Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

[Ramjett53]

That looks really nice. I, too, just use DXTBMP and Gimp mostly for my own personal paints (I'm not really very good). It looks like you got the most out of them. Does the shine on the wings match the body? Are you planning on uploading?

Thank you Brian,

The wing shine does match the fuselage. This angle just doesn't show it.

I hadn't planned on uploading it. Honestly never really thought about it. There are far higher quality paints available than my amateurish attempts. One person asked for it when I finished earlier in the thread so we exchanged emails and I sent him the texture. Alas, I couldn't send him the shiny fuselage version. My email provider only allows 25MB attachments and this one was 58MBs zipped because of the .dds files (2 of them at 90+MBs unzipped) that are required to get the level of shine I wanted.

Again, thanks for the compliment.

Randy

[stansdds]

Thank you Brian,

The wing shine does match the fuselage. This angle just doesn't show it.

I hadn't planned on uploading it. Honestly never really thought about it. There are far higher quality paints available than my amateurish attempts. One person asked for it when I finished earlier in the thread so we exchanged emails and I sent him the texture. Alas, I couldn't send him the shiny fuselage version. My email provider only allows 25MB attachments and this one was 58MBs zipped because of the .dds files (2 of them at 90+MBs unzipped) that are required to get the level of shine I wanted.

Again, thanks for the compliment.

Randy

It looks nice, I think you should upload it. By the way, it would take very little work to make this into a livery matching a real C-47. N271SE, currently owned and operated by Florida Air Cargo out of Opa Locka (KOPF), formerly owned by Mission Flights International.

[ce_zeta]

Finished my civilian version and added the high shine metal lower fuselage similar to "Miss Virginia". I toned it down some from the way it looked in "Miss Virginia". All that "shine" hurt my eyes.

I fixed the upper hinge and lower hinge color, but left the air duct inlet on the left front alone. It crossed three colors of paint and finally got tired of "tweaking" to get lines lined up. I don't have one of those high-powered paint programs. Just DXTBMP and GIMP 2.6, but it got me what I wanted. I'm a happy guy.
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Enjoy.

Randy

Yeap, you can upload it We wanna fly it man.
Gimp is not Photoshop but is good for make repaints. Ypur repaint is a clear fact which support this statement. Remember that you can also update your Gimp to v2.8 (with improvements).

[Ramjett53]

It looks nice, I think you should upload it. By the way, it would take very little work to make this into a livery matching a real C-47. N271SE, currently owned and operated by Florida Air Cargo out of Opa Locka (KOPF), formerly owned by Mission Flights International.

Amazing, that is the photo I used way back when I did this same repaint for the MAAM DC-3 for FS2004 several years ago. I sent a letter to the Mission Flights organization asking their permission to copy the scheme, but never got an answer, so I "modified it" adding color to the tail and moving the N-Number, creating a new one. Looked too "plain" with a white tail. Maybe should have contacted Florida Air Cargo instead.

I'd done this same thing for the Carenado C-182 when I did a repaint of a UK registration. Got a very nice letter from the registered owner, a furniture company, saying they would be honored.

Anyway, if I can figure out how to submit for upload I will. I double checked and the textures work for all three C47 models, just have to color the vertical antenna on the model.GAF version. I have dabbled with paint.net, another freeware paint program, that lets me manipulate layers of a .psd file, but my learning curve is slow and I have used GIMP for many years and way more comfortable with it. Tried 2.8, but there was a very subtle difference in the way some things worked so I went back to 2.6 where I was much more comfortable.

Randy

[Christian Bahr]

Hello Christian,

it is indeed for the C-47 Skytrain. I'll contact you as soon as I have new info...

Greetings from Hamburg,

Christoph

Ok, thanks for your answer, Christoph. Then I'll wait and see what's coming up :-)

Christian

[Christian Bahr]

like this port over from v2?

cheers ralf

Hi Ralf.

