In keeping with many members requests to use a default plane whenever possible to maximize framerates, we have decided to use.......

Bombardier Lear

The reason we take time to announce the plane is that we must do a lot of testing as we develop the racecourse and must be certain the aircraft we select is suitable for all aspects of the course. We can't be sure of that until the course is completely constructed. So please keep in mind there are many hours of work involved in creating these races for everyone, and we do our best to accomadate everyone. We'll provide more race details in the days ahead, hopefully it'll be worth your wait..

uh oh, I cant land jets.  Maybe my 1900 practice will help tho.

Repaint Kit for the Learjet is available here:

http://www.simviation.com/fs_paintkits2.htm

When you're done, just send it to Gryshnak for distribution. Or, you can send a request to him for a repaint once he opens his repaint shop. 8)

I would encourage everyone to do a google image search, there are some really neat paint jobs to be found on corporate learjets already.  Go get some inspiration!

Gryshnak

Strange isn't it?

It'll do for now, but there are still some bits I'm not very happy about.  Never mind, there's still time to fiddle with it.

There are plenty of add-on planes that are just as FPS friendly as the default planes, with much straighter texture maps, for consideration later in the race season...




Gryshnak the fussy

Here's mine...sorry Grysh...still haven't flown the "release version" yet

Thanks for that Gryshnak

Came up with my own paint (still in blue colours).



Just one question. How do you go about reducing the file size of the bitmap, yet still keep the 32 bit colour? My BMPs are 4mb, but the Extra 300 race paints are 2.66Mb, and 32 bit colour. Don't suppose it has something to do with DXT?

Oh, and Ashar, love the paint Very smart!

Mobius, that second one is avsolutely amazing!!

I don't mind at all Tweek, but it's not painted on, it's just the Tail Number, or the number changed in the aircraft.cfg file, but I don't really know what the one in the .cfg file does, so I just did it in the sim.

And Cspyro, thanks, but I can't take credit, it's the file Lear45_D in the default lear texture folders, I just added the 117, and my name, I might change some numbers and add some lines, but I don't know if I will be able to do it so well.

Just to let everyone know, my paint scheme will always be White, Yellow, and Blue with the 314th Airlift Wing patch on the tail and/or wings.

Update:

The name needs work, but other than that, it looks real nice even with the slightly-shifted textures.

Damn, you guys are good - looks like I'm gonna have to spend sometime reading Gryshnaks painting tutorial - still not sure whether I will be definately available for the next race - but at the moment things are looking up - for the race anyway.

Cheers,

TSC.

I just saw all these paints.....amazing stuff! Looks like you're  having as much fun (or more) doing the paints as you do racing! Race should be in 2 1/2 weeks or so. Keep and eye out in freeware over the next couple of days for the upcoming Wargames. Cspyro and I are cooking up something I think everybody will have a blast participating in.

Now THAT requires sunglasses!!!

Gryshnak