Rob Richardson's upcoming DH125 - Some progress shots

[ce_zeta]

Great work Rob!

[Bjoern]

Gill Sans is ridiculously expensive, if it can be licensed at all.

Alternatives (according to a quick search):
http://www.latofonts.com/
http://www.impallari.com/cabin/

[Dev One]

Even better news for using the correct font, Googled Mil Spec 33558 & there is a free download. This is the correct font if you compare it with photos of the 125 cockpit seen on the web, - found it by accident just now! www .fontsaddict.com - they do not want a hot link.
Keith

[hairyspin]

Finding a suitable font can be a mind-numbing task. I spent a lot of time on fontshop.com looking for instrument fonts where you can enter a display string like "1234567890" and a font size and it'll display your text to that size. Then tell you it's £185 for the five-font set!

[Dev One]

Tom,
Yes I found a lot like that even tho they advertise Free downloads, although some sites do have a 'private use' free d/l, & only if one is going to use commercially does one have to pay.
Keith

[jjdc]

The HS125 is posted for download on Robs site.

[peterwatkins2]

Work-in-progress!

[StormILM]

Just finished flying it. Very nice! I've been hoping for a good HS.125 with a VC since early FS9 days. It looks great, flies great, and even sounds like the Viper powered beast! Thank you Rob!

[StormILM]

Ahhh, almost forgot. If any of you repainter guys are up to it, I'd love to see these paints, especially the Red & White version. I had both of these kits back in the late 70's early 80's.

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[alain0568]

Hello Rob,

-Beautiful!
Thank you!


Alain

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[delta_lima]

Can't wait to get home tonight to try Rob - I'm sure it'll be superb.

I echo Storm's RAF Dominie hopes for an RAF paint.

I learned something new today .... looking at the Airfix model cover showing the unpainted white radome - it looked odd, since I'd only ever seen them painted thus ......



... but I did some digging, and in fact, in the 70s, they did have the radome unpainted (or painted in dielectric paint) ....



Personally, I think the newer, painted-over scheme looks smarter - but the other paint scheme certainly was used, at least at RAF Manby's College of Air Warfare....

Live and learn.

DL

[pbearsailor]

Thanks so much, Rob!! Looks great, sounds great, and flies great.

Late 70's I had my first good job, right seat in a King Air, and the chief pilot's brother flew a DH-125 with Vipers. Got to crawl through it--built like a tank and never forgot those yokes.

Cheers,
steve

[StormILM]

Can we get a sticky on this? (or perhaps a new/merged release thread)?