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RealAir Spitfire

A great collection we are getting :)

I found the RAF roundels which are part of the paintkit a bit dull and without colour/wrong colour. In the end I made new ones and if you are interested I can send them to you. I also did some work on the yellow leading edge IFF paint and the mg ports

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JensOle said:
A great collection we are getting :)

I found the RAF roundels which are part of the paintkit a bit dull and without colour/wrong colour. In the end I made new ones and if you are interested I can send them to you. I also did some work on the yellow leading edge IFF paint and the mg ports
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Good point Jens-Ole.

(I forgot to mention that in my previous post!)

The other thing I would say is that the default colouring/effect on the exhaust ports could do with adjusting to look more realistic. Currently, it doesn't look quite right to me, and hides the shape and the nice modelling of them.

Btw, do you have any more repaints planned or in the works for the RA Spits?

Cheers

Paul
 
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Eleonor

Thanks Jankees, very nice :encouragement:. I just got the RealAir Spitifre 2008. :santahat:


BTW It looks like the tail wheel is locked, is there a lock/unlock option?

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JensOle,

by all means, send them over, I'm always looking for ways to improve. I must have missed those machine gun ports because they are red, something I don't see too well..
I'll have a look at the exhausts as well.

Gray Eagle: looking good there.

Fulbert: thank you, a few of those were on my to-do list!
 
Bradburger said:
Good point Jens-Ole.

(I forgot to mention that in my previous post!)

The other thing I would say is that the default colouring/effect on the exhaust ports could do with adjusting to look more realistic. Currently, it doesn't look quite right to me, and hides the shape and the nice modelling of them.

Btw, do you have any more repaints planned or in the works for the RA Spits?

Cheers

Paul
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Yeah, I got at least 15 Spitfire IX paints which I never have released. Sort of ran out of steam before I had them packed up and ready for released..
 
Getting extra realair liveries

I contacted the Real Air support wanting to know if there was a way to manually download the textures for archival purposes.
They responded that the only way to get the extra liveries was to use the installer program; the liveries are installed to the
directory automatically where your main Spitfire is located, otherwise, they suggested making copies of the installed textures.
 
Not sure i follow you, extra liveries can be installed into the realair spitfire as any other fs addon aircraft. Or was you talking about something else?
 
I think it looks nice JanKees :encouragement:. But perhaps a bit difficult to judge based on just a few images made under similar light conditions. But from experience I know it is difficult to find the right alpha-spec-bump combination on this model to create realistic metal look.

Looking forward to test your efforts,

Cheers,
Huub
 
JensOle said:
Not sure i follow you, extra liveries can be installed into the realair spitfire as any other fs addon aircraft. Or was you talking about something else?
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I was talking about how the repaints are automatically installed via realair installer (an all or nothing option). What I was interested in was the downloading the actual repaints as a zip file that way I can just activate the ones I want to reinstall later. Otherwise, I have to find the textures and zip them myself. I wanted to select and intsall just the liveries I wanted.
 
huub vink said:
But from experience I know it is difficult to find the right alpha-spec-bump combination on this model to create realistic metal look
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I know (now) what you mean, just tried it in bright sunlight......not very good I fear, too dark, not shiny enough...
oh well, back to the drawing board
 
JensOle said:
Yeah, I got at least 15 Spitfire IX paints which I never have released. Sort of ran out of steam before I had them packed up and ready for released..
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Well, the first part is good to know!

Maybe you'll release them one day.

That silver USAAF scheme is looking nicer still Jan Kees.

One other detail regarding your repaints I forgot to mention was for the removal the depicted red fabric adhesive cover on the outer (short) cannon stub.

In reality, this was hemispherical and solid (as seen in attached picture of MKV AR501), but for some reason, RealAir modelled it like the inner 0.5" gun port, as on the 'e' armament wing.

The other thing I would remove is the stencilling for the wing leading edge fuel tanks, which were only a feature of the MKVII, VIII, XIV, & XVIII.

Cheers

Paul
 

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