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Beech D18S WIP Thread

Tako_Kichi said:
Oh don't get me wrong Gray Eagle (I don't know your real name, sorry) I have no issues doing your repaints, it's just that I would never fly them. I have started on the white/red scheme but I am having some issues with the textures on the underside as they are showing up as a darker shade in the sim and so are all the others so something may have changed in the model or I messed something in the conversion and never noticed in testing. I need to do some more investigating to see if it's a texture problem or a model problem.

I am also still waiting for info from USN buffs as to whether the grey one was bare metal or painted grey/silver as that will affect how I do the repaint.
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I have discovered that the dark side of some of the aircraft can be an P3D setting in the graphics section.

For me, I made adjustments as shown and the undersides and sides
of some aircraft became less dark and more visible,

You mileage may vary.
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I know there is an obvious colour difference between P3D v4 and P3D v5 and it is one of the main reasons I decided to go with v4.5 a couple of months ago as I just did not like the colour rendering in the entire v5 variant. Those screenshots show what should be white or cream as a pale tan/beige or even putty colour which IMHO is not realistic at all!
 
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I know there is an obvious colour difference between P3D v4 and P3D v5 and it is one of the main reasons I decided to go with v4.5 a couple of months ago as I just did not like the colour rendering in the entire v5 variant. Those screenshots show what should be white or cream as a pale tan/beige or even putty colour which IMHO is not realistic at all!
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I've worked on the real deal back in 67-69 time frame at then NAS Cubi Pt Phillipines.

Believe me, that is white and not putty color. Ergo, I believe the colors rendered in P3D V5.4 are spot on.
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Here are some more photos of the C-45 Expeditor aka "Bug Smasher"

BTW all seven of the C45's had cracked spars.
http://www.vg-photo.com/utils/c45.html
 
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Great work! Back a year or so ago, I used to fly this. I watched a nice long video of the entire flight of a real one of these at OshKosh including its full preflight. It was soooo cool!
 
Tako_Kichi said:
I just found what might be the definitive video to answer a lot of questions. I WILL be making it a bare metal scheme after watching this:

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That would settle things in a convivial manner. The PBR effect should make the bare aluminum pop.
 
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In P3D V5.4, I am beta testing the White SNB converted to PBR and it looks really nice! Would appreciate any likes or interest in this livery from others. Let Tako_Kichi know as well.

It looks the same in P3D V4.5 (which I have also tried)

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