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Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:10 pm
by simonmd
Did this for a bit of fun for the VA i'm a member of,

The entire Virgin Group Fleet!


Seen here are the PMDG B744, CLS A346, two POSKY A343's (Virgin Atlantic and Nigeria), two PMDG 738's (Pacific Blue and Virgin Blue), LDS B763 and two iFDG A322's (Virgin America and Nigeria), all set outside the Virgin maintenance hanger at Heathrow,
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BTW, three out of the nine aircraft have had their repaints done by myself!
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Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:37 pm
by Layne.
Virgin Blue is getting some embrears and vAustralia is ment to be Virgin Australia..... i think ::)

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:59 pm
by Mitch.
WOW :o

That would have takin a while ;D

BTW, wheres Virgin Sun and Virgin Express? :-?

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:01 pm
by Layne.
Too many virgins HAVE SEX ALREADY!

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:16 pm
by simonmd
WOW :o

That would have takin a while ;D

BTW, wheres Virgin Sun and Virgin Express? :-?

Both have gone i'm afraid. V Sun went back in 2001 and Virgin Express ceased in March this year. Their routes were taken over by SN Brussels Airlines.

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:19 pm
by Mitch.
OK, fair enough, thanks for the update! :P

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:39 pm
by simonmd
What they've lost in Europe, they've gained elsewhere. Virgin Nigeria started a couple of years ago and we saw the new Virgin America start just a couple of weeks ago.

The latest rumour is that Virgin are looking at a trans Pacific route. If they get that, it'll be possible to fly completely round the world on Virgin aircraft!

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:24 am
by bok269
Awesome work.  Very impressive.

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:58 pm
by simonmd
Had it pointed out to me that i'd missed one out. Virgin Blue opperates a few services which flies between Samoa, Australia and New Zealand under the Polynesian Blue name. There is actualy only ONE aircraft with that livery, the rest being done with regular Virgin Blue aircraft. However, it needed including!

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Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:48 pm
by Harold
Nice skins Simon. I'll might have a go at repainting an aircraft the proper way ... but I always have a hard time with Alpha Channels :-[

Any good tips?

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:08 pm
by simonmd
Alpha channels are not something i've played with yet. Usualy, a decent repaint kit will have standard ones included that work for all repaints so I have left well alone so far. The three I've painted are the 747 (Virgin New Colours), the Nigeria 767 and the America A320. They all have good layered repaint kits that have Alpha channels included.

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:18 pm
by Ben R
i like the idea of this shot, very unusual, in a good way..

seems like compression messed up the shot tho, but a great shot either way!

keep them coming!

Re: Entire Virgin Fleet

PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:08 am
by simonmd
Yes, unfortunately, SimV's policy of a size limit per pic and not allowing pictures to be hosted off site means there is no way to rectify this.