Different leading edges?
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Hi,
I'm late to the game and just got this plane now. Obviously it's great, but bough it on the Marketplace/PC/MSFS2024 and am wondering if what I'm seeing is intended, or some kind of bug.
It seems like in most liveries (including for example the 1000/LTU one) the leading edges have a very dated looking matte texture (not meant in a cool retro way but in a P3D last-gen graphics way). But for example in the N500WN livery that is included in the pack it looks great and seems to be taking advantage of the newest reflection effects in the sim. Are the differences intended? Is the matte one supposed to be more weathered? Because its quality totally doesn't match the rest of the plane. Plus, when flying through fog/clouds light in the sim reacts differently to this texture than to any other textures in the plane, which makes it look even more out of place.
And here in the N500:
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I have done some more tests, seems like the 3000 and 4000 is a little bit better, not so shiny as in the one private one, but still with a good metal-like effect. It's just the 1000 series, where it's so matte and out of place looking. Maybe this is why nobody has noticed before
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I have done some more tests, seems like the 3000 and 4000 is a little bit better, not so shiny as in the one private one, but still with a good metal-like effect. It's just the 1000 series, where it's so matte and out of place looking. Maybe this is why nobody has noticed before
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The 'small wing' F28s (-1000 and -2000) didn't have polished leading edges - they were painted the same as the rest of the wing and lower fuselage.
As modelled here by PH-MAT/VH-FKF, which was #7 off the line: https://www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkf/vhfkf.html
I believe it became the norm at the factory to polish the leading edges on the 'big wing' (-3000 and -4000) F28s, but some operators didn't bother with the increased maintenance and painted them or let them go matt.
The black ice detection strips on the leading edges became common (possibly mandated in some countries?) after the Dryden Air Ontario crash (plus several other incidents through the F28's life caused by undetected/ignored wing icing).
Not all the livery makers get this right - most of the -1000 liveries still have the polished leading edges with the ice strips. Sometimes they change the albedo texture but not the base texture (leading to a very matt-looking grey) and (more often, in my experience) they correctly copy the real-life paint colour but don't change the albedo file, so you get 'wet look' shiny leading edges.
For my own virtual F28 fleet I've got a stock of texture and albedo files that I copy/paste to get the right look. I love the F28 for its 1960s/70s retro character, so the polished leading edges on a F28-1000 just don't sit right!