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  2. Posted

    Nice liveries.

     

    In the PDF you wrote   Leen “Flybike” de Jager’s paintkit was of great help to produce this liveries.

     

    Thats a compliment I do not deserve.

    As far as I can recall , I never made such a thing for publishing.

    Better said I made a paintkit for myself and used that one for my own liveries.

     

    I think you used this one  http://forums.x-pilot.com/files/file/564-take-command-saab-340a-paint-kit/  I did not make that one.

  10. Posted

    Must say first , everywell done paintjob!!!

    Some remarks:

    Red stripe and registration missing on blue front-wheel hatches.
    USA flag should be mirrored on the right side of the fuselage.

    On most airplanes the flag is always waving in the flightwind like it was on a pole.

  11. Posted

    Don`t you want to enhance the quality and sharpness of the liveries?

    Simply enlarge the base texture you have to e.g. 2048x2048 and start painting from there.
    Enlaging the base texture will not enhance the sharpness of the base texture , the paintwork you add however will be of significant better quality.

  13. Posted

    Splendid paint ,nevertheless I agree with Shane ,I even have some more comments.

    In my opinion:

     

    ALL characters are to big (registration,western and chinese text)

    Incorrect font-type used for China Eastern 

    Chinese text on right side should be mirrored, on both sides of the plane the 中 should be the character nearest to the front of the fuselage
    Wingregistration right-under (chinese) should be black instead of red.


     

  20. Posted

    Forgive me for giving some thoughts.

    When opening the download I find a file named Fusewhole.xcf.

    This is a Gimp file ( wich is approx 5Mb , wich is 50% of the total of the download ) ,this file however has no function in X-Plane.( is only for painters`s use)

    Opening this file I see the layer for the underside of the fuselage NOT been set to multiply wich results in details on that part of the fuse being not visible.

    As you saved the Fusewhole.png from this file, the png is also missing those details.

    Just a mistake.

    I am not talking about quality of the painting ( I perefer not to comment on graphic-quality unless I am explicit asked to ) , I am just talking about the techniques used and some special items which need attention.

    Another thing what got my eye is the fact that this livery ( as well as some other liveries you made) is missing things like registrationmarks and national flags on the fuselage.

    These are very simple to make ,most fonts are available on the internet and flags give no problem either.

    With flags ,keep in mind ,on allmost all aircraft ,the pole-side of the flag is positioned towards the cockpit.

    Wich,simply said, means, almost always the flag needs a horizontal flip when placed on the right side of the aircraft.( needs to be checked every livery ).

    This rule many times also applies for signs , heraldic shields , and animals ( birds prefer flying forwards).

    Regards

    Leen

  22. Posted

    For making bolts and rivets showing in a paint ,use a layered texturefile.

    When you have a white plane just showing rivets and lines, open that file in a program like Photoshop (pay) or Gimp(free)

    Go to the checkbox "layers" and add a layer.

    Paint on this layer the colors you want.

    NOW all rivets and lines are invisible BUT if you go to the "layer-properties" and set this layer in the "multiply" mode all rivets and lines will show up again , but now in the color of your choice.

    This is the way it has to be done.

    There are more "layer-properties" than multiply alone with all sorts of effects , just take multiply for a start.

    Search for some tutorials on the internet about "painting with layers" there are dozens of them.

    Cheers

    Leen de Jager

  23. Posted

    For making bolts and rivets showing in a paint ,use a layered texturefile.

    When you have a white plane just showing rivets and lines, open that file in a program like Photoshop (pay) or Gimp(free)

    Go to the checkbox "layers" and add a layer.

    Paint on this layer the colors you want.

    NOW all rivets and lines are invisible BUT if you go to the "layer-properties" and set this layer in the "multiply" mode all rivets and lines will show up again , but now in the color of your choice.

    This is the way it has to be done.

    There are more "layer-properties" than multiply alone with all sorts of effects , just take multiply for a start.

    Working the way you did , produces shabby white rivets on a blue painted fuselage , while a blue fuselage simply has blue rivets.

    Search for some tutorials on the internet about "painting with layers" there are dozens of them.

    Cheers

    Leen de Jager

  25. Posted

    Thanks for your kind words , I start blushing.

    Airborne Imaging was US based

    Braniff was,

    Quetzecoatl was

    Virgin Islands was

    Now I am working on the mother of all DC3`s the "DST" Douglas Sleeper Traveller ( wich was re-batptised to DC3 later on) flown by American Airlines.

    That makes five out of ten ( or eleven ) being representing the US.

    Not bad for an European based texture-artist isn`t it?

    Cheers

    Leen

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