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118527 Jiminy Cricket for the LES DC3
118527 Jiminy Cricket
This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
Paint made by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
This paint depicts (more or less,within the limitations of the model and its painter) the C47-D ,118527 "Jiminy Cricket "
Historical Note:
"Jiminy Cricket" is depicted as it flew for the Sicily operation in improvised night camouflage.
It was one of the original 52 C-47s that deployed to Egypt with the 316thTCG in December 1942.
"Jiminy Cricket" was one of the first from the 316th Sq. ATC, to visit Project 19, delivering worn out parts and returning rebuilt
engines to the RAF.
It eventually took part in the invasion of Sicily, where, the pilot, Sgt. George Quisenberry received wounds from German FLAK.
The shell destroyed the nose of the Aircraft, knocking out all instruments except the stand by compass.
Jiminy carried the crew back with nothing but the moon and the sticking standby compass.
Jiminy Cricket was repaired and served through May 1, 1947, then was "salvaged"
The skin-set includes cockpit- and (freighter-) cabin textures as well.
Passenger-seats, luggage-racks ,airco etc.removed from the plane.( its a freighter now !!)
Livery dedicated panel and cockpit colors
How to install:
Just unzip118527JiminyCricket.zip into a temp. folder , and start reading the readme file.
Have fun and enjoy,
Leen "Flybike" de Jager
http://www.flybike-paints.nl
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Stinson L5 PH-SEN by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
Stinson L5 PH-SEN by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
This is a skinset for the default Stinson Sentinel in X-Plane.
MIND!!
This is not a livery to be build in the usual way.
I added normal files to the plane and added and changed some other things too.
Unzip Stinson L5 PH-SEN upload.zip to your desktop and make sure to read the enclosed ReadmeFIRST.PDF
If not installed exactly as described normal mapping will not work.
I hope you`ll enjoy the bird as much as I enjoyed making this special livery.
Adding normals and speculars , its just like magic.
Leen de Jager
http://www.flybike-paints.nl
High resolution and normalmapping the two "magic words"
First picture showing the default livery and PH-SEN livery side by side
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/3/7/1980739.jpg
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Cruzeiro do Sul
The Cruzeiro DC-3 flew until the early 1970s, serving the remote regions of Brazil. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.
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Aerotur DC-3
The Aerotur DC-3 flew until the early to mid 1970s, serving the remote regions of Mexico. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.
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Aero Libertad DC-3
The Aero Libertad DC-3 flew until the early to mid 1970s, serving the remote regions of Mexico. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.
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DC-3 Rosinenbomber
By Aegen
This a livery for the LES Douglas DC3.
First of all i want to thank LES for their model, it's really one of my favorites.
A very good model like this inspires me (like others before). My intention was to make it look a little more like the real thing by adding the lines of joints and rivets, more or less accurate, like original aircraft (yes, maybe that's typical german …).
I also created normal-maps, made by using the try and error method and looking how it works. Just after work was done, i read here in the forums that there a plug-ins available to create them. But i think it works pretty well, so i'll leave them for now.
For the first try i chose the Berlin "Rosinenbomber" (which is already included in the models liveries pack) as i found a lot of pictures available on the web.
I tried to depict it most accurately to the original airplane (within the restrictions of the model and my skills) with it's dark silver paint covered all over, only the engine cowlings spared out in bare metal, it's black typeface and markings of emergency exits. With it's mostly plain livery it's just the joints and rivets (and the somewhat crumpled old surface) that characterize the appearance of the airplane much more than with a coloured one.
Leen de Jager's impressing liveries with special cockpits included, made me add specific cockpit and cabin liveries too.
The airplane was built in 1944 and served as an original "Rosinenbomber" in the Berlin Airlift, then flew under the registration G-AMPZ for various airlines in Britain, least Air Atlantique. From there it was transferred to Air Service Berlin where it was used for round trips.
The military green cockpit of the former C47 was painted all over in black, cockpit walls without coverings, panel and all the rest looking somewhat stuck together- it appears a bit dark and disorderly, but that's what the original looks like, concerning to the pictures available.
Unfortunately the plane had a crash landing in june 2011 after the crank shaft in the right engine broke shortly after take off. The crew succeeded in an emergency landing in a field nearby the new Berlin Schöneberg Airport construction site. Fortunately no one was seriously injured, but the plane was damaged and is being restored now. This takes more time and money as first estimated, but hopefully the airplane will fly for round trips over Berlin skies once again.
