Guys, I’m impressed with the number of painters in the forum, a talent that has thus far eluded me (I wouldn’t know where or how to begin to acquire such skill). In reviewing the 100 + liveries currently available for downloading, I have observed, with few exceptions, they’re all pretty much the same with only subtle differences distinguishing unit or national identification. I’m sure that this distinction is meaningful to some, but as a simmer without portfolio, I’m only interested in the ecstatic value of aircraft featuring significant differences. I find myself flying the USCG version 75 % of the time. It is truly a work of art. I can’t understand with over a 100 versions of the Herc out there that nobody has developed a bare metal version? You know nice shinny reflective aluminum. I know it’s doable as at least one of MS9’s default Boeing 737s uses it on the aircraft’s underbelly. I’ve written to Dax about undertaking the project and he has indicated that it’s difficult to do those textures. Perhaps CS’s “bare metal” 3 prop expansion model will answer the mail? My USCG livery needs some down time for maintenance. --- Ziggy

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Tou-che Chris! I’m pretty much relying on memory, but I simply can’t remember any of the USAF Airlift Command aircraft pre-Vietnam with paint jobs other than occasional nose art and identification markings? I seem to recall the A-B & C models all as bare metal? I surely have photographs of the Herc’s predecessors, the C-119 and C-123 as bare metal. Who knows, at my age I have trouble remembering where I left my teeth the night before. Regardless my friend, if someone would build it I would fly it!  Ziggy