FS2004_AVRO 646 Sea Tutor - UPLOADED!

[Motormouse]

The pleasure is entirely mutual Tom, my friend

"YES!!! of course I can fly -------- -------!!!
Yup, love that movie too...AND that AWESOME Grumman Duck...
Great pity it's already been sort of modeled.

1:20 secs into the vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTxB2dUGNk

Y'know you could always do the Mount Kyle paintjob Nigel,
in the book it was a twin float spotter seaplane, the film producers swapped it to the Duck, because thats all they could find

Ttfn

Pete

 

[nigel richards]

Y'know you could always do the Mount Kyle paintjob Nigel,
in the book it was a twin float spotter seaplane, the film producers swapped it to the Duck, because thats all they could find

Ttfn

Pete

You have a good point there, Pete...trouble is I don't trust myself in not going the whole hog and doing the Duck, and have done with it!!!

 

[Blackbird686]

Or.. you could always paint Indy Jones' bipe floater, which may have been a Tutor in the film.

Swingman already modeled a Grumman Duck and I may have it with the Mount Kyle skin somewhere. You could always do a Duck if you want, Nigel... but me thinks you should stay the course, mate.

BB686

 

[Mick]

Or.. you could always paint Indy Jones' bipe floater, which may have been a Tutor in the film.

Swingman already modeled a Grumman Duck and I may have it with the Mount Kyle skin somewhere. You could always do a Duck if you want, Nigel... but me thinks you should stay the course, mate.

BB686

Nope, Indy's plane in The Last Crusade was a Stampe, apparently hacked about more than a little bit to depict something more military.

I have the Mount Kyle skin for Swingman's Duck. I don't know where I got it because I just looked and I didn't have a copy of the zip file in my backups. I wonder if I was careless and failed to save it, or if it came with the model, or with OBIO's un-mirrored version that should be in the library here.

Anyway, I have a backup copy now, just made it, and if anyone needs it you can grab a copy from my A-Drive:

https://www.adrive.com/public/MhNSNx/Murphy's%20Duck.zip

I wish I could credit the painter but I have no idea who painted it. (It might even have been me, but I don't think so.)

We have an excellent Duck, so let's leave Nigel to projects about planes we don't have.

(For example, a certain series of Vought biplane variants comes to mind...)

 

[nigel richards]

Nope, Indy's plane in The Last Crusade was a Stampe, apparently hacked about more than a little bit to depict something more military.

I have the Mount Kyle skin for Swingman's Duck. I don't know where I got it because I just looked and I didn't have a copy of the zip file in my backups. I wonder if I was careless and failed to save it, or if it came with the model, or with OBIO's un-mirrored version that should be in the library here.

Anyway, I have a backup copy now, just made it, and if anyone needs it you can grab a copy from my A-Drive:

https://www.adrive.com/public/MhNSNx/Murphy's%20Duck.zip

I wish I could credit the painter but I have no idea who painted it. (It might even have been me, but I don't think so.)

We have an excellent Duck, so let's leave Nigel to projects about planes we don't have.

(For example, a certain series of Vought biplane variants comes to mind...)

Have to agree that Swingman's Duck was fun.

Ahhh those Voughts... also have my eye on a rather neglected Vultee, and a certain Curtiss that more than pulled her weight in service, but was never the glamour girl star of aviation pundits.

Then there are those old Westland beasties, and of course the Hawker thoroughbreds that never quite received the 'treatment' for FSAnything...

Just sayin'...

 

[Mick]

Have to agree that Swingman's Duck was fun.

Ahhh those Voughts... also have my eye on a rather neglected Vultee, and a certain Curtiss that more than pulled her weight in service, but was never the glamour girl star of aviation pundits.

Then there are those old Westland beasties, and of course the Hawker thoroughbreds that never quite received the 'treatment' for FSAnything...

Just sayin'...

Hey Nigel,

You have excellent taste. In other words, yours is similar to mine.

On my own I never would have thought of the Avros (I didn't even realize that there was a whole series of variants) but now they're already among my most very favorite FS planes. I'm sure that whatever you come up with next will make me very happy!

Ted Cook did a series of Hawkers. They don't have nearly the level of detail as the Avros, but they're very nice and they were very easy to paint. A collection of Hawkers with the quality of the Avros would be impressive indeed!

 

[Mick]

HMS Frobisher

I painted the plane from HMS Frobisher. Painted isn't really the right word. I removed the rudder stripes from Nigel's RAF skin and added the fuselage code. I guess I should say that I edited Nigel's skin to resemble the Frobisher's plane.

I didn't even change the serial. That's because I couldn't remove the original one from the lower wings without ruining Nigel's beautiful details and shading.

Since I did so little work, and didn't even put on the authentic serial, I don't feel like releasing it as "my" repaint. But for those interested enough in the Sea Tutor to be following this thread, and doesn't mind if the serial number isn't correct, you're welcome to grab a copy of the edited textures from my A-Drive account:

https://www.adrive.com/public/H5PCzN/Avro%20646%20HMS%20Frobisher.zip

I copied from this profile:

 

[nigel richards]

I painted the plane from HMS Frobisher. Painted isn't really the right word. I removed the rudder stripes from Nigel's RAF skin and added the fuselage code. I guess I should say that I edited Nigel's skin to resemble the Frobisher's plane.

I didn't even change the serial. That's because I couldn't remove the original one from the lower wings without ruining Nigel's beautiful details and shading.

