Mount Cook Airlines HS.748 (1977 livery)

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Dear folks!

Time for another "screaming Hawker":

It's ZK-CWJ "Aorangi" in its 1977 livery, as shown here:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Mount-Cook-...-748/0004616/L/

Has anyone an idea about the lettering on the aft fuselage, right below the registration?
Haven't found any closeups yet...

Cheers,
Markus.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Don't bother my question - got the answer at cbfsim:

As you can see, the door's and window's outline width has also been corrected.
Now for the starboard side...

 

[gribouil]

One more nice repaint from the great wild bill kelso for Mr Piper's fantastic aircraft!!! :ernae:

 

[Wing_Z]

Cannot believe this repaint has not been done for this great aircraft model!
One mark, for coming up with this one, Markus!
Doesn't it look brilliant...

 

[adhockey]

The hits keep coming!

Awesome work (as usual) Markus.

 

[PeteHam]

Beautifull

Thanks Markus.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

"You ain't seen nothing yet..."

Great things happened in the meantime!

Ian Warren has sent some fine photoreal blank metal textures for the engine nacelles for me to use. They come up like this:

(He somehow got stuck finishing them)


Some hours later, filled up with twisting, turning, bending and smashing pixels around in my paint shack, Mount Cook's 748 hides its Rolls-Royce Darts with these panels:

The plan is to release the photoreal nacelle textures as an alternative file included with the Mount Cook livery to let the user decide which nacelles he'd like to use. If anyone is interested, I could also release a "nacelles only" layer to add to the phantastic paint kit for other repainters to play with.

I'm aware of the general problem with mixing photoreal and handpainted textures. It sometimes looks odd, one more reason to leave the choice open.

Cheers,
Markus.

 

[Wing_Z]

I reckon on an airliner you can get away with photoreal, very well.
The planes that can go downside up make it much harder to convince, because the lighting goes wrong.
This one looks fantastic, and I see even Rick Piper is itching to have a fly!

 

[Flyboy208]

I like this livery Markus, interesting how similar the Mount Cook Lily looks to the edelweiss flower....

Mike :salute:

 

[PeteHam]

I like the new polished metal cowlings Markus

Love the way you master the difficult :ernae:

Pete.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Thank you for your kind feedback, gents! :salute:

@ Mike:
"Ranunculus lyallii (Mountain buttercup, Mount Cook buttercup, or , although not a lily, Mount Cook lily), is a species of Ranunculus (buttercup), endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs in the South Island and on Stewart Island at altitudes of 700–1,500 m."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_lyallii


"Leontopodium alpinum
Edelweiss (i /ˈeɪdəlvaɪs/; Leontopodium alpinum), is one of the best-known Europeanmountain flowers, belonging to the sunflower family.

The name comes from German edel (meaning noble) and weiß (weiss) "white". The scientific name Leontopodium comes from Greek leontopódion (λεοντοπόδιον) "lion's paw", from léōn "lion"[2] and pódion "foot"[3] (diminutive of poús, podós "foot").[4]

Leaves and flowers are covered with white hairs and appear woolly (tomentose). Flowering stalks of Edelweiss can grow to a size of 3–20 cm (in cultivation, up to 40 cm). Each bloom consisting of five to six small yellow flower heads (5 mm) surrounded by leaflets in star form. The flowers are in bloom between July and September.

The plant is unequally distributed and prefers rocky limestone places at 2000–2900 m altitude. It is not toxic, and has been used traditionally in folk medicine as a remedy against abdominal and respiratory diseases. The dense hair appears to be an adaptation to high altitudes, protecting the plant from cold, aridity and UV radiation.[5]
Since it usually grows in inaccessible places, it is associated in many countries of the alpine region with mountaineering. Its white colour is considered a symbol of purity, and Edelweiss means "noble whiteness" or "noble purity",[6] its Romanian name, floarea reginei[7] means "Queen's flower"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss


So we do have a buttercup on the one hand and a sunflower on the other.
But they indeed have at least two things in common:
They like mountainous terrain and they are used as tailfin logos:

View attachment 22011


Cheers,
Markus.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Back to counting rivets:

Should be finished soon...

Cheers,
Markus.

 

[edmoore235]

Most outstanding rivets, man. Great. Thanks. Take care.

Ed

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Thanks, Ed!

Sources tell that (at least some of the) Mount Cook birds wore blank metal wings, so I tried to strip the paint off:

The horizontal stabilizer of course will receive similar treatment and maybe I'll fiddle a bit more on the lower parts of the nacelles...

Cheers,
Markus.

 

[Wing_Z]

Yup, Good move

Be interesting to see how the light moves over the wing in the sim, the nacelles have that bluish tint.

 

[Sunny9850]

Looking good Markus. Love the metal wings and the cowls are very nice as well.

Stefan

 

[PeteHam]

Well done Markus

Love the bare metal :ernae:

Pete.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Thanks for your feedback, guys!

Be interesting to see how the light moves over the wing in the sim...

Well, currently there's nothing moving:
Adding some (very subtle) alpha shine makes the brighter parts (highlights on wing's top) appear overexposed, outshining the panel lines and rivets. I'll try to turn the basic textures a tad darker and play with some alpha once again.

Cheers,
Markus.

 

[Z-claudius24]

Hi,

I wait impatiently for the final coat of paint is dry

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Teasing is over!

Phew - it's done!

Uploads completed.
As announced before, I've included the photoreal nacelle textures in two multi-layered files (PSD and PSP) for other repainters to play with. Please let me know how this works for you.

Have fun!

Cheers,
Markus.