Alpha North American XB-70 Paint Kit in 2048 and repaints

[Jafo]

I have just uploaded my Kit in 2048x2048 format for the Alphasim/Virtavia Valkyrie to SOH.

XB-70 Valkyrie High Resolution Layered Paint Kit for Alphasim's model of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie for FSX, in 2048 detail resolution. The original Aircraft release was textured in 1024. The Kit includes the main 5 layered aircraft bitmaps in PSP format [PaintShop Pro] as well as the 3 matching 2048 resolution bump-map bitmaps in DXT5 DDS. The others don't need changing. Requires Alphasim's/Virtavia's FSX native model.

I'll also upload a PSD format version for Photoshoppers...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44443&stc=1

A selection of my repaints will also be uploaded soonish [just need to recompile].

[Jafo]

BTW....the next thing I'm 'playing with' is another 'X'-plane....just 67 lower than the Valkyrie...;)

[delta_lima]

Can't wait to load the updated NASA paints, JAFO - much appreciated.

dl

[Ferry_vO]

Looking forward to those repaints! :applause:

[flaviossa]

Thanks Jafo!! :encouragement:

[Jafo]

The PSD version of the Kit has been uploaded too.
Same animal [though bigger file size].
Next will be the paints I've done....once recompiled and converted to DDS. On my own machine I don't worry about their size [decent computer] and just run them as 8.8.8 bitmaps...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44458&stc=1

[Jafo]

I've recompiled and uploaded the first paint of the XB-70 to SOH....
The most significant one [as it still exists].

XB-70 Valkyrie cn: 620001, North American Aviation, 1962:- A High Definition repaint for Alphasim/Virtavia's model of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie for FSX, in 2048 detail resolution. Textures only, requires the Alphasim/Virtavia FSX native model.

A few minor tweaks over and above the paint kit version...the white [230.230.230] was knocked back to 90% improving fine detail.... looks less 'plastic' when there's no spec channels available.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44459&stc=1
This is an earlier snap...;)

Edit....also just uploaded the same animal [20001]...different paint....in NASA livery.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44460&stc=1

[Jafo]

Just uploaded the 'other' one.... 20207 - the second prototype lost tragically in a mid-air.

There's one more 'original/real' paint to go....the trans Mach 3 'fried' version. A little more to do on that one yet.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44461&stc=1

One fried bird....found another pic of it....so a little closer to done...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44462&stc=1

[Jafo]

I guess by the time of the SR-71 they'd worked out how to do the paint right.
Gets a bit toasty at Mach 3 ......
Here's the result now uploaded to SOH...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44465&stc=1

That's it for 'real versions'.... anything next is 'what-if's ...;)

[Jafo]

First rule of uploading stuff is you find something else you 'should' have fixed...
Both paintkits missed the dorsal vent outlets [just behind the canards].

Images 3a and 3b ...just to the right and above the nosecone...need to be black [and white in the alpha].

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44478&stc=1

Meanwhile this one's uploaded here...

99th Bomb Wing - inspired by the SR-71 [obviously a 'what-if']. One of several to upload.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44479&stc=1

[Jafo]

One of the hardest to do....chasing lines over 5 bitmaps.....and also the most unlikely of versions.....just uploaded to SOH....;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44483&stc=1

[jankees]

love that Thunderbird paint!

[icycle]

Wow! Thunderbirds. Can only shudder at the cost of having that flying shows, for a season or two. Can you image the altitude gained just to do a loop?
Great paints BTW, and thank you for all the efforts on a model thats been around, but still fun to fly . From Flight level 70, @ 1600 knots the FS world is a very different place...

Thanks
Bill

[Jafo]

Of course....when you're doing a TBird there's always the more correct vintage metal.....before they went white....

No spec layers for the XB-70 means I had to 'fiddle' with MDLMat and trial and error and came up with something shiny-ish spec-wise.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44531&stc=1

[Ian Warren]

I do like the 'Cooked' painted aircraft:encouragement: one flight, another Can of paint please :untroubled:

[Jafo]

Adding to the 'unlikelies'....[new word]....something 'Navy'.
Few more tweaks then upload..

