Originally posted by Airline owner
tenthije: How do you design one from scratch?

I start by finding a plane I can convert. This time I used an Air France A319. Often I use Air France planes as they are white (officially) and thus do not require a lot of work to convert.

I remove all the AF markings on the plane and look for picture of a Spirit plane at roughly the same angle. When I have found a picture I can use I copy the parts of their livery.

These copied parts are transferred to the AF plane. I rotated them slightly and resized them to fit the plane. When that was done I made the colours blend in a bit better. Because I had to resize the livery they had gone somewhat vague. I just overpainted the blue squares with the same shade of blue. At the same time I pasted over the windows that came with the piece cut out of the Spirit plane.

The last step was to copy the windows from the original AF photo and paste them into the Spirit A319. That’s all. Took me roughly 3 hours.

it does not cost anything but time (though a decent photo editing program does help)

it took me 3 hours to make that

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/

Originally posted by Airline owner
Is that real

not yet! 😀

why should it be significant?

well, there are a few reasons why it is important. Firstly it is one of the most recognisable of passenger planes around. Secondly the 747 was, and still is, the flagship of KLM for many many years. Thirdly, it is one of only a handfull 747-200SUDs.

And most likely it would have been high on cycles making a sale to another airline not that lucrative anyway… 😉 Another reason, the other 747s have been sold/returned to lessor already!

If Le Bourget and Sinsheim can have a 747, so can the Aviodrome! And the Aviodrome’s 747 has a larger upper deck! Aviodrome rules! mwuhahahaaa 😀