Riveting Broussard

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I can't remember who did the Max Holste MH 1512 Broussard model...and I'm not sure I have the name of the plane right ever...I know the Broussard part is right. A while back I was putting together a repaint template for the plane...had it nearly done and lost it in a HD glitch. Well, yesterday I started on redoing the template. This time around I am doing something that I normally don't do in my paint templates. Rivets. I usually just go with the most detailed panel lines I can create and go with it. But this time around I thought I would play with doing up some 3D rivets and see what I could come up with that looked good without looking like over sized bumper bolts. I have seen some planes that had rivets so large they looked like they should have been used to build the Titanic. I am actually pretty happy with the rivets I came up with. They look 3D without looking too large. Not sure how well you will be able to see them in the pics...but here are two screen shots of the upper wings showing the new panel lines (which are as close to the real panel lines as I could get them to be) and the rivets. Still have a way to go before this template is done...and I'm not spending a great deal of time flying, tweaking or painting at the moment....so don't expect to see me uploading new paints for the Broussard anytime soon.

OBIO
 
Oh good... fodder for the rivet counters... :a1089:


(Looking forward to the finished product!)
 
the max holste MH1521 broussard by Yann Koun is an absolutely beautiful freeware . hopefully a repaint template might spark some civilian repaints for this wonderful machine :ernae:

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I will, in time, do some nice military style paints, but my main focus is civilian style paints. There are some mapping "issues" that I will have to work around here and there...nothing too drastic I don't think. Haven't come across many pics of civilian painted Broussards. I will be doing some "artistic license" paints....this plane screams for some PNW bush flying paints.

Have done some test rivets on the fuselage...and as luck would have it, they do not get stretched out and made to look over sized. Will take longer to rivet the fuselage than it did the wings...all those darn angles to work with.

OBIO
 
Have one side of the fuselage pretty much riveted up...looking good so far. A couple screen shots showing the fuselage rivet progress, and a couple showing me buzzing a Cessna 172 that was on the runway waiting for take off clearance...or maybe it had clearance. I wasn't waiting for him to go....I bet the FAA will be calling me real soon.

The pics don't do the rivets justice.

OBIO
 
Looking good OBIO. A timely task I know. But it sure helps represent the plane much better than without them
 
Interesting thread, only yesterday I dug out this a/c from the spare HD wheree it has sat unused for years and began flying her.
 
I think they look good OBIO, pretty scale effect, not Titanic hull looking at all :salute:
 
 
Looks pretty convincing

The temptation is always to ham it up too much...very nice restrained work there.
 
Looks nice OBIO. Maybe a few too many rivets for a GA size airplane. Generally speaking in structural areas you have many and in non structural only as many as it takes to make the parts fly in formation. But overall the effect you have done is very good.

Stefan
 
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