Friday, March 11, 2011

BKJ, V2.0 - Better, cleaner and now with more detail.

The learning curve was steep, but here's the results of 6hrs swearing at Photoshop - Nice clean straight lines, extra detail and that "just right" look. A little tweaking of the flight model and she'll be spot on.
For those Pawnee fans, I can't find a model with Hoerner wing tips so that rules out PNE for the sim - Matamata's BZA will be appearing soon though, after yet more swearing...

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Now we're getting somewhere

My first crack at a powered aircraft repaint - BKJ now exists in Flight simulator! I still have a bit of work to do tidying up the blue stripes on the fuse and tweaking the config to get speeds and climb rates right, but it's a vast improvement on the Maule M7 default tow plane in FSX...
Here's a few teasers of BKJ with DS in tow:











Friday, March 4, 2011

Another joins the herd...




ASH-25 GTF has made it's first appearance in FSX! To be fair it's an old model, dating back to FS2002 so things are pretty basic. However like all of Wolfgang Piper's models, the polar curve is spot on - meaning that just like the real-world GTF, if you can see it you can more than likely glide there...