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RobH

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Please post any tips or resources you wouldn't mind sharing related to painting aircraft in this thread.

One of the best resources available is The Simmers Paintshop Dead Link
There are many tools available on this site. Be sure to look at the site navigation on the top left of the main page. You can find paint colors, down-loadable markings for many nations, fonts, etc. If you are new to painting, I would recommend down loading a template or two to look at how they layout their templates. Can be real useful if you are new to working with layers.

Another place to get markings is here: http://www.regshanger.com/Groundcrew/homepage/Garage/Decals/Wings and Coffee Decals.php I have been using these for years!

Here is another site I have been using for references for panel line locations and possibly for rivets also: deleted - spam site The site is in Russian (I believe), but you can navigate around it pretty easy. Not every plane represented on this site has good quality drawings, but there are some that are of great quality and very useful.

This modeling site has always been a great source to inspire me to do some paints: http://modelingmadness.com/

Another modeling site that can be useful for inspiration. http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/
 
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Some very useful sites. I've used Wings Palette a lot, and have found some IPMSStockholm stuff on other sites, but I had no idea that Reg's hanger had a decals page.

Thanks,

PomBee.:ernae:
 
RobH said:
This program can be used to view your aircraft, scenery buildings, etc after you have made your paint changes to it.

http://www.scenerydesign.org/modelconverterx/
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The latest developers release of Model ConverterX is 8-19-2011, here. http://www.scenerydesign.org/latest-release/latest_development_releases_package.zip

This also includes other useful programs like;

agn2txt (1-3-2012)
DrawCallMonitor (8-19-2011)
FXEditor (8-19-2011)
LibraryCreatorXML(11-12-2011)
scenProc (11-19-2011)
txt2agn (1-3-2012)
 
None of these links are valid anymore! But maybe someone can point me to the font the Dutch Marine used on their planes? 'Kon. Marine' has a very special font. Also the fonts from the no longer existing site '1e JAVA' would be appreciated. Maybe someone has these on disc?

:wavey:

Cees
 
RobH said:
Please post any tips or resources you wouldn't mind sharing related to painting aircraft in this thread.

One of the best resources available is The Simmers Paintshop
There are many tools available on this site. Be sure to look at the site navigation on the top left of the main page. You can find paint colors, down-loadable markings for many nations, fonts, etc. If you are new to painting, I would recommend down loading a template or two to look at how they layout their templates. Can be real useful if you are new to working with layers.

Another place to get markings is here: http://www.regshanger.com/Groundcrew/homepage/Garage/Decals/Wings and Coffee Decals.php I have been using these for years!

Here is another site I have been using for references for panel line locations and possibly for rivets also: deleted - spam site The site is in Russian (I believe), but you can navigate around it pretty easy. Not every plane represented on this site has good quality drawings, but there are some that are of great quality and very useful.

This modeling site has always been a great source to inspire me to do some paints: http://modelingmadness.com/

Another modeling site that can be useful for inspiration. http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/
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I know this is a bump, but please review/edit/delete the simmerspaintshop link.
My antivirus/spam utils went ballistic when I tried to open it.
 
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Leichim said:
I know this is a bump, but please review/edit/delete the simmerspaintshop link.
My antivirus/spam utils went ballistic when I tried to open it.
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btw: There's no way in Hell I'm gonna open any .RU site.
Momma didn't raise no idiots.
 
Simmer's Paint Shop Refugee

I've managed to recover some of the tutorials from the defunct Simmer's Paint Shop. If anyone wants them I would be happy to upload them. I've also been busy re-creating the Photoshop color swatches based on the color charts once found on the site. At the moment I have completed the majority of the American colors except for the World War 2 US Navy. The Luftwaffe, RAF, Soviet VVS and Imperial Japanese Navy and Army ones are on the to-do list. See the saved pictures below of the old color charts from Simmer's Paint Shop.

I also have saved some tutorials and various resource files from the also defunct Screenshot World.

Simmers_Paint_Shop_-_Japanese_Air_Force_colorlist_JASDF_IJN_IJAF_aircraft_colors_(RGB_values)_-_.jpg

Simmers_Paint_Shop_-_Luftwaffe_RLM_-_RAL_FS_595b_colorlist_aircraft_colors_(RGB_values)_-_2015-0.jpg

Simmers_Paint_Shop_-_RAF_-_British_Standard_colorlist_aircraft_colors_(RGB_values)_-_2015-03-25_.jpg

Simmers_Paint_Shop_-_Russian_Air_Force_colorlist_VVS_aircraft_colors_(RGB_values)_-_2015-03-25_1.jpg

Simmers_Paint_Shop_-_USAF_USN_colorlist_aircraft_colors_(RGB_values)_-_2015-03-25_13.25.16.jpg
 
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