How to install:
Just unzip "D-CXXX Rosinenbomber" into a temp-folder an read the "_readme_first.pdf".
Hope you enjoy it.
Andreas
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Rovos Air DC-3
The Rovos Air Douglas DC-3 (South Africa) was delivered in May of 1944. The following companies owned or leased her;
KG600 RAF Montreal– Beldex 1958 – N96U Freeport Nickel 1959 – CU-P-702 Moa Bay Mining 1959 – N702S Freeport Sulphur 1960 – International Telephone&Telegraph 1962 – G-ASDX Standard Telephone&Cables 1962 – G-AJRY 1962 – TD Keegan – Transmeridian Air Cargo 1970 - TD Keegan 1971 - ZS-PTG United Air Service, Johannesburg 1974 – Sandriver Safaris 1976 - A2-ACG Air Service Botswana 1980 - ZS-PTG United Air, Johannesburg - Wonderair, Wonderboom - Debon Air, Lanseria 1995 - ZS-CRV Rovos Air, Lanseria 2002.
The Rovos Air Delaney got it's name after a child was born on board in October 1975. The child was named Delaney and the aircraft kept the name in her honor.
Installation:
Place the complete folder (Rovos Air DC-3) into your X-aviation--->Douglas DC-3--->liveries directory. On your next stratup, you should see the livery along with the others you have installed.
"glasscockpits"
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Aer Lingus DC-3
The Aer Lingus EI-ACE Douglas DC-3 was the company's second oldest Dakota. Very little information about this aircraft is known. According to it's serial number, cn 42956 was sold to Royal Nepal Airlines. On July 12, 1969, while on a flight from Katmandu to Simra, the DC-3 collided with trees on a cloud covered mountain summit. The plane was 10 miles from its destination when it crashed. Weather was poor at the time of the accident. All aboard lost their lives that day.
Installation:
Place the complete folder (Aer Lingus DC-3) into your X-aviation--->Douglas DC-3--->liveries directory. On your next stratup, you should see the livery along with the others you have installed.
100 downloads
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DC3 Swissair HB-IRD
By Aegen
This is a livery-paint for the LES DC3.
It depicts – more or less – within the restrictions of the model, the Swissair-DC3 HB-IRD.
This was one of several ex-military DC-3/C-47s Swissair bought in 1946/47. It was built as C47B-5-DK with USAAF serial 43-48793 and flew for Swissair from 1946, used as a freighter, operating postal services. In 1950 it was sold to Israel where it was in service for Arkia and the Israeli Air Force. In 1999 it was transferred to the USA, registered as N472D and flew until 2006.
Swissair planes in this period had an overall bare metal skin, logo and lettering on the fuselage and the red fin with the white swiss-cross. Although i'm aware that real reflections on a shiny bare metal skin can't be exactly reproduced in X-Plane, i tried to give it the appearance of such a surface. As just for a bare metal skin the lines of rivets and platelines determine the appearance a lot, my aim was to depict these as accurate as possible, added normal-maps to reproduce the uneven riveted surface and 3d-detail.
As there's only one paint-file available for both of the wings, the big registration markings on top and underneath the wings can't be reproduced.
The livery includes cockpit and cargo-cabin, adapted from the pictures available at the eth-library as far as possible within the possibilities of the model. Though colours are merely an assumption as these photos are black and white only.
The plane in it's early configuration as shown here had no de-icing-systems, so be careful and avoid flying in icy weather conditions (markings on the related switches are removed - of course the system would work if you turn them on).
I want to thank LES for their exceptionally model of the DC3 and most of all Leen de Jager, whose paintwork and discussions gave me a lot of hints and inspiration.
How to install:
Unzip "Swissair_HB-IRD" to a temp-folder and read the "_readme_first.pdf":
Place folder named "Swissair_HB-IRD" in the liveries folder.
For X-Plane 9:
The cabin-textures are in 4K resolution for better detail, so if you use XP9, place the 2K cabin-files in the "Cabin_XP9_2K"-folder into the "Swissair_HB-IRD/objects"-folder, overwriting the existing 4K-ones.
If you like to use the added propdisk with a slightly grey shade to reproduce the reflections of the metal propblades in front of dark backgrounds, just pace the file "LES_Douglas_DC-3(Wheels)_prop" in the "X-Aviation/Douglas DC-3" main-folder, overwriting the existing file (backup-file of the original included)
Have fun and hope you enjoy it.
