The other "plain" looking planes probably have fairly low res textures. IE: 1024, etc..

So even with the 4096 setting, they will still only show the 1024 of their particular texture res.

The high setting just let the planes that do have high res textures "IE: NGX" actually be able to show them at their full res. It won't help the low res planes.

So which liveries have the best looking models as seen from outside?

Dunno.. Hard call, and user preference I suppose. Being an artificial SWA buoy, naturally I've

always tried to get those as good as possible, and fine tweak them as I'm really picky about the

color shades.

But I have some custom BBJ skins that look fairly good. I even rigged up a custom Coleman Co.

BBJ for my lantern and stove hunts.   lol

 

Now SWA has switched their livery, so will be rigging up a few of those. I did majorly tweak one of the 800's

with the new paint. Just wish I had a model with the new winglets to make it 100%.

 

I had found one version in the file library a couple of months ago, but the color tints were way off.

So I redid the paint on it to suit me and my ultra finicky SWA nature.

Need to get a 700 rigged up.. When I first saw the new style paint, I wasn't that hot on it, but after a while

it's kinda grown on me a bit.

 

This is the first 800 I tweaked up. Did some pretty serious changes on the color shades vs the original that

I d/led, but think I got fairly semi close. All it needs are the new style winglets, even if just a visual model..

When I get a 700 going, it will be right, as none of those have the scimitar winglets yet. Or that I know of

anyway. That's just on the 800's so far.

 

An 800 going out of dinky Houston Southwest Airport? Sure, why not..  lol.. That's where my paint shop is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I first saw the new style paint, I wasn't that hot on it, but after a while
it's kinda grown on me a bit.

 

Honestly, I still don't like it very much...reminds me of Wonderbread.

 

That or clowns, and those old play places kids used to go to in the 90s where someone was like "PRIMARY COLORS MUST BE EVERYWHERE BECAUSE I LACK A SENSE OF COLOR PALATE!!!"

 

Discovery Zone

 

I just don't like primary colors together like that, I guess. It just seems unoriginal and bland. The colors clash pretty harshly, too. At least the SWA colors are slightly modified off the pure primaries to make them clash a little less?

 

 

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The new blue looks a lot more primary to me than the old "canyon" blue. Slightly different for sure.

But we'll see how it wears with time. I remember when the first canyon blue jets came out, I still liked the tan ones better. But after a few years I got to where I liked the blue ones better than the old tan planes.

I remember when Braniff used to use a lot of different colors, and most all of them were non primary colors. I remember I once flew on a Braniff 727 from KC downtown to the then nearly brand new KIAH in Nov 1969.

It was kind of a baby doo-doo green.. lol  And they had baby doo-doo yellow, brown, etc..  lol.

They also had crock pot orange, funky blue, and I forgot what else..

 

I wonder if SWA thinks the name font on the new paint is large enough.. I guess they wanted it readable from 5 miles away..   lol

 

 

I remember when Braniff used to use a lot of different colors, and most all of them were non primary colors. I remember I once flew on a Braniff 727 from KC downtown to the then nearly brand new KIAH in Nov 1969.
It was kind of a baby doo-doo green.. lol  And they had baby doo-doo yellow, brown, etc..  lol.
They also had crock pot orange, funky blue, and I forgot what else..

 

Nuclear green, caribbean orange, Cowboy blue (with helmet), OMG RED (with yellow...I hate red and yellow together*), blue with celadon, and a few others. I did actually like the Braniff livery, and I love me some 727s. That is an example of what I'd call good design (though the brown and yellow were a little more "of the period" and not truly timeless).

 

*Unless I'm at a cookout and it's on my burger/brat/hotdog/etc.