Airbus prime colors for SIA's A380!!!

[Guest Zacherius8]

While we're waiting on some mapping problems to be resolved for Wilco's A330 we decided to paint her big brother ; the A380. And just to figur out the paintkit and get used to it we painted it in Airbus factory prime colors (If time is at hands, we'll convert it to SIA's full blown livery, but if you're a testflight/Toulouse junky, you can download it here, when it's finished : www.mcphatstudios.com ) :Oh and before I forget : It's Overlands'/Simmersky's A380http://www.mcphatstudios.com/projects/a380_4.jpghttp://www.mcphatstudios.com/projects/a380_5.jpghttp://www.mcphatstudios.com/projects/a380_6.jpghttp://www.mcphatstudios.com/projects/a380_7.jpghttp://www.mcphatstudios.com/projects/a380_8.jpg

[Guest runwaypimp]

That looks really awesome. Great painting skills.

[acmech 2]

Looks great love the paint! I just don't think if I was a passenger( real world) getting ready to board that aircraft, that I would feel the maintance had been completed on that aircraft. Thanks for your hard work to produce such a nice re-paint!

[Staffan 12]

Great repaint !!Can you please tell them to rezise the engines on the 330/340 while they take care of the mapping problem.

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[Guest Zacherius8]

Thanks Staffan,We just repaint the model, I can't and won't get my fingers burned by telling them what to change on the model. This for obvious reasons...;)I think they are aware of the fact that the engines are 'somewhat smaller than they ought to be'...;)

[tomcollins 1]

Nice, but why so dirty? Tail looks familiar...

[Guest Karen MCP]

Actually, I didn't apply** a single dirt layer on her. The markings/spots you see are supposed to resemble this : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1256252/L/Or are you talking about the tail? Cause I did scratch that one up....badly. ;)** I always forget : Is it apply or aplly? :|

[DC10 1]

>Nice, but why so dirty?The only reason it looks so dirty is because the belly is painted so dark - the stuff on the fuselage naturally resembles dirt :-lol

[Staffan 12]

Hi Dickson,I agree. The belly is very dark. Should make the whole plane much more justice if it was lighter. :-)

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[tomcollins 1]

The more I look at those shots, the more I suspect my the tail from my SQ paint was used as a base for yours. Sincere apologies if I'm incorrect about that but there's a more than striking resemblance.

[Guest Zacherius8]

Apologies accepted Tom. As you know, we are not to fond of the static light shades techniques you apply to your paints and especially not the ones you use to paint your tails. This said with ofcourse the upmost respect for your painting skills.I only painted the greenish colors, Karen did the rest and I think I can safely assume that she has both the skill and the time to create her own SIA tail. Especially when I take into account that she does some of the weathering of our other repaints and she takes the time to come up with 50+ unique weathering/brush layers for every single repaint.But if you send me a pm with your email adres, I'll be happy to forward you a picture of the actual PSD.@The rest : The darkish belly of the fuselage comes from a multiply blending mode edit. It isn't that dark in real life..;)

[Guest Karen MCP]

Hi Tom,I took the liberty and downloaded your SIA repaint. Like Zach said (and you and me also had a "quarrel" once regarding your static shades as well, as you might remember..;)), your tail clearly has 3 strokes that resemble the curvature of the tail, when certain light shines on it, what I don't really like all that much myself. Apart from a little shadow layer on the belly of the fuselage, I rely more on the dynamic lightning of FS then to make my own static light strokes.Not that I don't like your paints, or don't admire your painting skills (I would love to get a hold of your psd's and tear the livery apart, it would save us some time;)), but it's just not my 'thang'.Here's a little collage I made, where you can clearly see that my tail is sratched up like a pack of wolves had a 'catfight' on it. As you can also see, I don't even use the same weather layers on both sides, let alone use some else's work. Your tail is shiney, mine is torn up. I'm quite at ease with Illustrator, so don't worry about me not being able to make my own logos.I hope Staggerwing will make an exception just for this one time, so things can be cleared up about this 'copyright violation' issue and leave the screenshot. If not, perhaps you can just remove the http:// zo Tom can add it for himself?http://www.mcphatstudios.com/previews/difference.jpgThanks and happy repainting all!

[Guest dths30]

The reflections on the blue seem suspiciously similar, though that doesn't mean you've used any of Tom's work - maybe you two used the same photo or maybe you were inspired by his.

[Guest Zacherius8]

I see a little what you mean, although I see more inconsistancies than I see similarities. The goldish to blue palette seems to be different. Tom's is more yellowish as to Karen's is more silverish (dunno which one is correct by the way, I find SIA's logo to be a of a color that's difficult to reproduce. The same goes for Gulf Air's and Jordanian Airlines gold/yellow).The logo's aren't the same either. Tom's bird'head' is more squary opposed to Karen's which is a little rounder on the inside. Also the blue space between the logo and the white appeares to be greater with Tom's paint, although the logo seems to be at the same hight on the tail. So either he or she made the blue part to big. The space between the 'feathers' is not alike either.And last but not least : Tom's orange seems to be spot on. Sorry Karen..;)Ps : Demetris, the link in your signature doesn't link to here : http://www.projectairbus.oxidesigns.com/. Are you aware of that or isn't it supposed to link to PA's website?

[tomcollins 1]

Sorry Karen, but that's clearly my tail with your own effects added on...http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c36/tomc...ipoff_proof.jpgPoint 1: The orange strip at the rear is far closer in colour to mine than yours.Point 2: There is a line of shadow present on both my paintkit and the paint you're showing us, but not on your paintkit. See how it runs through the SIA logo.Point 3: That same stripe is evident further down, enforcing my second point.In general too, the logo I've used is of a much closer colour to what you're showing there, and again unlike what you have on the paintkit. Demetris - in terms of source photos it's a moot point as mine's hand-painted and the logo's from brandsoftheworld. My effects layers have come from photos I took in September in Death Valley, California, off the Pearblossom Highway. Furthermore there's a shadow running light at the front to dark at the rear that again is present on my tail but not on your paintkit preview, yet is present on the tail in the screenshot. This isn't an in-game FS effect as you'd see that on the Air Berlin tail behind if it were.It's clear to me, Karen, that you've used my paint as a base over which to paint your own, which surprises me because it doesn't seem you need to do that sort of thing as you're already proving yourself to be a great painter. I wasn't convinced at first that you'd done this but now I certainly am after closer inspection.Staggerwing - if you feel it necessary to remove the image I've posted, please could you leave a link to it so that the URL can be copied and pasted - thanks.