Wild Bill Kelso
Charter Member 2011
Hi, folks!
Jan Kees Blom already did a NZ2013 repaint on Alphasim's (meanwhile rather outdated) model some years ago.
I thought it was time to roll FSAddon's marvellous FSX Hudson rendition into my humble paint shed. This is was I have so far:
More of Wigram's exhibit can be found here:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/RNZAF Museum Aircraft_ANZHall.htm
Unfortunately, this bird is suspended in the hangar in a rather less photogenic manner, although some images can be found on flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philrickerby/5472989211/in/photostream/lightbox/
I've positioned the camouflage chunks as close as possible to those pics whereas the rest, especially on the upper surfaces, is pure guesswork...
While doing further research on this bird, I've found some real useful information about the colours used:
"RNZAF Museum Hudson Scheme
The RNZAF Museum studied paint original samples when they painted their beautiful and immaculate Lockheed Hudson that is now on display in the Museum. Jane Provan of the RNZAF Museum kindly supplied me with the data on the paint that they used.
The Pacific Blue colour of the camouflage was found to be a mixture of two Federal Standard colours, FS 25109 and FS 36118 Medium Gunship Grey
The Green was also a mix, of FS 34092 Dark Green and FS 34096
The underside colour was the standard Sky Type S "
Source: http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/RNZAF Paint.htm
Stirring those "mixtures of Federal Standard colours" by creating a colour gradient of both and then eye-dropping the average value was the easy part of this job.
But what about the roundels?
They are said to be "FS.25056 when fresh - weathered to FS.35109 > 35190", source: http://rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/rnzaf_paints.html .
Hard to decide which one to take...
On the screenies above, the left wing roundels show the "fresh" shade FS.25056, the right wing the "weathered" FS.35109, whereas the fuselage roundel sports FS.35190.
Considering this repaint to match a rather pristine condition (as an imaginary airworthy exhibit instead hanging lame on wires like the real one...), I'd tend to take the (left wing's) 25056.
On the other hand, judging from the photographs on flickr, at least the fuselage roundels appear much lighter, but this can be due to the lighting in the hangar and/or image editing.
I think it's time for a second (third or fourth...) opinion concerning the right roundel shade.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Cheers,
Markus.
Jan Kees Blom already did a NZ2013 repaint on Alphasim's (meanwhile rather outdated) model some years ago.
I thought it was time to roll FSAddon's marvellous FSX Hudson rendition into my humble paint shed. This is was I have so far:
More of Wigram's exhibit can be found here:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/RNZAF Museum Aircraft_ANZHall.htm
Unfortunately, this bird is suspended in the hangar in a rather less photogenic manner, although some images can be found on flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philrickerby/5472989211/in/photostream/lightbox/
I've positioned the camouflage chunks as close as possible to those pics whereas the rest, especially on the upper surfaces, is pure guesswork...
While doing further research on this bird, I've found some real useful information about the colours used:
"RNZAF Museum Hudson Scheme
The RNZAF Museum studied paint original samples when they painted their beautiful and immaculate Lockheed Hudson that is now on display in the Museum. Jane Provan of the RNZAF Museum kindly supplied me with the data on the paint that they used.
The Pacific Blue colour of the camouflage was found to be a mixture of two Federal Standard colours, FS 25109 and FS 36118 Medium Gunship Grey
The Green was also a mix, of FS 34092 Dark Green and FS 34096
The underside colour was the standard Sky Type S "
Source: http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/RNZAF Paint.htm
Stirring those "mixtures of Federal Standard colours" by creating a colour gradient of both and then eye-dropping the average value was the easy part of this job.
But what about the roundels?
They are said to be "FS.25056 when fresh - weathered to FS.35109 > 35190", source: http://rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/rnzaf_paints.html .
Hard to decide which one to take...
On the screenies above, the left wing roundels show the "fresh" shade FS.25056, the right wing the "weathered" FS.35109, whereas the fuselage roundel sports FS.35190.
Considering this repaint to match a rather pristine condition (as an imaginary airworthy exhibit instead hanging lame on wires like the real one...), I'd tend to take the (left wing's) 25056.
On the other hand, judging from the photographs on flickr, at least the fuselage roundels appear much lighter, but this can be due to the lighting in the hangar and/or image editing.
I think it's time for a second (third or fourth...) opinion concerning the right roundel shade.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Cheers,
Markus.
