Project Open Skys Airbus A330-200 equiped with Rolls Royce engines. Painted to the Virgin Atlantics colours. I know; Virgin Atlantic doesnt own any A330s! Im proud to present you the fictive A330 called Lady Hannah Sweet love. My second anniversary scheme. Completely painted from scratch, 98% of the entire textures templates including the alphas and night effect are absolutely new. Typical night lighting. Fabulous interior and cargo bay textures.
***Scheme story***
Ive spend more than two months to repaint from scratch this wonderful aircraft done by Project Open Sky. Heres a short story of the work Ive done one it for those who does have the patience to read it. Will you take the challenge?
Step one. The paint kit .. Ill be honest with you guys .. I hate paint kits! I wont take half a page to explain why I hate them but at least it give you the main reason why I decided to paint from scratch my own paint kit. So far, Ive been used to do that for every single aircraft (6 out of 8 aircrafts) I painted since more than a year. So, experiences give me many talents. I can now paint a plane from A to Z without any problem.
Step two. The Virgin scheme. Ok ok, Virgin Atlantic doesnt have any A330 in real life. But I like very much the scheme and the A330. So why not try a mix? Nice cocktail hey? Now I want to make clear that this paint is mostly pure painting. The photoreal parts represents only 10% (and less) of the whole textures. I mention this simply because Im proud of the fact that I dont only rely on photoreal techniques to make my scheme look real. And the fact that Virgin doesnt own A330s tend to prove my say. Photoreal render fabulous textures but it is not as fun as painting by hand. It also give myself more proud about the work Ive done.
***More information details about few details.***
The wings. This is by far the most difficult pieces to paint. In this case, the paint kit textures where good but not aligned with the templates. How could it append? Ill leave that to the original Poskys painters. However. I totally repainted the wings from scratch. My new textures have absolutely nothing to do in relation with Poskys textures. The alphas also are totally new. A closer look to the wings will show the richness of the colours and details reach a quality that I've rarely saw. Wing views are absolutely awesome!
The engines. Yup. I had the crazy idea to paint reflection of the fuselage on the inner side of the engines. For those who like wings views. Remember, no photoreal at all for the engines and wings.
The lights effects on the tails, fuselage, cargo bay, cabin interior and engines are brand new once again. Some of you might be surprised by the shape of the lighting on the tail. It is in fact a typical detail of the real life A330s lighting equipment. It took me an hour to precisely render the same effect in FS. Quite a very good job doesnt it? Same thing for the fuselage and the engines and cabin interior.
Congrats! You read everything!
***Thanks***
A big thank you to Project Open Sky team who provide such EXCELLENT and FREE models. Thanks also to the Poskys forum members for their help. AND a big thanks for the lovely Hannah Solway who inspired me for this magnificent paint. Shes a strong inspiration for me. I would invite everybody who read this to have a sweet thought for both of us each time you plan a flight. And thanks for you all to download this aircraft.
***LINKS***
Comments about the painting are welcome. Please, share them with me at...
"maestrya72@hotmail.com" Thank You! Suggestion for other plane textures are also welcome. Please write an explicit subject title with your e-mail like; "plane, tb-10, painting". Stay in subject. Write a subject that will catch my attention. Please avoid the traditional "Hello" or leaving the subject case empty. Spam are crazy these time so avoid the risk that I mistook your e-mail for a Spam.
***Website***
You can also visit my Painting site at: ** http://groups.msn.com/SamyFaysPaintShop **
A great little website.
