Scorch00's Repaints

[Scorch00]

Hi all, after a suggestion on another thread I've decided to just make a single thread that I'll update with repaints as it will make it easier to keep track and keep down on individual posts in the forum. I have a number of past projects I'll be uploading to SOH. As well as a few concurrent ones in development/progress. My previous posts for repaints I've already posted will now be updated in here only, again to keep down on the number of individual threads. So as of 11/25/2019 this is what's going on in my paint booth.

Repaint Packs still to come to SOH that have been completed in the past:
FS KBT P-3A Repaint Pack (Airstrike and Buffalo Airways)
UKMIL CH-47D Repaint Pack (Coulson-Unical, Billings, Columbia, California Army National Guard, and Helimax)
ISDT King Air 200 (NSW Firescan Australia, Conair (fictional), USFS Lead, USFS IR Platform, and Cal Fire) Pack also includes IR camera mod for P3D users that I added.
CL-415 (Aero-Flite USA fleet)
Quality Wings BAe-146-200 (Neptune Aviation Fleet)
Aerosoft OV-10 (Current Cal Fire liveries for Ramona, Hemet, Porterville, Paso Robles, Redding, and Chico) Pack 1 (Pack 2 is in development for the remaining fleet)
SGA DC-9/MD-87 (Erickson Aero entire fleet)
PMDG 737-700WL (Coulson T-137 & 138 in US/Australia liveries)
Vista Liners 737-300W (Coulson T-137 & 138 US/Australia liveries)


Repaints now on SOH:
CV-580 Air Tanker Repaint Pack (Conair and Saskatchewan):
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=184&linkid=25971

CS C-130H Air Tanker Repaint Pack:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=216&linkid=26000

Current WIP 11/25/2019:
Cera Sim Firehawk (SOH mod) Cal Fire, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, and San Diego Fire, and possibly the rest of LA County Fire's Firehawks as a second pack.
Aerosoft OV-10 Bronco Pack 2 (2nd half of Cal Fire fleet in current livery) Pack 1 will be uploaded to SOH along with Pack 2.
Milton Shupe's S-2F3AT (Cal Fire's entire fleet liveries circa 2019) Yes, all 20+ airframes will be done. May end up as 2 packs, but I'm not sure yet.

WIP on the current Cal Fire S-2T paint schemes

 

[Scorch00]

Ramona AAB T-70 and T-71 complete

Starting south and will be working north in terms of repainting each base's compliment of S-2Ts. Ramona's being the first on that list has been completed. Added shadows and some exhaust staining to the model. The S-2Ts are heavily used by Cal Fire during fire season, being they are the state's workhorse in the air. Adding some "wear" if you will, felt appropriate. Repainting will likely slow down quite a bit during the holidays. In that case, there may not be any new repaint packs posted, but I will at least be working on moving those mentioned past projects here.

Ramona AAB's S-2Ts.

 

[Scorch00]

Work on the S-2Ts continue. So far I have 3 bases done. Ramona, Hemet, and Paso Robles. I've added more exhaust staining and retardant staining to some of these and will alternate between them going up the rest of the fleet for aircraft variation sake. I probably wont do much the rest of the week as I'll be traveling for the holiday. Work on the Firehawks also continues. Starting on the OV-10s probably some time next week.

 

[jeansy]

Thanks for the c130 package

 

[gribouil]

Work on the S-2Ts continue. So far I have 3 bases done. Ramona, Hemet, and Paso Robles. I've added more exhaust staining and retardant staining to some of these and will alternate between them going up the rest of the fleet for aircraft variation sake. I probably wont do much the rest of the week as I'll be traveling for the holiday. Work on the Firehawks also continues. Starting on the OV-10s probably some time next week.

looking forward to these little beauties... Many thanks Scorch00!!!
Cheers,

Stéph.

 

[Scorch00]

Thanks for the c130 package

You're very welcome!

In regards to the C-130 package ironically, I'll be doing another small pack (2 liveries) that will add one more aircraft to Cal Fire and correct the Cal Fire repaint. As the actual aircraft have evolved since i originally did those, the liveries have added markings and numbers to it, which I'm also working on replicating at this time.

I should add that these S-2s are not mine, they are Milton Shupe's great S-2Ts that were converted to FSX and P3D v4+ compatible. Milton also did the PT-6 powered S-2T Firecats that are also great models. The more powerful Garrett powered Marsh (Cal Fire) versions are the one's I'm familiar with, having grown up around them.

An update on my other projects. Work on the Firehawks continues, the first 3 aircraft or the "base," repaints I call them, are 95% done for Cal Fire, Ventura County, and San Diego Fire. I haven't started on Santa Barbara County yet. I probably will once I make more headway on the rest of Aerosoft OV-10s in Cal Fire liveries. I'll be keeping myself busy, that's for sure!

