I was sad when I looked a pilot's strike in the TV news, because the airline was on trouble and they prefired to put it on broke before make a deal. This news showed many Viasa pilots and personal playing with a venezuelan flag and a six feet span DC-10 over that, swinging the plane side to side over the flag. They where playing instead of being worried by their future. So Iberia bought Viasa, and the Boeings 727 where painted like this.
This is my 30th repaint, and I want to make a disgress. In true, there are 31 zips, or, if you want, 35 different liveries. From this 31 zips, 9 are Boeing 727 (including this), 5 Do-328 and other else the rest. I have my favorites and some that I don't like how they ended. There where difficults and some so easy to do that where finished in few days.
Until now, I repeated five planes, including this. Why? beacause I have FS2002, and all my planes work fine in FS2002. But some of them have problems in FS2004. For example, my Do 328 prop. In the FS2002 version, the propelers look fine; in FS2004 are invisibles. (My Do328 Jet looks good in the two simulators). The FS2004 versions of my DO328 props looks fine in both simulators.
¿Why repaint? To show yourtself that you can do something important. Many people spend its life doing the same thing, in a desk, later looking TV. Human machines. Very few do something different, something creative to make them different from the crowd
To create is wonderfull. And if you create something that will help the people, is better, because I beleave that we are here to do two things: learn, and help the rest to learn. I recomend you to read "Ilusions" by Richard Bach.
Back to the practical ground, How to repaint?: There are 5 steps:
1) Find a plane do you like
2) Learn what exactly are you going to do, and find so many pictures as you can
3) Search that nobody already has done this plane for Flight Simulator, but that the model of plane exist.
4) Find the model's author permission (very important)
5) Start to paint
My previus repaints are:
For Fs2002 only:
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
d328ah15: The two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
d328ah16: Air Engiadina was the launching client of the DO-328
For FS2002, in Fs2004 the night cockpit lightning doesnt looks well from outside:
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
I Dont know how it works in Fs2004:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
For FS2004 and FS2002:
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
atr4ah17: Two of the ATR-42 owneds by Lai, a venezuelan company
pby5ah18: A water bomber PBY Catalina, the Canso 71 was used in Spain
pby5ah19: A water bomber PBY Catalina, in red painting from Spain.
b727ah20: 727 flow by Singapore Airlines
d328ah21: DO-328 (prop) Welcome Air, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah22: Alaska Airlines 727, upgraded for FS2004
1049ah23: Super Constellation belonging to Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
b727ah24: Green and yellow Braniff's 727, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah25: Blue Braniff's 727.
1049ah26: Super Constellation from Iberia
d328ah27: Do-328 prop of Air Engiadina, upgraded for FS2004
p51dah28: P-51D Cripes a'Mighty 3rd, a beautifull warbird
b757ah29: Three liverys of the same B757 from LTE to Volar Airlines
Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a "Bat's outa Hell's" B-25 or a serie of Qantas 737s? The plane modelers like Mike Stone are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help him and his friends?
INSTALLATION:
Just unzip b727ah30.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, FS2004 or FS9 (make sure "use folder names" is checked), install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, just let the one who comes instaled, but I don't like it.
