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Great job Del, good to see.

Well Dan, since you provide so much pleasure in us being able to view your air show photographs, it's the least I can do for you. Let me just finish the Hawkeye's and Greyhounds first and "Snoopy" will be next on the list.

John

That's a great suggestion, really looking forward to it. Where did Snoopy live, was it Benson?

Jon G

jgowing wrote:That's a great suggestion, really looking forward to it. Where did Snoopy live, was it Benson?

Jon G

Farnborough then Boscombe Down I believe.

Jim

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I did research "Snoopy" after Steve suggested it when I was making the main C-130 models. It was based at Farnborough and later Boscombe Down for weather research until 2001, when it was retired. However, a few years later "Snoopy" was acquired by Marshalls of Cambridge as a flying test bed for the Airbus A400m engine. It was then destined to be scrapped and the last photo I found shows the aircraft in a sorry state at Cambridge minus it's engines in 2013. "Snoopy" was finally chopped up at Cambridge in 2015.

John

OK due to some stuff I was doing for John, I was a bit late in creating a tutorial for Converting DDS textures to DXT3. It is now in the tutorial section.

Here are the Botswana paints and they turned out alright. So why did I do Botswana? Well, I just wanted to replace an old HTAI package. These paints aren't entirely accurate, as they actually fly 3 C-130Bs, but it's pretty close.

Delboy99 wrote: 09 Apr 2020, 21:56 With all the excellent C-130 repaints being released at the moment I thought I would share some of mine. I have just uploaded retro repaints for the Hercules C1s and C3s used by the RAF as they were in the 1980s. The Hercules C1 uses the CC-130H73 model, whilst the Hercules C3 uses the CC-130H-30 model. FSX only I'm afraid, I don't have FS9 installed anymore.

XV197 by Derek Taylor, on Flickr

XV215 by Derek Taylor, on Flickr

XV186 by Derek Taylor, on Flickr

hi dellboy are these schemes in the c130 package by john

Yes they are for Johns C-130s. Both models are in the Canada package.

John, looking forward to the Snoopy model.

I have just released a whole bunch. John surly loves it how his models are being painted.

From mobile hence short

John Young wrote: 10 Apr 2020, 05:39 Great job Del, good to see.

Well Dan, since you provide so much pleasure in us being able to view your air show photographs, it's the least I can do for you. Let me just finish the Hawkeye's and Greyhounds first and "Snoopy" will be next on the list.

John

Blimey I was joking but I'll happily take it. Many thanks for you kind words as well, it's much appreciated. I can make the fp for it as well if no-one else wants it

I decided to finish up the Bangladesh C-130s, with all 4 of the C-130Bs and the two C-130Js they currently have.

This is just to report a small error in the cfg for a French C-130R

correct the line
texture=FAF_FAF_61-PC
in
texture=FAF_61-PC

Giorgio

bismarck wrote:This is just to report a small error in the cfg for a French C-130R

correct the line
texture=FAF_FAF_61-PC
in
texture=FAF_61-PC

Giorgio

Thank you, re-uploaded without my errors (I hope!!!!)

Jim

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Finally, the 142nd AS C-130Hs are done. I'm going to send them over soon.

@jetrange, just a paint kit question as I further explore the long procrastinated skill of repainting MAIW models. I see the layer that lets me change the tail flash and tail number, but what do I do after that with the paint kit, merge the layers and then save? Like many of the paint kits, the JYAI C-130 base color is good for all USAF Hercs, so really I only need to change decals. I've got reference pics and scale-model decal sheets, I'm just not sure what to do next. I'm looking over the Little Rock AFB package.

When it comes to details, I don't usually merge layers together because keeping layers separate makes it easier for editing.

Save the layered file un-merged, then save a copy as a 24 bit .bmp to a different folder with all layers merged. Resize that .bmp to 1024 x 1024 pixels and load that file into Dxtbmp to make the texture.

John

@John

Yesterday i red that the LM-100J, the new generation civil Hercules will be delivered soon to

Pallas Aviation
Bravo Cargas Brazil
ASL Group/Safair South Africa.

Currently 30 examples are ordered.

Lynden Air Cargo could be a possible customer in the future.


Are you planning to make also the LM-100J model?

I've already made a Pallas LM-100J by just using the C-130J model and it works just as well.

I've just uploaded an FS9 version of the RAF Hercules package.