A while back some one was asking if there were any US Army paints for Eduardo's PT-19, and I told them that I would do up some US skins for the plane. Well, as generally happens when you are a paint shop addict with more than a touch of ADDADHDADDA, or what ever the syndrome is that my wife swears that I have, that project got started, then set aside when another project just HAD to be started, then another, and another, and so on and so forth.
Well, the good news is that I have made my way back to the PT-19. I totally scrapped everything that I had done on that paint template after finding some really good pics to work off of that really showed the details on the Cornell much more clearly than the profile paintings on Wings Palette. Like, did you all know that the PT-19 did not have cloth covered wings with visible ribbing? Nope. Plywood covered flight surfaces, with cloth covered control surfaces. So, the new paint template shows the wings as plywood covered, and same goes for the horizontal and vertical stabilizers. The elevators, rudder and airelons are cloth covered with ribbing.
The first US skin is nearly done, just have to make a few tweaks here and there...then mass production of skins will commence....that is, unless my ADDADHDAHDDADDA syndrome kicks in and I totally zone out on another aircraft.
I have also done a bit of work to the panel config, giving the plane a full compliment of vintage gauges....and getting the VC gauges to match...the Additude gauge in the VC is small due to the way the VC is broken up into 8 parts...nothing I can do to enlarge it. Also added an engine control window, will be adding a GPS window, a radio stack window (I think...have to check to make sure the needed radio info is in the config file).
I also have a CFS3 PT-19 sound pack that I will be modifying to work with CFS2, FS2002, FS2004, etc. Needs some stuff added to it, such as ground roll, wind, landing sounds...that sort of thing. The sound files are pretty nice, recorded off a real Ranger engine...I may tweak them to give them a bit more volume and punch...but not too much.
So many planes, so little time.
OBIO
Well, the good news is that I have made my way back to the PT-19. I totally scrapped everything that I had done on that paint template after finding some really good pics to work off of that really showed the details on the Cornell much more clearly than the profile paintings on Wings Palette. Like, did you all know that the PT-19 did not have cloth covered wings with visible ribbing? Nope. Plywood covered flight surfaces, with cloth covered control surfaces. So, the new paint template shows the wings as plywood covered, and same goes for the horizontal and vertical stabilizers. The elevators, rudder and airelons are cloth covered with ribbing.
The first US skin is nearly done, just have to make a few tweaks here and there...then mass production of skins will commence....that is, unless my ADDADHDAHDDADDA syndrome kicks in and I totally zone out on another aircraft.
I have also done a bit of work to the panel config, giving the plane a full compliment of vintage gauges....and getting the VC gauges to match...the Additude gauge in the VC is small due to the way the VC is broken up into 8 parts...nothing I can do to enlarge it. Also added an engine control window, will be adding a GPS window, a radio stack window (I think...have to check to make sure the needed radio info is in the config file).
I also have a CFS3 PT-19 sound pack that I will be modifying to work with CFS2, FS2002, FS2004, etc. Needs some stuff added to it, such as ground roll, wind, landing sounds...that sort of thing. The sound files are pretty nice, recorded off a real Ranger engine...I may tweak them to give them a bit more volume and punch...but not too much.
So many planes, so little time.
OBIO
