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Consolidated Catalina PBY-6A USN uploaded
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Consolidated Catalina PBY-6A FS9.zip
A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military - Props
Description: Next in the series of revamps for the Alphasim PBY5 Catalinas. This is a Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina, last of the production versions of the PBY, for FS9.
Shessi
To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Consolidated Catalina PBY-6A FS9.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FS 2004 Military - Props
Description: Next in the series of revamps for the Alphasim PBY5 Catalinas. This is a Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina, last of the production versions of the PBY, for FS9.
Shessi
To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Consolidated Catalina PBY-6A FS9.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
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I've been fiddling with the -6A and I'm scratching my head over something.
I can't figure out this white line along the wing panel flange fairing, on the outside side of both wings. The WW2 skin has it too, but it doesn't stick out so much against the gray under-surfaces.
I can't find it in the texture files. It's a little thing and it's on the bottom, so not a big deal, but nice if it's fixable.
Am I missing something in the textures? Is it an untextured bit left from the old original AlphaSims plane? Correctable or someting to live with? Any ideas? Mark? Anyone?
I've been fiddling with the -6A and I'm scratching my head over something.
I can't figure out this white line along the wing panel flange fairing, on the outside side of both wings. The WW2 skin has it too, but it doesn't stick out so much against the gray under-surfaces.
I can't find it in the texture files. It's a little thing and it's on the bottom, so not a big deal, but nice if it's fixable.
Am I missing something in the textures? Is it an untextured bit left from the old original AlphaSims plane? Correctable or someting to live with? Any ideas? Mark? Anyone?
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
I've got an idea. Watch this space...
Edit:
Well, my idea didn't work out. I thought I'd just change white parts of the model material to dark sea blue until I got the part that includes the wing panel joint flange fairings. Surprise! The model doesn't respond to Modelmat! I can change any model material to any color and save it, but the model doesn't change color at all. No matter what color I put in Modelmat, the model stays white with a few black and gray bits. I never saw a model before that didn't take color changes with Modelmat. Huh!
Another little thing is that I can't find a way to color the nose gear dark sea blue. Both the wheel and the strut show up as white and since they don't seem to be in the texture files, I guess that they takes the model material color.
These are little things that I can live with of necessary, but fixes would be nice. Meanwhile, I'll take my time about painting the one more skin that I have in mind. Maybe someone can suggest fixes in the meantime. If not, I'll put the skins up the pipe as they are.
I am still really pleased to have a PBY-6A!
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Mick,
Sorry been busy, I'll take a look but all should be textured?
As for uc, the PBY6A is at the very end of the limit of compilation (various reasons, polys, part number, and textures). Trying to texture everything means it would not compile, so I left the UC a neutral light grey/white colour, so either that or no PBY............
Cheers
Shessi
Sorry been busy, I'll take a look but all should be textured?
As for uc, the PBY6A is at the very end of the limit of compilation (various reasons, polys, part number, and textures). Trying to texture everything means it would not compile, so I left the UC a neutral light grey/white colour, so either that or no PBY............
Cheers
Shessi
Just had a look. It's Alphasim's fault..honest! 
Unfortunately they made the outside of that wing rib square (WHY?!), and so it needs a LH tex (for just this little rib area) as well as the bottom tex. Not spotted as bottom tex is nearly the same colour as the material. I can upload a modded one, would rather not, if you can live with it.
As for the UC I can't do anything about that as, to split up the UC to allow specific texturing of parts would add to the total part numbers, it is right at the end of that limit and will not compile with any more parts. So I had to compromise to just having UC material colour for the whole UC and no tex.....
Cheers
Shessi
Unfortunately they made the outside of that wing rib square (WHY?!), and so it needs a LH tex (for just this little rib area) as well as the bottom tex. Not spotted as bottom tex is nearly the same colour as the material. I can upload a modded one, would rather not, if you can live with it.
As for the UC I can't do anything about that as, to split up the UC to allow specific texturing of parts would add to the total part numbers, it is right at the end of that limit and will not compile with any more parts. So I had to compromise to just having UC material colour for the whole UC and no tex.....
Cheers
Shessi
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Just had a look. It's Alphasim's fault..honest!
Thanks Mark,
I thought the glitch on the wings was probably something AlphaSims did. It fits right in with the kinds of things you mentioned finding when you first started working on the model. We can live with it. At least it's on the bottom.
No big deal about the gear either. After the dark sea blue era the Navy started painting gear and gear wells white. And it won't show on the water, or in the air once the gear is retracted.
