A work in progress...

[patchz]

My first attempt at repaint, thanks to the paint kit included in Milton Shupe's Aero Commander.
Comments, suggestions, opinions (praise? ) welcome.
Here it is in the raw, jaggies and all. I even got the orientation of the flag and numbers right, as in not backwards on the left side. Thanks for looking.

[gtirob01]

Looking good, but the orientation of the flag should be backwards on the right side. Look at any U.S airliner to see this, and even some military aircraft.

look here for a huge example
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/258 ... a4.jpg?v=0

[patchz]

Looking good, but the orientation of the flag should be backwards on the right side. Look at any U.S airliner to see this, and even some military aircraft.

look here for a huge example
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/258 ... a4.jpg?v=0

I have never noticed that. Why is it done that way?

Edit: Never mind, I looked it up and now it makes sense.

[Brando14100]

Looking good, but the orientation of the flag should be backwards on the right side. Look at any U.S airliner to see this, and even some military aircraft.

look here for a huge example
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/258 ... a4.jpg?v=0

I have never noticed that. Why is it done that way?

Edit: Never mind, I looked it up and now it makes sense.

I think Bigtruck says stars lead the way. It's like that on the space shuttles too.

8-)

[gtirob01]

Looking good, but the orientation of the flag should be backwards on the right side. Look at any U.S airliner to see this, and even some military aircraft.

look here for a huge example
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/258 ... a4.jpg?v=0

I have never noticed that. Why is it done that way?

Edit: Never mind, I looked it up and now it makes sense.

I think Bigtruck says stars lead the way. It's like that on the space shuttles too.

8-)

Indeed they do. Also symbolizes that the U.S is always moving forward. But from what I've seen, the reason for it appearing backwards on the right hand side is because if you were to put a flagpole on that aircraft, thats the direction you'd see the stars while the aircraft was moving.

[skoker]

It sort of resembles the winair islanders.

[BE58D]

Nice looking aircraft Patchz, is that an original or a repaint?

Quite simply the flag is in the direction it would be blowing with the aircraft moving forward.

This is untrue it is a matter of left to right... it has nothing to do with the wind!

[patchz]

As I stated earlier, I looked it up. If you think of a flag on a pole, the stars are always next to the pole, no matter which side you are looking at. So we just have to think of the front of the aircraft, or at least the leading edge of the vertical stabiizer in this case, as being the pole. So my placement on the right side was in fact, backwards. I have fixed it but have not take any more screen shots since. This is the kind of thing where comments are really helpful and I appreciate them. If no one had said anything, my repaint would have continued to be in error. Thanks guys.

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/ACrepaint.jpg

[garryrussell]

The flag orientation is being made to look like a US thing but it is the same with all flags.

So logos are also 'handed' as well

Sometimes they are painted incorrectly on real aircraft

A couple more things

The is a max of two letters suffixes on US aircraft

Also try saving with the mips box unchecked. As it is it is fuzzy and that should sharpen it up.

Garry

[Travis]

From what I've read, there isn't a rule that you can ONLY have 2 letters at the end, but that you must only have 6 numerals in the reg number, one of which is the "N" at the beginning.

x = letters
1 = numbers

N11111, N111XX, NXXXXX are all fine.  There can be no mixing (N1X1X1), and I'm not sure about N11XXX or N1XXXX.