Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

**tgycgijoes** · August 5th, 2016, 11:23

Originally Posted by DaveB

That's a decent first effort mate

A few points you should be able to adjust.. the white on the roof should extend fwd of the aerial above the flightdeck. The upper orange/dayglo goes all the way down the dorsal. Take the 'BOLD' off the N.DAK.AIR GUARD titles and move it fwd (it starts mid-way through the window above the wing LE). The fin looks white too.. not silver.

Not the easiest paint to take on as a first effort. Good job thus far

ATB
DaveB

Thank you for taking the time...I have done a lot of complex B737s with Virtual Alaska Airlines with the Disney repaints and some difficult original nose art in A2A B-17s but always worked in Paintshop Pro with blank texture dds files or was able to "patch over" NOT PSD. This was 21 hours of work non-stop so I appreciate your encouragement. I may wait until next week until I open this up again unless I feel like punishing myself later. LOL. I can't help it, I just don't like Adobe Photoshop much preferring Corel Paintshop Pro but it does not properly open up the layered PSD file. Again, thank you for taking the time to point out the stuff to fix.

**DaveB** · August 5th, 2016, 12:23

Originally Posted by tgycgijoes

Thank you for taking the time...I have done a lot of complex B737s with Virtual Alaska Airlines with the Disney repaints and some difficult original nose art in A2A B-17s but always worked in Paintshop Pro with blank texture dds files or was able to "patch over" NOT PSD. This was 21 hours of work non-stop so I appreciate your encouragement. I may wait until next week until I open this up again unless I feel like punishing myself later. LOL. I can't help it, I just don't like Adobe Photoshop much preferring Corel Paintshop Pro but it does not properly open up the layered PSD file. Again, thank you for taking the time to point out the stuff to fix.

I know exactly how you feel mate. I've used PS Elements for years. It's like the proverbial old pair of gloves. I know what it can do.. what it can't do and the things I have to do to make it work for me. As things have progressed, many PSD's will only open with CS2 (without losing layer detail) and some won't even open with that. I dislike CS2 with a passion and am never happy using it

Thanks for taking my comments in the spirit they were intended

ATB
DaveB

**gman5250** · August 5th, 2016, 13:45

Another in a series of WWII skins, C-47A Skytrain' SN: 42-92841. The "Turf and Sport Special" was a 61st Troop Carrier Squadron C-47A that took part in Operation "Market Garden" during September of 1944.

Link
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...rt-Special-zip

I was lucky enough to find some good exterior/interior shots of this airplane and put together a cockpit color scheme to closely re-produce the warbird.

Interior:
Green with black yoke and quadrant. Canvas seat covers with tan leather armrests. I've done some detailing on many of the parts, adding occlusion shadowing where appropriate, dirt and wear to the metal seat buckets, scratches to the window frames, and a bunch of personalizing to give this plane/interior combination a unique signature. The interior textures are based on originals by Jan Visser. All modifications/adaptations are by me and intended to be specific for this airplane. Feel free to alias other models to this interior texture, but please don't use my (or anyone else's) texture sheets in your own skins without permission.

Exterior:
DXT5 4096 x 4096 resolution with enhanced bump maps and specular files. I chose to represent the airplane as it would have appeared throughout it's long service life, rather than in the restored version. Maybe I'll do that one later on, or leave it for one of our skinners.

Shown here in Prepar3D V 3.3.5 | HDR Enabled | ASN 2016 Weather

**napacon** · August 5th, 2016, 15:05

Thank you sir..just BEAUTIFUL and Historical..As always great job..Wonderful model!

**Bomber_12th** · August 5th, 2016, 15:40

A few of my favorite C-47's/C-53's flying today:

C-47 "Betty's Biscuit Bomber" N47SJ from the Gooney Bird Group (the fresh shade of early olive drab on this one is awesome): https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=...ate-taken-desc
C-47 "Willa Dean" N791HH from the Lyon Air Museum: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=...ate-taken-desc
C-53 "D-Day Doll" N45366 from the Inland Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force: https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=...=1&text=N45366
C-47 "What's Up Doc" N60154 from the Palm Springs Air Museum: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=...ate-taken-desc
C-53 "The Duchess of Dakota" N603MC from the Texas Flying Legends Museum (on two occasions, has sported temporary brushed-on/mopped-on invasion stripes and wartime graffiti): https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=N603MC

My absolute favorite...

C-47 "Drag-'Em-Oot" N473DC from the Dakota Heritage Inc. Trust (flown/based in England - one of the few to have the Rebecca antennas fitted, like the FS model): https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=...ate-taken-desc

(Anyone wishing to do this one, note that the letter and serial on the tail are the same shade of grey as the "3X" by the nose.)

**Ian Warren** · August 5th, 2016, 16:16

Having a bit of a chuckle here

, Marty stopped in checking on latest projects, showing him one paint I'm working on , showed him were I spilled the can of paint, couple blobs of light blue rolling around on the tires, course only one tires until you taxi .. blop blop blop , this was all giving a little lesson and showing the ease of painting what to look for , he's off home now maybe to try it out himself.

