Ivans guide to vintage airline screenshots
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:43 pmOK a small guide for making historically correct screenshots.
So you feel the desire to take that DC-8 or other vintage jet out for a screenshot session...
Chances are that you will face the decision where to take the screenshots... with a neutral background or someplace where the machine has a fitting backdrop
Sure you can do some nice 'old-and-new' shots, with the Saha 707 at Dubai, but in general, going for that kind of shots restricts you to a handful of airlines.
Anyway, here's a small guide for taking shots where vintage planes DO fit in... (shots arent the best ones around but just for giving an idea how to work around the issue)
Shot 1
Just a basic composition, all aircraft in the same scheme.
All the planes in the shot are from the same time period
Shot 2
High contrast!!
Despite the odd combination, it still is a plausible situation, although a Polar Directorate Il-18 wont be showing up in Rostov-na-Donu everyday.
Shot 3
NOT a plausible shot (see the Hawker bizjet clearly recognisable at the end of the row?)
Shot 4
This one is already a lot better than the previous one, with the offending bizjet far enough away to miss it on first sight.
And the list of planes / flightplans / scenery used...
AI (most from avsim.ru):
CIS AI Project An-24B and AN-24RV
SimLandmarks Tu-154M, Il-86 and Yak-40
Sergei Carr Tu-154B (v3)
Flightplans: Aeroflot 1991 vintage (avsim.ru)
Flyable plane: Il-18 by Pavel Hvatkin with FS9 updates
Scenery:
Koltsovo and Tolmachevo by UNNT Team
Rostov-na-Donu from russia.simflight.com
So you feel the desire to take that DC-8 or other vintage jet out for a screenshot session...
Chances are that you will face the decision where to take the screenshots... with a neutral background or someplace where the machine has a fitting backdrop
Sure you can do some nice 'old-and-new' shots, with the Saha 707 at Dubai, but in general, going for that kind of shots restricts you to a handful of airlines.
Anyway, here's a small guide for taking shots where vintage planes DO fit in... (shots arent the best ones around but just for giving an idea how to work around the issue)
Shot 1
Just a basic composition, all aircraft in the same scheme.
All the planes in the shot are from the same time period
Shot 2
High contrast!!
Despite the odd combination, it still is a plausible situation, although a Polar Directorate Il-18 wont be showing up in Rostov-na-Donu everyday.
Shot 3
NOT a plausible shot (see the Hawker bizjet clearly recognisable at the end of the row?)
Shot 4
This one is already a lot better than the previous one, with the offending bizjet far enough away to miss it on first sight.
And the list of planes / flightplans / scenery used...
AI (most from avsim.ru):
CIS AI Project An-24B and AN-24RV
SimLandmarks Tu-154M, Il-86 and Yak-40
Sergei Carr Tu-154B (v3)
Flightplans: Aeroflot 1991 vintage (avsim.ru)
Flyable plane: Il-18 by Pavel Hvatkin with FS9 updates
Scenery:
Koltsovo and Tolmachevo by UNNT Team
Rostov-na-Donu from russia.simflight.com
