New RN arrivals

[TSR2]

That looks great too Dave. I haven't seen the other pic you mentioned above. On the blue one, I "think" the RN titles where further down , almost readable from underneath on the boom, similar to the pic I sent you with it launching the Concorde model.

[DaveB]

Yes mate.. as I said, pay no attention to the titles on that one, they're off the Yeovilton paint On the all blue schemes, it was, as you said, much larger.. almost facing down and different again on the SAR's. Dunno why I never thought about the Whirlwind before.. probably because I don't fly it often (the FD is a little weird)
On one of the shots I have of it in the light lower/dark upper scheme.. the RN titles are so small, you can hardly read them Wish I could make out what the logos were on it as I'd do that one too There's also an orange one with Penguin logo's on the front.. possibly off Endurance? EDIT: It's off HMS Protetor.

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[DaveB]

The trauma continues with these 'easy' paints for the Whirlwind

When I tried to make the ROYAL NAVY boom titles match the real thing.. this happened:

Having them proportionally correct on the S-55 (XG574 is an HAR3 mit bent boom).. the bottom of the titles disappeared under the fillet mapping. I could make the titles much smaller so that wouldn't happen but that wouldn't look right either Also.. the boom reg and danger warning are not.. because XG574 has a bent boom) where they should be so they look odd too Compromise is one thing but this is hurting a little

574 is, and has been for some time, a preserved airframe so her shine has been built up to how it would have looked on delivery.. not as it looks above with lots of flying in hostile conditions under its belt!


I really like this now.. unlike me I know Titles have been moved to stop the 'map creep' and while proportionally still correct, they're now out of place as are the rest of the bits on the boom due to the S-55 boom being straight. There is however, one undesirable artefact of the darker alpha (required to make the shine more vivid) and you can see this for yourselves. The dark blue in the bottom two screenies is a quantum leap lighter than that in the first screenie even though they're both the same colour underneath It should be possible to maintain the same degree of shine but keep the darker blue.. I just can't get my head around it at the moment Would making a custom spec map for this colour be a way forward of have I lost the plot As I said.. so much for a simple paint
This said.. I do like the hue of blue the darker alpha produces. It has a more 'in service - in daylight' look about it

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[DaveB]

I honestly think that when this model was mapped.. the author had just come back from the pub..



From nowhere, this rib on the RH boom suddenly maps from somewhere as yet unknown


I'm beginning to warm nicely to this model

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[TSR2]

Oh Dave! I'm truly sorry

It looks not half bad, mapping funnies aside.

[DaveB]

Yes Ben.. for it is you to blame for all this I've already spent hours on it today narrowing down the funnies and I'm stuck on the bit under the nose (though less than you see in that shot) and the rogue rib on the boom Other than this.. it does look quite good with the colours turned up.. especially at a distance I still dunno WTF to do about the titles, boom reg and boom danger warning. Ultimately, I may have to sacrifice the large ROYAL NAVY for something smaller and bring the reg/warning into line. If only this model had the bent boom

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[DaveB]

Those awkward bits got mapped from the most unlikely places and a consequence is that the paint can't be done as it should be (as if we didn't know that already) I narrowed the area down to one particular map then covered the map in a selection of colours to see where 'under the nose' pulled from. Very disappointed Anyhoo.. a few details have been 'misaligned' to keep them sort of uniform and this Whirlwind now finds herself as PO-512 out of Portland..



Variations on this theme include 'RESCUE' underneath ROYAL NAVY. I don't even want to think about that! These are all done in 32-bit 888 BTW so will fit the FS9 model without tweaking

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[DaveG]

That looks pretty good Dave
I know it can be bloody annoying when the mapping is all over the place

[TSR2]

She looks great Dave

I've been reading bits about the MADGE trials etc on various ships, so once Thurleigh is done I think I'll be knocking up some ships

[DaveB]

Ah.. ships! Now that's the ticket matey Don't ask me to paint one though

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