Andreas
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French Marine version for XPFR Caudron Simoun
Simoun Caudron C-635 French Marine livery
by Leen "Flybike" de Jager for the Simoun Coudron C-635 available on XPFR.(Coudron is with an "o" there)
This livery is not exact depicting a (former) existing livery , due to a lack of photomaterial showing one.
Nevertheless I tried to come close to something "looking genuine".
How to install:
Unzip French Marine into a temp folder and read the Caudron Simoun French Marine .pdf
Enjoy
Leen "Flybike"de Jager
http://www.flybike-paints.nl
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Buffalo C-GPNR DC3 / C47
Buffalo C-GPNR ("Buffalo-Joe" McBryan`s favorit plane) for the LES DC3/C47
Probably the most famous flying C47 these days, we even can say she is a movie-star.
Making a repaint wich already exists is always tricky , people start to compare and gues which one is the best.
Be assured I do not like to see it as a competition.
Even more tricky is making a repaint based on a default livery wich comes with the aircraft ,
Normally I do not make paints on request , let alone ,one based on an existing defeault livery..
For this "movie-star" I am happy to make an exception.
Taking the default LES DC3 in its default Buffalo livery to start with was quiet logic.
In the end not much of this original livery has left the way it was , shapes were changed , text reshaped and logos reversed.
Neverteless there are some lines and shapes wich I did not enterely by myself.
My main goal was to reproduce a C-GPNR wich comes as close to reality as I am abble to make it.
Big problem is the fact the plane changed its looks so many times ( as all pretty girls do ) , its hard to tell exactly how and what.
Outside made close to reality.
Cockpit colors giving a C-GPNR experience.
Cabin ,giving a Buffalo-Air feeling.
I hope you`ll enjoy this flying legend.
Leen de Jager
http://www.flybike-paints.nl
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N54542 for LES DC-3
By Niilo
N54542 operated by Experimental Aircraft Association
It is missing the logo because i couldn't find it sadly.
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Kar Air livery for LES DC-3
By Niilo
Kar Air DC-3 OH-VKB is the second of four Kar Air dc3s which is preserved at Finnish Aviation Museum at Vantaa.
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Aeroflot for LES DC-3
By Niilo
Aeroflot livery from 50s for Lisunov Li-2 which is russian made dc-3
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Southern DC3 - ZK-AMY
By Aegen
This is a livery-paint for the LES DC3.
It depicts the Southern DC3 ZK-AMY – more or less, within the restrictions of the model, skills – and time available.
While i've been working on this for quite a long time, life 's been quicker than me – when i started this paint-job for the LES DC3, ZK-AMY was still flying, operated by the Southern DC3 Trust in Canterbury, New Zealand, on scenic flights over Christchurch or charters around Canterbury.
The maintenance service fallen due at the end of January this year would have taken the Southern DC3 Trust $50.000 to get ZK-AMY through, so the Trust decided to retire her. ZK-AMY was gifted to the Ashburton Aviation Museum where she is on exhibition now.
Main exterior paint files (fuselage and wings) are in 4K resolution, which allows really high detail. A lot of effort was laid in detailed an accurate rivets and platelines in combination with enhanced normals to achieve a highly detailed surface.
Cockpit paint files try to come close to the real one. The model's layout is somewhat different from the original so a couple of elements were added to to reproduce the look and feel of the AMY's panel and cockpit appearance.
The passenger cabin also gives an impression of the AMY's one cabin within the possibilities of the model. The main files are in 4K too for better detail.
How to install:
Unzip "SouthernDC3_ZK-AMY" to a temp-folder. Place folder named "SouthernDC3_ZK-AMY" in the "Douglas DC-3" liveries folder.
For X-Plane 9:
Some of the exterior and cabin textures are in 4K resolution for better detail, so if you use XP9, place the 2K files in the "XP9_2K"-folder into the "SouthernDC3_ZK-AMY /objects"-folder, overwriting the existing 4K-ones.
If you like to use the added propdisk with white/red/white tips, just place the file "LES_Douglas_DC-3(Wheels)_prop" in the "X-Aviation/Douglas DC-3" main-folder, overwriting the existing file (backup-file of the original one included).
Have fun and hope you enjoy it.
Andreas
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LES DC-3 Austrian Airlines OE-LBD livery
By meistarkus
Austrian Airlines DC-3
OE-LBD also known as "Enzian" served Austrian Airlines in the year 1967.
This livery was made to honor this great aircraft.
Installation:
Simply put the AustrianAirlines folder into your DC3s liveries folder. Done.
Please enjoy!
This livery was created by myself.
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