Hi everyone,
I've decided to share these following sketches/ drafts (they hardly deserve to be named profiles given this forum member's skills
) with you as a sort of Thank You, because it was during the recently closed Non-Military GB here that I started thinking about...
... What if the provincial government of Tierra del Fuego, in Argentina would have decided it was necessary to set up an airline to better connect its citizens with the rest of the country and also cater for the growing number of tourists wishing to visit this remote piece of land?
Even though I have done as good as no modeling lately, the one thing I always keep in mind when designing [now that's a big word!
] a scheme is the ease of transferring it to plastic, meaning using existing decals or attempting to print my own which in turn translates into simple motifs and no white markings over any other colour.
I initially played with the idea of using the Argentinian blue and some water motif for what I imagined would be the very cool sounding
Rio Grande - Lineas Aereas Patagonicas (or
de la Patagonia, my [lack of] Spanish being of no help figuring out what the correct form should be like
):
For better resolution click here: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8426/29316517602_f49b57bb99_o.jpgA short while after finishing these, I came across a couple of real world schemes in Brazil which bare some resemblance to my poor effort:
NORDESTE:
http://blog.opovo.com.br/asaseflaps/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/06/Boeing-737-500-Nordeste-pintura-antiga.jpgRIO SUL:
http://www.luftfahrt.net/galerie/photos/2003/10/1051370754_PT-SLN_Boeing-737-500_Rio-Sul.jpgPrior to that I only knew about them in the associate Varig liveries...:
https://img.planespotters.net/media/photos/original/036000/PlanespottersNet_036901.jpghttps://img.planespotters.net/photo/137000/original/pt-ssi-rio-sul-boeing-737-53a_PlanespottersNet_137975.jpgSo, back to the drawing board (a.k.a. touch pad on the laptop) and out came these two garish looking :) examples, the idea being of using the colours of the Province of Tierra del Fuego and that the to the north neighboring Province of Santa Cruz joining in with some finances in order to get a couple of its cities on the route map of
Rio Grande - Lineas Aereas de la Tierra del Fuego:
For better resolution click here: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8819/29305875842_db1bdf934a_o.pngI mentioned "737-400" just because I have a kit depicting this series ready to hit the work bench (whenever that may be!?). The original profile is advertised as a -600. Program used is MS Paint.
Between the last two examples above, so far I could not make up my mind which one to turn into plastic.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Niki
L.E.: changed topic title :)