Repaint kit question

[hirsch944]

Hi,

Thanks to Dreamfleet for an awesome add-on, and a great paint template. But I am having problems finding the bare metal fuselage part of the template, or is it not there? I saw a fantastic Northwest repaint on this forum that had the bare metal lower fueslage and want to go 'old-school.'

Any help much appreciated.

Dave H

[B52drivr]

All you painters, out there.

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AMERICAN AIRLINES

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Clay

[NedUT]

Dave,

I was kinda curious about that one myself. I know I've seen screenshots on this very forum (or maybe the DF General Discussion... now I can't remember for sure which it was) of a great-looking American Airlines Astrojet with just a bare metal look.

Either somebody has a "special" copy of the template, or they drew the bare metal layer themself... unless of course the new T-o-M is smart enough to automatically do a bare metal layer where there's no paint? Nah... that couldn't be it (must just be the 2am talkin' ;-))

[Paul Golding]

You need to have a little creativity of your own :-) The Astrojet screenshot isn't using any DF metal layers.

The ommission of metal layers was intended. I found that nearly every metal 727 photo I looked at was different and I really wanted to avoid having everyone painting 727 using identical metal textures...........hopefully this isn't causing to much of a problem. Let me know if it is.

[hirsch944]

Paul, It's not a problem at all, I will just have to get the knife out for some cutting and pasting. I really like the 'old-school' metal. But I see your point very clearly; sometimes you get a bunch of paints where all that was changed was the color on the cheat lines.

Paul, thanks for a fantastic add-on, I'm getting a ton of pleasure from flying her painting her.

Dave H

[Paul Golding]

That reminds me. Tonight I'll anchor a thread for repaints and start it off with the suff I have ready and almost ready for upload. Then we can all keep an eye on what's in progress to save duplication.

[NedUT]

Sounds great Paul! No problem for me, either (except that I'm no Bill Browning & are creative enough by half to create a metal layer ;-))

Having used the Flight1 Iron Knuckles DC-9 template before I had been kinda hoping there would be one, but like I say it's fine. The only aircraft I'm working on only uses a little bit of it on the underbelly, and considering that I've seen so many variations on this airline's paint scheme, I'm probably not even gonna worry about it.

Thanks!

[Bill_Browning]

LOL! Thanks for that. Actually, I used Rui's bare metal layers on the last one. I usually mix and match his layers with mine and a bit of tweaking.

You can use the "aluminum" textures that Eric created awhile back. They are a bit sterile, but are great starting points. For a small amount of metal they might be just the ticket.

A link:
http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_utilities.htm

Scroll down a bit when you hit the page - you'll see 'em.

Best Regards,
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