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44543&stc=1

Edit.....uploaded here, now ...;)


http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44549&stc=1

[b52bob]

Didn't someone do a camouflage version way back?

thanks for the work you put into this. Navy version?, that's a bit really way out for me. Land on a carrier, good luck. The tail hook would have to but the size of an F-18!

[Jafo]

Didn't someone do a camouflage version way back?

thanks for the work you put into this. Navy version?, that's a bit really way out for me. Land on a carrier, good luck. The tail hook would have to but the size of an F-18!
I have a couple of those on the way...;)

Yes, the Navy and the TBirds ones would definitely classify as 'unlikely'...;)

[Jafo]

A little more to do...but here it is in SEA colours..

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44571&stc=1

Edit....probably finished....
Corrected the colours to 'exact' RGB.
Something the 69th Bomb Squadron might have ended up with....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44575&stc=1

Edit 2 .... removed the 'USAF' ....shouldn't have been there....not in the Camo.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44576&stc=1

[flaviossa]

Fantastic job! :applause:

[lazarus]

Really sweet. Guess who's coming to dinner, Hanoi...

[fsafranek]

Nice to see this old bird getting some new skins.

If I recall correctly Pierre did the initial texture work on the bought-in model. This was of the NASA bird (20001) with the yellow tail band. Since I had a lot of North American Aircraft reference material I pointed out a couple items that differed from the real bird so Phil handed it to me to work on it some more. In the process I added 20207 that was sadly lost in the mid-air to give buyers a second set of textures. Not sure if both made it into the FSX package though. Contrary to Pierre's normal style we kept the textures very clean because dirt slows you down and the real aircraft were kept immaculate throughout their flight life.

I always liked this one because it had a detailed cockpit despite the pretty boring exterior paint (few if any panel lines or stencils). Thanks for the new paint kit and repaints Jafo.
:ernaehrung004:

[Jafo]

Nice to see this old bird getting some new skins.

If I recall correctly Pierre did the initial texture work on the bought-in model. This was of the NASA bird (20001) with the yellow tail band. Since I had a lot of North American Aircraft reference material I pointed out a couple items that differed from the real bird so Phil handed it to me to work on it some more. In the process I added 20207 that was sadly lost in the mid-air to give buyers a second set of textures. Not sure if both made it into the FSX package though. Contrary to Pierre's normal style we kept the textures very clean because dirt slows you down and the real aircraft were kept immaculate throughout their flight life.

I always liked this one because it had a detailed cockpit despite the pretty boring exterior paint (few if any panel lines or stencils). Thanks for the new paint kit and repaints Jafo.
:ernaehrung004:

Frank, yes, the model was/is great....the VC is fine, it was only the 'simple' paints in 1024 that could benefit from a higher res so lines wouldn't look too clunky. I think I have every version of the '70 ever released....even 'fly' one of the AI ones....

I have several books on the Valkyrie as well as hunting down any relevant pics on the net. On my 'bucket list' before I snuff it is to see 20001 [and a F105] in the flesh one day when I get back to the US.

Re the model....it would have been great if there'd been spec channels done for it. To attempt a metal finish I 'hacked' the model with MDLMat and upped the spec that way...but it's not the same.

I've also set burner effects to the '4' separate engines so it can look like 1 or some are shutdown....1 - 2/3 - 4/5 - 6.... including smoke.

Also screen-capped the VC and did a 2D to 'match' in widescreen.

Here's eng 3 shutdown [4/5]...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44600&stc=1

Currently working on a B-58-style ....most of the hard yards are done....aligning bits of tailfins...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44607&stc=1

[Jafo]

The B-58 inspired one is coming along.....still some alphas to do etc....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44619&stc=1

[Ferry_vO]

Great paints Jafo! :applause:

[Jafo]

With the alphas done....and a redo of the text/font...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44623&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44624&stc=1

[flaviossa]

:applause::applause::applause: This one is a great "What If"!

[Jafo]

The B-58 inspired one has been uploaded to SOH. It includes the slightly modded model file to better imitate a metallic finish. I changed the reflection from 0.2 to 0.5 in MDLMat.

