Project Airbus – Talk

tomthecat73

For me the bowling shoe is one of the most beautiful and interesting liveries ever. It was a tough design and very unique! Much better than the silver look afterwards. Very goooood job Kyle - you are really one of the best painters here!

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Painting both, the Saudia A321 is completed and will be uploaded soon - the A320 follows after the finishing of Air Berlin. I thing Sunday comes the first batch of repaints - AND: i just heard that the agency where i am working closes the doors between x-mas and new year

lots of time to paint

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WOW dear PA-team. I just downloaded the new paintkit and checked it - ITS GREAT!!! Thank you for soooo many details, dirt and shine... Nobody can scream anymore and cry for details etc. I will add my already finished and prepared paints now within this paintkit, publish them and I will be happy :-) ...

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Long long time ago

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Looks amazing - wonderful paintjob!!

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Me too

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The idea to enhance files is always good - but dont forget to honor the original producer of the paintkit. The rivets are never visible this way. Looks like a hedgehog. But the cockpit windows are cool from this perspective - First i thought its a real photo of a real aircraft. But does it wors from...

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changed!

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Its not exactly the right formular one car - I think they rendered their own, and I had this quiet similar in highres - so I used this.

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Can you explain WHICH reg do you want to change? Usually its a Photoshop thing. Its mostly the file Axx_fuse_3_t.bmp where you have to do the modification. But you (and every other painter) can not download a plane, change the reg and upload it again without permission. So the easiest way is: contac...

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I uploaded it to AVSIM 24 hours ago - but it is still not online..

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I think in a few hours its there - I already uploaded it to AVSIM.

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Belly is a little bit darker. Just uploaded this bird to AVSIM. Have fun. Thommy. http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4448/padailunc01.jpg http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3370/padailunc06.jpg http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9110/padailunc05.jpg http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9571/padailunc04.jpg

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Lufthansa's LU had a facelift. My D-AILU from August 2008 has on too now. Will be uploaded very soon.

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I just counted all my repaints and found out, that this was my 50th Project Airbus repaint. Halleluja! :-) But many more will follow. Thanks for all the support and comments. And thank you very much dear PA team - your models are the best! http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/184/padaiqw01.jpg http://...

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Out now. Just uploaded it to AVSIM. Will be updated when model 2.1 is out - Cant wait for it :-) http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/3240/padaiqw03.jpg http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6330/padaiqw05.jpg http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1906/padaiqw04.jpg http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/184/padaiq...

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Thanks John. I will publish it this evening. Status so far: - I am looking for a good detailed photo of a LH main wheel and use this. - reduced the dirt a little bit - was too much! - Doors fixed. - Wings completelly reworked - they are 100% LH now. - Wingtips reworked. Thanks for the advice John. -...

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Never pedantic - there are two painters out there who "use" my Air Berlin textures - I know how that feels. Especially if you needed hours and hours to reach a result which makes you happy. Mhhh sad story here.

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Are you sure Tom? Windows are different, vertical "markings" and dirt looks different... Of course we know what he did, but this DragonAir looks really different as the TAP. And I cant see the lights and shades in the Dragon Air. I also produced a photoshop layer (actually a few) with shad...

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i found one good in airliners.net. (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Lufthansa/Airbus-A320-211/1936745/L/&sid=a9e9e49be3c8ee06f9ec763e68028ade) The rest i did in Illustrator. Doors are already fixed Wingtips fixed What do you mean with "hub" on the main wheel? - Not already dark? That's ...

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Needs still minor changes (reducing the dirt a little bit, adjust the grey of engines and belly, make the upper antenna white), but will be uploaded within a few hours. Its a request - so I upload it now. Will be updated when model 2.1 is out. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7183/paa320daiqw1.jpg...

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Not now - but I am sure if the version 2.1 is out there will be 5-6 Iberia repaints

I 've done a A319 in Iberia colors - so it is easy to adopt it...

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Looks terrific!!! What a beautiful paintjob!!! Brillant!

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The BA paint is not from me...

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The Vueling makes me crazy: The grey dots are incredible difficult to match. The body with its colorfull painting was "easy" against the grey dots. But if I am satisfied once with the dots many many many different Vuelings will follow. By the way: Living in BCN must be great. I love this c...

