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tommieboy
December 24th, 2010, 08:19
REPAINT for the Virtavia (formally AlphaSim) Martin Mars available in the Avsim FSX Library now....

Search for virtavia_martin_mars_coulson_v1.1.zip

Tommy


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Roger
December 24th, 2010, 08:29
Very nice Tommy!
I just wish the vc could be improved...I don't fly the Mars nearly as much as I'd like.
peter12213
December 24th, 2010, 09:28
Great paint Tommy, I saw a program on tv the other day about training a pilot to water bomb in this thing, the cockpit was updated with glass instruments the works, just wish like Roger said that it could be updated!
tommieboy
December 24th, 2010, 09:55
Just a note on the "repaint".....

Probably 95% of what you see was generated right off of the default Martin Mars Philippine. What I did probably amounted to 5% of what you see. I tweaked the following:

1. clean-up the areas where I placed "Coulson Flying Tankers" logos.

2. reduced the overall alpha channel where the red paint occurs to reduce the translucent candy like appearance of the default paint on my computer / monitor setup. I figured it must be occurring on other people's setups too.

3. removed the reddish tinge in the black coating on the underside of the wing; also added some engine exhaust stains over this black coating based on some of the photos I have seen.

4. remove the side mounted water dump door textures on the Hawaii Mars; this occurs only on the Philippine Mars.

5. change the call letter on the Philippine Mars from C-FLYL to C-FLYK


Tommy
tommieboy
December 24th, 2010, 10:07
Yep I wish the VC could be updated too.....but would you prefer the old "steam" gauges, or the newer glass cockpit? I think I'd prefer the old "steam" gauges.

Tommy
peter12213
December 24th, 2010, 17:42
To be honest Tommy I'd like to have both like you I really prefer older steam gauges but the actual glass pit this thing has is a good combination of the two so in this case I'd like to have one of each!

Merry Xmas too!
Helldiver
December 25th, 2010, 05:03
I tried the zip file you mentioned and went on Virtavia site and could not find anything on Martin Mars. It is an interesting aircraft and one of the "oldies" that were flying when I was in the Navy.
To think that something, with bones almost as old as I am, is still taking flight.
tommieboy
December 25th, 2010, 07:03
I tried the zip file you mentioned and went on Virtavia site and could not find anything on Martin Mars. It is an interesting aircraft and one of the "oldies" that were flying when I was in the Navy.
To think that something, with bones almost as old as I am, is still taking flight.

They are only showing their NEW releases on their website......

You have to go to places like SimMarket, etc. to find their old AlphaSim releases; they have re-branded them under the Virtavia brand name on those sites, but I believe that there is no difference (in regards to updating) of those old AlphaSim releases. So, if you find repaints on the internet for the AlphaSim version, it should work on the re-branded Virtavia release.

Here's the Coulson Tanker website in case you haven't been there yet:

http://www.martinmars.com/

Tommy
Railrunner130
December 26th, 2010, 07:48
Thanks for the new repaints!
tommieboy
December 26th, 2010, 18:02
Thanks for the new repaints!

Your welcome Railrunner130....

I just wish that the book on the Martin Mars that I ordered from Coulson would have come in already; might have provided more insight for these current repaints.

Tommy
Helldiver
December 28th, 2010, 06:46
I went to Simmarket and looked at Virtavia and could not find a Martin Mars. This is getting frustrating.
mmann
December 28th, 2010, 07:03
I went to Simmarket and looked at Virtavia and could not find a Martin Mars. This is getting frustrating.

SimMarket page for Martin Mars is as follows:

http://secure.simmarket.com/virtavia-martin-mars.phtml

Regards, Mike Mann
Roger
December 28th, 2010, 07:04
I went to Simmarket and looked at Virtavia and could not find a Martin Mars. This is getting frustrating.

They've got it here:

http://www.flightsimstore.com/index.php?cPath=2_82_83