Cal Fire Firehawk livery updated to it's most current version with Cal Fire as of 11/28/2019.

 

[Scorch00]

Nearly halfway through the Cal Fire S-2T fleet. Ramona, Hemet, Paso, Porterville, and Hollister are now complete. I am doing the entire fleet of 23 S-2Ts in case people were wondering. Firehawks are on hold. I've decided to break them up into 3 separate packs now to make it easier to represent the liveries more accurately as the Firehawks are so new still, registration numbers and all decals/paint schemes haven't been finalized IRL. Pack 1 will just be H903 for Cal Fire, SDFD Copter 3, Ventura County Chopper 5, and H964 for Santa Barbara County. Cal Fire H205, H301, and VCSO Copter 10 will be in a second pack. The last one will be entirely LA County Fire's Firehawks. Aerosoft OV-10s Cal Fire liveries will probably get started next week some time. As Mike Patey likes to say, "Back to work!"

S-2Ts!

 

[Scorch00]

I am slowly chipping away at the Cal Fire fleet. I have them knocked down to the last 4 aircraft and last 3 bases. Chico, Redding, and Roherville. I'm thinking I'll be done repainting some time this weekend with these, but since there will be 24 aircraft in this, I have a lot of double checking to do to make sure I didn't miss something. I've included 1 additional fictional livery of T-100, the spare aircraft based at McClellan. It remains in the Generation II livery of the S-2T. So I've included a version of it that combines the new C-130 livery with the current S-2T liveries to incorporate the 3rd number into the livery.

Columbia and Sonoma AAB

Grass Valley and Ukiah AAB:

T-100 current and fictional livery (T-100 real livery wing number needs to be corrected):

 

[Aharon]

Very very very impressive!!

 

[scotth6]

Yeah, nice job Scorch!. Quite a collection you are amassing there.

 

[Scorch00]

Very very very impressive!!

Thank you!

Yeah, nice job Scorch!. Quite a collection you are amassing there.

Thank you! Yes, 24 of them. The most I've done up to this point for a single project. I do entire fleets a lot of times simply for the sake of variety and that people may want to represent/fly aircraft they have seen. Only way to do that is do the WHOLE fleet a lot of times lol.


A little break from S-2T updates. I've been cycling back through my past repaint projects and will be uploading 2 this weekend to SOH. Likely one tonight and another sometime Saturday or Sunday (12/7-12/8/2019). The first repaint pack will be the Erickson Aero Fleet of MD-87s (SGA freeware DC-9 converted and modified by Chris Evans) and the Neptune Aviation Fleet of BAe-146-200s from Quality Wings.

MD-87s (Just uploaded to SOH) UPDATE:

Bae-146-200s

 

[scotth6]

I do entire fleets a lot of times simply for the sake of variety and that people may want to represent/fly aircraft they have seen. Only way to do that is do the WHOLE fleet a lot of times lol.

That's certainly true. As a matter of fact that's what I was doing this week :

 

[Scorch00]

That's certainly true. As a matter of fact that's what I was doing this week :

Nice! Thanks for sharing that. Makes me happy seeing them in other people's sims!


The Cal Fire repaints for the S-2F3ATs (S-2Ts) for Milton Shupe's model are complete. Paints were all constructed in P3D v4.5 so they should work all the way back into FSX. I am doing continuity checks and tweaks to them. 24 aircraft total, the largest as mentioned repaint pack I've done so far. This is Cal Fire's ENTIRE current fleet of 23 S-2Ts and a fictional repaint of one aircraft, T-100. I estimate late weekend upload at the earliest, or some time next week, likely early week (before Thursday) at the latest. Aircraft have added shadows, exhaust staining, and retardant belly stains for certain bases for variation in the bases. If I don't finish these this weekend, I will still at least be uploading the QW BA4-146-200 Neptune Aviation repaint pack on Sunday to the site.

***EDIT*** Pack was uploaded to SOH 12/8/19 @ 01:30 CST (Texas, USA)

 

[gribouil]

Nice! Thanks for sharing that. Makes me happy seeing them in other people's sims!


The Cal Fire repaints for the S-2F3ATs (S-2Ts) for Milton Shupe's model are complete. Paints were all constructed in P3D v4.5 so they should work all the way back into FSX. I am doing continuity checks and tweaks to them. 24 aircraft total, the largest as mentioned repaint pack I've done so far. This is Cal Fire's ENTIRE current fleet of 23 S-2Ts and a fictional repaint of one aircraft, T-100. I estimate late weekend upload at the earliest, or some time next week, likely early week (before Thursday) at the latest. Aircraft have added shadows, exhaust staining, and retardant belly stains for certain bases for variation in the bases. If I don't finish these this weekend, I will still at least be uploading the QW BA4-146-200 Neptune Aviation repaint pack on Sunday to the site.