**tgycgijoes** · August 5th, 2016, 16:47

Thanks to DaveB for pointing out a few mistakes in my ND ANG repaint above. Here is it with all the changes (except one). I have taken a shot of the PSD to show what it does where the dorsal fin is supposed to be but there's just a dip in the top of the fuselage. Meaning I am sure it is elsewhere and the mdl file puts it there. I can't paint it orange if I can't find it though. If memory serves the PSD was created by ********. Hey Gordon will you take a picture and put an arrow where the dorsal fin is on the PSD in the paint kit so I can make it orange. Thank you.

**Butcherbird17** · August 5th, 2016, 17:41

Another one almost done. Got a few others that I have been working on that need some more work then I will upload here.

Joe

**Bomber_12th** · August 5th, 2016, 17:42

That looks gorgeous, Joe! I will definitely be looking forward to that one.

**Butcherbird17** · August 5th, 2016, 17:50

Originally Posted by Bomber_12th

That looks gorgeous, Joe! I will definitely be looking forward to that one.

Thanks John, just a few stencils that I need to find for the doors and that one will be finished.

joe

**Ian Warren** · August 5th, 2016, 18:19

I repeat John's exact words .. except 'Friggen Gorgeous' , such a brilliant and easy paint kit to work with, that result super thumbs up from here

**Timbohobo** · August 5th, 2016, 18:53

Would love it if someone picked this up, love the simple lines

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...145666874).jpg

**ryanbatc** · August 5th, 2016, 19:24

Woah! Awesome paint

**fuzz1** · August 5th, 2016, 19:25

Gordon, thanks for your outstanding T&S Special. I seem to be having a problem with missing textures in the VC however. I note that certain VC files are .bmp's rather than .dds and wonder if perhaps this has anything to do with it. I'm using FSX if that makes a difference.

Oh, and thanks for your cowl indicator fix on KG374. That bird is now absolutely perfect.

**gman5250** · August 5th, 2016, 19:55

Originally Posted by fuzz1

Gordon, thanks for your outstanding T&S Special. I seem to be having a problem with missing textures in the VC however. I note that certain VC files are .bmp's rather than .dds and wonder if perhaps this has anything to do with it. I'm using FSX if that makes a difference.

Oh, and thanks for your cowl indicator fix on KG374. That bird is now absolutely perfect.

Thanks for pointing that out fuzz1. Gremlins....

Just delete those .bmp files, the sim is defaulting to those instead of the .dds files.
Corrected files are uploading as of the time of this post.

**fuzz1** · August 5th, 2016, 20:57

That fixed it Gordon, appreciate your lightning response to this.
This VC is superb, not to mention the exterior. You're not exactly making it easy to pick a favorite.

**Flyboy208** · August 5th, 2016, 21:06

No issues at all for me Gordon for this stellar skin/paint and VVC mod .... awesome work ! Mike

***Jafo*** · August 5th, 2016, 21:52

Originally Posted by Ian Warren

I repeat John's exact words .. except 'Friggen Gorgeous' , such a brilliant and easy paint kit to work with, that result super thumbs up from here

Ditto....
So far I've been using a seriously dumbed-down Paint Kit....sort of opened in PE 5 which lost much of the layers....then had to flatten each one to save as a layered [but simpler] PSD that I could then open with my weapon-of-choice which is PSP6. So roughly 8 layers each of which were 'flat' from which to rework into a 'functional' PSP 'kit'.

Since then I remembered I had PSPX on an old computer and whacked it on here alongside the 6. Now I could 'mostly' load the full PSD and get it to save as a PSP6-compatible PSP file....and find there are squillions of layers.

But, since I'm a creature of habit I'm just picking and choosing some of the layers and adding them to what I'd already come up with....since I'm used to what I'd got so far.

Colour me weird....but it works for me.

At least now I have actual transparent rivet layers and stuff...

[good thing I'd only released one paint so far....but am about to upload 4 more]

**Ian Warren** · August 5th, 2016, 22:59

Originally Posted by Jafo

[good thing I'd only released one paint so far....but am about to upload 4 more]

Looking forward to your efforts ... here I am and again simply get stopped by visits .. but that is still all good

**DaveWG** · August 6th, 2016, 01:54

Regular Duxford visitor.

***huub vink*** · August 6th, 2016, 03:46

A really beautiful skin!

Huub

**DaveB** · August 6th, 2016, 05:25

@Joe.. that's a lovely paint mate

@DWG.. Likewise. Glad you revisited that one. Another instant download for me

@tgycgijoes.. That already looks better mate. I've a feeling that the white on the upper roof should come fwd of the roof aerial. Can't find a shot of her at the correct angle but looking at how close it comes to the flightdeck side windows.. I reckon it does go fwd of the aerial. Maybe the text should come a wee bit more fwd too.
I've not looked at the PK yet but looking at Joe's paint with all orange fin and dorsal.. it seems to coincide with the dent in the roof shown on the PK. Will take a look this afternoon

ATB
DaveB