Thinking of taking up Aircraft Repainting? Simviation now has a download section that is specifically dedicated to this hobby!
Here you will find all the FS2004 default aircraft, from the Cessna to the 747!
Rob Smith has generously made available repaint kits for all the FS2004 default aircrafts.
You are free to use these textures to create your own repaints but please give the author credit for his hard work. You are not allowed to use these textures for payware aircraft or add ons. The kit does not include any other files except the textures for each aircraft.
Also in this section are downloads that contain paint kits for many other different types of aircrafts!

From the beginner to the professional, this section is worth taking a look at! Let's see what type of repaint you can do!

There are a few tutorials on how to "Repaint" an aircraft available for you to use.
Try "Grump's Lair" hosted by Simviation at:
http://www.simviation.com/lair/index.htm

Or the link in "The Lair" to Garry Smith's tutorial at:
http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/full_tutorial.htm

There is some real helpful information here on getting your painting career off the ground!
Good Luck and Happy Flying!!

Dave

Very interesting indeed. Do you know if the same kits can be used for FS2002 as well? Most airplanes do exist in FS2002 too and at least the Cessna 172 which I checked seems identical (at least the _t file).

Cool.................

The Curtis Jenny isn't there or the Extra 300.

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from the Cessna to the 747!

didnt say it would be  ;)  ::)

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The Curtis Jenny isn't there or the Extra 300.

It's not just a matter of putting one there.  First someone has to find one and let Pete (site owner) know that there is one in existance (and how to find it) and then he has to put it up.

It's not at all a simple process.

This is Rob the designer of most of the default repaint kits for fs9. I am currently working on the missing aircraft i think their are five that i have to do. if anyone has an aircraft they would like done send me a detailed e-mail. i would love to do both repaint kits and repaints I will post mt CF-18 when it is done so look for that too.

Thanks for this fantastic facility ;D

I am possibly blind  8)(my wife thinks so) but I cannot find where the paint kit downloads are??

Thanks

Forget it.. I found it (she was right lol) :o

I'm just getting started at repaints, infact I'm so just getting started that , I need a graphics program for repainting aircraft . Is there any freeware  graphics programs?

Hey Batman,

Give Pixia a try... About the only freeware out there.

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

Regards,
Stratobat

Thanks Stratobat .
I went to the Paxia web site, but I dont know what to download.  ???

There are lots of free painting packages that come with cover cd's on computer mags from time, there is often one included with one magazine each month.
They are older versions but more tha adequate for starting out painting and may well be all you ever require.

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I went to the Paxia web site, but I dont know what to download.

Sites not working on my end... Worked just fine the other day ???

It's also available from here, Batman :)

http://www.webattack.com/get/pixia.html

Regards,
Stratobat

Thanks Stratobat  that worked  ;D

Pixia is a good repainting program?? I mean its like payware programs???

wrote on Mar 9^th, 2005 at 12:17pm:

Pixia is a good repainting program?? I mean its like payware programs???

It's not a bad program, it doesn't have as many features as Photoshop and PSP, but it'll get the job done ;)

Regards,
Stratobat

Inorder to use these kits you will need a progam called DXTBMP to convert the textures and load them into your favorite graphics editor.

I'd recommend PhotoFiltre from http://www.photofiltre.com - for photo editing it's second to none (if none is Photoshop) and it's also very good for repainting due to the different fill mechanism (you'll see when you try) which speeds things up, and the filters/colour options.

It also smooths images when you resize and antialises (and bevels and shadows if you so wish) text, which makes it good for screenies too.

8)

Pixia 3.1 is an excellent aircraft repainting tool and it's free
bill
P.S. add a Hybrid Layer to see thru your paint colors to the underlying paintkit

Hi guys, just a quick heads up, I've started putting my own 'home-made' repaint kits onto my website.

Theres are layered kits compatible with PSP or Photoshop. Bitmaps available on request for people without PSP or P.S. I'll be adding to the list over time, but for now theres 20 or so available.

http://www.repaints.here.ws
on the Downloads page.

If theres an aircraft you want a kit making for thats not there, or there is no official kit available, then feel free to ask, and i'll see what I can make.

ive got pixia andf i downloaded a repaint kit from simviation.com but wen i open the files in the textre folder pixia closes down. can anyone help me

looie

i figured it out and i got DXTBmp but i dont get it. i open it on dxtbmp and it looks like an aircraft but wen i open it in psp its a white screen with a bit of black is there anyway i can show it in this forum?

wrote on Sep 25^th, 2005 at 10:27am:

i figured it out and i got DXTBmp but i dont get it. i open it on dxtbmp and it looks like an aircraft but wen i open it in psp its a white screen with a bit of black is there anyway i can show it in this forum?

Looie, this was 3 months ago - did you ever get this sorted out?  I've been playing around with repaints and DXTBmp.exe lately, it sounds like you exported the alpha channel (light/dark) instead of the textures!

Gryshnak

wrote on Dec 31^st, 2004 at 3:48pm:

I'm just getting started at repaints, infact I'm so just getting started that , I need a graphics program for repainting aircraft . Is there any freeware  graphics programs?

Gimp

this might help a little bit in my life...  ;D

Ahh this is cool.

Oh, how I love revives  ;D

hi guys, would like to repaint a 737 - 800 for FSX. Will the FS 2004 one do or is there an FSX one i can download? Im very new to this.

UPDATE:
Ive downloaded and unzipped an FSX cessna 172 and i am u sing pixia now as well. But when i try to open the c172 black textures pixia says it has encountered a problem and has to close. The Files i am trying to load are in BMP format but pixia wont load them. Any ideas?

Thanks

You need DXTbmp

Pixia is pretty good but i have no idea how to do all those things.

Funny (Jo, jo, jooo! [smiley=undecided.gif] ) I must be doing something wrong, but I do not see any Aircraft Texture Repaint Kits! Where are they? Gracias!