Millardair DC-4 Repaint

[relfel66]

I was wondering if there is anybody out there who would be interested in painting some DC-4 in Millardair colours. I found a picture of one at the FSBerlin site, but never could find the actual paint of it. I wanted to paint up the CalClassic DC-4 for some ai in Southern Ontario, but my paint skills are non-existent!

[johnfromoz]

There's a pic at www.airpixbycaz.co.uk/yyz.htm and Airliners.net have several pics on a search for Millardair.

I have to finish another contract for a member here so if anyone else volunteers they are welcome, otherwise in a week or so I will see what I can do, I haven't yet painted a DC-4!

I see Millardair operated C117s. Over to the aircraft builders for that one!

[relfel66]

Cool. There is a repaint for the default DC-3 in the CYFD package from FlightOntario.com, its not bad. Where do you live John? My Aunt and Uncle live in Perth and a cousin in Sydney, visited when I was 13 for 6 weeks around Xmas and fell in love with your country, I can't wait to take my family there someday.

[johnfromoz]

OK, unless someone else grabs the job in a wave of enthusiasm ;D I'll start as soon as I can.
I'm between the two - Adelaide, South Australia. I've visited Sydney but not the West (I hear Perth is nice).

[johnfromoz]

Well, that was fun

I made a rough paintkit up, using (I think) some Mike Stevens textures as a template - hope that's okay!

I could only find reference to three Millardair DC4s - C-GQIA, C-GDWZ and C-GFMQ. There are a number of pics (mostly Airliners.net) and all seem to be at various times after the aircraft retired, so there are variations such as removal of deicing boots and different coloured tail rego.

I've painted examples of each one. In the case of GFMQ I only had a pic of it in an almost all-white scheme, as in the second screenshot, though much the worse for weathering. I suspect that was a paint job in anticipation of sale of the aircraft, so I have made two paints, one as per the pic and another in the same livery as the rest. I am more at home with the history of Aussie aircraft than North American, but as quick and dirty paint jobs, I guess they'll pass.

I was a little suprised, but it seems that the areas usually left bare metal by most airlines were actually painted a light grey.

Here's one example;



and several


Okay, here we have some questions.

- Relfel66 - I can email you the paints if you PM me with an email address. It comes to about 900-plus kb.

- Tom, I don't have flightplans, and was considering just releasing the pack. But rather than do that, firstly, would the paints be of interest to CalClassics for future inclusion (if they are good enough)? You'd probably pick just one paint, the most definitive. And someone would need to make up plans. If you want them, I can always later release the set for those who want a bit of variety for the different aircraft. Again, PM me if you want me to email the paints.

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi John,

Nice paint jobs.

Do whatever you like with the planes - feel free. They didn't start up until 1963, just after our 1962 cutoff for the AI package.

Thanks,

[johnfromoz]

Thanks Tom - didn't realise there was a '62 cutoff (it's probably obvious in the "mission statement" on the front page but I dive right past it to content now!) I believe they operated into the 70s.

I'll put them up at AVSIM fairly soon, I think, that might be easy for Relfel 66 too.

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

Our cutoff for airlines is 1957 on the early side, and 1962 on the recent side. This is just for our AI package, not for the site as a whole.

[johnfromoz]

Thanks Tom. I just sent the package to AVSIM, in the usual course of events should show on a search for "millardair" in roughly the next 24 hrs.

I see Millardair closed in the 1990s. Not retro to me, but I see a lot of downloads referring to the period as retro. Kids! Or am I just old?

[relfel66]

thanks John they look great!!!!!!!!!!!!

[johnfromoz]

Thanks for the thanks!
I noticed an airfield scenery somewhere today which mentioned it had "retired" versions of the same aircraft parked somewhere in it!

[relfel66]

The CYFD scenery has 2 dc-3's parked one Millardair and one Gateway