My Repaints

jankees said:
Beautiful work as always, John! No plans yet to bring the WBS Mustang, or better still, your B-25 project, to MFS?
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My understanding is he had to shelve all of that, and , ahem, the P-39, due to all the real life jobs he has now. Good for John, bad for us. ;)
 
Thank you Jankees, and thank you Tim! As Ken has mentioned, I just don't see myself investing the time required in producing aircraft for flight sim, it's just too time consuming (time that I don't have available most of the year) - and I get bored easily. :)

I finished off the all-new wheel wells/landing gear/gear doors/prop textures today. Quite literally, there is not a single part of those textures that I haven't modified, with most of it made all new from scratch. All of the paint/primer finishes, and finishes of the plumbing and brass fittings, are all based on the real restored aircraft (note all of the hard lines are now marked with the appropriately colored tape, as well). I hope to have the rest of the exterior details added tomorrow and Monday, and then get into the cockpit textures.

I was fortunate to have gotten to speak/correspond with Vlado Lenoch a few times. He wasn't necessarily an absolute stickler for accuracy, but he was known very well online for his tongue-in-cheek propensity to point out whenever a restored P-51 had their landing gear doors painted the "wrong" color (anything other than silver).







 
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That's looking great John. Not that I'm surprised. It looks like there's more P-51 flying in my future. :)
 
Bomber_12th said:
Thank you, Kurt. I'm making these for the base Reno Mustang (the most stock version), which I believe is included with all of the Reno Mustang related products one purchases, including the full Reno air racing addon.
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John - I have both Wee Willy II and Man O' War but with Moonbeam showing in my content manager I don't see the repaint ?Not sure what I am doing wrong ?
 
Friday night, the soonest I can get to it, I'll work on packaging a version which will be tied to the "Wee Willy II" model. Evidently, the base P-51D model is only included in the Base and Full versions of the Reno Air Racing addon, not the individual P-51 addons. The "Wee Willy II" and all other variant-specific Mustang models have their own unique cockpit models, and their own unique cockpit textures, completely separate to the base P-51D model I did this repaint for, so the version I do for the "Wee Willy II" model won't have any cockpit changes and will simply have to remain the same as in "Wee Willy II".
 
Bomber_12th said:
Friday night, the soonest I can get to it, I'll work on packaging a version which will be tied to the "Wee Willy II" model. Evidently, the base P-51D model is only included in the Base and Full versions of the Reno Air Racing addon, not the individual P-51 addons. The "Wee Willy II" and all other variant-specific Mustang models have their own unique cockpit models, and their own unique cockpit textures, completely separate to the base P-51D model I did this repaint for, so the version I do for the "Wee Willy II" model won't have any cockpit changes and will simply have to remain the same as in "Wee Willy II".
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Ok that explains things - thanks John
 
Richard, this evening I was able to get everything setup and fully check applying my repaint of "Moonbeam McSwine" onto the "Wee Willy II" model, but unfortunately there are just way too many differences between the models, in numerous areas all around the aircraft (many that I would have never thought of). For it to work and be satisfied with the results, I would have to spend a considerable amount of time redoing the repaint, which I'm just not prepared to do, I'm very sorry to say.
 
I picked up the Base pack today, not to race, but in anticipation of your artwork on the Mustang. Thank you John, "Moonbeam McSwine" is incredible.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Richard, this evening I was able to get everything setup and fully check applying my repaint of "Moonbeam McSwine" onto the "Wee Willy II" model, but unfortunately there are just way too many differences between the models, in numerous areas all around the aircraft (many that I would have never thought of). For it to work and be satisfied with the results, I would have to spend a considerable amount of time redoing the repaint, which I'm just not prepared to do, I'm very sorry to say.
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No problem at all John but thanks for trying anyway.

I will pick up the base pack today
 
Today is testing day for another repaint I've just about got completed for the MSFS P-51D, this time depicting the Heritage Flight Museum's Val-Halla based at Skagit, Washington. Just a few more details to add, some more tweaks and documentation, and then it will be made available this week on Flightsim.to.



Also, this weekend I dug out my models of the B-25J and P-39Q and I'm going to slowly get back into developing them out for MSFS2020 - I will be curious to see how much I can get done on them this summer. If after the next year or so I can't do it, I'll see if someone else would be interested in taking them over at that point. I originally shelved this B-25 after having already spent roughly 700 hours getting to this point and realizing I was less than 5% done with all of the modeling/texturing that still remained to be done inside and out. The model was built using the original North American lofting data and blueprints, and therefore is a thousandth of an inch accurate to the real thing. Every detail in the textures is accurately placed, with each rivet, spot weld and fastener added in each their own correct spot. I've also got the 8-gun nose and original stock carburetor intake/cowls modeled separately The last time I was actively working on the B-25 I was working on all of the armament positions and am about a quarter of the way through modeling the complex Bendix upper turret assembly and pedestal (using its own set of original blueprints). I lost all of the images I once had of it when in FSX, so I made some new renders.













 
I love the P-51 repaint and when it comes to the B-25 and P-39 you already know what I think. What would be nice is if you could farm out some of the other sub-assemblies to other 3D modelers to work on, but their work would have to meet your standards. At least for the summer, while you have some time.
 
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Very exciting news! I've seen a couple of B-25s and one taxied to park right in front of me at Hahnweide a few years back. Earthshaking vibrations that filled me with pure happiness.
 
I got a ride in this (A-26), owned by Calspan Corp. when I was at Pax River in the mid 1970s. Calspan was contracted by the Navy to provide their aircraft as part of the USNTPS syllabus.NCCalSpan_A-26 by retnavycpo, on Flickr
 
Oh my, now that is a B-25!
that would be just great!
If you can't do it, maybe BigRadials would be interested, after all, it has two of them!
 
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