Beechcraft King Air 350 Specials
Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 16:24
Martin asked me before Christmas if I would consider making the RAF Shadow R1 which is based on the Beechcraft B350 Super King Air. We've long had the B200, which is about 3ft shorter and with no winglets. In addition to the Shadow R1, the 350 is also a great opportunity to model some of the other "specials" out there. I'm indebted to Steve P (swp53) who kindly undertook a lot of the research for me while I was finishing off previous work. Click Click, as always, has been of great help in recent days.
So, here goes. The following will be available as FS9 and FSX native code:
This is the RAF Shadow R1:
I've made all 5 aircraft and set up 3 in my RAF Waddington scenery (FS9 and FSX) and also took the opportunity to replace the Nimrods with the RAF RC-135Ws that are available in the Download Centre:
This is the Royal Navy Avenger T1, 4 of which have been modelled:
The MC-12W is a bit more complicated. All of the USAF Project Liberty aircraft have been transferred to the US Army. The last 15 changed hands last November and the last report I read said they were still at Beale AFB:
The US Army I assume will in due course paint all the aircraft in their overall grey scheme like this example:
Unfortunately, apart from 100737, I could only find 4 other grey painted examples on the net: N914JA, N2DKW, N90BEA (presumably all civilian registrations) and a stretched nose version, 30283. If any one with access to the Scramble database could tell me if there are any other registrations of MC-12W aircraft with the US Army, that would be useful.
I couldn't resist the RX-12X Guardrail. It's based on the B200, but after quite a bit of work re-sizing and re-mapping I did it:
The UC-12W of the US Marine Corps is a good looking aircraft, although quite what the shades of grey used was not easy to determine. In the end I took them from photographs:
I'm currently working on 32 Sqn Royal Australian Air Force who have 8 examples:
I'll also make the 8 aircraft of 38 Sqn that are the same, but with a different colour stripe and badge of course.
After that, it's the Japanese examples.
The B350 is widely used by many Air Forces and to make them all would be prohibitive. However, many seem to be based on a generic model (give or take an aerial or two) similar to the RAAF example. I'll provide that model and a paint kit so that people can make specific country examples if they so wish.
If I've missed any of the "specials" that would be more widely popular, let me know and I'll give them consideration.
John Y.
So, here goes. The following will be available as FS9 and FSX native code:
This is the RAF Shadow R1:
I've made all 5 aircraft and set up 3 in my RAF Waddington scenery (FS9 and FSX) and also took the opportunity to replace the Nimrods with the RAF RC-135Ws that are available in the Download Centre:
This is the Royal Navy Avenger T1, 4 of which have been modelled:
The MC-12W is a bit more complicated. All of the USAF Project Liberty aircraft have been transferred to the US Army. The last 15 changed hands last November and the last report I read said they were still at Beale AFB:
The US Army I assume will in due course paint all the aircraft in their overall grey scheme like this example:
Unfortunately, apart from 100737, I could only find 4 other grey painted examples on the net: N914JA, N2DKW, N90BEA (presumably all civilian registrations) and a stretched nose version, 30283. If any one with access to the Scramble database could tell me if there are any other registrations of MC-12W aircraft with the US Army, that would be useful.
I couldn't resist the RX-12X Guardrail. It's based on the B200, but after quite a bit of work re-sizing and re-mapping I did it:
The UC-12W of the US Marine Corps is a good looking aircraft, although quite what the shades of grey used was not easy to determine. In the end I took them from photographs:
I'm currently working on 32 Sqn Royal Australian Air Force who have 8 examples:
I'll also make the 8 aircraft of 38 Sqn that are the same, but with a different colour stripe and badge of course.
After that, it's the Japanese examples.
The B350 is widely used by many Air Forces and to make them all would be prohibitive. However, many seem to be based on a generic model (give or take an aerial or two) similar to the RAAF example. I'll provide that model and a paint kit so that people can make specific country examples if they so wish.
If I've missed any of the "specials" that would be more widely popular, let me know and I'll give them consideration.
John Y.