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Thias will be published soon because it is a request. But as soon as version 2.1 is out i update it. White wings and "photoreal" vertical stabilizers are finished too. Will be at AVSIM soon.

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YES. YOU decide - no one else... And if I look your paints - there is no reason for shyness. Watch the small points inside the chinese letters - they are different left and right....

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Hey dont be so shy! YOU decide if you publish - not we. I have seen many many much much much more worse and wrong paintjobs there. Only the "reflection" exactly in the dark blue stripe is a little bit confusing. The widest point in the fuselage is around the windows. usually there is often...

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One latin american more...

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Overall very good. Just a few thinks: - the engine looks a little bit "synthetic". Add the same effects from the fuselage to the engine nacells - the titanium plates at the horizontal stabilizers are red too at Air Berlin - the vertical stabilizer is not complete red at Air Berlin. Watch i...

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I NEED THE MODEL V2.1 URGENT!!! :lol: :lol:

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Fittig the "e" at the aft must be a real challenge too

Nice Paint - wish I had the model too now...

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A white layer - with only 20-30% opacity over the paint. With the Sichuan Airlines I ceated finally THE perfect (for me) layer which I will use now always. It was a lot of trial and error

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Just uploaded to AVSIM. Shouldt be in the hangar soon.

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OMG - how embarrassing for a professional filmmaker to use FS2004 for an objective documentation. And this cockpits? A330? A380? Haha! Reminds me all the selfmade movies for the 9/11 attacs - where they used the FS2000 Boeing 737 standard cockpit to illustrate how the highjackers flew into the tower...

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VERY EARLY STAGE. The dots at the aft makes me crazy... I will add all the light and shadow layers when I am satisfied with the dots...
But it was a lot of fun to trace the figures...

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And the next - can't wait to fly out

(P.S.: early stage - will paint a little bit more reflections, light and shadows - I created a new layer for my Sichuan paint and will add this here too)

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This is a very, very special A320. This B-6388 of Sichuan Airlines was the very first Airbus produced in Tianjin, China. Just a further milestone in Airbus' success story.

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One of the many colorful A320s waiting for the V2.1

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No. Traditional a mouse

I've never worked with a graphic tablet in my live

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This is finished... but the real challenge are the dots at the aft... My god I thought I just do a few dots - but they are more "eggs" at the belly...

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I love tracing. Usually i make layouts in Indesign or QuarkxPress - so tracing is like chill out for me. Switch your brain out and set point for point with the beziértool :D Now I wait for the release of the A320 V2.1. I have a few A320s in the garage in pole position. But before I will publish one ...

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you need a good undistorted picture - lay it in one layer and close this layer. than trace it with the bezier tool. Al I can say is that it take a little practice. fo r a newbie it is quiet a challenge i think. currently i am workin on this http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7043/13638045.jpg http:/...

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I paint on my Macintosh with Illustrator - or better with my old Freehand. For the Panda i needed around 1-2 hours. i work since 15 years with graphic programs (i am graphic designer) and have a little routine. I have a few "spanish" surprises comming next. :-) Using the vectorizised graph...

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Dear PA-Team, I am painting a few A320s right now and I wonder if it is better to wait with publishing until the version 2.1 is out. I've seen Cyprus and New Zealand paints on the V2.1 model in the preview area. So far I have 4 A320s in pole position. One paint is quiet challenging and colorful - wi...

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The same with me: other repainters use my textures - actually from my Air Berlin paint - Why do this people not ask before? I am the last one who say "no" if i can help somebody - I even send whole .psd-files...

But steeling is not nice... I know how Jeffrey feels

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It was a request from one simmer. Have fun. Just uploaded it at Avsim. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7823/paa321formi5.jpg http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/737/paa321formi1.jpg http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/148/paa321formi3.jpg http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/293/paa321formi4.jpg

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Just touched down at Avsim. Will be at the gate soon.

Have fun

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The second promobird is on the finals

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Juerg - ASKING ist the minimum! The comments about "switzerland" and copyrights I dont understand.

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