I've got three skins ready to go up the pipe, so up they go.
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Skins Ready
OK, I've painted three Classic Era PBY-6A skins: a utility plane of Utility Squadron Seven (VU-7) based at NAS North Island, California; a patrol bomber of the Boston Reserves based at NAS Squantum, Massachusetts with the orange Reserve tail band; and an Air Sea Rescue plane based at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, with the yellow ASR fuselage band and wing panels, all from the late 1940s.
I also included a model file with specular gloss enabled (actually semi-gloss) so as to properly display the overall glossy dark sea blue of all three planes.
OK, I've painted three Classic Era PBY-6A skins: a utility plane of Utility Squadron Seven (VU-7) based at NAS North Island, California; a patrol bomber of the Boston Reserves based at NAS Squantum, Massachusetts with the orange Reserve tail band; and an Air Sea Rescue plane based at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, with the yellow ASR fuselage band and wing panels, all from the late 1940s.
I also included a model file with specular gloss enabled (actually semi-gloss) so as to properly display the overall glossy dark sea blue of all three planes.
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Yes, they really do look very Mick..
Very nice job, love 'em!
I tell you what, when I finish the CFS2 versions, I'll mod that rib and tex that section to the rest of the wing on that version, which you can use...deal?
Cheers
Shessi
Sounds good! If I understand correctly...
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Classic Era Skins Re-Posted-
When I packed up the three Classic Era skins I neglected to include the semi-gloss model file that brings out the proper look of the overall glossy dark sea blue finish.
I have just deleted the incomplete file and uploaded a replacement that will be on the download list as soon as Rami does his thing to make it available.
Apologies to Rami for his trouble, and to the five people who downloaded the original file without the glossy model.
When I packed up the three Classic Era skins I neglected to include the semi-gloss model file that brings out the proper look of the overall glossy dark sea blue finish.
I have just deleted the incomplete file and uploaded a replacement that will be on the download list as soon as Rami does his thing to make it available.
Apologies to Rami for his trouble, and to the five people who downloaded the original file without the glossy model.
Hi Mick,
Just had a thought that I could upload a separate modded USN 6A version (with wing tex mod!), shined and with your texs included....but I see you're half way there...
That way you get your 'perfect tex' wing, shined and your texs....
I know it will send Rami a bit more bonkers, but he needs it to keep him on his toes...HA!
Let me know.
Cheers
Shessi
Just had a thought that I could upload a separate modded USN 6A version (with wing tex mod!), shined and with your texs included....but I see you're half way there...
That way you get your 'perfect tex' wing, shined and your texs....
I know it will send Rami a bit more bonkers, but he needs it to keep him on his toes...HA!
Let me know.
Cheers
Shessi
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Hi Mick,
Just had a thought that I could upload a separate modded USN 6A version (with wing tex mod!), shined and with your texs included....but I see you're half way there...
That way you get your 'perfect tex' wing, shined and your texs....
I know it will send Rami a bit more bonkers, but he needs it to keep him on his toes...HA!
Let me know.
Cheers
Shessi
Great idea! You could put something in the file description so those who have already grabbed my skins would know to get the new version and why they should want to.
You might put in your original WW2 skin too, since it's also affected by the mapping anomaly, just not so obvious because of the gray wing undersides.
If you put up the new version I can delete the skins-only file, so all Rami would need to do is his usual thing for the new file.
Mick,
All done...Ha! spotted a few things myself!! Isn't it always the way......
On the Quonset tex, the mapping was wrong for the RH float arm, not yellow as the LH one, corrected that.
You had forgotten to re-tex the radome, so was the wrong blue colour, re-done that small tex.
Also on the ac.cfg changes in your README for your x3 tex upload, unfortunately you missed out the ui_manufacturer=Consolidated for the Quonset tex, so it doesn't show up, corrected that.
So now corrected under wing mdl for all blue tex, shined, correct mapping for all texs, and complete ac.cfg...phew!
Uploading!
Cheers
Shessi
All done...Ha! spotted a few things myself!! Isn't it always the way......
On the Quonset tex, the mapping was wrong for the RH float arm, not yellow as the LH one, corrected that.
You had forgotten to re-tex the radome, so was the wrong blue colour, re-done that small tex.
Also on the ac.cfg changes in your README for your x3 tex upload, unfortunately you missed out the ui_manufacturer=Consolidated for the Quonset tex, so it doesn't show up, corrected that.
So now corrected under wing mdl for all blue tex, shined, correct mapping for all texs, and complete ac.cfg...phew!
Uploading!
Cheers
Shessi
