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Fleet Aircraft Fleet 50K

Interestingly enough, just in time for the start of Flight 19's next online adventure in the far north. Looking forward to this!
 
I think this is a brilliant idea. With all of the repainters we have here, I'm definitely looking forward to see what they do with this. Thanks for all of your hard work just getting it to this stage of development. :)
 
Milton Shupe said:
... Flight model and textures are in progress thanks to Magoo and gman5250, respectively. She is turning out to be quite the Bush flyer too.

Doing some initial testing here in FSX to see what changes might need to be made. So far, so good. :)

Of course, all textures are temporary at this time. :) LOL
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Works very good as is in my FSX, accept for the artificial horizon instrument.

I am using an Antinov AN 14 engine sound files for this rare Fleet 50k that seem to match the looks and style very well.

Thanks for lesson the aviation history lesson Milton. Never knew this plane ever existed.
 
Thank you for your comments and interest. I have more to share on this aircraft but I cannot just yet.

Meanwhile, attached are pictures of the various registrations that were on the Fleet 50.
 
Here is the registration history of the Fleet 50K aircraft with lease/purchase history to give you some ideas about paint schemes.

CF_BJW had 2 known paint schemes:

1) Original color scheme was blue fuselage, orange wings and silver tails suggesting a hope she would be sold to Canadian Airways.

2) Black fuselage with red wings with silver trim
 
Extremely novice painter here. Thought it would probably be an easy task to put paint on using MS Paint but the paint won't stick to the wings I was applying it to.

Is it even possible to paint the model parts with MS Paint, or maybe because MS Paint doesn't do layers? Is that why I can't apply paint to the wings and save the changes and use them?

:dizzy:
 
SIAI S81 said:
I will use for bush flights here in Canada...I am really curious to fly with it!!
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This aircraft was built for the Canadian Bush, the first twin engined bush plane in Canada it was said. All of the 6 loading doors made it possible load just about anything including 20' long pieces of steel or bundles of lumber. Although the Jacobs engine was a bit under-powered for what his aircraft could haul; it would optionally take Wright engines providing another 330 HP. We have 6 more models available and they will come in due time.

phantomx1 said:
Extremely novice painter here. Thought it would probably be an easy task to put paint on using MS Paint but the paint won't stick to the wings I was applying it to.

Is it even possible to paint the model parts with MS Paint, or maybe because MS Paint doesn't do layers? Is that why I can't apply paint to the wings and save the changes and use them?

:dizzy:
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Yes, you can use MSPaint. Just be sure the final texture is in either 32-bit, DXT3, or 8-bit formats.
 
Excellent Milton, that did it, Thanks!

MS Paint did let me save my painted texture as a bmp, but with no selection as for what type of bmp, and evidently not the proper type bmp.

I had the freeware download DXT bmp tool in my files and that allowed me to save the texture as a DXT bmp type of file and then the paint showed up on the plane in FS.

Now to cover up the rest of those random bright neon colored textures on the plane, and maybe learn how to add stipe trim work.
 
Hi,

@phantomx1 really!,

Can you post a pic or two as you go through this process? Or describe it in short words as well if possible.

When I look at instructions for repainting an aircraft, my brain just stops and doesn't seem to be able to grasp what the stages are to get the paint on the model.... send to editor, save as , alpha channel :pop4:

Cheers,

Andy.
 
lemonadedrinker said:
Hi,

@phantomx1 really!,

Can you post a pic or two as you go through this process? Or describe it in short words as well if possible.

When I look at instructions for repainting an aircraft, my brain just stops and doesn't seem to be able to grasp what the stages are to get the paint on the model.... send to editor, save as , alpha channel :pop4:

Cheers,

Andy.
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lemonadedrinker, I am extreme novice and this probably isn't anywhere near the correct way to do it, but it will work.

OK (Working with the Fleet 50, nacelle texture as my example)

1. Make a copy of the Fleet 50's texture file and place to another place on your computer where you can find it.

2. open ms paint. Then use "open" to find your texture file. Select the precise texture plate then click "ok". It then shows up in ms paint.

Suppose you want to simply apply one color of paint on only one of the parts showing on the nacelle texture plate.

3. From the "shapes" section, select "rectangle", then expand that rectangle where it will completely surround the nacelle part you want to paint. You now see a rectangle surounding what you want to paint.

4. Next I select from "Image" the little paint bucket labeled "Fill with color". I then click on a color from the palette, the move the pointer within the "rectangle and it applies a paint cover in the rectangle which paints the necelle. You just painted that nacelle part! But it will not show up on your plane in FSX!

5. Next I saved this ms paint as "save as" and then selected "BMP picture". Now your work is saved and you can open it up again for any future use, and it will show the changes you made to it. (Don't forget to name your saved file).

6. Next you will need to have a tool to convert that texture so you can use it to convert the texture so it will show up in FS. This texture converter I am using is a freeware download called DXTbmp. Open this program tool up and then you hit "file" and navigate to your target texture and import the texture you just saved from ms paint. Your modified texture work then shows up on the DXTbmp screen. Once it shows up, I then simply just save it as a DXT 3 extended bitmap file, then exit the DXTbmp tool program back to desktop.

7. I then go to FSX and find the Fleet 50k texture file and go in and re-name that particular original texture plate, such as, from "nacelles_t" to "nacelles_torig". Now I can go find MY painted texture plate I painted and throw it into the Fleet50's texture folder and re-name it to the "nacelles_t" and then close to desk top and crank up the FSX and go fly the Fleet 50k. The new paint shows on the plane.

Hope this helps some!
 
Just a heads up on Paint... The default bmp format is 24-bit, which has no alpha channel. 32-bit and DXT3 both incorporate alpha channels, making them compatible with FS9 as a texture. The only place I know of in FS that will accept a 24-bit file is in the 2D panel.
 
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