Beech D18S WIP Thread

[gray eagle]

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.

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.

 

[gray eagle]

Taken in P3D V5.4

 

[Tako_Kichi]

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!

 

[gray eagle]

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!

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.

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

 

[Tako_Kichi]

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:

 

[tgycgijoes]

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!

 

[gray eagle]

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:

That would settle things in a convivial manner. The PBR effect should make the bare aluminum pop.

 

[gray eagle]

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)

 

[gray eagle]

This is same aircraft in P3D V4.5

 

[zswobbie1]

That white looks great!!

 

[gray eagle]

This one looks great too!

 

[tgycgijoes]

Inside of the port vertical stab is red. Bare metal looks great.

 

[Tako_Kichi]

That's a reflection from the beacon/tail light!

 

[tgycgijoes]

Oops thanks for the heads up

 

[stansdds]

Looks great!