The Lockheed Constellations
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Printed Date: 19 Apr 2024 at 6:38am
Topic: The Lockheed Constellations
Posted By: CaptainIFLY
Subject: The Lockheed Constellations
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 5:20am
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OK, so what else do ya do, when your not feeling well with a head cold ? but sit next to a Warm & Toasty Fireplace and take Screen shots of Just Flights Lockheed Constellation Aircrafts, and try to ham up this forum a tad bit !                                       |
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Posted By: hifly
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 12:28pm
 Yo Capt, hope you're feeling better, great pics. Did I see Duxford there? I used to go there in the early 80s before it became a 'professional' museum, you could sit in the cockpits of the liners  . Can't do that now but it's still a brilliant place, there's a B52 hanging from the ceiling. Yes the Connie, shame they didn't do it in the white TWA livery. Back in the mists of time I made a couple of audio visual, slide/tape programmes to promote TWA in the UK. I had access to all their archive material. They liked the programmes so much they invited me to the States to make some more. Then one of their 727s' was hijacked to Beruit, they stopped all advertising and that was the end of that  . I've been rained off of work today so there's nothing else to do but FLY!------------- Must Fly! |
Posted By: Piggles
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 5:34pm
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Great shots Capt, I think I've got the start of cold too so thanks for posting and brightening up the day! (you have my sympathy and I hope you are feeling better soon) For me the shots got increasingly epic as I worked my way through them.
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Posted By: PeterL
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 5:35pm
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All those nice pics make me wonder why there are no repaints available for the Connie, like we have for Manfred Jahns freeware version. As I only use payware aircraft I urgently miss "modern" paints for the Connie. I know nothing about painting FS aircraft, but there must be a reason for this. Too difficult to do a paint ?? Many Constellations could be seen in the Caribbean 20 years ago hauling cargo out of Miami and Santo Domingo, the place was heaven for "prophunters" and I really expected to see some paints from that period of time. But not so. Maybe JF can do another repaintpack including those liveries, there must be more folks like me !! |
Posted By: CaptainIFLY
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 5:57pm
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I've only seen 2 re-paints available for the Just Flight Constellation on some flight sim sites, 1 was the Quantas livery and the other, didn't grab my like mode, so I left it alone. Sometime this Winter, I'm gonna give it a try at repainting these see if I can master it, with my paint programs, Paint Shop Pro, photo Shop, Paint.Net. and Dxt Bit map, and the Abacus paint program,, trouble for me is learning the Alpha texture thing, and trying to figure out how to paint the textures when their all chopped up with different configurations, I usually end up getting everything all out of whack and nothing lines up correctly or lettering 1/2 shows, which happened recently as 1/2 my letters down the fuseladge didn't show up after working 5 hours on just the lettering, it all went ker-poof !    ! Ohhh well, painting these things will try your nerves !
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Posted By: CaptainIFLY
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 6:06pm
Ohh ya , that was Duxford too, by the way, 1 of 5 Airshow sceneries I have to play around with, the others i'd have to look up in my list, and I didn't feel like looking them up, to lazy and the big book of sceneries was across the room, and I was too comfortable by the fireplace & Lazy to get up and go look !  
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Posted By: Piggles
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2012 at 8:18pm
| Hi Captain, just started doing repaints myself, the Alpha Channel thing seems more mysterious than it actually is in practice so if you get stuck let me know. |
Posted By: CaptainIFLY
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2012 at 8:37am
I had to Ham up my Military Cockpits a tad bit, with some Pin up art fitting for the era !  |