Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

**Timmy74** · August 6th, 2016, 22:35

Originally Posted by Bomber_12th

Here's the download: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...4&linkid=21718

Thank you John.

**Portia911** · August 7th, 2016, 03:19

Originally Posted by ncooper

This Wrigley repaint is up at Flightsim.com, texture_wrigley.zip

Thanks Nick, that rich cream paint job just oozes retro class.

**Ron Attwood** · August 7th, 2016, 10:53

I've got to stop painting and start downloading! There are some fantastic paints on offer.

Meantime, my own humble offering.

In it's original Royal Air Force Transport Command colours. She was eventually demobbed and bought by Air Atlantique among others And re registered G-AMPY

Uploaded to SOH, AVSIM and MediaFire

**cavaricooper** · August 7th, 2016, 12:19

Ron-

Should be lovely for running around Duckie- just the ticket!

Ta!

C

**Butcherbird17** · August 7th, 2016, 12:27

Just uploaded the NARF and USMC paints to the library. Just need to wait for Rami to approve them.
Here is a pic of the painted USMC bird.......

Joe

**ryanbatc** · August 7th, 2016, 12:49

Great! Love to fly them all as N numbers

**YoYo** · August 7th, 2016, 14:51

My "Silver series" Incoming. Need some of bare metal and shiny? This will be for You.

Preview of "Bluebonnet Belle".

MAAM is grey-silver:

**ryanbatc** · August 7th, 2016, 17:34

Oooh! I love that CAF paint yoyo!

**johndetrick** · August 7th, 2016, 18:16

Originally Posted by Butcherbird17

Just uploaded the NARF and USMC paints to the library. Just need to wait for Rami to approve them.
Here is a pic of the painted USMC bird.......

Joe

Looks Good. i did that one for the C47 v2.

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib....ght&fid=154514

***Jafo*** · August 7th, 2016, 19:14

I had some decent pics of the Gooney Bird...and found even the Prop logo was NQR ....seems the red had faded and was lighter than the rest....so redid the prop and then reworked the colour/alpha/spec of the engine....
Eventually I'll upload....

***huub vink*** · August 8th, 2016, 03:50

Originally Posted by YoYo

My "Silver series" Incoming. Need some of bare metal and shiny? This will be for You.

I think they are perfect Yoyo

Cheers,
Huub

**DaveB** · August 8th, 2016, 06:24

A lovely job by Ted on Monties personal transport.
Anyone fancy doing another 24Sqn paint.. KG770? It's a CIII which took the King and Queen to the Channel Islands after the war. You'd need to get the polish out though!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._24...light_1945.jpg

ATB
DaveB

***manfredc3*** · August 8th, 2016, 07:35

Loving the R3D-6 "Skytrain" paint.

That was one of my favorite paints in FSX withthe MAAM rendition.

**Butcherbird17** · August 8th, 2016, 08:28

Originally Posted by DaveB

A lovely job by Ted on Monties personal transport.
Anyone fancy doing another 24Sqn paint.. KG770? It's a CIII which took the King and Queen to the Channel Islands after the war. You'd need to get the polish out though!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._24...light_1945.jpg

ATB
DaveB

Hey Dave,
You got any other pics for KG770? The more the better especially the whats painted on the nose. You can't really see what it is
from that pic. I could knock that one up pretty quick.

Joe

**DaveB** · August 8th, 2016, 08:32

Originally Posted by Butcherbird17

Hey Dave,
You got any other pics for KG770? The more the better especially the whats painted on the nose. You can't really see what it is
from that pic. I could knock that one up pretty quick.

Joe

I'll see what I can dig up Joe

ATB
DaveB

**Butcherbird17** · August 8th, 2016, 08:35

Sounds good Dave. You know how to get a hold of me.

Joe

**DaveB** · August 8th, 2016, 09:33

Joe..

