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Flight Replicas Douglas DC-4/C-54/Carvair Released

Telly, there was IMHO no Olympic Airways SX-BAG around. This should be SX-DAG which has this paint scheme in 1966, shortly before sold to Balair in January 1967 as HB-ILD. The second Olympic Airways, a C-54G SX-DAC, was also sold 1967, wearing at least this "modern" Olympic scheme.

Perhaps this could help.

Thomas
 
TiAr said:
Telly, there was IMHO no Olympic Airways SX-BAG around. This should be SX-DAG which has this paint scheme in 1966, shortly before sold to Balair in January 1967 as HB-ILD. The second Olympic Airways, a C-54G SX-DAC, was also sold 1967, wearing at least this "modern" Olympic scheme.

Perhaps this could help.

Thomas
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That will help

I will start on that one tonight as ive done both DAC schemes in TAE and olympic
 
jeansy said:
That will help

I will start on that one tonight as ive done both DAC schemes in TAE and olympic
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Wow, thank you for taking the time to paint this bird!

And Thomas, you're absolutely right about the registration, it's supposed to be SX-DAG.
SX-BAG was a Douglas DC-3 (C-47) which had the reputation of being the first commercial aircraft to be hijacked in history (or so they say!).

Another little tidbit of information about Greek aircraft registration is the use of the third letter as to how many engines the aircraft had:
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4 and so on (Examples would be SX-BAG as a DC-3, SX-DAG as a DC-4, SX-CBA as a Boeing 727-2xx)
This was used during the late fifties throughout the mid-70's but later abandoned, with a few cases which didn't follow this rule during the period.
 
Mike,

First of all congratulate on a marvellous package! Doing the RDAF paint I came across a small texture mapping issue for the engines:

A great deal of both USAF and other military users had a Propeller danger line decal painted on the inner engine cowling to show the propeller of the outboard engine. With the current mapping it is the same texture for both inner and outer cowling which makes this impossible to paint without getting the decal on both cowlings. Any change for a separate texture for inner/outer cowling for the military C-54s?
 
JensOle,

you can only paint one engine, but this mapped all four. So I decided to left these things out. I am sure Matt thought the same with his great repaints...

Thomas
 
JensOle said:
That was the reason for asking Mike about it.
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The model was so close to the limits of what I could compile that even 5-10 extra polygons or one extra 50kf animation was enough to stop things. As so few users had different paint schemes on the engine cowls, mapping these is one area that I chose to simplify.

Mike
 
Telly said:
Wow, thank you for taking the time to paint this bird!

And Thomas, you're absolutely right about the registration, it's supposed to be SX-DAG.
SX-BAG was a Douglas DC-3 (C-47) which had the reputation of being the first commercial aircraft to be hijacked in history (or so they say!).

Another little tidbit of information about Greek aircraft registration is the use of the third letter as to how many engines the aircraft had:
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4 and so on (Examples would be SX-BAG as a DC-3, SX-DAG as a DC-4, SX-CBA as a Boeing 727-2xx)
This was used during the late fifties throughout the mid-70's but later abandoned, with a few cases which didn't follow this rule during the period.
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I havent forgotten about this paint, Ive just been limited on time

this is where i am on a template before transferring it to the paintkit I know the word Olympic is a tad too bold, i will tone that down

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Update: Repaint working on N708Z Brooks Air is going on. But I am not really happy with it... But I do it!

Thomas
 
TiAr said:
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Update: Repaint working on N708Z Brooks Air is going on. But I am not really happy with it... But I do it!

Thomas
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Hey Thomas,

so glad you take this one up, it's my favorite DC-4 livery! It looks really good, why are you unhappy with it? Keep on the good work and thanks.

Best regards,
Christian
 
i just noticed its a older pic, as it doesnt have the rego on the side, the finished paint has the rego
 
paulopp said:
Hey Thomas,

so glad you take this one up, it's my favorite DC-4 livery! It looks really good, why are you unhappy with it? Keep on the good work and thanks.

Best regards,
Christian
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Christian, yes it is looking great, but engines/wing areas are not really detailed und the overall looking of the basic paint is not finished, than I don´t know how wings above are painted...

Thomas
 
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