Finistair Aviation

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I completed the FSHub Challenge flying to the Canne Film Festival. I wanted to fly my Carenado Cessna Grand Caravan and Googled what Airlines in France were using this aircraft. I discovered Finistair Aviation. In searching for photos I discovered that Jan Kees Blom did a repaint for the Carenado Grand Caravan F-GJFI back in 2011 of the livery they were using at that time. I found it over at Avsim. (A really nice job). I am doing a repaint I will share here of their current livery. This is the 2011 livery:


This is a real photo of their current livery:

 

[tgycgijoes]

Working away slowly but surely. I got support with information from Textron aviation over the weekend and from the chief pilot at Finistair this morning with photos and actual decal info sheets detailing the decals on the nosewheel fairing. Here is a screenshot of what I just finished:

My only objection to Carenado's texture sheets is that some of the parts (like Microsoft did and FSX and P3D does) is use one part for both left and right sides and then type that is attached is mirrored on the other side depending on which one. There is no way around that beyond a total redo in Blender IMO which is waaaaay beyond my skills. I'll just deal with it. I am repainting in Adobe Photoshop and enlarging the texture sheets to 4096x4096 as I usually do. Then when I share the repaint I reduce them to 2048x2048 like Carenado to save space.