That's exactly what I wanted! But if I understand correctly, then @Christoph_T will take the Lufthansa repaint :-)

But many dear thanks for your support! :-)

Christian

[rdaniell]

Quick let's get out of here before the authorities realize that we don't have an N Number.

Found at: flightsim

douglas_c47_v3_private_livery_red.zip

[stansdds]

Quick let's get out of here before the authorities realize that we don't have an N Number.

Found at: flightsim

douglas_c47_v3_private_livery_red.zip

Uh-huh. When you land, if you see a whole bunch of red and blue flashing lights racing towards you, don't panic. It's just your own personal welcoming committee coming to greet you.

[fuzz1]

Jafo, outstanding work on your Qantas paints. The metal and paint 'shine' is particularly well done and looks fantastic.

Noticed some small errors in the aircraft.cfg entries that I easily sorted but may prevent others from seeing these birds in all their glory.
Deleted the reference to C47_2 in model=, and added a "_" to the name in texture=.

Thanks for your efforts on these.

[Jafo]

Jafo, outstanding work on your Qantas paints. The metal and paint 'shine' is particularly well done and looks fantastic.

Noticed some small errors in the aircraft.cfg entries that I easily sorted but may prevent others from seeing these birds in all their glory.
Deleted the reference to C47_2 in model=, and added a "_" to the name in texture=.

Thanks for your efforts on these.

Glad you're liking them.... the 'c47_2' model in the aircraft.cfg is the newly released alternate models and that's the particular correct one for these palnes...ie no antenna whiskers each side of the nose. I mention about it in the 'readme' .... and to delete the reference if you don't have the updated models [plural]...

From the readme...
"Note...the correct Model to use is the newly released 'C47_2' without the 'whiskers'.If you don't have that one change the 'model=C47_2' line to 'model=' [without comments]"

[rdaniell]

Uh-huh. When you land, if you see a whole bunch of red and blue flashing lights racing towards you, don't panic. It's just your own personal welcoming committee coming to greet you.

Only problem with that committee is they have those awful one size fits all handcuffs...

RD

[huub vink]

Hey Huub,

I know of yours and a V1 paint, will need to search on the others to make sure I'm not doing the same a/c.
This one is also a static (PP-ANU) and is requested by the same person you did yours for.
Anyways, mine is far from done and I'm not happy with the way I did the tail end, so will be redoing
that. Plus I still need to find a good source for the logos as I'm coming up empty on my searches.

Joe

Joe,

Are you looking for these?

Cheers,
Huub

[fuzz1]

Glad you're liking them.... the 'c47_2' model in the aircraft.cfg is the newly released alternate models and that's the particular correct one for these palnes...ie no antenna whiskers each side of the nose. I mention about it in the 'readme' .... and to delete the reference if you don't have the updated models [plural]...

From the readme...
"Note...the correct Model to use is the newly released 'C47_2' without the 'whiskers'.If you don't have that one change the 'model=C47_2' line to 'model=' [without comments]"

Yikes. I hate getting caught not properly reading the instructions. Just caught up on the new models; makes perfect sense now, thanks Jafo. It's wonderful to see the evolution of this magnificent bird outpacing my ability to keep up with it!

[Butcherbird17]

Joe,

Are you looking for these?

Cheers,
Huub

Thanks Huub,

Those are just what the doctor ordered.

Joe

[triflyman]

Glad you're liking them.... the 'c47_2' model in the aircraft.cfg is the newly released alternate models and that's the particular correct one for these palnes...ie no antenna whiskers each side of the nose. I mention about it in the 'readme' .... and to delete the reference if you don't have the updated models [plural]...

From the readme...
"Note...the correct Model to use is the newly released 'C47_2' without the 'whiskers'.If you don't have that one change the 'model=C47_2' line to 'model=' [without comments]"

How and where do I get this "C47_2" updated model. I looked on SOH and see nothing different? Would really like to get rid of those "whiskers" on my airliners.

