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My first repaint. Still tweaking details and trying to get the colors right. N4635K had beige instrument panel covers at one point, so I will be making an alternate version as well. Criticism welcome. Nitpick it. I'd like to make this as close as possible to the actual plane. But in many places, I have to get creative since the A2A geometry is significantly more modern than the referenced real-world aircraft, especially in the cockpit. N736HD is nearly identical to this aircraft, but the paint is faded, and the interior is worn and damaged. I plan to follow up with that plane later. I will post more photos as I progress.

I've been looking all over the internet, but I can't find Air France's tail textures (blue and red stripes) anywhere, for usage in my repaint. Does anybody have any suggestions on where to find it? Thanks in advance!

Here is a " preview " of re worked textures of a paint that I made some 5 years ago ( I was surprised at the length of time when I checked ) . Have made some changes , such as realigning the invasion stripes , squadron codes and registration . Will be available as Version 2 shortly . John

Well maybe that got peoples attention . These are Richard Branson's Virgins of course . First of all , Virgin Atlantic with four A320's and Virgin America with a A320 NEO . EI-DEI " Maggie May " . EI-DEO " Queen of the cobbles " . EI-EZV " Tartan Lassie " . EI-EZW " Rosie Lee " . N361VA " jersey girl " . John

I'm looking for a professional quality repaint of the PMDG 777F to be made for my fictional airline. I'm willing to pay for your time and effort or donate to a charity of your choice if you are not comfortable receiving payment. Without meaning to sound rude, I am only looking for someone who can create really top class work hence me being prepared to pay someone Thanks

Some time ago I made several paints for RealAir Spitfire and one I was working on was lost in a harddisk crash . I recently came across some photographs showing MK732 as she is now . As the original paint supplied by RealAir has the same " mistake " that I myself made with my Dutch Spitfire paints that the roundels are reversed , made me decide to create a " new " version . As a " virtual " Merlin costs nothing , here is a screen of the result when you " blow " one up , just a shame I couldn't capture the effects as it happened . Goes without saying that this is a " Work in Progress " , still have some work to do with the spec maps . John

Hi , I'm currently working on Emirates Project Airbus A380 for FS9 , and i can't find the arabic looking logo for Emirates... can anyone help me with it? i'm trying to find a vector file if possible (EPS, AI or whatever)

Good Morning, I am looking for a guide or instructions on painting the Eaglesoft Citation X 2.0. I am used to using the paint kits from Carenado and PMDG, however I am having a hard time figuring out how to split the master file into the two separate fuselage files that the other paints have. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it, as Google couldn't find anything for me. Thank you in advance, Joe

Series of tails of the AirbusX Extended . First is G-BRSA which was destined to be the first of 10 aircraft for British Caledonian ( G-BRSA thru G-BRSJ ) and was painted in BCal livery but was instead taken over by British Airways and repainted in the Landor livery and re registered G-BUSB thru G-BUSK . All 10 aircraft from the original BCal order flew until recently in BA colours with the CFM powerplant ( the rest of the Airbus fleet are IAE powered ) and served for more than 20 years . Several ( if not all ) of these were given " World " tails and are shown here below . Others may follow ( no promises ) , the main difficulty is finding pictures with a high ( enough )…

The original livery is actually a Saab 340B, but I only have the Jetstream 41, so I decided to paint it. Silver Airways also flies the Beechcraft 1900D, and I will be painting the Carenado 1900D in Silver Airways colors too.

Hey guys, this is my first post here. I've been into 3D for a couple of years now but I've never been able to get my textures to look good st all. I can put rivets and panels on it, but they look flat and almost plastic-like. I need to get some variation in the surface so it looks more natural. For example, this shot of McPhat Studios' Fokker 50 looks absolutely outstanding...but I can't figure out how they can brush in all of that detail (they hand-paint everything.) There is a bump map in there as well which gives the surface some dimension, but a lot of the weathering and paint chips are in the diffuse. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HiJbeu28ejM/UZJXlV_HG2I/AAAAAAAAYeU/…

Viva España! EC-KKL is one of "thousands" (seems like it anyway) of C172s operated by Gestair's Flying Academy. This one is based in Seville. They have schools in Spain, Portugal and Chile. I picked KKL to paint....because. :-) Real one: Mine (complete with 'jiggies' ) Olé!On AVSIM soon.

Another revised texture ( with new registration ) , this time ANA JA8400 . Since my original paint ( in 2010 ) and the update ( in 2013 ) for the Extended version ANA have reduced their A320 fleet from 33 to 13 and no longer use the A321 . John

Spring Airlines . The A320 is a different registration to my earlier upload with some " minor " texture corrections . A320 A320 NEO John

Sichuan Airlines . A320 A320 NEO A321 A321 NEO John

Not having much success placing screenshots , been using Image Shack but this is no longer free . Here are my revised textures for Dragonair ( A320 and A321 ) , different registrations to my previous uploads . B-HSD B-HTD John

Recently finished these paints for the AirbusX Extended of the Hainan Airlines Group ( HNA ) which comprises HongKong Airlines , HK Express and Lucky Air . Had to rework some paints as they rebranded 5 aircraft from HongKong Airlines to HKExpress . Series is in total 14 aircraft , showing Old and New colour schemes . Repaints to follow on Air Macau , Dragonair ( NEW textures and registrations - original ( from 2010 ) already available ) , Sichuan Airlines and Spring Airlines . Here are some screens : http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r487/John_Glanville/1825a_zps6ba8da78.jpg~original http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r487/John_Glanville/1825b_zps9a90fd93.jpg~origin…

That's very nice work, Ron. And always appreciated! John

Hi! I'm making my first paint on a PMDG 737NGX. It will be in the US Airways MetroJet livery. I'm following a tutorial video online on YT. I have done this much so far: http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y514/justinxfan/yah_zps5c16b42f.png

I'm almost finish with my latest repaint, and should be releasing her this Friday. InterCaribbean doesn't fly J41s, but the livery is to pretty to pass on.

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Already post this in Ifly forum early January, no response so far... :unsure: Would someone be kind enough to paint the Ifly 737 with the new Air Transat colors that debut in February 2014 ? please note it is the "welcome" scheme for the 737-800 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellor4884/664397137/in/photostream/ Thanks in advance !

Hello All, I duplicated this post here, from CS unofficial forum, I think that is the best place to have an answer. I have downloaded the paint kit for the 757-200 and 300 from captainsim, and I can't convert the psd texture to BMP that doesn't work? And no help from CS forum :mad: I use PSD Viewer and/or Easy2convert, and these programs work very well with PSD textures from PMDG Level D and others?? Anybody has an idea? Your answer will be greatly appreciated Thank in advance for your help Best regards Dom

They don't have a J4100, but this is a sim world, and we can make it happen.