A Lockheed "Rounder"

**Milton Shupe** · October 28th, 2015, 10:23

Well, I am kind of waiting for some things now so decided to do a solid nose variant representing later models.

Here are some paint schemes for you to consider for the Ventura coming "soon".

EDITED for Clarity. We will have 2-3 paint schemes, none of the ones on this attachment.

**Milton Shupe** · October 28th, 2015, 10:53

one more ...

**thunder100** · October 28th, 2015, 11:26

WOW Milton what a variety !!

Great

Roland

***Willy*** · October 28th, 2015, 11:47

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

Beautiful scheme Willy; gotta have it!

I've had quite a bit of down time lately and painting is a good way to keep my mind off of personal problems. I've got a couple more very near completion.

**mrogers** · October 28th, 2015, 11:54

What a variety! That's awesome

If you need some extra help with the skins let me know!

**mrogers** · October 28th, 2015, 11:58

Originally Posted by Willy

In the library for download. Careful! The paint's still a little tacky....

That looks great Willy

**Milton Shupe** · October 28th, 2015, 13:17

LOL Just to clarify, we are not doing those paint schemes. We will have 2-3 released with the package.

I posted them for you guys for some examples that are out there if you are interested.

**mrogers** · October 28th, 2015, 14:18

Lol Milton you led me down the garden path

I've done another skin, a VPB142 PV-2, Marianas Islands 1945. A bit of a plain scheme but pictures on the net of Pacific PV-2s seems to be few and far between.

**PeteHam** · October 28th, 2015, 18:48

Originally Posted by mrogers

That looks great Willy

Yeah

I second that

Pete.

***Willy*** · October 29th, 2015, 06:26

I've got a folder on my desktop that I keep current paint projects in. I'd be just as well to rename it "Virtual Lockheed". Inside are Shooting Stars, T-Birds, Harpoons, Lodestars and now I'm going to have to clean out a corner for Venturas. A guy could have worse problems I suppose. LOL

I started a paint on a Harpoon a few months back that was actually used by a Ventura out of Attu. The real aircraft disappeared on a mission to the Kurile Islands and was found in Russia several years ago. The paint morphed into something else, but I still have the reference pics and with a solid nose Ventura, I can do it right. Bomber 31 may well fly again.

**Milton Shupe** · October 29th, 2015, 06:48

Thanks guys for the PV-1 interest. As soon as Firekitten wraps up her beautiful textures, I will have a beta package ready to release. I may have thrown a monkey wrench in the pile with the solid nose version but it should map out the same as the glass version. She will likely verify that today.

The glass nose version did not carry under-wing tanks but I added them for the early solid nose version, but still no rockets at that time.

I am swapping the early glass-nose version torpedo for bombs as that would better represent the RAF version.

**tgibson** · October 29th, 2015, 09:50

Hey Willy,

Any chance you are going to release those Western textures for FS9?

Thanks,

***Willy*** · October 29th, 2015, 13:36

Tom, I uploaded it yesterday or the day before along with a Panagra and a Panair that I uploaded a week ago. They're in the Warbirds Library here. Going back to our old Combat Flight Center days, anything I do has been pretty much a SOH exclusive to meet a promise I made to an old friend. Although I have been rethinking that for a while now. (not sure if I remember how to upload to FlightSim it's been so long)

The Western paint is basically a semi-educated guess. I've plenty of reference saying Western flew the Lodestars they acquired with the purchase of Inland Airways. But I couldn't find a picture of one. So I used the basic post war bare metal top paint scheme.

I've almost got a fictional Santa Fe Skyways air freighter Lodestar finished (love that paint scheme), basically just need to do one more alpha layer and package it up. And a 1944ish TWA paint is right behind it one I make a few line up adjustments. (TWA just had one Lodestar and never used it as an airliner)

After the TWA one, I'm looking at Pan Am, Pacific Alaska and Alaska Star. And I'd like to do a bare metal BOAC. Plus, I've still got my "Operation Downfall" P-80 project on the backburner.

So many Lockheeds, so little time.....

And one of these days, I'm gonna have to get my head around how to do layers...

**Milton Shupe** · October 29th, 2015, 14:06

TWA Lost Work Orders

**Milton Shupe** · October 29th, 2015, 14:08

A few others I have not seen ...

***Willy*** · October 29th, 2015, 16:32

Thanks Milton! I had the first and last page on the TWA which I've been using as a reference and with the middle page, I can do it better. I've already used the drawing to create the nose logo and other bits

I've made some improvements since this version.

The Pacific Alaska Airways is on the list. I'd already decided to do a Pan Am and there's very little difference between the two, so why not?

***Willy*** · October 29th, 2015, 17:05

Photo of the TWA. There's some differences in the photo and work order description. This is pretty much the way I've got the paint done now.

