Dreamfoil JetRanger owners

[Nicola_M]

I'm working on using a popular design that was used for the 1970s factory paints for the JetRanger.
Here's the design I'm on about.


The idea is that once I get the basic design done, it should be a simple idea to then change and mix & match colour components easily.
I welcome any ideas/requests for colour variations, as I haven't found quite the range of examples I was hoping I would. I know it was the seventies, but the colours were very same-y.

The same goes for any registrations.  I had hoped to use N206JR, but that's already on a current bird so I'm gonna go with N206XA for now unless people want particular registrations.

Should only be a couple of months. The two biggest headaches are 1. getting Conex's paintkit corrected (the right side is larger than the left, and darker!) and 2. getting the basic design down. Once those are done, it's downhill all the way!

Right now I've already corrected the basic paintkit (that's headache #1 gone). In the shot below I've duplicated the left side and pasted it over the right, and you can see the difference between the two, with the darker right hand side sticking out.


The shot below demonstrates the difficulty with this helicopter in just the lengths you have to go to just to get a straight line........


.....which ends up looking like this.

Edited October 14, 2013 by Nicola_M

[Hueyman]

Smart idea ! Sadly too few liveries for this nice bird ! Would love Conex makes a low skid ( thick struts ) versions like the 70's ones !

[Nicola_M]

Something like this?  I have to agree - I prefer it than the high skids.

 

[Hueyman]

Yeah like this but with the thicker struts aerodynamic covers, like on the yellow one on your top photos ( right side )

 

I think it could be easy if we import the .obj in Blender with X-Plane2Blender, model new skids, edit accordingly in PM and rework textures and animations ...

[Nicola_M]

I could paint the skids but the rest is beyond me.

[Nicola_M]

Six and a half hours later...

Can't believe something so simple is such a nightmare on this heli. The end result should be worth it.

 

[Nicola_M]

What ya think?  Got to do the stripe on the nosecone, but just an idea of colours.

Nearly done.

 

"A"

 

"B"

 

"C"

 

"D"

 

"E"

 

"F"

Edited October 24, 2013 by Nicola_M

[AnonymousUser68]

My favourite is the third one, nice work BTW

[Nicola_M]

Add these to the above ones, making 11 in total.

 

"G"

 

"H"

 

"I"

 

"J"

 

"K"

Edited October 24, 2013 by Nicola_M

[Nicola_M]

Walnut dash

 

[Hueyman]

You are doing an amazing job I want mine, I want it NAAOOOWWWW !!!! ;-)

[Nicola_M]

It will be a few days yet, V.  Left to do is the one nosecone stripe (biggest task of all, as it's really difficult to get right) and door hinges colour (easy).

Today's job was getting the windscreen surround coloured, and getting rid of the dirt around the JetRanger logo on the doghouse.

Hopefully by the end of the weekend.

 

[Nicola_M]

They are all finished and uploaded.  Just waiting for Cameron to approve them.

[BWolf7]

Nice! Now I know what I will be flying today

One of my local airports has a dedicated heli area, many are privately owned R22's or B206's!

Some of these paints you have look just like them, solid colors on white. Anyways, great job, nice that you are painting again!

[Nicola_M]

These are the final two, which complete the Retro series, as I believe I've covered all of the colour schemes there were.

 

L   download

 

M   download

Edited October 27, 2013 by Nicola_M