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

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DeHavilland Dh89a Dragon Rapide

I was searching after seeing that excellent representation. It is polished aluminum. Although my efforts to find that same aircraft came up with nothing. I honestly don't think it has been done because HG 691 is painted silver. But, looking under the wing it appears to be one in the same. I'd say the FS repainter got it wrong.
 
i'm working on a new paracuthe effect from airplane(there is one but is bidimensional) this will be in 3d for the military version of dragon but if works (just making first test) it will apply to all future models that were able

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OleBoy said:
I was searching after seeing that excellent representation. It is polished aluminum. Although my efforts to find that same aircraft came up with nothing. I honestly don't think it has been done because HG 691 is painted silver. But, looking under the wing it appears to be one in the same. I'd say the FS repainter got it wrong.
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I dug through my set of photographs from my flight on HG 691 in addition to the one I linked earlier. From what I can see the nose cone section with the light plus the engine and wheel coverings are metal. The rest of the fuselage and wings seem to be covered in a form of canvas, maybe over metal, which is painted a silver grey. The angle of my posted shot, plus the processing of it, do make it look like it is all metallic when it is not.

Jeff
 
Most of the wing frame was wood and doped fabric, the fuselage and it's sides were plywood with I think some aluminium parts, the only real metal skinning was over the engines in the cowls! I think that's right most of them were built by carpenters and joiners and not by aircraft engineers the way we think of them today!
 
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