Hey Pat are you going to paint that scheme? I'm working a nice F-27A native canvas for you to paint on.
I have some time to do one basic HD (2k) grey texture and my favorite is the F-27A. Just add color and logos you wish.
Here a quick sample of the left front only. Little to much marble effects in the skin, but that will be toned down a bit and some line adjustments needed on the one door. I'm using your pattern that you used, unless someone has better drawing of panel lines.
"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once"
Cheers
Pat
"Some people might say that freedom is being alone in the bush with the only sounds being the murmurs from the birds ... but I believe freedom is at 5000 feet with no other sound than the engine roaring."- William Hutchison, a young man taken from us far too young (16).
I've checked the whole project structure for at least 4181 times, but never noticed the effin' dash! Thank you so bloody much much for this!
Neat!
2K is just right; the panel line and rivet pattern is an arse-pull bar none and the fuselage texture is also used as a spec map for simplicity's sake.
One won't find many rivets in a F27/F-27/FH-227, since instead of rivetting metal-to-metal bonding (Redux) has been used on an extensive scale. see http://www.dutch-aviation.nl/index5/...5-2%20F27.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redux_%28adhesive%29
Cheers,
Maarten
Very cool info about the bonding process. Thanks Maarten.
Looking at few photos shows more like screws to remove panels on the nose cone, window frames, panels around the wing roots, engine nacelles, and tail area. Not much at all.
Beautiful repaint after the removing the old paint.
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Found this walkaround of a F-27-200. Some good detail shots here.
http://walkarounds.scalemodels.ru/v/...kker_F-27-200/
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The "no rivets" revelation basically means that I have to remove all the rivets from the fuselage and wing textures, right?
Björn,
When you look at the pictures behind Tufun's link you will see that there were hardly any rivets. However panels and large parts were were attached with screws. Fokkers were "glued" together which gave sales of the F-27 a difficult start. Nobody trusted this new technique. Only after the Royal Netherlands Air Force purchased them and showed how reliable these connections were large scale sales started.
Cheers,
Huub
Oh, okay. The dots on the fuselage are screws instead of rivets then. No one can spot the difference either way.
Glue and screws is even a natural deterrence against rivet counters, because what doesn't exist can't be counted.
Here's a few enhanced pics reflecting what I want to see. I guess on this one they ran out of glue.
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Based on that first pic... for what is worth.
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Refined somewhat. After looking at 20 pages of photos of the F-27-200 G-BHMY and VH-FNE.
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With some paint.
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Neat!
I might just nick your line and rivet layers for the stretch models, if I may.
Huub,
This comes to mind when you say they were "Glued" together. ^ Now you know I'm just kidding.....
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New revision is up.
2014/09/29
Mk200/F-27A: Fixed antenna mapping, fixed part of the cargo compartment
poking through the fuselage, fixed shading issue on the dorsal fin
Mk500: Adjusted aircraft.cfg a bit (engine, htail, vtail locations, scrape
points), fixed shading issue on the dorsal fin
FH-227: Adjusted aircraft.cfg a bit (engine, htail, vtail locations, scrape
points)
Link, as usual:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6K...it?usp=sharing
Upgrade:
- Back up all entries for any additional repaints from the aircraft.cfgs
- Replace the aircraft.cfgs for all models with the ones from the new revision
- Replace F-27.mdl and F27Mk500.mdl with the ones from the new download
A minor fix for the FH-227 is now online. Download link as usual. Just replace FH-227.mdl.
Bjoern, thumbs up for bringing this baby into FSX life!
Had some spare time to work on the cargo door and lines aft there of. Next will be the tail section.
"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once"
Great to see your 'treatment' being applied here, Dr Ted.
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