The hardest part to do was the chevrons on the tailplanes. [there are 6 bitmaps to align].....and of course the cunards which have about the oddest mapping I've ever come across in all my years of painting.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44705&stc=1

And one for the 69th Bomb Wing...Vietnam ....possibly less unlikely than some...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44712&stc=1

[Jafo]

Makes a good shark....;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44715&stc=1

[Jafo]

Messing with a low vis version....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44725&stc=1

[flaviossa]

Jafo, thanks for the new paints. Much apreciated.
Just FYI in the Virtavia XB70 package, the line: "sim=XB-70" is changed to "sim=XB-70A_Valkyrie"
If someone has trouble to make your paints to work. :encouragement:

[Jafo]

That's a nuisance....comes from having so many vers for so long, though I should have checked as I do have a 'vanilla' install of the Alphasim.
Trouble was/is I also have the Wingsware, as well as a 'combined' one where I use the Alpha exterior model and the Wingsware VC.
Probably 8 or 9 years of 'fiddling' will do this to you...;)

I may have to edit all of them so far.....maybe a benefit as I've still been tweaking the graphics....

[Jafo]

I've been side-tracked with a new monitor....so everything's looking so much fancier since moving on from an ASUS MW221u that's survived 3 system upgrades [till now].

I've gone from 1680x1050 at 60hz to 2560x1440 with Gsync matching framerates...at upwards of 90hz in FSX.

The newbie is another ASUS .... a ROG Swift PG279Q IPS 27"..... ;)

[Jafo]

Next one to upload....though I've decided the paint's too shiny....as the white looks more metal than white....so gotta redo the alphas....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44911&stc=1

Edit....knocked back the paint alpha from 160 to 200...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44912&stc=1

[lazarus]

That's pretty wild, Jaffo. Just imagine six of 'em in echelon and full burner. Take that, planet!

[DennyA]

That is awesome!

Now we need some Blue Angels A-5 Vigilantes to balance out. :)

[Jafo]

I've just uploaded the 'metal' version of the Thunderbird here at SOH.
Still one of my favourite paint schemes...in spite of it often being difficult to do....;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45074&stc=1

[Jafo]

Next one I'll upload....even more unlikely than any of the others....

Modded the bumps to make the windows more 'real'.....

This'd blow the doors off a Concorde...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45106&stc=1

[Jafo]

Just uploaded the Qantas version here at SOH. Having the separate layers for windows etc would make it easy for other airlines, though as with any paint aligning lines can get irksome.....;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45117&stc=1

Moved the 'Qantas' further back from the dorsal vents....wouldn't have been logical to be that close to them.

[Jafo]

When you've really got to deliver that parcel overnight.....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45131&stc=1

Edit....looks a bit closer....bit more detail. Kinda like the painted bum.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45133&stc=1

[Jafo]

Liking the painted bum of the Fedex got me to revisit the Qantas likewise....
Probably need to up it as a 'V2' or something.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45144&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45145&stc=1

[dvj]

I don't own this model, but your repaints and work are great! :very_drunk::very_drunk::very_drunk:

[Jafo]

Here's a simple one ....gonna do a more contemporary version though....this one's a bit too modern.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45149&stc=1

Edit ....older version is a pain....those dorsal vents get in the way of the graphics...the 'R' in 'American' is going to take a while...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45151&stc=1

Edit 2 .... mostly OK ....always an issue with text on the upper fuse....bends a bit.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45152&stc=1

[Jafo]

Just uploaded the Fedex version here....
Also upped the 'matching' paint styled rework of the Qantas - looks more stylish...;)


http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45184&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45185&stc=1

[Jafo]

Surely the RAF would grab one or two....though more likely to be more Vulcan than WW2 colour-wise...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45201&stc=1

[Jafo]

Sometimes the easy way doesn't work.....as Vulcan paints go this is a bust....
....more to do.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45218&stc=1

Edit ....did it the longer way....there wasn't enough grey mainly.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45219&stc=1

Chucked some badges on.....badges?....we don't need no steenkin' badges.....
IXth Bomber Squadron RAF.....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45224&stc=1

[Jafo]

Some of the panels are mirror-mapped so bits of a camo MUST be symmetrical. You can only deviate a bit before stuff goes out of whack .... so the Vulcan asymmetry can't really be replicated.