**EMatheson** · October 29th, 2015, 19:53

I always thought that the solid-nose Ventura was the prettiest one of the bunch - I'm happy to see that one appeared in the end.
SOH has been pumping out stellar releases lately - It's pretty awesome what we've got here: a team-lead and modeller in Milton Shupe and a huge number of talented sound, texture, and other artists to add to the bunch, with manecas, wellis, Firekitten, Tankerguy, Nigel, and so many others involved in the work...

Let's see - what has Team SOH completed? (list based on my memory of events on the forums, including substantial SOH membership contribution and volunteer laborers who did the bulk of the work, as happened with the A-26, but list may be lengthened or shortened based on the recollections of the involved parties - so Milton is hereby invited to edit the post to correct the list for accuracy)
- F7F Tigercats (both V.1 and V.2)
- Lockheed Lodestars
- Lockheed Harpoons
- HMS Bounty (sort of)
- Republic Experimental Fighters (XP-72, XP-47J, XP-47H)
- Fleet 50 (sort of)
- Grumman 7 (S2T, S2F, (E)C-1 in civil, fire, and military flavors) (sort of)
- Howard 500 V.1.5 (NOT including the original V.1 release) (sort of)
- Avia 57
- Avias (51, 56, and 156)
- DH.80 Puss Moth (sort of)
- A-26 Invaders (the original SOH project)
- And, on the FSX side, a Ryan Navion and an unreleased P-61 Black Widow from different SOH teams.

- with Lockheed Venturas and Grumman Mallards coming!

Pretty incredible, isn't it?

**Milton Shupe** · October 29th, 2015, 20:41

This is an awesome place to be, for sure, with all the talent running about.

Thanks to all of you who make SOH great!

Here's the basic list I have since 2011. It does not include some of my small collaborations for flight models; may have forgotten some. List does not include a host of AI or MP variants or CFS2 collaborations.

A-20 Havoc	Next Up
Beech D18S	Beechcraft D18S FSX Portover
Aero Commanders	AC500CA1, AC500vc1, AC500W, AC520v3, AC560vc3, AC680v3 FSX Portover
Aero Commanders	AC680S VC Redo - WIP
Avia 51	Avia51 Wheels, Floats, Amphibian
Avia156	Avia156 Wheels
Avia56	Avia56 Wheels, Amphibian, Floats, Skis
Avia57	Wheels, Floats
Consolidated PB4Y-2	with Tankerguy - Still A WIP
Lockheed Harpoon	Harpoon PV-2, PV2D, Tanker
Lockheed Vega Ventura	PV-1
Lockheed Lodestar	C-57, C60A
Lockheed Lodestar Civilian	L-18 Civilian
de Havilland Dash 7	Dash 7 5 - models
Cant Z.1007biz	Collaboration with MVG3
xp47j	Republic Experimental xp47j
xp47h	Republic Experimental xp47h
xp72	Republic Experimental xp72
Grumman Tracer	E-1B
Grumman Tracer	EC-1B
Grumman Tracker	S2F-3
Grumman Tracker	S2A-CDF
Grumman Tracker	S2AL-CDF
Grumman Trader	C-1A
Grumman Trader	C-1A Cargo
Grumman TurboConv	S2Turbo Military
Grumman TurboConv	S2Turbo Civilian
Grumman TurboConv	S2T-CDF
Grumman Tracker	S2AL-CONAIR
Grumman Tracker	S2F-1
HMS Bounty	6 Liveries, AI and Static
Pinto Racing Stock Car	New version with Rob Barendregt
Rockwell Cmdr 685	Rotohub model - Doing FS9 version - Rotohub doing the FSX Native
Mallard	Grumman Mallard G-73; LDR doing FSX Native
Mallard G73T	Grumman Mallard G-7Turboprop; LDR doing FSX Native
Fleet 50	9 Variants - 3 engines, Floats, Skis, Tundra Tires (only 3 released)
F7F-1	******** doing the FSX native side
F7F-3 Single	******** doing the FSX native side
F7F-3 2-Seat	******** doing the FSX native side
F7F-3N	******** doing the FSX native side
F7F-Tanker	******** doing the FSX native side

***Willy*** · October 29th, 2015, 20:51

Coming soon (very soon, like in some time tomorrow once I get it packaged up)

**djs1** · October 29th, 2015, 23:28

Mr Shupe, are my eyes failing or have you omitted from your list the excellent DH80? My favourite for "low and slow"

**Milton Shupe** · October 30th, 2015, 04:05

Originally Posted by djs1

Mr Shupe, are my eyes failing or have you omitted from your list the excellent DH80? My favourite for "low and slow"

LOL No, the list is one I started in 2011 for aircraft from that year forward (since my June '11 retirement) and the DH-80 Puss Moth was released in October 2009.