowling with black checkers, so I will have a look at doing an 'inverted' one too. Any suggestions?

and reading up on the 353rd, it says that they started removing the easy recognition stripes (the ones on the tail) by the time the new checkers were introduced. What do you think, keep 'em, or take 'em off?
 
I'll do something for RAF Raydon to fly them from this weekend. It may take a week or so to actually get uploaded. ;)
 
Don't you just love those lazy sundays, with nothing better to do than paint a bit, fly a bit, work a bit in the garden, paint a bit more...
 
DC,

It does me proud to see my paints are good and resolute on othjers system. That is all credit to jankees' tip on saving the texture with no MipMaps.

I have another one in the works, but my computer is occupied at the moment by the eldest playing one of his new sims. We're having family out this afternoon for supper and I doubt I'll get anything done until tomorrow after I get the chaps to school.

I shall inform all here that are as anally retentive as some of my plastic modeling friends that the antenna post was mounted slightly to starboard and there was no aerial wiring after mid-1943 in any Thunderbolts.

Does it bother me. Not in the least as you can see by my repaints. :ernae:

Caz
 
Fine stuff jankees, love the heck out of the "New Yorker" and "Georgia Peach", 'round here that would be "Jaw'ja Peach".

BTW, you or someone pointed me to a site once, but where do you find your Project Nos. for the particular serial no.? I leave mine blank lest I do have the information.

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
Fine stuff jankees, love the heck out of the "New Yorker" and "Georgia Peach", 'round here that would be "Jaw'ja Peach".

BTW, you or someone pointed me to a site once, but where do you find your Project Nos. for the particular serial no.? I leave mine blank lest I do have the information.

Caz
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The project no you mean? I have no idea. In some cases, where I have a good pic of the data block, I fill in what it was, in others, I leave the previous one or I invent something...

Jaw'ja? Lots of people with a speech impediment in those parts are there?

gajit said:
wow that looks excellent - and colourful!
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Turns out there is even more colour on it, I forgot to paint the wheels:
 
Great paints but ya'll gotta stop!

I have allot of payware aircraft & to conserve on HD space I pick my fav 2-3 paints for each bird & delete the rest.

Ya'll are making the decisions more difficult! :costumes:
 
Capt. Marvin C. Grant's "Sylvia"

Capt. Grant of the 342nd FS, 348 FG hailed from Racine, Wisconsin and attained seven victories in campaigns in the Southwest Pacific, most coming during the sweep of New Guinea in 1944.

It oddly still had an OD over NG cowling, that I just had to represent, not to mention the side stripe and Carolina Blue tail stripe. Some things stay close to a Southern boy's heart.

Caz

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Oh cool, Sylvia! That was my first repaint of the WoP3 version, fun to see how yours is different from mine!
The OD nose came from Grant's earlier P-47, and had "Racine Belle" on the other side BTW.
I based mine on a picture in 'Kearby's Thunderbolts', which showed a blue line, an OD anti glare panel, serial 42-27886, and the blue vertical stripe in the same blue as the flag on the tail. It also showed the side stripes to stop at the intercooler doors, and the 84 in 'serial' font.
However, I now also have the 'Warpaint special no1' on the jug, and there a profile shows a continuous white stripe all the way to the tail, no vertical blue bar, and a black antiglare panel, that also covers the cowl flaps....
I also bought the 'P-47 aces of the Pacific' ,with OD panel, white stripe, light blue, pffffff
Finally there is a picture of the original, which is in black and white, nice to determine the colors...I think I have more pics, but can't find them just now..
Looking at the pic, I'd say an OD panel, lighter blue on the tail, shorter white (light blue?) stripe, 'serial' 84 and no OD on the cowl flaps, but I'm not sure...If only they had taken color pics from all angles of all aircraft they flew....

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jankees said:
Oh cool, Sylvia! That was my first repaint of the WoP3 version, fun to see how yours is different from mine!
The OD nose came from Grant's earlier P-47, and had "Racine Belle" on the other side BTW.
I based mine on a picture in 'Kearby's Thunderbolts', which showed a blue line, an OD anti glare panel, serial 42-27886, and the blue vertical stripe in the same blue as the flag on the tail. It also showed the side stripes to stop at the intercooler doors, and the 84 in 'serial' font.
However, I now also have the 'Warpaint special no1' on the jug, and there a profile shows a continuous white stripe all the way to the tail, no vertical blue bar, and a black antiglare panel, that also covers the cowl flaps....
I also bought the 'P-47 aces of the Pacific' ,with OD panel, white stripe, light blue, pffffff
Finally there is a picture of the original, which is in black and white, nice to determine the colors...I think I have more pics, but can't find them just now..
Looking at the pic, I'd say an OD panel, lighter blue on the tail, shorter white (light blue?) stripe, 'serial' 84 and no OD on the cowl flaps, but I'm not sure...If only they had taken color pics from all angles of all aircraft they flew....

:jump::jump::jump:
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Somehow, I missed that Jan. But I agree, I have the same B & W photo and i would say that judging by the tonality, the A-G is OD also. I think i am going to amend mine.

I had never seen the profile with the blue stripe, did you do that?

You have a good eye on the cowl flaps, yet another texture in the layers I checked and should not have. :banghead::banghead:

The bad thing about it all is that I have to amend the dad-bland spec texture and both Alphas too. And these super-size textures take forever and a day to load. I need to go back and do aopther FS9 paint for the fun of it.

And y'all wonder why I don't do more, these thing are beasts to keep the layers in order. I bet the computer spends as much time processing ans saving these huge image textures as I do do the paint!

Caz

EDIT: Fixed it jankees.

The errant darker texture on the cowl flaps was because of an error in the main texture's Alpha. I went ahead and changed the AG to OD while I was at it and amended the main spec texture to render the AG OD more correctly.

Taken at Mariposo-Yosemite. Took a little flight to the falls.

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Whoops, sorry Caz, I didn't want to give you extra work!
I just thought it was fun seeing them side by side, and to give an illustration of the problems you face when repainting these aircraft. You're never sure you've got everything right (unless you're doing a modern warbird of course, but there aren't that many Razorbacks left I think), so it's always a compromise.

As for these big texture files, yes, they take forever to load, but they make life easier too. I've also started with the A2A B-17, but that has 5 (smaller) texture files, but I'm now stuck with a color difference between two of them that I can't find...is it the main texture? the alpha? the spec? the alphaspec? aaaargh! Give me one big texture every time!

BTW, I finished one more, and uploaded it, happy flying!
 
I've been waiting on "The New Yorker" since I saw it in previous screens.

Before I go to the trouble to send it up, have you or anyone else done "Miss Mary Lou"?

I just finished her, if not already done, she'll go up tomorrow, bedtime for Bonzo here.

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
I've been waiting on "The New Yorker" since I saw it in previous screens.
Before I go to the trouble to send it up, have you or anyone else done "Miss Mary Lou"?
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No, I haven't. It came with the previous P-47 version I think?
 
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