• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

FSX Native Lockheed Lodestar Series

Milton Shupe

Milton Shupe

Staff Contributor
Staff member
Just FYI, we have this one in progress. Most of the models conversions work is done and work is starting on updating the textures to support new alphas, and specs/bumps.

Not sure what liveries we will include aside from the original ones.
I would be happy to include updates for the excellent liveries done by some of the add-on artists contributors if they have the time to update and test their Lodestar liveries.

Here are some of the ones I have (actually have many more).

Some of these artists are Wellis, Firekitten, Mark Rogers, Willy McCoy, Manuele Villa, Martial FERON, Stuart Cox, Andre Reimers, (the late) Maarten Brouwer (we will convert Martin's work).

If we cannot contact the artists or get permissions, we will not include their updated textures, but will include the originally released packaged textures.
 

Attachments

  • ms-2018-nov-12-001.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-001.jpg
    81.7 KB · Views: 19
  • ms-2018-nov-12-004.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-004.jpg
    48.8 KB · Views: 7
  • ms-2018-nov-12-005.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-005.jpg
    42.3 KB · Views: 6
  • ms-2018-nov-12-006.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-006.jpg
    45.7 KB · Views: 5
  • ms-2018-nov-12-007.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-007.jpg
    54.4 KB · Views: 5
  • ms-2018-nov-12-008.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-008.jpg
    64.2 KB · Views: 6
  • ms-2018-nov-12-009.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-009.jpg
    64.7 KB · Views: 4
  • ms-2018-nov-12-015.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-015.jpg
    62.9 KB · Views: 5
  • ms-2018-nov-12-014.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-014.jpg
    42.1 KB · Views: 6
  • ms-2018-nov-12-013.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-013.jpg
    57.9 KB · Views: 4
  • ms-2018-nov-12-012.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-012.jpg
    52.3 KB · Views: 3
  • ms-2018-nov-12-010.jpg
    ms-2018-nov-12-010.jpg
    42 KB · Views: 6
Boy O'Boy

Milton Shupe said:
Just FYI, we have this one in progress. Most of the models conversions work is done and work is starting on updating the textures to support new alphas, and specs/bumps.

Not sure what liveries we will include aside from the original ones.
I would be happy to include updates for the excellent liveries done by some of the add-on artists contributors if they have the time to update and test their Lodestar liveries.

Here are some of the ones I have (actually have many more).

Some of these artists are Wellis, Firekitten, Mark Rogers, Willy McCoy, Manuele Villa, Martial FERON, Stuart Cox, Andre Reimers, (the late) Maarten Brouwer (we will convert Martin's work).

If we cannot contact the artists or get permissions, we will not include their updated textures, but will include the originally released packaged textures.
Click to expand...

Am I looking forward to this!! One of my all time favourites. Thanks Milton, and all concerned. (As a little nipper, I remember flying on the Lodestar from Napier to Auckland with N.A.C.)
 
Yeah!

Milton the loadstar was always one of my favorite models of yours and am very excited to see if finally being updated.

We await in great anticipation.
 
Oh Yessssssssssssss :applause: :jump:

I've been flying this a lot lately. In fact it's my 'start up saved flight aircraft'.

Really looking forward to the updated version.

Thanks Milton & Co.

Pete.
 
Yes. This will be thoroughly enjoyed.

Lots of amazing 50s era airline potential here!

ch20_lodestar.jpg

Lodestar1.jpg


Thanks so much in advance for a lovely project.

dl
 
Been waiting for this one. Quietly. Patiently.

Boy is this exciting!!!!!!

Very nice selection of liveries for the update. Will any of the existing ones fit the FSX native model (with some normal fettling)?
 
expat said:
Been waiting for this one. Quietly. Patiently.

Boy is this exciting!!!!!!

Very nice selection of liveries for the update. Will any of the existing ones fit the FSX native model (with some normal fettling)?
Click to expand...

Thanks Expat,

All prior repaints will be compatible. Metal or shine based schemes (with specular or glossy finishes) may need to have their alphas tweaked for best appearance for the new FSX materials.
 
delta_lima said:
Yes. This will be thoroughly enjoyed.

