Can someone please do a blue Southwest Airlines livery......Please!
I have the "baby poop" colored one, but they look so good in blue! They ran them for several years. I believe they're all retired now. I know some of you hate this airline. I've read the posts here in the past. Please keep those to a minimum! Those of us that live in the SW of the U.S. rode on these for many years.

Sure would love to see this bird in blue! Thanks!  8-)

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Southwest-Airlines/Boeing-737-2H4-Adv/2017883/&sid=46c6f6e0af899def0bcad31c00e644b4

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(Southwest-Airlines)/Boeing-737-2H4-Adv/0761335/L/&sid=46c6f6e0af899def0bcad31c00e644b4

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Southwest-Airlines/Boeing-737-2H4-Adv/0702715/L/&sid=46c6f6e0af899def0bcad31c00e644b4

Long lived Fred!

Check out black rose repaints. He did one up for me that is great. He sells his paints for like $9.00 I think, just look up black rose FSX on google.

Jack

Ten quid a pop is way overpriced for the quality. 120 for a dozen 757s is an outrage, even for McPhat, and he's no McPhat. Just one of his repaints will cost you more than the -100 expansion pack. Absolutely ridiculous.

Edit : Just checked out the particular NWA livery. I wouldn't even share it for free with all the misalignment issues, and he's got enough nerve to charge you for it ?!

Cheers

Nico

Not a lot of painting going on around here so it was well worth it to me.

Jack

jackjda wrote on Jul 26^th, 2012 at 3:25pm:

Not a lot of painting going on around here so it was well worth it to me. Jack

I agree, and I don't have a clue how to do it myself. I gave him a shot.

I sent him a pay pal but I guess his link is not automatic? I'll have to wait to get it I guess. It's like 1am in England. I'll report back with an update when I get it installed.

ive got enought projects as is but southwest is an airline close to my heart and ill give it a shot. the line on the fuselage will be a challenge for me im sure.

Eric.M wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 7:38am:

ive got enought projects as is but southwest is an airline close to my heart and ill give it a shot. the line on the fuselage will be a challenge for me im sure.

OK great, good luck with it! I just bought one from the above mentioned website. I'm still waiting for the link to download it. In the picture I noticed he painted the engines. It should have metal texture on the engines. If it's just a mater of dropping in a texture from another plane that has the metal texture, it will be an easy correction. Anyone know what texture file that might be before I spend the next hour dropping in replacement textures until I find the right one?

Thanks for giving it a shot. I think there is quite a bit of interest in this livery.  

they are sheets 10 and 17 for the adv.

Eric.M wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 7:07pm:

they are sheets 10 and 17 for the adv.

Thanks! I still have not recieved a link to even download it yet. I'll just replace the engine texture with one from another plane when I finally get the thing.

What paint program would I need to purchase to attempt to actually paint one myself?

braced wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 7:42pm:

Eric.M wrote on Jul 27th, 2012 at 7:07pm: they are sheets 10 and 17 for the adv. Thanks! I still have not recieved a link to even download it yet. I'll just replace the engine texture with one from another plane when I finally get the thing. What paint program would I need to purchase to attempt to actually paint one myself?

I would not purchase any paint program. I use GIMP which is free and does more than I'll ever need. I select the .dds file with DXTBmp which sends it to the pain app of your choice, which in my case is GIMP.

I also tried Paint.net but amazingly it does not have a point to point select feature. Are you kidding me?!


BTW, a user friendly paint kit = more product sales, that's a fact. When simmers see tons of repaints for an aircraft it makes it a more desireable addon.
I haven't bothered to do any repaints due to the posts about the difficulty in simply lining up aircraft sections. I won't make judgements before trying it but if the stories are true it's a real tragedy.

BTW, a user friendly paint kit = more product sales, that's a fact. When simmers see tons of repaints for an aircraft it makes it a more desireable addon.
I haven't bothered to do any repaints due to the posts about the difficulty in simply lining up aircraft sections. I won't make judgements before trying it but if the stories are true it's a real tragedy.

So true, but while CS's 707s is a pleasure to work with, the 737 is a nightmare. Aligning fuselage sections is very hard, the tail cone/APU is mapped as a completely separate block with chaotic mapping... Even the tail, which should be the part easiest to work on, is too much of a hassle due to the rudder being separated from the stabiliser and at an angle. How they could think that would be a good idea when 90% of liveries display complex logos there is a mystery to me...

If you were wondering why we're not seeing more 737 repaints, here's you answer...

Cheers

Nico

I made a master fuselage for the Captain Sim 737 repaint kit if you like I could upload it. It makes it a little more easier to repaint, but the tail and the belly of the plane is still a disaster that needs to be fixed up.

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m625/WWEIsTheAwesome/masterfuse.png

Doing this for about every Captain Sim Repaint Kit I have. I also did a southwest 737-200 in the Tan colors.

flightsimcreator wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 1:11am:

I made a master fuselage for the Captain Sim 737 repaint kit if you like I could upload it. It makes it a little more easier to repaint, but the tail and the belly of the plane is still a disaster that needs to be fixed up Doing this for about every Captain Sim Repaint Kit I have. I also did a southwest 737-200 in the Tan colors.

I have photoshop Elements, how would i go about putting these three sections together as one? and if you use elements 10 or know anyone that does what is the easiest way to do a curved line? ive tried drawing a line and doing everything i can think of but nothing comes out the way i want it.

Thanks to all who responded. I obtained a SWA Canyon Blue livery from the website mentioned above. You'll have to Google it from post #2. I think CS frowns upon posting links to other sites here. It is a very nice paint job!

It came with painted nacelles which the real plane didn't have but his explanation was his customer who requested the paint scheme wanted panted engines. Easy fix thanks to more advice from this thread. I replaced texture #10 & 17 with the same texture's from the Metro-jet/US Air.

Thanks to all who helped. I got a great little Blue SWA plane to hop around the U.S. in!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/braced/SWA.jpg

Eric.M wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 9:04am:

flightsimcreator wrote on Jul 28th, 2012 at 1:11am: I made a master fuselage for the Captain Sim 737 repaint kit if you like I could upload it. It makes it a little more easier to repaint, but the tail and the belly of the plane is still a disaster that needs to be fixed up Doing this for about every Captain Sim Repaint Kit I have. I also did a southwest 737-200 in the Tan colors. I have photoshop Elements, how would i go about putting these three sections together as one? and if you use elements 10 or know anyone that does what is the easiest way to do a curved line? ive tried drawing a line and doing everything i can think of but nothing comes out the way i want it.

Well what i did was open a new blank page with the dimensions of 6144x2048. From here I individually opened up each default CS 737 repaint that had the front, middle, and back fuselage separated. I copied every layer in those 3 photoshop files and carefully alligned them. It's kind of hard to explain, but if you like I could upload the Master Fuselage 737 file I created for you to take a look at.

That's a good looking repaint.