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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
REPAINTERS - What was your first?
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Need to set the record straight
John was way too kind in his description of my work with alpha layers etc. Most of the stuff I was able to accomplish was by trial and error and accidental discoveries along the way. I have been away from simming and this forum for quite a while and I have missed it. My kids needed me to be there for them not sitting at my computer painting rivets, lines etc. My oldest is now off to college at the Culinary Institute of America and my middle child will be a senior in HS this year. That leaves my daughter who is 13 but she seems to be needing me less and less or at least she seems to want to spend less time with me. I think this is normal for a teenage daughter. All this means at some point I hope to get back into the virtual flying world and maybe even get the itch to re-learn all the stuff I've forgotten over the years and start painting again. This time I'll be leaning on John and all of his great work.
One thing I do need to say is that while I am related to Herky Green and I have had the privilege of visiting him at his home and talking to him many, many times he was not my father. He had two daughters and no sons. He would have been my Grandfather's cousin, both of whom grew up in Mayfield, KY as did my father. Unfortunately, Herky passed away in 2006 and is buried out in California where he settled after his service in the Air Force. I still keep in touch with his wife, we exchange Christmas Cards and speak a couple of times a year. I just wanted to set the record straight or correct any misconceptions. I sure do miss Herky's stories and commentary on life in general as he was one of a kind.
I hope everyone here, some I know and some I don't, are happy and well.
Warmest Regards,
David Green
DRG_1
I love to see threads like this, with "where it all began". I first got started in the summer of 2004, putting together some repaints for the AT-6 that Wozza had just released for FS2004 that year. At the time all I knew to have access to was MS Paint, and I still clearly remember the considerable amount of time spent on just making each rivet, and being far from the thought of knowing what "layers" were - a word that had no meaning using MS Paint. I took a great deal of guidance from the work of David Green, who at the time, was doing some really brilliant things with producing the look of metal in the sim (unfortunately, some have taken credit for "discovering", years later, some of the same techniques he was already using years before). Not only was he a great repainter to admire and learn from, but he also had so many great stories from his dad's WWII service (his dad being the famed WWII fighter pilot, ace, and leader, Col. Herschel "Herky" Green). I've missed him not being a part of this forum for several years now.
My first repaint, which happens to be a locally-based SNJ (the screenshot, being just as dated as the repaint - saved as a .GIF using MS Paint):
John was way too kind in his description of my work with alpha layers etc. Most of the stuff I was able to accomplish was by trial and error and accidental discoveries along the way. I have been away from simming and this forum for quite a while and I have missed it. My kids needed me to be there for them not sitting at my computer painting rivets, lines etc. My oldest is now off to college at the Culinary Institute of America and my middle child will be a senior in HS this year. That leaves my daughter who is 13 but she seems to be needing me less and less or at least she seems to want to spend less time with me. I think this is normal for a teenage daughter. All this means at some point I hope to get back into the virtual flying world and maybe even get the itch to re-learn all the stuff I've forgotten over the years and start painting again. This time I'll be leaning on John and all of his great work.
One thing I do need to say is that while I am related to Herky Green and I have had the privilege of visiting him at his home and talking to him many, many times he was not my father. He had two daughters and no sons. He would have been my Grandfather's cousin, both of whom grew up in Mayfield, KY as did my father. Unfortunately, Herky passed away in 2006 and is buried out in California where he settled after his service in the Air Force. I still keep in touch with his wife, we exchange Christmas Cards and speak a couple of times a year. I just wanted to set the record straight or correct any misconceptions. I sure do miss Herky's stories and commentary on life in general as he was one of a kind.
I hope everyone here, some I know and some I don't, are happy and well.
Warmest Regards,
David Green
DRG_1
Just my 2 cents, there is a lot of talent here at simouthouse, I look at some of the work in repainting all these fine aircraft and there is a wealth of knowledge here and New repainters could learn a lot from. Thanks for all your hard and tireless work keeping this so called "Hobby" around for years and hopefully years to come. Just me 2 cents.
