RNZAF Buses

[Intrance]

I've finished my RNZAF repaints of the Aerosoft Airbus A319 & A321. Thanks to some help from Ian the squadron logo turned out great on the tail. Still haven't found the right font for the RNZAF text, but I used a USAF substitute .

Here are some shots:

The A319 turning near Auckland during the first flight after rolling out of the paint hangar.

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And the same for the A321.

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The A319 got the first operational flight, heading from Whenuapai to Christchurch. Taxiing past an AI 757... not sure if my grey is off or if the AI repaint is too blue .

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Sideview... Should I put something on the sharklets?

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And the last quick shot.

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The A321 will fly to CHCH soon as well, preparing for an Antarctica flight . If anyone wants these paints, I will upload them and post links later.

[Ian Warren]

They come up extremely well , a superb effort

[deeknow]

Love em !!

[scaber]

QUOTE (Intrance @ Dec 18 2014,11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've finished my RNZAF repaints of the Aerosoft Airbus A319 & A321. Thanks to some help from Ian the squadron logo turned out great on the tail. Still haven't found the right font for the RNZAF text, but I used a USAF substitute .

Good work there.

[Charl]

Nice work... thinking out of the box, or perhaps not? The A321 is directly comparable to the 757.

QUOTE (Intrance @ Dec 18 2014,11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

...Taxiing past an AI 757... not sure if my grey is off or if the AI repaint is too blue .

Not sure which AI you use. The grey is a real pig to match, I have 3 photos of the 757 in slightly different light, all different.
The definitive repaint is at flightsim.com
Name: rnzafa11.zip
Size: 39,055,799 Date: 02-27-2009 Downloads: 1,760

FS2004 Royal New Zealand Air Force AI Package 1 Redux. Complete AI package of aircraft and flight plans. Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft including Boeing 757, C-130 Hercules, P-3 Orion, CT4 Airtrainer, King Air, NH90, Seasprite, and Iroquois helicopters. This is the definitive RNZAF package.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Intrance @ Dec 18 2014,11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Still haven't found the right font for the RNZAF text, but I used a USAF substitute .

I'll up again if the font required/used ... tho, looking at that there is very little difference, one thing pointed out to me many years back, they almost guess work it and just what happens to suit them on the day, you could just that RNZAF ARBUSTED FONT

[Splitpin]

Looks damm fine to me , Im not sure about the font .... maybe just a tad bigger.
Great work

[deaneb]

Good stuff. Excellent repaints! Fonts are a curse when doing repaints and I have spent many an hour trying to find something that matches what I need.

I also note you have gone with an NZ4000 tail number. No problem given its fictional, but in reality that series is reserved for maritime aircraft. Hopefully this link will prove useful:
RNZAF Serial Numbers

[Intrance]

QUOTE (Charl @ Dec 18 2014,3:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice work... thinking out of the box, or perhaps not? The A321 is directly comparable to the 757.

Not sure which AI you use. The grey is a real pig to match, I have 3 photos of the 757 in slightly different light, all different.

Yeah, I figured the A321 might be a decent replacement . I believe Airbus is thinking about/already planning a longer range A321(Neo) to replace Boeings 757.
As for the AI, I think I might have been mistaken. It actually looks more like a static model, possibly part of FTX NZNI? Either way, the grey really is a PITA but I'm happy with the result.

QUOTE (deaneb @ Dec 18 2014,8:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good stuff. Excellent repaints! Fonts are a curse when doing repaints and I have spent many an hour trying to find something that matches what I need.

I also note you have gone with an NZ4000 tail number. No problem given its fictional, but in reality that series is reserved for maritime aircraft. Hopefully this link will prove useful:
RNZAF Serial Numbers

Usually I'm able to just copy & paste the font & logo from some online image, but I couldn't find any nice high res sideshots of the 757 . Good info by the way, I'll adjust the tail number before I upload anything .
In the WIP stage I went with NZ3191 as reference to the NZ7571 but that didn't suit the A321 of course. So I just figured... Squadron number + random picked two digits.

Thanks for the nice comments guys, I'll give the paint one more good look over, possibly tweak some stuff and then upload it.

[Ian Warren]

From the font now you have, you could possibly transform them using photoshop, I have not had a chance to look at it files here, realistically 98.99 per cent off people will not even no.

We have a classic example , the RNZAF Historical flight Harvard fonts are hideous, the Ohakea paint boys really screwed that up ... sticks out like dogs balls , by compare I give yours a big THUMBSUP