Alphasim HU-16 Albatross preview (WIP)

Oh, I forgot that there is one of these here in town at a museum. It's an old USAF one. i should go take some pictures.
 
Navychief, I don't know what Navy you were in but we took care and pride in our aircraft in WWII and It looks like it came back with Wings of Gold tenure in the U.S. Navy.
Maybe you were deserted out in somewhere in the boonies where no body noticed but we kept things up ship-shape.
 
Helldiver said:
Navychief, I don't know what Navy you were in but we took care and pride in our aircraft in WWII and It looks like it came back with Wings of Gold tenure in the U.S. Navy.
Maybe you were deserted out in somewhere in the boonies where no body noticed but we kept things up ship-shape.
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You think so?
 
I'm not going near the weathering-vs-clean debate, but...
I just wanted to say that Dan's rendition of weathered high-vis (DayGlo) orange (see pic) is about the best I've seen. This paint was used on a lot of planes through the years and it didn't take long for it to fade and look ugly regardless of how well the planes were maintained.
 
Chaps, try this on for size. Modificatons made to the nose, rudder, tail, pylons, and all the relevant gear (functioning searchlight included) has been added. The MAD boom can be trailed.
 
d0mokun said:
Chaps, try this on for size. Modificatons made to the nose, rudder, tail, pylons, and all the relevant gear (functioning searchlight included) has been added. The MAD boom can be trailed.
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Thats just too cool (for lack of a better phrase). I love flying these types of variants, whether they be ASW, AWACS or tanker.
 
Looks good, thank you! This will make Dag and me happy for sure. I hope you will include a paintkit so that I can try a RNoAF 333 Sqn repaint!
 
JensOle said:
Looks good, thank you! This will make Dag and me happy for sure. I hope you will include a paintkit so that I can try a RNoAF 333 Sqn repaint!
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I purposely painted the HAF aircraft because I thought you both might want to paint the other birds yourself ;)
 
Wings of Gold said:
With respects to the Chief, I'm a retired Naval Aviator and have never seen weathering that severe on a USN aircraft (at least when I was on active service). It does indeed look like it had done a spell in the boneyard (DM AFB). This was when there were enough aircraft that the crews had their own (complete with names painted on!). The crews were very proud of their birds. We used to come in weekends that we weren't flying and wash our P-2. A couple of times a year we would wax it (fly faster than the other squadron aircraft)! These aircraft went in for next level maintenance and inspection (O&R) priorically - and came back with a fresh paint job. The USN had automatic wash sites that we would taxi our P-3's through after EVERY flight. If I saw an aircraft in my own squadron that looked this dirty I would have had the Maintenance Officer in for a friendly discussion (like in Top Gun). I frequently saw the Whidbey Island UF. I assure you that it never looked this decrepit.

Bill
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Yes, we had our own aircraft (SP-2E) with crew names painted...I was the radioman. Yes, we were proud of our plane, kept it clean. But we spent our free weekends on liberty, not washing our P-2.

I never saw an "O" washing a plane unless he lost a bet.

VP-26 CAC-6
 
Here's a few shots of my favourite scheme. This one is the 'Billabong Clipper', one of two flown in Billabong Clothing colours.

I don't know whether or not this one will be in the release, though, due to potential copyright issues. It'll be on the normal sites as a repaint if it's not in the pack.

Just for the clean fans here, I've also attached two shots of a clean ARRS type.

ATB
Dan.
 
d0mokun said:
Chaps, try this on for size. Modificatons made to the nose, rudder, tail, pylons, and all the relevant gear (functioning searchlight included) has been added. The MAD boom can be trailed.
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Outstanding to have the Greek version modeled but can I comment on the colour please? They used to be bluegray actually, as posted on my earlier post here:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showpost.php?p=148853&postcount=11

Unless they used to be green before I served there.

Thanks for adding this option. A good reason for me to grab this when it's out.
 
It amazes me that you have any time to design Dan, especially when I look at your shots and how great they look. If my sim looked that great I'd be flying more than developing, LOL.
 
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