More variations on the Tinmouse 737...

Wild Bill Kelso

Wild Bill Kelso

Charter Member 2011
Hi, guys!

The Tinmouse turned out to be highly addictive to me. I'm kind of stuck to C-GNDC. After her first life with Nordair, she joined Canadian Airlines. So this 1992 "Canadian North" livery logically is next:

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While with Canadian North, this ship was named "Spirit of Iqaluit / L'Esprit d'Iqaluit".


In 1997, the "Canadian" skins looked like this:

canGNDC1997_1.jpg


canGNDC1997_2.jpg



1992 livery:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Canadian-North/Boeing-737-242-Adv/1028372/L/
1997 livery:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Canadian-Airlines/Boeing-737-242C-Adv/0385334/L/

Note the stains on the rear fuselage, obviously caused by reverser fumes. Did I mention I like 'em dirty?

Upload completed.

Have fun!

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Thank you, guys!

Wild Bill Kelso said:
While with Canadian North, this ship was named "Spirit of Iqaluit / L'Esprit d'Iqaluit".
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Well ... crap! :angryfir:

Look at the spelling!
It's supposed to be I-Q-A-L-U-I-T !
So why on earth wrote the moronic aircraft painter "Iqalit" onto it? :banghead:
In french and english as well?
No more "u" in the letter box?

It wouldn't have happened if it still was named "Frobisher Bay"...

Think I'll have to apologise to the 7.250 inhabitants of Iqaluit (which is Nunavut's capital after all).

A fix will of course be rolled out today...

:a1451:


Compunctious,
Markus.
 
Very nice shots there, mate!

Fix is proceeded to the usual places.

Dangit!
Now there's some delay in rolling out this one here:

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Same airframe, different appearance.
Sources tell C-GNDC wearing this dress in 2001/2002, after Canadian Airlines were acquired by Air Canada. By 2003, she was already operated by First Air - now guess who's next... :jump:

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Hey you're churning these out faster than I can load 'em :icon_lol:

Looks good Markus :applause:

Another texture for the northern routes :ernae:

Thanks,

Pete.
 
Well, I've seen some paint kits in my two years of repainting aircraft, but the one provided by the Tinmouse group simply is excellent!
There's a nose-to-tail master fuselage file of 4096 x 1024 px. You can paint the whole airframe at once and then split the layers needed (lining, logos, lettering etc.) in four parts to paste to the four fuselage files. No more fiddling with adjustemt marks and annoying shifting the lines one pixel upwards to match to the adjacent section. It's just a dream!
By concentrating on C-GNDC, the worst part of this series is to search the appropriate font for the registration letters...

And because it's so easy to paint this tube, here comes #4 of the C-GNDC series:

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It's the 2003 "first" First Air version. I know there's been a First Air rendition of the 737-200 Pax version already done by David Lewis on C-FNVT, but as far as I can see, the convertible/gravel kit model still is missing.

[LINESTRIKE] Just doing some final checking...[/LINESTRIKE]

edit: Off she goes! Upload completed.

Cheers,
Markus.
 
C-GNDC #5

I think it wasn't hard to guess which one would be the next rendition of C-GNDC:

FirstairGNDC2010_1.jpg


FirstairGNDC2010_2.jpg


FirstairGNDC2010_3.jpg


It's the current "Northern Lights" livery, as shown here:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/First-Air/Boeing-737-242C-Adv/1732730/L/

Compared to the 2003 version, the multi-coloured cheatlines are gone and the "First Air" lettering is little smaller. The overall appearance is set some notches cleaner - it's a fresh-painted aircraft after all!

ETA: tomorrow! (Dinnertime now...)

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Incredible work Markus, you are a machine!

These repaints have motivated to re-install the Tinmouse; I used to have it before I had a paid-up version of FSUIPC which made it pretty much useless, but now it is my favourite jet. The early 73's (like the DC9, 727 and the like) were a real hands on aircraft - those guys transitioning from turboprops and pistons to the first generation of jetliners must really have had their work cut out for them!

Now if you ever run out of subject material Markus, the Ansett scheme is one that has been neglected. ;) http://www.airliners.net/photo/Anse...05958/L/&sid=9210739983a08f468983439db6f7d03b

Cheers

Az
 
Thanks a lot, gentlemen!

@ Jon:
A fine high-resolution First Air lettering can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Air
It's a PNG file with already transparent background - easy-to-use!
I just had to "squeeze" it a notch down (about 80%) to avoid "smearing" all over the roof...

The NORDAIR lettering consists of "Eurasia extended" (italic, bold),
its reg was set in of those fine RAF fonts, available here:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=2

The Canadian's and First Air's regos were made with standard Arial and Helvetica, also squeezed or stretched to match the original (easy to do as long as they are on the vector layer).

Cheers,
Markus.
 
I just read over at flightsim.com that a new panel should be out for this model today. It has been uploaded. They are just waiting for flightsim to post.

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