[Jafo]

Maybe a B-2A Spirit - styled scheme might make sense....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45272&stc=1

[flaviossa]

Wow ... very nice! :encouragement:

[expat]

Jafo's paints and this thread inspired me to dust this one off which I never spent much time flying. Did a test out of Edwards and forgot how demanding the power management and flight envelope are. Also and handful - like the Hustler and Blackbird - once in the pattern and setting up to land. Like those too, restricted visibility is not your friend?

Did anyone ever mod the FDE? Perhaps not, as AS in the reference went to pains to make the flight model realistic. Also, I am perplexed by the throttle and autopilot/IAS/Mach relationship. If I set a "target" IAS or mach, it doesn't seem to follow or match the number set. Instead, it seems to call up full power and quickly overspeeds (crashes as I use full crash detection). I have read and understood the power management manual however it sometimes helps to be able to use AP.

Jafo, your creative painting really brings out the futuristic and attractive lines of the design that the real life plain white paints didn't as well. Lots of fun.

[Jafo]

Re flying it.....I did manage Mach 3.2 at 65k so things are valid enough for speed-freak-me...;)

Now, if the 13th Bomb Sqdn Grim Reapers had one instead of those B-2 thingies....it might be like this....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45320&stc=1

Though I might brighten up the reaper on the tail.....show it off more.

Edit....bit more like this....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45321&stc=1

[Jafo]

I reckon this one's done.....probably time to up a few...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45356&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45357&stc=1

[Jafo]

Another on the go....more 'contemporary' than the other one....
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45365&stc=1

Edit....coming along....just gotta do the left side...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45366&stc=1

[Jafo]

Kinda like this one....even if it'd never happen...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45394&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45395&stc=1

[Jafo]

Redid the Old Panam ver to the same detail as the Old Qantas.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45399&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45400&stc=1

[jankees]

Love these last two!

[Jafo]

1 more before I get around to uploading....
Darn difficult tail on these 'American' thingies....all that tone fading and texture pattern....
....and it's gotta be translated across 6 pieces....long long way to go yet....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45455&stc=1

[Jafo]

Must be getting the hang of it....wasn't as painful as expected.....
....now just gotta do the rest of it...;)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45467&stc=1

Edit.....coming along...more to do bottom/rear of fuse...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45468&stc=1

Edit 2 ....got the rear end done....just a few tweaks and it'll be finished....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45475&stc=1

[Jafo]

Finished, I think.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45476&stc=1

Edit....figured it was better without the blackout...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45483&stc=1

[Jafo]

Starting these recent ones as uploads...

First 2 are up...

A Contemporary QANTAS version....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45485&stc=1

and a Contemporary PAN AM one....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45486&stc=1

Both are 'metal' skins so have the 'revised' Spec Model files included....upped the shine a bit as there's no Spec channel.

[Jafo]

Had to do a frantic re-up of those two....had the wrong bumps so the windows would have been a little odd [2D] ...;)

[Jafo]

2 more uploaded here...
13th Bomb Squadron Grim Reapers .... something inspired by the B-2a paint-wise....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45487&stc=1

....and something a little more modern.... American Airlines paint, complete with that annoying tail texture....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45488&stc=1

[Jafo]

Trying something different....metal wings combined with painted fuse....60's vintage RAAF....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45523&stc=1

Gotta do the alphas yet to suit...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45524&stc=1

[Jafo]

With corrected alphas....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45536&stc=1

You'd be hard-pressed to find a sexier profile...;)

[Jafo]

Every time you do a new one you find new challenges. This time it's chasing the stripe...when it's lower down....

More to do, obviously....

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45565&stc=1

[Jafo]

BOAC one looks done. Took a while getting things lined up as always...the fuse has some quirky bits...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45579&stc=1

[SabreAce]

I have to stop looking in this thread. Every time I look at one of your repaints, I hear a little voice calling out from my wallet "Uuuuuuusssseeee meeeeeee.....buy the Valkyrie...doooooo iiiiiiiitttt."

[Jafo]

Still tweaking....the more you look the weirder the model mapping is....;)

It's all fun until someone gets hurt....;)