NZFF

Been having a lot of fun with FS lately, digging out stuff and doing stuff I always wanted to do.
Here's one that somehow got put on the back burner every time, but I promised myself... one day.
One day has arrived, it's the FSD Pilatus, a wonderful model.
I rubbed some paint on her (him? it's a truly rugged craft) and got a fair resemblance to Peter Lohr's AI static planes at Mt Cook.
I'll do a photo shoot when time permits, Chris B also has a Moth that'll feature.

I see the Mercer Parachuting Porter, ZK-JMP quite often, it's pretty amazing the performance that thing has. I always think that the nose section forward of the cockpit looks like it was intended for a different plane than the rest of the structure, and then the undercarriage was added when they finished the design and realised they'd forgotten something crucial. Seriously though, it's a very cool plane. Nice repaint too by the way.

Very nice indeed Charl!

I fly this machine quite a bit. Would be good to have some repaints of it.

Nice one Charl - it was crying out for a Mount Cook repaint - must get me a FSD Porter!

C'est Magnifique

Very cool plane, and FSD sure did a good job of it. Must remember to put that on my shopping list one day. nice pic of her!

Guys thanks for the encouraging words.
Here are some shots, I've compressed all the textures to DXT3, contrary to FSD's paintkit instructions.
It may be slightly furrier as a result, but 32-bit is way over the top and you actually have to wait for the textures to load!


In company with Warwick Carter's excellent Kiwi Tiger, beautifully painted by Chris Brisland.


The Porter can get into the tightest spots imaginable. This landing is done with prop in reverse pitch to hold it against the downhill slide...

FlyingKiwi wrote:

QUOTE (FlyingKiwi @ Oct 31 2007, 11:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I see the Mercer Parachuting Porter, ZK-JMP quite often, it's pretty amazing the performance that thing has. I always think that the nose section forward of the cockpit looks like it was intended for a different plane than the rest of the structure, and then the undercarriage was added when they finished the design and realised they'd forgotten something crucial. Seriously though, it's a very cool plane.

Yeah too right. Fantastic thing to fly though.


I have decided to keep this as a
[color=#a0522d]NZFF EXCLUSIVE REPAINT
[/color]If anyone has the FSD Porter and wants the paint I can email it, the zipfile is about 4.5MB

Pretty paint Charl , all the airshows Demo'd this aircraft , best was 1987 Christchurch-Singapore air-race , and was amazed with a model i had in early build off Wiggy around 98/2000 .. this possibly is the update from , i don't no .. a fixed wing helicopter

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Oct 31 2007, 11:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Pretty paint Charl , all the airshows Demo'd this aircraft , best was 1987 Christchurch-Singapore air-race , and was amazed with a model i had in early build off Wiggy around 98/2000 .. this possibly is the update from , i don't no .. a fixed wing helicopter

Thanks Ian, it's not totally accurate but I also think it's prettier than the original (ze artiste y'see? Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it))
The FS9 model when released was FSX standard+ VC is astonishing even now
Best description I've heard of it yet...fixed wing helicopter.

Charl wrote:

QUOTE (Charl @ Nov 5 2007, 10:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks Ian, it's not totally accurate but I also think it's prettier than the original (ze artiste y'see? Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it))
The FS9 model when released was FSX standard+ VC is astonishing even now
Best description I've heard of it yet...fixed wing helicopter.

I'll dig up the couple of pics from 87 show , get em to ya small but good quality

Is somebody going to do a repaint of JMP? I only have the wheeled version of this.