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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Cessna 185 Amphibian

Helldiver said:
Wouldn't you just know it. The plane was there yesterday and they flew it out this morning for it's annual. Won't be back in a week.
The mountain in the background was taken at Moosehead Lake. No mountains around Plum Island airport.
I was going to stand in the back of Alex's 1 ton pickup to take the pictures.
Will try it next week.
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I was looking at a beautiful 180 in Hampton this morning and brought up this very 185 and how I would like to drive down to plum island to see it. Later in the afternoon we had to stop into Eagle East at Lawrence Municipal Airport and there it was! Strange coincidence.
 
PRB said:
Maine? Why go up there? There's nothing up there but mooses and endless wilderness! :d

That is a beautiful looking floater!
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LMAO, come on now, Maine ain't all that bad. Up around Moosehead and north of there is pretty desolate, but the midcoast region, and to a lesser extent, the downeast region have grown exponentially in the past ten years. And let us not forget that we also have Bath Iron Works, where two of the three new DD-1000 Zumwalt class destroyers will be built and a bunch of Arleigh Burkes, I sleep easier knowing that Bath built ships are holding the line.

As far as flying goes, in FSX or X-Plane you can get a pretty good feel for the area. I always fly out of the field I soloed at (Merry Meeting Field, 08B) in Bowdionham and it's a blast. The contoured runways in X-Plane are so accurate that the big hump midway down the runway in real life is there in the sim as well!

And yes, that is a fine looking floater!
 
Mirror, mirror...

Back on the original topic of painting the Carenado 185 amphib...

Gents, I'm undone. I loaded up the progress I've made up 'til now on LeGasse's "76" paint scheme, just to see how it looks so far on the new amphib. Wouldn't you know it, they mirrored the *#&%R rudder. Why this happened, I have no idea, but it really borks this model for painting. The kicker is, there are spaces for both left and right sides of the rudder on the texture sheet itself; it's just that the right side isn't used.

Aaaaargh. I emailed Carenado about it on the off chance that they can correct it. If not, I'm afraid this particular paint job has hit the skids. Fortunately, I've already sunk like four hours into it. That time is just gone, baby, gone.

I'm gonna go have a beer now. Or three.
 
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