:salute:
Bill
P.S. for what its worth, I learned how to use Photoshop and learn to repaint here at Simouthouse From Very Talented painters, I know more about Photoshop than My 2 Collage students that both took a coarse in High school and they still cant figure out how I know so much when I didn't take a coarse on it. That's funny. Thank You All Again
Bill
:salute:Bill
P.S. for what its worth, I learned how to use Photoshop and learn to repaint here at Simouthouse From Very Talented painters, I know more about Photoshop than My 2 Collage students that both took a coarse in High school and they still cant figure out how I know so much when I didn't take a coarse on it. That's funny. Thank You All Again
Bill
MCDesigns
Charter Member
Wow, lots of talent for first timers, LOL My first uploaded one was this one at Flightsim and Avsim FS2002 - FS2002 Aircraft FS2002 Island Hoppers Bell 206B Jet Ranger Name: b206tr.zip Size: 2,386,737 Date: 11-03-2001 Downloads: 1,463 FS2002 Island Hoppers Bell 206B Jet Ranger repaint. By Michael Carr. Since then I have painted full fleets of aircraft for 10+ VAs, including my own back in FS9 (which was the most enjoyable), Metro Helicopters VA and some for Bush Flying Unlimited as well as a few single aircraft i have liked. Actually adding noseart to a CFS2 B-24 was the first thing I did for any FS design.
Marvin Carter
Charter Member 2015
dees won!
Dimus
SOH-CM-2025
SX-AKL, the Cessna 152 of Athens aeroclub that I soloed in and is in my Avatar. Done for the Carenado C-152:
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I found out the hard way about Carenado's mirrored textures and how much this restricted the things I wanted to paint differently between the two sides.
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I found out the hard way about Carenado's mirrored textures and how much this restricted the things I wanted to paint differently between the two sides.
FentiFlier1
Charter Member
My very first, Tim Conrad's lovely Mooney Mite. About a year and a half ago.
Mine is a CFS1 repaint of Alain l'Hommes awesome P-51 for that ancient sim. Didn't have anything but MSPaint available at the time, so I recolored every stinking pixel by hand... took forever to complete!, though I was helped immensely by some high-quality base textures to modify and whose original painter I was sure to thank quite soundly in my readme...
Firekitten
Charter Member 2016
My first... two years ago, with my little 'fake' company I made up for flying in the bush with.... Campbell Aviation.
To now... aside from actual texture art, I still turn my hand to the repaint or thirty...
Been a wild ride actually... makes you stop and think when you see a topic like this just how much things changed...
To now... aside from actual texture art, I still turn my hand to the repaint or thirty...
Been a wild ride actually... makes you stop and think when you see a topic like this just how much things changed...
fxsttcb
Panel & Gauge Hack!
JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
Long long time ago...
Name: birdfac.zip
Size: 110,796 Date: 07-21-2000 Downloads: 2,340
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FS98 USAF Cessna O-1E Bird Dog. The O-1E Bird dog was ideally suited to the Forward Air Control role, and in USAF service this nimble little aircraft, had its "finest hour" during the first years of the Vietnam war. Model by Bob Wening. Repaint by Jens-Ole Kjolberg.
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Name: birdfac.zip
Size: 110,796 Date: 07-21-2000 Downloads: 2,340
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FS98 USAF Cessna O-1E Bird Dog. The O-1E Bird dog was ideally suited to the Forward Air Control role, and in USAF service this nimble little aircraft, had its "finest hour" during the first years of the Vietnam war. Model by Bob Wening. Repaint by Jens-Ole Kjolberg.
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My first attempts to create a repaint were not more than edits from existing textures.
For me a real repaint is one you make from ground up, so including all the panel lines, rivets, shading, weathering, etc....
My first real repaint was the FIAT G-55 Centauro by Ignacio Alfredo Medive. Believe it or not but I made it in MSpaint. It is possible but you have to save after every step and there is no way to redo things.
I love the FIAT G-55 and kept repainting the aircraft, on top the original one done in MSPaint, below some of my latest repaints of this model, which I never uploaded, as I don't think many people still fly this early CFS2 model
For me a real repaint is one you make from ground up, so including all the panel lines, rivets, shading, weathering, etc....
My first real repaint was the FIAT G-55 Centauro by Ignacio Alfredo Medive. Believe it or not but I made it in MSpaint. It is possible but you have to save after every step and there is no way to redo things.
I love the FIAT G-55 and kept repainting the aircraft, on top the original one done in MSPaint, below some of my latest repaints of this model, which I never uploaded, as I don't think many people still fly this early CFS2 model
Chuck Lawsen
Charter Member
These were my first - I did 3 of the WOP B-17 in Dec. '04, mainly so I could present dad with a framed screen shot of #46077 which he piloted on his last mission. The other 2 was another Fort from dad’s BG and the “Sentimental Journey” since I live in the same metro area of it's home base.</SPAN> I'm really glad to see David Green post in this thread, I was grateful for his paint kit at the time - it saved a lot of work to use his layers of rivets and panel lines. I'm also very grateful for Garry Smith and his wonderful paint tutorial – if it wasn’t for both of these outstanding contributors, I never would have learned how to paint in just 3 weeks. </SPAN>