Thanks

[DaveWG]

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...7&linkid=21741

[gray eagle]

Gordon,

If you have this paint, I sure would like a copy of it please.... I like the two tone colors w/red stripe.
Thanks

Wont work Chief, the layout is different. C-117 uses three texture sheets for the external, the fuse is much longer, taller v-stab etc.

I've got a pearl silver/black skin for the C-47 though. My own personal ride. I can make it pure black and zip it up for you.

Older screencap pre V3

[rdaniell]

My outfit's Red and White C-47 got stolen. We made a deal with Willy over at Merc Air for this old DC3. Did some exterior work and applied little bitty N Numbers.
We then "tricked out" the cockpit using the new VVC from the team and GMan's black interior with black leather seats.

We decided to test everything by doing a little paying hop. We were told to just land here , taxi to the end of the runway, turn around, stop, open the door, and wait.
Man I sure hope our passenger is not being followed by the feds or somebody else that may be even more bad news.

RD

[triflyman]

These 3 Qantas versions have been uploaded here...

VH-EAP [cn:12873] [sn:42-93009] was built as a C47A-20-DK at the Douglas Oklahoma City plant in March 1944 and was delivered to the RAAF as A65-44 in April 1944 with use granted to Qantas Empire Airways Limited and first entering the AAR in June 1948 as VH-EAP. She currently resides at Qantas's Longreach Museum.



VH-EAR [cn:12035] [sn:42-92255] was built as a C47A-1-DK at the Douglas Oklahoma City plant in November 1943 and was delivered to the RAAF as A65-25 in January 1944 with use granted to Qantas Empire Airways Limited in March 1948 and first entering the AAR in July 1948 as VH-EAR and converted by Qantas to DC-3-S1C3G and operated in PNG.



VH-EDD [cn:13922-25367] [sn:43-48106] was built as a C47A-30-DK at the Douglas Oklahoma City plant in July 1944 and was delivered to the RAAF as A65-57 in August 1944 with use granted to Qantas Empire Airways Limited and first entering the AAR in December 1946 as VH-EAO and again in January 1964 as VH-EDD and operated for pilot training and freight.

Downloaded all three but can't get any to show up on the "Select Aircraft" screen in FSX. Attached are my aircraft.cfg and what's in my aircraft file. Any ideas?

Thanks,

[Butcherbird17]

Sticking with my favorite schemes. This one is for the pilots who like flying out Edwards.





Once this one is done it's back to the VARIG scheme I need to finish.

Joe

[Jafo]

Downloaded all three but can't get any to show up on the "Select Aircraft" screen in FSX. Attached are my aircraft.cfg and what's in my aircraft file. Any ideas?

Thanks,

triflyman ....this is from the readme.txt included with the aircraft.cfg entries you copied over...
From the readme...
"Note...the correct Model to use is the newly released 'C47_2' without the 'whiskers'.If you don't have that one change the 'model=C47_2' line to 'model=' [without comments]"

[jeansy]

[triflyman]

triflyman ....this is from the readme.txt included with the aircraft.cfg entries you copied over...
From the readme...
"Note...the correct Model to use is the newly released 'C47_2' without the 'whiskers'.If you don't have that one change the 'model=C47_2' line to 'model=' [without comments]"

Yes...I do have that one and you'll see in my attachment the "C47_2" (and it works fine in my other airliner aircraft).

Any other ideas?

[fuzz1]

Try placing a "_" between Qantas and VH-EAR in the .cfg texture= entry.

[gman5250]

Update Heads Up: C-47 V3 Drag-Em-Oot Texture


I did some fine tuning on the Drag-Em-Oot texture.

Changes Include:

Improved nose art
Reduced contrast on lower surfaces on the stripes.
Improved alignment of upper and lower surface colors around nose, wing roots and cowl flaps.

You might want to update your skin if you have already downloaded.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...7&linkid=21744