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File Name: Bell 206B 1977 livery "A" File Submitter: Nicola_M File Submitted: 19 Oct 2013 File Category: Helicopters X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 Livery For: Click Here For Aircraft 1977 Retro livery "A" for Dreamfoil Bell 206B JetRanger lll. This paint design is one of the standard designs for the 1970s JetRangers, in different colour variations, and would have been current at the time of the JetRanger lll's release in 1977. Features * New black main rotor blades * Tinted windows * Night textures * Instrument panel texture changed to look newer * Warning Horn Switch on instrument panel now labelled * Registration number and label added to instrument panel * Fuel Extender label added to instrument panel * Fuel Extender fuel markings added * Fuel cap now correctly coloured * Wear marks added to underside of landing skids * Spelling of "minimum" corrected on instrument panel warning label * Optional walnut instrument panel for that 1970s feel. Click here to download this file

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

Moore's Law which dictates that processing power/computer ability or something improves doubly each year or so. Hence today's pc is obsolete next year.

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.

Walnut dash

Add these to the above ones, making 11 in total. "G" "H" "I" "J" "K"

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"

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.

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

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

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.

File Name: Bell 206B OM-XRA Livery File Submitter: Nicola_M File Submitted: 13 Oct 2013 File Category: Helicopters X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 Livery For: Click Here For Aircraft OM-XRA Factory livery for Dreamfoil Bell 206B JetRanger lll * New black main rotor blades * Tinted windows * Night textures * Instrument panel texture changed to look newer * Warning Horn Switch on instrument panel now labelled * Registration number and label added to instrument panel * Fuel Extender label added to instrument panel * Fuel Extender fuel markings added * Fuel cap now correctly coloured * Wear marks added to underside of landing skids * Spelling of "minimum" corrected on instrument panel warning label Click here to download this file

Definitely enjoying taming it, but what a ride!