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Kilomuse
Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: February 28th, 2013, 8:39 pm
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Very nice drawings, Colo. The grey Spit looks awesome.

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: February 28th, 2013, 9:45 pm
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Colosseum wrote:
Yes I realize. ;) I'll fix it tonight after work.

Any comments on the actual drawings? Camouflage look alright? Any comments on roundels, tail numbers, etc?
Looking good, Colosseum. Have you tried giving the roundels a thin yellow or white edge to provide contrast so the blue part of the roundel can be more easily seen? That might look good. Was North Point with the Allies in WW2, as the roundel could easily be confused with a RAF/RAAF/RNZAF SEAC roundel, and I know your AU is usually highly neutral? If it is neutral then it may be worth thinking about a more distinctive roundel or other markings, like the Swiss. It all looks great though, and I hope to see more soon! :)
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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: February 28th, 2013, 11:16 pm
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Colosseum wrote:
Yes, for the trop Spitfire and the Beaufighter (which I imagine is probably primarily a recon plane). The MkII Spitfire should be 1942 (not 45). Its camouflage was inspired by German designs, but I will probably change it to the traditional brown and green later on.
Isn't that a bit of a retrograde step? The only real reason you'd need terrestrial coloured camouflage on a fighter late war (as the Luftwaffe did) is to hide it from being persecuted from the air by marauding air power which I'm imagining you don't have to content with? If anything I'd improve upon the grey scheme maybe bluer or purpler hues to it or scrap paint and go au natural with anti glare panels!
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Colosseum wrote:
Yes I realize. ;) I'll fix it tonight after work.

Any comments on the actual drawings? Camouflage look alright? Any comments on roundels, tail numbers, etc?
Looking good, Colosseum. Have you tried giving the roundels a thin yellow or white edge to provide contrast so the blue part of the roundel can be more easily seen? That might look good. Was North Point with the Allies in WW2, as the roundel could easily be confused with a RAF/RAAF/RNZAF SEAC roundel, and I know your AU is usually highly neutral? If it is neutral then it may be worth thinking about a more distinctive roundel or other markings, like the Swiss. It all looks great though, and I hope to see more soon! :)
I find myself in agreement here especially on the mono colour backgrounds.

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 12:48 am
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indiajuliet wrote:
Colosseum wrote:
Yes I realize. ;) I'll fix it tonight after work.

Any comments on the actual drawings? Camouflage look alright? Any comments on roundels, tail numbers, etc?
Looking good, Colosseum. Have you tried giving the roundels a thin yellow or white edge to provide contrast so the blue part of the roundel can be more easily seen? That might look good. Was North Point with the Allies in WW2, as the roundel could easily be confused with a RAF/RAAF/RNZAF SEAC roundel, and I know your AU is usually highly neutral? If it is neutral then it may be worth thinking about a more distinctive roundel or other markings, like the Swiss. It all looks great though, and I hope to see more soon! :)
North Point doesn't exist in the same universe as "RL Earth" - it's in the Statesmanship universe (see my sig). So those considerations aren't really important. ;) I will probably revise the roundel with a white border for visibility's sake but believe the RAAF SEAC used the same type of roundel and that seems to have been visible, so not sure yet.
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Isn't that a bit of a retrograde step? The only real reason you'd need terrestrial coloured camouflage on a fighter late war (as the Luftwaffe did) is to hide it from being persecuted from the air by marauding air power which I'm imagining you don't have to content with? If anything I'd improve upon the grey scheme maybe bluer or purpler hues to it or scrap paint and go au natural with anti glare panels!
That was the impression I got - hence the grey/light grey camouflage which I will probably stick with. The blues on the trop Spitfire and the Beaufighter are "ocean" camo I guess. What does a Seafire look like?

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 5:30 am
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Have corrected the scale bar, date issues, and added a white ring around the roundels of the aircraft with sea camouflage:

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Also, added a Beaufort of Coastal Command:

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 7:08 am
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Nice work on the Beau!

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 11:10 am
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Nice work! :)
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Rhade
Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 12:03 pm
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Hmmm... I always think that in case of Beuafighter, wings, control surfaces, retractable landing gear and aft section of the fuselage were identical to those of the Beaufort

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 3:34 pm
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It was almost a complete redesign from what I've read - so to use the existing drawing would have been difficult!

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Post subject: Re: North Point FDPosted: April 10th, 2013, 5:12 am
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Probably not canon, just a fun piss-take:

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