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Jun 13^th, 2009 at 4:05pm

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How hard is it to repaint an aircraft? how long would it averagely take? What would I need to do it?

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Reply #1 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 4:39pm

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Hard is a relative term based on your skill level with a graphics editing program such as Photoshop or Paint shop pro.

The more familiar you are with either of these two programs or others like them, the easier repainting an airplane is.

The basics required for repainting are the afore-mentioned graphics editing program (plenty of freeware options available). a freeware program called DXTBMP is also needed for converting texture formats for FS. Lastly you need the texture to modify. Ideally, you want a paint kit, which are blank textures, but if none is available, you can just use what came with the plane. Wink

If you are just starting out, I highly recommend checking this out: http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/full_tutorial.htm

It's what I used to get started.

Hope this helps.

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Reply #2 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 8:20pm

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^ what shane said

it also depends on what your making, a commercial jetliner can be hard because you have to be exact with a real world paint, if your like me youll paint general aviaiton aircraft and thats easier because most people usually do the standard colored lines on it (I havnt repainted in ages Tongue

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Reply #3 - Jun 17^th, 2009 at 8:41am

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ShaneG wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009 at 4:39pm:

Hard is a relative term based on your skill level with a graphics editing program such as Photoshop or Paint shop pro.

The more familiar you are with either of these two programs or others like them, the easier repainting an airplane is.

The basics required for repainting are the afore-mentioned graphics editing program (plenty of freeware options available). a freeware program called DXTBMP is also needed for converting texture formats for FS. Lastly you need the texture to modify. Ideally, you want a paint kit, which are blank textures, but if none is available, you can just use what came with the plane. Wink

If you are just starting out, I highly recommend checking this out: http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/full_tutorial.htm

It's what I used to get started.

Hope this helps.

Is this tutorial good for FSX too?

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Reply #4 - Jun 17^th, 2009 at 9:19am

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I would say so, as my first repaint was on a FSX airplane. Wink

The main difference is the texture formats. FS9 and down don't use dds. Wink

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Reply #5 - Jun 17^th, 2009 at 3:29pm

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Thanks. So I'll just follow the tutorial as written in there.

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Reply #6 - Jun 19^th, 2009 at 6:58pm

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Thanks ShaneG! Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I was on a short trip! I'll check that out!

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Reply #7 - Jun 22^nd, 2009 at 2:33pm

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this one is paywere but its very easy to use

http://www.abacuspub.com/default_fs.html

you have to scroll down and its on the right its called the fs repaint v2

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Reply #8 - Jun 25^th, 2009 at 5:52pm

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Crazee_Pilot wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2009 at 2:33pm:

this one is paywere but its very easy to use

http://www.abacuspub.com/default_fs.html

you have to scroll down and its on the right its called the fs repaint v2

Thanks! That does look easy!

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