SAAF Canberra T.4 repaints

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nazca_steve

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Evening all,

at long last I have finally sat down and done some FS again! In this case I decided to indulge in some repainting fun with the subject being two Canberra T.4s of the South African Air Force. Now, I know Jens-Ole has done some superb versions for the Alphasim model, but I thought I'd do the same for my own. They will be available soon, but for now I took them on a little jaunt over Cape Town - both are from 12 Sqn, SAAF.

Firstly, '459' in original High Speed Silver and Day Glo scheme from the 60s:

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Some high-jinks (naughty pupil pilot!)
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Then '458' in late-era PRU Blue scheme:

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Coming back in:

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On finals:

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Tucked up - natty engine blanks the SAAF used, eh?:

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And 459 is in for some maintenance:

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These are both for the T.4 model here: http://www.flyingstations.com/canberra-pack-tugs-trainers.html but for the rivet counters (me included) 458 would go better with the Peruvian T.74 model I built, as this has the more accurate, late-era UHF aerial. Incidentally 458 was supplied to the Peruvians directly from SAAF in the 90s.
 
I admit I am a sucker for Day Glo orange and anything PRU Blue. Good on the SAAF to use two of my favourite schemes! I hope to have them uploaded tonight.
 
Thanks, Steve - just visited and downloaded everything on the page to double-check I had them all! Looking forward to a hop in these soon.:jump:
 
Cool, post some pics when you do take that hop. I've kind of neglected the T.4 oddly enough (perhaps because I painted a million of them for the old Paul Foster models!) but there are a wealth of nice schemes for them that is luring me back. I also want to do some more Aussie B.20s.
 
Will do. Was lining up an afternoon hop anyway, so S. Africa is as good a place as any!!:salute:
 
Cool said:
Well, here you go - I would have gotten the approach & landing but the machine had a sudden CTD from FS9, not sure what the problem is . . . but I will switch to gaming mode next time I do this. At any rate, here you are:

View attachment 64646Preflight

View attachment 64648Cranking

View attachment 64649Takeoff

View attachment 64650Climbout

View attachment 64653Cape of Good Hope

View attachment 64654Roll for fun

View attachment 64655Going upstairs

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I've got one more to post, will send it next.
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Nice painting, but unfortunately the VC are still not well look out
I need a good solution because it annoys! :isadizzy:

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Zsolt
 
Zsolts, no fixes right now for the T.4 glass issue you are having...it may depend on the graphics card you have...on mine it is not too bad. Sorry though, future releases will show improvement in these weaker areas.

SSI01 - love the screens! Cape Town is fast becoming an area I need to spend some more virtual time in...
 
Happy to oblige! Do you recommend any scenery for Cape Town or South Africa or Rhodesia (as it used to be called)?
 
Do a search for Harare...there is a nice freeware scenery for this but I forget where now. It has New Sarum over the other side of the main runway as it should be. I started to add some detail to this using EZ Scenery but lost it all in a crash recently. That's something for Rhodesia at least but I only have stock for SA, perhaps some one else can offer ideas.
 
nazca_steve said:
Do a search for Harare...there is a nice freeware scenery for this but I forget where now. It has New Sarum over the other side of the main runway as it should be. I started to add some detail to this using EZ Scenery but lost it all in a crash recently. That's something for Rhodesia at least but I only have stock for SA, perhaps some one else can offer ideas.
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For South Africa search at Avsim for "aeroworx" and you will be rewarded with multitudinous goodies.

What we are missing in FS9 is Thornhill AB, which (I believe) may now be called Gweru?
 
I checked everything I could find at Avsim, as recommended - it's quite a haul. Ysterplat (sp) airfield's file is dead last on the Avsim list, but it's there nonetheless.
 
Thanks Steve!:salute:

I downloaded everything about S. Africa/Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) I could find on Avsim and FSim. Want to give the SAAF and RRhAF Canberras a good home. I noted there were some sceneries that required an Aeroworx installer be used to put them into the sim. Others are added to the scenery in the usual way. There were also some terrain meshes I downloaded. A couple of questions:

1) Do we really need to use the Aeroworx installer to put this scenery in? I've noted some other Aeroworx scenery I downloaded did not require any installer and goes in in the normal manner.

2) Do the updates to the stock FS9 scenery work all right as far as depicting S. Africa's airports?

I'm going to install the road nets, city textures, VFR features, water features, and other environmental updates as well.
 
I installed the scenery quite some time back, so can't remember for sure; I rarely (if ever) let an installer put something straight into my FS install anyway, I'll 'install' to a temp directory and copy over as necessary. Does that help?
 
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