And what software do you use to edit / open dds files?
try adobe photoshop cs2 but wont open file
waiting for any clue

Chris

Thank You Tim

I would recommend waiting for the paintkit before trying to repaint.  You can succesfully repaint the Air France(easiest to paint over) but it is still a lengthy process. It took 3 days for me to repaint it into Delta, and it is far from perfect.

-Todd

You don't have to give up(it's good practice), just do it little by little and it will take time but eventually it will be done. I spend about six hours over 3 days repainting the Delta scheme. Once they release the paint-kit one can repaint a plane in less than an hour.

The skills you are developing will serve you will when the paint kit comes out. �It isn't a magic wand that will make things all that much easier. �Painting is a lot harder than it used to be, but if you are sufficiently motivated and have the time for it, it can be fun, and you can make a real contribution to the hobby. �I just don't have time to mess with it and review, and other stuff, but I wish I did.

The Delta looks good, Todd.  Is that AES stuff around it?

We are working on the Repaint Kit to make it available asap. This week hopefully.

This repaint kit I think is a joke
heheh
Can't say nice job

Captain Sim wrote on Jul 27^th, 2009 at 2:19pm:

I think he meant it's "a joke" as in "hard to use", being in seperate tiles, rather than one big template where everything's lined up.

kiniu wrote on Jul 27^th, 2009 at 5:56pm:

There is a difference between the repaint kit and the air france template - namely the layers so you can get your lights/shadow/detailing etc correct. Something you would not be able to do with the air france tiles alone.

Anyway, I'm going to persevere and learn how to use the repaint kit, because I love doing repaints, and this 767 needs some good liveries 

Terrence, don't you work at mcphat studios?  If so, do you guys have plans to do any repaints for the CS 767?

Best Regards,
Robert

I suppose you're referring to the fact the fuselage is spread over several texture files?
It's that way with every CS repaint kit (or at least the ones I tried: C-130 X, Xload, 757)...
This just due to the fact the fuselage texture is spread over several texture files.
this has been brought up in the 757 forum too, the only workaround I know is to put them together yourself in a new (very large) PSD, and fragment them again when you're done painting.

Lars

its not my first time..i got some paints incluiding american 757 and arrow cargo..ect,,thanks for your reply

Until someone figures out a way to use acrylic paints and a 5-ought brush to paint airplanes, I'm leaving painting to the pros rather than fly something I would do that would suck.  Bad 

juniorpm21 wrote on Jul 29^th, 2009 at 4:40pm:


We have seen many different kits, and truth be told ; fold-out kits -as we lovingly call them- aren't the easiest kits to work on. Of course a two sided, full fuselage kit is easier, but it also gives a lot more stretching.

It is something you -if you are serious about painting-  have to get comfortable with and proficient at.

I cursed, and screamed when it took me 3 hours to align a Flybe 3 piece fold out, with the Flybe titles running from the aft belly to the top of the vertical stabilizer (bear in mind the vert stab is cut in two parts as well, as the rudder is a separate part). So here I was aligning the belly, with the left side, the left side with the top, the top with the vertical stab and the vertical stab with the rudder... And when I was done, I had to do the same for the right side all over again, since the Flybe titles aren't the same on both sides...

Not everything is easy people, get used it....

Secondly, let's not forget : calling something a joke, where people worked hard and long for, isn't the best way to get them to change it for you.

Last but not least : Yes, we have to make a total fused kit to be able to work with it, but we've never done otherwise. It's part of the 'game'..

Good luck to all painters. We've got ourselves a nice kit, a nice model, and as soon as we can spare some of the 8 or so people working on the 757 UHDT liveries, we'll shoot them over to the 767...

Thanks for the info Terrence.  Oh, and before I forget.  Kiniu, the 767 came with 4 liveries not 3.

Best Regards,
Robert

How could you forget Aeroflot?     That is the coolest livery of all and they actually still fly 767s. unlike Air France and KLM.  It opens up some really long transatlantic routes, too.  SU321 from Moscow to Los Angeles is just about the longest a 767 does, for those days when you have 13 hours + to kill.  And it has a hammer and sickle on it. 

I can't wait for my McPhat 757 art, and we're going to hold Terrence to that promise on the 767s lol  I vote for Delta.

Thanks for the heads up!  That might tide me over.

Now, we just need Captain Sim to add the 767 to the repaints section under the support page so people can start uploading their 767 paints to the Captain Sim website.

Best Regards,
Robert

Well, as you can see, you need to move part of the livery back towards the rear of the plane so that it lines up with the rest of the livery. You need to take into account the curvature of the aircraft when the livery is "wrapped" around it.

Trial and error is the only way.  Good luck!

Thank you Ronyo30 for your tip I'm back to work:)

regards
Chris