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FSX Douglas C-117D Skytrooper

gman5250 said:
Man, I wish it was. In those shots it almost could pass for the P-61.
It's Uncle Milton's FSX A-26 Invader. I did a bunch of skins and an upgraded paint kit for it a while back. All those skins should still be on the site here. Same for the D-18.
Amazing...these are all freeware aircraft and easily as good or better than many pay ware.
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heh.. had me fooled, and rob and i built the p-61.. I'm really sorry its never been finished.. Cant tell you how that makes me feel.. anyway. love your C-117 paints, they look awesome, and that A-26 looks better than it ever has.. :)
Pam
 
warchild said:
heh.. had me fooled, and rob and i built the p-61.. I'm really sorry its never been finished.. Cant tell you how that makes me feel.. anyway. love your C-117 paints, they look awesome, and that A-26 looks better than it ever has.. :)
Pam
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Glad you like the work...thank you.
I got a feeling this bird is going to get the same treatment I gave the Invader. I'll finish the basic, then follow up with a high detail version. I'm leaning more and more towards enhancing the bumps.

Unfinished work...yep, I have a keen eye towards Milton's F7F. I'd love to take that one FSX native and really do the model justice. The lineup of the A-26, F7F and the P-61 would be pretty inspiring.
 
gman5250 said:
Glad you like the work...thank you.
I got a feeling this bird is going to get the same treatment I gave the Invader. I'll finish the basic, then follow up with a high detail version. I'm leaning more and more towards enhancing the bumps.

Unfinished work...yep, I have a keen eye towards Milton's F7F. I'd love to take that one FSX native and really do the model justice. The lineup of the A-26, F7F and the P-61 would be pretty inspiring.
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nice work sir!! Looking forward to your efforts! :salute:
 
What a truly GREAT piece of work. Many thanks to those involved in its creation.

After seeing the fantastic lights for this bird, I'll never again believe what some payware devs have said about it not being posible to create realistic looking lights. These are stunning!!!
 
sure, you can find it here, together with all the USMC paints.

That includes this one:








give them a try, and if you like them, do post a screenie please?
 
jankees said:
sure, you can find it here, together with all the USMC paints.

That includes this one:







give them a try, and if you like them, do post a screenie please?
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These are great paints, but I could not help but notice that the tire textures were missing unless all black was the intent.

d
 
dvj said:
These are great paints, but I could not help but notice that the tire textures were missing unless all black was the intent.

d
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ooops, no, it was not...do you want an update?

I like that natural metal, maybe give a bit more depth with the spec alpha?
 
jankees said:
ooops, no, it was not...do you want an update?

I like that natural metal, maybe give a bit more depth with the spec alpha?
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I originally had a spec alpha in it but thought it might be a bit too shiny for a "grumpy" old airplane. I have been experimenting with different combinations of spec color and alpha for the aluminum skin.
I'll put it back in and post a couple shots...see what you think.
 
gman5250 said:
I turned up the volume on the alpha and spec alphas. Here's the deeper polish version. I'll just upload all four versions. Two with the "grumpy" service aircraft appearance, and two with the restoration deep metal look. I already like this bird...a lot.



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Hey "G"... I see you did your metal magic on her... fantastic!!!
 
H&MS-13 The Hummer

Flew from Chulai to Danang in C-117 called the Hummer belonging to H&MS-13 while rotating back to the states. Later to find out (2 years ago) it crashed into a mountain sometime in 1969, Killing everyone on board. Back in the early 80's happened to drive by sequia air field near porterville and they had about 10 of them there. I guess phasing them out. Didn't see the Hummer, and I wondered why. My first reply to a thread. Nice to belong to SOH. Great Airplane!
 
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