Hit a slight conflict of information

I was going to say that the logo on the nose would be the same as the after-most one on Ted's paint but.. that one, also shown in a number of decal packs for a variety of models, is NOT the 24 Sqn logo. It carries the correct 24Sqn motto in latin 'IN OMNIA PARATI' (Prepared for all things) but 24Sqn's logo is a Blackcock.. not Pegasus as shown in the decal packs. Pegasus is the Airbourne Division logo. You may ask why is the Airbourne Division logo carried with 24Sqn's motto and rightly so

Now then.. Montgomery was a key figure behind Operation Market Garden (possibly an assumption by the decal manufacturers that the logo would be Pegasus) but as the operation was (to all intents) a failure.. I can't see Monty having this on the side of his personal aircraft.

I'll keep looking but initial findings are disappointing.
ATB
DaveB

**Butcherbird17** · August 8th, 2016, 09:57

Well as they say.... It was "A Bridge to Far" ......

For now I will get the ground crew to work on an old battle weary DaK sitting back behind the barn and to
start stripping the paint off and polishing her up.

Joe

**511Flyer** · August 8th, 2016, 10:23

Hi Dave. Just Google 24 Sqdn and you will find the badge. During my 4 years at RAF Colerne, I was servicing the Hastings of 24 and 511 Squadrons. Incidentally, it was 24(C), a commonwealth squadron. I well remember the CO, WC Hitchens RAAF during that time. They still had two Hastings C4's, which were very shiny VIP aircraft. No, I never had to polish them.

Den.

**DaveB** · August 8th, 2016, 10:29

Hi Den

Yup.. I'd found the badge using my old mate BING then looked into the history of the squadron. I couldn't remember the badge on Ted's 'Monty' paint looking like a Blackcock so had another look and found Pegasus with 24 Squadrons motto

I feel sure that the logo on the front should be a Blackcock and not Pegasus but don't want to put Joe in a position where he releases a paint with the wrong logo.
The Hastings carried it on the fin didn't they??
ATB
DaveB

**DaveB** · August 8th, 2016, 12:18

The KG770 plot thickens!!

The King and Queen actually went to the Channel Islands on HMS Jamaica and used the Dakota to travel between the islands. Pathe captured the event.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC1M...ature=youtu.be .

That particular aircraft is KN386

I've found reference to say that the badge on the nose is that of RAF Transport Command (rather than 24 Sqn) but I've yet to find a shot clean enough to confirm it.
ATB
DaveB

**tgycgijoes** · August 8th, 2016, 16:05

This took ALL DAY for me to figure out how to get the dorsal on the fuselage painted even with ButcherBird17's generous help. I don't know if its just me or the model which is beautiful though it contains the C47 D-Day paint and couldn't get MY& paint to show up with it to see what I was doing. That said, after much trial and error...the dorsal on the right has less paint than the one on the left and "voila" (FR.) its done. I want to thank DaveB for starting all the trouble. JUST KIDDING. My old business partner, Adrian, was very fond of saying "We do it right, or we don't do it" and that is what I kept telling myself everytime I looked at it in FSX and it still wasn't right. Here is a picture of 42-93800 on the runway at KFAR, Hector Field. I'm happy with it now, hope you will be. I will upload this to the Warbirds Library and share. The emblem on the nose is the insignia of the 178th Fighter Intercepter Squadron "Happy Hooligans" and if you look close enough the crew has it on their squadron ballcaps.

**ryanbatc** · August 8th, 2016, 16:48

Very nice! I've flown in and out of FAR a few times.

**tgycgijoes** · August 8th, 2016, 17:44

How are you guys filling the screen with your photos. I would like to make mine larger when posted.

**Butcherbird17** · August 8th, 2016, 18:51

Hey Richard,

A little tip for lining up the left and right sides, paint the left side first (it's the top fuselage in the PK).
Once done make a duplicate layer and then drag it down to the right side. Here is where the wire
frame (mesh layer) comes into good use for lining them up.

When I start using any paint kit I outline one side of the fuselage and wings in a base color and clean
it up using the wire frame. Then I save that layer to use for all the rest of my paints by just duplicating
the layer then I can change the color or cut out parts for the new paint.

One thing I noticed on your paint is that you need to paint the cargo door hinge. They are located at
the top to the right of the engine parts. Other than that it's looking good.

Originally Posted by tgycgijoes

How are you guys filling the screen with your photos. I would like to make mine larger when posted.

I use photobucket for hosting my pics, there are other free photo sharing sites out there.

Joe