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Four More Texans

Here are a couple more repaints, which started by working on John's (Skyhawk's) request. The requested paint scheme is one which the French-based Texan F-AZRB was painted in for a number of years prior to 2009. While this paint scheme was not authentic/historically correct, I always rather liked it too.

The real aircraft has a rather interesting history. It was originally manufactured in 1943 as an AT-6D for the USAAF as 42-86174. In 1945 it was transferred to the Navy as an SNJ-5 with the BuNo. 90747. In 1961 it was sold surplus to the Spanish Air Force and participated in the Conflict of the Sahara in 1972, fitted with machine guns and rocket launchers. As of 1982, when the aircraft was retired from the Spanish AF, it had 7,942 hours of flight time clocked during its career up until that point. The aircraft would spend time at the Museo del Aire until being sold onto the French register in 1994.

A few years ago the aircraft underwent a cosmetic restoration and thorough inspection, which included a new paint scheme resembling what the aircraft looked like when stationed at Pensacola NAS in the 1950's.

First off, here are some screenshots showing the paint scheme from pre-2009. I kept all of the inaccurate aspects of this paint scheme just as it was, including the star being positioned on the wrong side of the bottom of the wings.







 
And here is the second repaint for this aircraft, as it appears today following the restoration work and repaint. The aircraft is painted to closely resemble the way it looked when stationed at Pensacola NAS in the 1950's.







 
And although this aircraft was never fitted with a tailhook (most SNJ's never were), you can of course configure the model in the sim to have one, which is accurately marked. ; )



 
spinner texture?

First wanted to pipe and say a huge THANKS to John for the new textures - they really bring this model back to life in a dramatic way. Just outstanding.

The other was to ask which of the textures defines the spinner colour? I was hoping to personalize my F-AZRB with a chrome spinner from one of the polished metal paints - not sure which it is ... or if it's tied to a texture sheet containing other textures.

thanks!

dl
 
Hey DL,

The spinner texture is contained on the Texan2_t texture sheet, in the form of a big rectangle and a small rectangle located at the top of the sheet. This is the same texture sheet that also contains the forward windscreen textures (and several other parts) as well, so changing it with another repaint won't work out very well.

As it is such an easy modification to the existing textures, I went ahead and chromed the prop for you for F-AZRB (assuming it is the current scheme that you were talking about).

Attached to this post are the modified textures for you (and anyone else who would be interested) to use - just swap them in. ; )

 

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Thanks so much John!! My first Fathers Day gift this year!

Hope it wasn't too much trouble - thanks again !

dl


Bomber_12th said:
Hey DL,

The spinner texture is contained on the Texan2_t texture sheet, in the form of a big rectangle and a small rectangle located at the top of the sheet. This is the same texture sheet that also contains the forward windscreen textures (and several other parts) as well, so changing it with another repaint won't work out very well.

As it is such an easy modification to the existing textures, I went ahead and chromed the prop for you for F-AZRB (assuming it is the current scheme that you were talking about).

Attached to this post are the modified textures for you (and anyone else who would be interested) to use - just swap them in. ; )

Click to expand...
 
Outstanding paint jobs Bomber. You really have given life to an excellent aircraft. So much more enjoyable flying the Texan with your schemes.

Have to say that 'Navy 47' is my favourite. And that was a tough call!
 
Wouldn't be a problem, Deacon!

"Double Vee"

Here's another repaint that I've put together for the Wozza Texan. The repaint is meant to depict the restored AT-6C/AT-6G 42-48884 which was based at Tuskegee, Alabama throughout WWII. It is one of only two surviving Texans known to have this connection to the Tuskegee Airmen, and is the only one flying. Today it is owned/flown by Lewis Air Legends and based in Texas: http://www.lewisairlegends.com/aircraft/t-6g

Although not named, the aircraft has been called "Double Vee", a term which describes the Tuskegee Airmen's double victory over the Axis powers in Europe and over discrimination back home. I'll try to have the repaint completed/uploaded either late tonight or early tomorrow.







 
Thank you gentlemen! I'm in the process of packaging-up/uploading "Double Vee" now.

Deacon, just so that I know you are aware, I have made/released this one last summer ("Double Vee" is either the 38th or 39th repaint I have released for this model), of another restored SNJ:







 
Also, there is a repaint available of that Mid Atlantic Air Museum SNJ, with the gray over white scheme, recently released by [SIZE=-1] a Christopher Clawson[/SIZE], available at Flightsim.com file name: maam_snj4.zip
 
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