Looking for a repaint suggestion of the mighty Herc to do when I get back in 5 weeks.

I am leaving this open to the comunity.
Post requests and i'll run a poll to get a winner.

Criteria is that it must be either a C130"E", "T", "KC" or L100

Dax

(I have plenty of 757 requests but C-130's get priority).

I'll wait for the release of the KC-130 model and then my vote goes to the HC-130.  At least these are how our HC's are painted at D-M.  Close anyway.

Aaron6256 wrote on Mar 17^th, 2006 at 6:19pm:


I'm not sure if the  CS model will be a "J" or if we are lucky to get both models of KC

I just noticed that particular A/C is a J only. They don't have the refueling pods installed on it yet. So that could just be used as a cool j-repaint. I doubt that we'll be lucky enough to get a KC-130 J but it would be sweet to have both.

That's cool. I would definatley like to see you make a msn or yahoo group. That would be cool. I'd like to repaint. I'm just not going to spend a whole lot of money on photoshop. Do you know of any free alternatives. Besides the free trials?

Ok. I got the corel 30 day trial. But my textures are blurring. I'm using dxtbmp to convert the files and saving them as dxt3. How do you make them clear?

Thanks a lot for all the help. 

David Sweetman wrote on Mar 18^th, 2006 at 1:36am:


That would be awesome!!  You would obviously get my support.

My vote for a repaint would be either an MC-130P utilizing the new KC-130 expansion or an MC-130H repaint; however the MC-130H wouldn't be correct since the radome is very different from any models currently available.

However those are my inputs; by the way I really appreciate folks like you that are willing and able to do repaints -- so thank you!

Well looks like i'll be busy when I get home.

I'll get stuck in at the end of April.

Dax

Hey Dax,

I hope you had a pleasant stay here in the USA!  Don't get too wrapped up in Vegas !!!  Don't spend all the hard earned money the Gov. pays ya!!!

Vegas was my home for about two years.  I was stationed at Fallon, NAS.  We would cram ourselves into a car(hopefully one that wasn't on the verge of breakdown) and hit the strip for the weekend.  What the hell, I was single and in my twenties then.   Now, some 25 years later, I find myself married, and father to three wonderful daughters!  All of whom keep me on my toes, more so than the Navy or Vegas ever did.  And while I managed to do some incredibly stupid things back then, I look back on those days with fondness.

When I had my own command, I shook my head and had many a stern discussions with sailors about their antics, but all the while I was chuckling to myself, because I was their age once.

I hope you and your crew have a very safe trip back home.  I will do a chant to keep the gremlins away

Please take care.
Warmest regards!

Captain J.R., USN Ret.
Proud Naval Aviator with over 4000 hours in the cockpit, and nearly 1000 traps.

Hi Dax,

AHHHHH the good ole days...   There is nothing worse on God's green earth, than flying with a hangover.  we had strict rules about crew rest, but we still managed to have hangovers in the morning

We went out to the range for some gunnery practice one morning.  My backseater and I had hit the Vegas strip the previous night and we were feeling a little under the weather.  After a few minutes of a furball with another aircraft, I executed a 9-G turn, my RIO ripped off his mask and lost his breakfast all over the rear cockpit.  Oh, Man what a mess   And it wasn't that slimy watery puke either, it was the chunky industrial waste type  

When we shut down, the plane captain, a young PO 1st class came up the ladder, saw the carnage in the rear seat, and launched his own breakfast down the side of the jet.  Needless to say, the crew chief, who was a man of impressive size and was in the Navy back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, was not a happy camper.  He didn't care that we were officers, and took no pitty on our souls.  we spent the better part of the afternoon cleaning "his" aircraft.

Safe Journey and warmest regards,

Captain J.R. USN Ret.
Proud Naval Aviator with 4000 hours in the F-14 Tomcat.

Check this link.

http://www.captainsim.net/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1142870567

I'll add it to the long list I have.

Dax

Just put the finishing touches to my first KC-130F repaint.
Thanks to GUNS210 who took the time to assist me with this repaint.



Just uploaded to AVSIM. Should be available soon.

Dax

Sorry all. There seems to be a delay with the hosting at AVSIM. If anyone would like the repaint before AVSIM hosts it please email me and I'll send a copy over.

Dax

hey dax,

i have a sugestion, have you seen a more beautiful paint job on the c130? have a look below at the saudi version. its my favourite.... i hope you give it a go...
thks in advance.
best regards
john

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1018207&WxsIERv=Ybpxurrq%20IP-130U%20Ureph...