C123 repaints continued.
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These are beautiful paints! Excellent works!
I wonder, since both sides of Viet Nam are represented, what about both sides of Laos? Will Stalin help comrade Choummaly Sayasone with a C-123 for the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force? :d
I wonder, since both sides of Viet Nam are represented, what about both sides of Laos? Will Stalin help comrade Choummaly Sayasone with a C-123 for the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force? :d
Mick
SOH-CM-2024
OK, this here one just went up the pipe.
Air America converted their C-123Bs to Ks, so this paint is right for both versions.
I painted this plane way back when Vlad first released it, but in those days I didn't know how to enable reflections in a model, so the repaint looked more like silver paint than bare metal.
Now it looks like shiny natural metal, but since the alpha channel now controls reflections, I could no longer use it to disappear the wing tanks, which AA apparently never used.
I like the shiny finish enough to accept the drop tanks.
Air America converted their C-123Bs to Ks, so this paint is right for both versions.
I painted this plane way back when Vlad first released it, but in those days I didn't know how to enable reflections in a model, so the repaint looked more like silver paint than bare metal.
Now it looks like shiny natural metal, but since the alpha channel now controls reflections, I could no longer use it to disappear the wing tanks, which AA apparently never used.
I like the shiny finish enough to accept the drop tanks.
Mick
SOH-CM-2024
'Nother one just went up.
This is an Air Force Reserve bird in the overall Aircraft Gray (aka "ADC Gray") livery it wore at the end of its service life. When it was painted the rudder and elevators were left silver.
Later I'll be uploading another paint of the same plane with the same markings over an overall silver paint livery. The photos I worked from were taken from the exact same angle and at a glance they look like two copies of one shot. Closer examination shows that in one picture the plane is painted silver, and the background in the flight line of an active Air Force Base. In the other picture the plane's painted Aircraft Gray except for the tail feathers, and the background shows the bone yard, with stripped out hulks standing in the sand.
I've always liked that overall Aircraft Gray livery. I think it makes any plane look its best.
Here's a screenie of the repaint and a copy of the photo.
This is an Air Force Reserve bird in the overall Aircraft Gray (aka "ADC Gray") livery it wore at the end of its service life. When it was painted the rudder and elevators were left silver.
Later I'll be uploading another paint of the same plane with the same markings over an overall silver paint livery. The photos I worked from were taken from the exact same angle and at a glance they look like two copies of one shot. Closer examination shows that in one picture the plane is painted silver, and the background in the flight line of an active Air Force Base. In the other picture the plane's painted Aircraft Gray except for the tail feathers, and the background shows the bone yard, with stripped out hulks standing in the sand.
I've always liked that overall Aircraft Gray livery. I think it makes any plane look its best.
Here's a screenie of the repaint and a copy of the photo.
Following this logic your gonna want a Kampuchea scheme as well :costumes:
Will get both Laos 1975 and Cambodian 1976 befor i have done.
Steve