***EDIT*** Pack was uploaded to SOH 12/8/19 @ 01:30 CST (Texas, USA)

Looking forward to this release!!!

 

[Scorch00]

Looking forward to this release!!!

The S-2T repaints are now available!

I'll likely start working on the Aerosoft OV-10s here in a couple days, that pack will come here in 2 parts as I did the first pack a little ways back. Figured I'd just wait to upload those or add them as a single pack here. Not sure yet. I'll also be finishing up the first pack of Cera Sim Firehawks. Also, I will be starting repaints for the JBK v3 DC-4/C-54 tankers that were updated by Tom over at Cal Classics back in August (rather quietly I may add) for FSX/P3D v4+ compatibility. Planning on doing some Aero Union paints, Ardco (pictured below), Aero-Flite, and a few other operators. Sheesh, I also forgot that with the recent S-2T upload I pushed back the QW BAe-146s (mentioned a few posts ago) until Monday (12/9) evening.

Current Cal Fire liveries coming for the Aerosoft OV-10 (the WHOLE fleet):

JBK DC-4 v3 Tankers:

 

[Scorch00]

Firehawk Pack 1 Nearing Completion

The firehawk pack is nearing completion. I finished Ventura County Sheriff's aircraft yesterday evening and finished Santa Barbara County Fire's tonight. After I look it over some more and align some of the striping these will be getting uploaded. Likely some time before the end of the week. Pack 1 will consist of San Diego Fire Chopper 3, Ventura County Sheriff Chopper 5, Cal Fire H903, and Santa Barbara County Fire Dept H964.

My rendition of SBCF vs. an artist rendering of what it would possibly look like.

Also, if anyone hasn't caught it yet. The BAe-146 Repaint Pack for Neptune Aviation is also now on the site. OV-10 templates for the remaining fleet are also done, so I'll start on doing those soon as well. I'm thinking the DC-4s may not get much love until some time next week maybe. I've done a lot of painting over the last couple days and my eyes need a rest lol.

 

[Scorch00]

Aerosoft OV-10s started

Started adding to the pack once again. The original pack (which I have not posted on SOH yet) had roughly half of Cal Fire's current liveries in it. Pack 1 had: Ramona, Hemet, Paso Robles, Porterville, Chico, and Redding. Pack 2 will have the remaining bases: Ukiah, Columbia, Sonoma, Grass Valley, Hollister, Roherville, and multiple aircraft stationed at McClellan (Cal Fire HQ). 9 Aircraft in Pack 2. I've decided to leave the pack split as it is easier than having to repackage the whole aircraft set for two separate sites. Pack 1 will likely be uploaded here the same day as Pack 2, just so they'll be easier to find. The next update will probably be for when the Firehawk pack is done.

 

[lliaghll]

Thanks for all of these repaints. I especially appreciate the Convairs from Saskatchewan. My home province doesn't usually feature much in repaints.

Thanks again.

 

[Scorch00]

Thanks for all of these repaints. I especially appreciate the Convairs from Saskatchewan. My home province doesn't usually feature much in repaints.

Thanks again.

You're very welcome! Aerial Firefighting is a large relatively untouched area of aviation in the Sim world. Especially in P3D. There were requests on our FB page to do their CL-215Ts/415s as well which I may do in the future.


Cera Sim Firehawk repaint pack is complete. I'm in the process of readying them for upload to SOH and Simviation this evening.

 

[Scorch00]

CAL FIRE OV-10 Fleet Completed

I have completed the current entire fleet liveries of Cal Fire's OV-10 Broncos. These will be in 2 packages. Pack 1 will have; Ramona, Hemet, Porterville, Paso Robles, Chico, and Redding in it. Pack 2 will have Ukiah, Roherville, Hollister, Sonoma, Columbia, Grass Valley, and 3 of McClellan's Broncos, an active and the 2 spares AA500 and AA505. Pack 2 will also include a 10th repaint, and that is to correct an incorrect tail number in pack 1 that I noticed. It will be a simple aircraft.cfg fix and a replacement of the old texture file with the new one. I am going to be looking them over to make sure I didn't forget something and I'll be uploading packs here and simviation on Friday I imagine. You'll also see AA430 in the photo, it was pointed out to me a little while ago, it was actually renumbered to AA501, so that change will also be corrected in my repaints. My reference sheet was a few years old. I was bound to miss a few things.