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The MSFS PMDG DC-6 Livery Thread

Hi Marcel,

mgr said:
Hi Jan,
Hear yah :) Tried to dirty up the Martinair's engines. Like you say it's evident on most pictures (only the repaintkit, does not supply the effect so is left out in most repaints.)
Making good looking dirt is not so easy as it looks :)
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Well, i used to particularly love it, not only with FS paints/repaints, also during my 'plastic model career'.. ;-)
Photo's are your best friends, as you can see with the small DC-6 collection i posted here. Use lots of transparent layers, black and brown colors in various shades and a bit of blue here and there. Not did any repainting for MSFS myself sofar (must be good fun ! ;-) but if you can adjust shine/reflection yourself for certain area's make these soot and dirt area's as matt as possible. Also don't forget the the top and bottom wing. Top wing is often only moderate dirty but like at the bottom it runs all the way over the flaps as well.

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PS How would it be on the inner side of both the engines? The engine-exhausts are not present there, however the cowl-flaps are open there, so should this side be as dirty or less or none? Marcel
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Go with what John says ;-)

Already many years ago the boys at California Classics did a good job on the DC-6 regarding engine soot and dirt :

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As Sam & Dave used to sing already when the DC-6 was still on the job : "Soot me, Baby, Soot me !" ( Ok, it's Soothe me, where would we be without a little artistic freedom... ;-)
 
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jankees said:
Since Jan asked for it, playing with dirt.
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Hehe, well, i wouldn't say i asked for it, it's just that during it's career the DC-6 looked like this. When it comes to soot and dirt the A probabely even much more than the B ( Everts is a good example) but photos prove that even the glamorous airlines could not manage to keep the engine nacelles and wings from accumulating soot and dirt. That's probabely the R-2800 Double Wasp for ya.. ;-) (you'll have a hard time finding photos of the DC-3 with soot and dirt appearing on the nacelles aft of the cowlflaps..)

I'm not completely happy yet, but is it overall dirty enough, or do you want more, Jan?
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Funny that you've chosen Trans-Air-Link here with it's black painted area's behind the outer sides of the front engine nacelles. We know now what that's for, éh ;-)


But as far as the soot goes, yeah, i'd rev up them engines quite a bit more, Jan Kees. (it's a Freighter hard at work, they don't care about how she looks..;-)

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Sneakpeak of the PH-TGA, still "Work in progress" KLM crown still has to be added. (Due to a mapping of the nose-texture, this will be a challenge).

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Marcel
 
Had some time off work to get my paintbrushes wet in the flightsim world. Took me a while to find my way around it all. Still some small things to take care off but maybe I can pack it up tomorrow and share this.
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It is done

Ok, finished the repaint / livery today with all bells and whistles, pretty happy with it now. I hope the colors are more or less correct, I have some severe red-green defiancies which does not make this any easier. Uploaded to flightsim.to for now, pretty excited to see the response as this is my first real step into the FS repainting world. A lot of guesswork for the wing colors, etc. also the real aircraft is a DC-6BF (freighter conversion) with a swingtail, so some inaccuracies couldn't be completely avoided.
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@Jan, I downloaded that Clipper as soon as I saw it. Really like the old Pan Am Clippers. Thanks!
 
aaMasih did a great job with the Braathens Safe livery. However I've studied some old images and I made a few changes to the livery installed in my sim.
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cavaricooper said:
Looks lovely, Gunnar! Will you release as well, perhaps with the "Social Distancing" nose art etc.?

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Tanks caviarcooper.

This paint is not mine. So even if I did some mods to it, I can not share the files. I have plans for another Braathens DC-6B (LN-SUB), but I have to brake a code on how to paint and export files for MSFS 2020 first :jump:
 
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