Bloody Blogs, you start 'em and then, ages later, you realise you haven't said much in a while. But in the meantime, my forum post counts have shot up beyond count. I have passed five and a half thousand on SimFlight and almost eighteen hundred on Aerosoft plus thousands elsewhere - and no, they aren't all pithy "one worder" posts either. I usually write pithy thousand worders *ggg*
Here and above, you can see a couple of shots of my "Don't mess with Texas" paint for the Iris Raytheon T6. Basically an American redesign of the Pilatus PC9, but a bit more modern. A real fun plane to blast down the Grand Canyon in.
I have been beta testing like Billy O until recently, I have been "threatening" forum posters with all kinds of dire consequences (big nasty moderator that I am) and I have been painting too. One thing that pleases - and puzzles - me is that I get a lot of "fan mail" asking to do someone a paint. Either I am getting better, or folk just don't know better. I also find myself answering all kinds of questions about how to do "this, that or the other trick" on a skin.
The Aerosoft Twin Otter was a real fun plane to beta test and to paint. These two are proving very popular on the downl0ad fora. I wonder? Should I write a book and solve everyone's problem? Good scheme! Make some money...
So, let's catch up with the "now" in my life. Real world wise I have been busy too. I landed a new job with Eurocopter - Hoorayyy! I am back working on helicopters. Well, I am doing it primarily to keep "off the dole" and the fact that I am "tech clerking on helicopters" is a coincidence. There are better things I could be doing - like simming. But that evil Mammon just keeps pulling at my soul and the needs are there. So that also means another move to another home in another town. All that is keeping me rather busy real world wise these days, more's the pity.
Anyway, let's see about tagging a couple of screenshots of recent paints to this post. The Harvard above is another fine plane to have in the Hangar by the way. As for painting, this offering on the left is a real challenge - to the artistically minded. Who on earth would do a photo paint like this on a real world 747?It was an excercise in seeing what can be done with the default 747... oh well. "It's Cool to be Hot"
