Milton

[Terry]

I found this dilapidated Spartan over at Avsim. Are you sure its airworthy?

[Tom Clayton]

As long as you don't try to clean the rust - that's all that's holding it together!

[racartron]

As much as I dislike no shine models, this one is so beat up I may have to create one to show just how "bad" this one is. Heck, even the laptop's screen is busted. And some duck tape may be in order to keep the stuffing in the seats.

Not sure if I ever posted my interpretstion of lighting on the Spartan so here it is -- just in case.

Aircraft.cfg:

[LIGHTS]
// types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
// 6=Taxi, 7=Recognition, 8=Wing, 9=Logo, 10=Cabin
light.0 = 2, 0.78, -19.48, 0.30, fx_shockwave_strobe_2,
light.1 = 2, 0.78, 19.48, 0.30, fx_shockwave_strobe_3 ,
light.2 = 4, -2.65, 0.00, 0.60, fx_shockwave_vclight,
light.3 = 5, 1.40, -8.80, -1.70, fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow_down
light.4 = 5, 1.40, 8.80, -1.70, fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow_down
light.5 = 10, 1.5, 0.00, 1.55, fx_shockwave_vclight,
light.6 = 3, 1.13, -19.61, 0.3, fx_shockwave_navred
light.7 = 3, 1.13, 19.61, 0.3,fx_shockwave_navgre, //<--added this line

//------------ ExhaustFlames--------#2=strobe
//index,type, long, lat, vert, fx_filename
light.8 = 2, 2.00, 0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_IDLE_starb
light.9 = 2, 2.00, 0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_MAX_starb
light.10= 2, 2.00, 0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_Exhaust
light.11 = 2, 2.00, 0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_IDLE_starb
light.12= 2, 2.00, -0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_MAX_starb
light.13= 2, 2.00, -0.70, -2.30, fx_V12_Exhaust

Panel.cfg:

[Vcockpit01]

gauge6x=shockwave_lights!SW Lights_gear, 1,1,1,1
gauge6y=shockwave_lights!SW Lights_taxi, 1,1,1,1

[Milton Shupe]

LOL It reminds me of the Cargo version we did for the Aero Commander 500 series. We went oine step further and crashed some of the gauges and missing gauges with wires showing behind.

http://www.flightsimonline.com/ac500/bush.htm

[pfflyers]

Man I HATE getting old!!

Could someone jog my memory and remind me how to deploy/stow the table and laptop?

Thanks

[racartron]

Listen to your Stewardess' briefing. Keep your tray tables in a stowed and locked position until after take off. Then they will will depoly automatically.

[Sunny9850]

Of course I am not quite sure how one would arrive at all that brown rust color when starting with aluminium skins for fuselage and cowling.
The panel may be made out of regular stamped steel....but as fine an aircraft as the Spartan is ( it was at it's heyday one of the most expensive single engine flivvers out there ) I doubt that even that would "rust" in this way.

All that said.........this is a cool looking ride all the same

:ernae:
Stefan

[racartron]

The "rust" may in fact be a clever camo paint job an ill informed drug cartel devised to throw off suspicion.

[Milton Shupe]

The table extends/retracts with the gear I believe.

[SpitXIV]

Duct tape, it has a lightside and a darkside and binds the universe together and
aircraft too.

[aardvark62]

If, like myself, you find the laptop a little too contemporary for such a fine vintage aircraft, here are 2 replacement texture files I knocked out rather quickly to give it more the appearance of an attache case:

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[Milton Shupe]

If, like myself, you find the laptop a little too contemporary for such a fine vintage aircraft, here are 2 replacement texture files I knocked out rather quickly to give it more the appearance of an attache case:

Attachment 43567Attachment 43566

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Excellent job on these textures! Thanks

[magoo]

Yeh....Mmmmm...here's a look at the Boeing Mini-Guppy parked outside at Tillamook.

The aluminum skin can lighten up as it's expozed over time, loose all shine. A white powdery oxidization can appear in sheltered areas, especially where contacting other metal alloys. Panel lines and seams fill with dirt and darken up.

Steel fasteners will rust, leaving streaks of colour.

Paint fades with UV and acid rain exposure on upper or exposed surfaces, paint flakes....(Check red prop tips...)

Particular to the Pacific North West, and most certainly in the tropics....one will see green.....

....The old Guppy is showing the beginnings of moss growing on some shadier surfaces. Certainly the museum staff will turn a hose on her before it becomes grazable...

....Interesting tones for the flightsim texture artists to consider....
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[racartron]

The visible logo says it all "ICK."

[SpitXIV]

Mr . Shupe,

Thank you for all your great planes.

[aardvark62]

Excellent job on these textures! Thanks

ooh no Sir! ...Thank You for the aircraft.

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[aardvark62]

... that drugs cartel somebody mentioned ...

Attachment 43641

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[racartron]

I was thinking more of a jungle environment. but the beach will definitely work as well.

[Astoroth]

... that drugs cartel somebody mentioned ...

Attachment 43641

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AH, Cabo Key, from Pimp Aviation. Haven't been there in a while, looks like a good time to grab that spartan and head south!

[stansdds]

And I thought I was slumming when I was flying freight around Florida and the Bahamas in this PA-31.

[kikas]

Stansdds is this a fsd navajo? Where i could find this paint?

[Hurricane91]

...here are 2 replacement texture files I knocked out rather quickly to give it more the appearance of an attachecase...

Thank you Aardvark. Your attache case textures are a nice touch to one of the sim's oustanding aircraft.