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Giving an old girl a new dress.

Cazzie

Cazzie

SOH-CM-2024
This was to be the first is a series of FS9/GW3 repaints I am doing to represent the airplanes that appeared on the United States Commemorative stamp "Classic American Aircraft" released in 1997.

Though not in chronological order on the stamp pane, I chose to do so with my repaints by starting with the earliest aircraft on the pane, the Wright Brothers Model B Flyer.

The only Model B available for FS9 is Paul Beardsley's "Vin Fiz" (1911vinf.zip @ AvSim or FilghtSim). I wanted to do a model that more properly represented the one appearing on the stamp, so it was off to the paint shop with Paul's "Vin Fiz".

I darkened the linen fabric just a wee tad, made some ribs and longerons, and covered them with some transparent fabric that has been given a very fine fabric texture. All fabric was given some alpha except rib and longeron areas to make it a little transparent. A new propwash was worked up from a screen cut out of the prop at rest. Wilber was given a new pair of jeans and the flesh darkened a bit.

I would have liked to have done some work with the wheels, but they are in the .mdl file and have to remain untouched.

So, I gave the old girl a new suit. Hope you like her.

But this is actually the second of 20 aircraft in the series to really be done, the B-10B was uploaded just recently and that will figure in again down the line.

Caz
 
Cazzie...love the paint...the translucency of the cloth really add to the realism of the plane.

A couple years ago, I bought a sheet of stamps with historically significant aircraft depicted. I put them in a book for safe keeping and to keep them nice and flat....and now I can't find them. I have looked through every book I have. So, either I in fact did not put them were I think I put them, or they were in one of the books I packed up and gave to the Salvation Army. All I know for sure is that I have not seen the sheet of stamps since the day I bought it.

OBIO
 
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