General skinning and repainting

railman023 · #1 28th September 2011, 21:18

Does anyone on here do repaints for x=plane aircraft it looks quiet easy

adlabs6 · #2 29th September 2011, 15:45

Hi, welcome to Simmers Paint Shop!

I'm only experienced in FS2004 repaints myself. Are you looking for advice to get started on your own repaints? Or looking for an artist to paint something for you?

BLOWHARD · #3 29th September 2011, 16:02

Oh boy, X-Plane, I love that one, I need the newest version. But I've never done any skins for it.

railman023 · #4 29th September 2011, 22:36

I have only had x-plane 9 since last Christmas and I am trying my hand at repainting some of the aircraft on it my first attempt was a Sabena Boeing 737-200 which looked ok any advise would be great

adlabs6 · #5 30th September 2011, 16:34

Ah quite a nice start.

I notice the wings have various panel and control surface marks, while the fuselage does not. Perhaps you can find a blank skin that has these for the fuselage? Once you have those lines and other details, you can use them as a separate later above your paint, and work with various tools (depending on your graphics software) to smoothly integrate them into your livery.

Also, I see a faint black seam along the top of the fuselage. This is easily fixed by extending your paint a bit higher on each side of the fuselage texture.