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Metal on my mind...

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14 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

Heavy metal dude !! .

Hehe...thanks....now I have Bill and Ted's Adventure in my brain...."put them in the iron maiden" LOL

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Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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Thought of Metal music, first, Steve...🙂...Just this past week, while scanning through the musical "CDs"...a bit old-fashioned, you might say...🙂...in the local Disc-Replay stores...I'd run into the Metal Section...but had skipped it...

Anyway, seriously...wonderful pictures of AA, the underbelly shines in #1 and the upperbelly shines in #2 are quite contrasting and stunning...!

 

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10 hours ago, P_7878 said:

the underbelly shines in #1 and the upperbelly shines in #2 are quite contrasting and stunning

How the sun dances off the fuse as you pan around the plane or the plane turns into/away from the sun is a site to behold.

Got some work done on the tail...the sun hitting it just right to produce another memorable pic. 🙂

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Still more work to do, but I can't help taking her up into the bright sunlight to see if I can blind other pilots! 🤣

 

Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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That looks incredible Steve! I am in awe! Can't wait to see the finished product,

1 hour ago, Steve Dra said:

...the sun hitting it just right to produce another memorable pic. 🙂

Yes, the daylight sun here (vs. the twilight sun in the earlier two pics) ...hitting the tail spot...looks just right...not overdone at all...

 

1 hour ago, Steve Dra said:

...but I can't help taking her up into the bright sunlight to see if I can blind other pilots! 🤣

Just trying to get my (new) eyes used to my (new) world.... quite a new world, of course, So, be kind...🙂...BTW, now I know what I was missing for years...and, I don't mean just your Metal...🙂...

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6 hours ago, P_7878 said:

Just trying to get my (new) eyes used to my (new) world.... quite a new world, of course, So, be kind...🙂...BTW, now I know what I was missing for years...and, I don't mean just your Metal.

DId you have some eye work do as well?

 

7 hours ago, rmeier said:

That looks incredible Steve! I am in awe! Can't wait to see the finished product,

Thanks!  The basic paint it done, now comes the task of tweaking the metal appearance....you have to do that on each model to get it looking right.

Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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3 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

DId you have some eye work do as well?

Yes, Steve, B2B Cataracts on both eyes... (pretty much the limit of full correctability with glasses, had reached, for my long-distance vision, ...that's where the sharpest details of the new world now amaze me).

BTW, I recall your earlier comment, ".... swear that even though the overall brightness in the sim is not any greater than looking at this white Avsim page...I find myself squinting when I see the sun hit that metal just right..."...🙂...that's where I am now...I never knew these Avsim pages are so bright....🙂...

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21 hours ago, P_7878 said:

Yes, Steve, B2B Cataracts on both eyes... (pretty much the limit of full correctability with glasses, had reached, for my long-distance vision, ...that's where the sharpest details of the new world now amaze me).

BTW, I recall your earlier comment, ".... swear that even though the overall brightness in the sim is not any greater than looking at this white Avsim page...I find myself squinting when I see the sun hit that metal just right..."...🙂...that's where I am now...I never knew these Avsim pages are so bright....🙂...

I've always been light sensitive and had to wear sunglasses outside....but since my cataract surgeries this year, even more so.  But things are so much more clearer!   Painting bare metal and taking the paint up in the sim is almost a sunglasses event now. LOL.

Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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That top American loooooks so great...

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