Lots of amazing 50s era airline potential here!

attachment.php


attachment.php



Thanks so much in advance for a lovely project.

dl
Click to expand...

You are welcome Sir. Both of these liveries have been done.
 
Milton, feel free to use any or all of the paints I've done for your aircraft. It's been a pleasure to paint them.

I've been doing a little work with the Lodestar in the past few days and thinking about doing some more paints for it.
 
Willy said:
Milton, feel free to use any or all of the paints I've done for your aircraft. It's been a pleasure to paint them.

I've been doing a little work with the Lodestar in the past few days and thinking about doing some more paints for it.
Click to expand...

Are you flying your paints in FSX or FS9?

I have 5-6 of your paints in my Lodestar hangar :)

EDIT: Santa Fe, Pennsy, Western Airlines, TWA, Pac Alaska Airways, Pan American
Can you update the alphas, add bumps/specs?
 
Last edited:
Great news

So good to see the Lodestar project coming to fruition :- )

She's also my start-up ride for nightly tours of the Med and Adriatic.:mixed-smiley-010:

Thanks to all the team and special thanks to Milton for keeping this "hot ship" in the air.
 
Hi Milton,

Thanks for these news on this much loved aircraft lost since my migration to P3D V4 :)

Regards,
Gérard
 
Milton Shupe said:
Just FYI, we have this one in progress. Most of the models conversions work is done and work is starting on updating the textures to support new alphas, and specs/bumps.

Not sure what liveries we will include aside from the original ones.
I would be happy to include updates for the excellent liveries done by some of the add-on artists contributors if they have the time to update and test their Lodestar liveries.

Here are some of the ones I have (actually have many more).

Some of these artists are Wellis, Firekitten, Mark Rogers, Willy McCoy, Manuele Villa, Martial FERON, Stuart Cox, Andre Reimers, (the late) Maarten Brouwer (we will convert Martin's work).

If we cannot contact the artists or get permissions, we will not include their updated textures, but will include the originally released packaged textures.
Click to expand...



Hello Milton,
Yes you can use my repaints.
REg
Marty
 
ferondoe said:
Hello Milton,
Yes you can use my repaints.
REg
Marty
Click to expand...

Marty,

Thank you Sir :)

Would you have time to do proper updates for alphas, bump/specs?

I have your GoodTime Gal, Trans Australia, and United Liveries and would love to include them.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Are you flying your paints in FSX or FS9?

I have 5-6 of your paints in my Lodestar hangar :)
Click to expand...

I did FSX and FS9 versions of most of them. A few of the last ones were FSX only though (I think, I've slept a few times since then)

I'm flying them in FSX SE. Right now, i'm working on an AI project that involves the Howard 500, civil Harpoon cargo and a few Lodestars replacing the default LearJets in default AI traffic. If it works out like I believe it will, the default GA traffic will be next to be "Miltonized".

I'm trying to figure out where I stashed the layered .pdn files I used painting them. Those would save a lot of trouble in making specular textures.

When I burned out on painting Lodestars after the original release, i had a bunch of reference pics of non-airline Lodestars. I've found those :ernaehrung004: Getting the Lodestar itch again.
 
Willy said:
I did FSX and FS9 versions of most of them. A few of the last ones were FSX only though (I think, I've slept a few times since then)

I'm flying them in FSX SE. Right now, i'm working on an AI project that involves the Howard 500, civil Harpoon cargo and a few Lodestars replacing the default LearJets in default AI traffic. If it works out like I believe it will, the default GA traffic will be next to be "Miltonized".
Click to expand...

LOL Wow! Neat!
 
You're very welcome to use my textures Milton, go ahead. The ones I did were based on an actual real world cockpit and interior. Ferondoe took some of them and made them look even better. No problem with that. :encouragement:
 
Milton, if possible the TAA textures and the National Airways Corporation of NZ textures would be most welcome to be updated or included with this update.

Both the TAA and NAC skins and textures were done by Martial Feron (MF_l18w_taa.zip) ( MF_l18W_NAC.zip), sorry cannot remember where I go them from.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top