Since I did so little work, and didn't even put on the authentic serial, I don't feel like releasing it as "my" repaint. But for those interested enough in the Sea Tutor to be following this thread, and doesn't mind if the serial number isn't correct, you're welcome to grab a copy of the edited textures from my A-Drive account:

https://www.adrive.com/public/H5PCzN/Avro%20646%20HMS%20Frobisher.zip

I copied from this profile:

Love it, Mick!!!

Paintkit's almost ready - still trying to lose some weight on the upload size :-/

 

[Mick]

Love it, Mick!!!
Paintkit's almost ready - still trying to lose some weight on the upload size :-/

Thanks Nigel,

Maybe when the paint kit comes out I can correct the serial without ruining the detail beneath it.

Meanwhile, my techie friend finally got my FS drive up and running, and after almost a year and a half my repair cum upgrade is finally finished. So today I plan to fly the Sea Tutor! Woot!

 

[Bushi]

I painted the plane from HMS Frobisher. Painted isn't really the right word. I removed the rudder stripes from Nigel's RAF skin and added the fuselage code. I guess I should say that I edited Nigel's skin to resemble the Frobisher's plane.

I didn't even change the serial. That's because I couldn't remove the original one from the lower wings without ruining Nigel's beautiful details and shading.

I've done all my 'repaints' of the Avro's without a paint kit.. and haven't lost any surface detail.
I have a technique!

 

[djs1]

E Unum Pluribus

With apologies to our friends in the USA for "corrupting" their National motto!!

 

[Mick]

I've done all my 'repaints' of the Avro's without a paint kit.. and haven't lost any surface detail.
I have a technique!

You do indeed!

You're also a more talented painter than I am.

Nice work!

I seldom use paint kits because I seldom find them helpful. But some of them are, and maybe the one for the Avro will be one of those.

 

[nigel richards]

I've done all my 'repaints' of the Avro's without a paint kit.. and haven't lost any surface detail.
I have a technique!

Beautiful paints, Dave.

 

[nigel richards]

With apologies to our friends in the USA for "corrupting" their National motto!!

Yummy resourcefulness, djs1!!!

And a PWS-18 livery on the 621, too - now there's one I hadn't imagined.

Awesome!

 

[nigel richards]

I seldom use paint kits because I seldom find them helpful. But some of them are, and maybe the one for the Avro will be one of those.

Hope so, Mick!

The paintkit format is fully layered Photoshop PSD - it includes most of the existing liveries, too.
I've also purposefully left the original paths used which should also come in handy.

All this comes at a cost though - it'll be a 3 part upload/download!

Using the paintkit should be a case of dropping your own paint layers towards the bottom of the stack - everything else; light/shadow, details etc., etc. is done for you.

 

[Mick]

I just uploaded an updated, fully authentic skin for thew HMS Frobisher plane.

It now has the correct serial number.

If you took a copy of the earlier version that was attached to a post in this thread, note that I originally referred the skin to the Mongoose-powered model. Wrong! Sorry. It goes with the Lynx model, the version with the Townsend ring cowl.

 

[Bushi]

Portuguese Tutor

So, I was playing around with the floatplane quite a while back, and did a paint of a Portuguese Navy one.

However, the floatplane model I had at the time was the standard two seater, while the Portuguese ones seem to have the 'turret ring' third position on the upper fuselage, even though it has a cover over it.
I'm happy with it like this.. but some who want to be 'historically correct' might want the correct variant.

So, Nigel, is there a chance a model with the covered round 'turret ring' third position will come out of the hangar one day?

ps.. Even with the countless hours in the 621 logbook over the past year, (hand flown circumnavigating the Sahara in beta testing..LOL), it is STILL one of my favorite airplanes to just spend an hour 'bumbling about' in when I have the chance. on floats and wheels! Again.. THANK YOU for this wonderful little airplane!!!!!!!


Cheers
Dave

 

[Bushi]

You do indeed!

You're also a more talented painter than I am.

Nice work!

Thank you Mick, and I wouldn't say I'm a more talented painter.. LOL

I've just mucked about with so many airplanes without paint kits over the years that I've picked up a few tricks with Photoshop.. and I'm even using an old CS3 version of it.
cheers
Dave

 

[nigel richards]

So, I was playing around with the floatplane quite a while back, and did a paint of a Portuguese Navy one.

However, the floatplane model I had at the time was the standard two seater, while the Portuguese ones seem to have the 'turret ring' third position on the upper fuselage, even though it has a cover over it.
I'm happy with it like this.. but some who want to be 'historically correct' might want the correct variant.

So, Nigel, is there a chance a model with the covered round 'turret ring' third position will come out of the hangar one day?

ps.. Even with the countless hours in the 621 logbook over the past year, (hand flown circumnavigating the Sahara in beta testing..LOL), it is STILL one of my favorite airplanes to just spend an hour 'bumbling about' in when I have the chance. on floats and wheels! Again.. THANK YOU for this wonderful little airplane!!!!!!!


Cheers
Dave

Pleased to hear you're still enjoying the aircraft, Dave.

The pretty Portugese aircraft was indeed a 3 seater - the AVRO 626 Prefect.
Whilst AVRO never actually manufactured a float version of the Prefect, Greece and Portugal produced license built aircraft several of which were fitted with floats at a local level.

We have built and tested several wheeled versions of the 626 Prefect which will probably be released end of Summer - Autumn, due to real world priorities.

Due to the substantially higher poly-count of the Prefect, attempts to export a float version for FS9 have so far unfortunately been prohibitive.

We'll see, Dave.

 

[nigel richards]

HMS Frobisher - Double RUM rations, Mick!

Now how could any Devon boy resist this keeper!

Thank'ee Mick!!!