If you paint the wings (which I thought could be done) and place the texture in the same folder as the rest of the repainted textures, then it will be used. The texture.cfg tells FSX to look in the other folders listed, for those textures that are NOT in the texture folder.

This is the contents of the CS_B727-100\texture.aa\texture.cfg:

[fltsim]

fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\texture\spec
fallback.3=..\texture\bump
fallback.4=..\texture\night
fallback.5=..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture
fallback.6=..\..\..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture

If the texture isn't in \texture.aa. It will look in the \texture folder. If not there, the \texture\spec etc....

If you repaint the wings (727_100_4_T.psd) and put them in the \texture folder, you would overwrite the original and then ALL the 727-100's will use the repainted wings.

As for the rest of your question, I can't answer that.

Hope this helps.

Mark

OK...I made some progress. After a little thinking it made sence that the 100 and 200 models used the same wing so the wing texture name needs to be 727_100_4_T even though its for the -200 model.  However, now I am stuck with a right wing left wing problem.  Both wings are using the right wing texure.  So I have an APU on both wings and registration on the top of both wings vs. one on top and one on the bottom.  So...I have made some progress but not all the way just yet. I will keep at it and see what happens.

OK...I am really confused, I mean really confused.  I put the 727_100_4_T texure file and only that file in the texture folder.  On the top of the wing I placed the registration number.  When I loaded the sim the registration number appeared on both sides (mirrored) which means it was backward one of the wings.  Bare in mind that the APU port was also showing on both wings, but it doesnt show on both wings in any of the default paints.  So that lead me to believe that the sim is using the same texure for both sides.  But how can that be?  The defaults have different wings identified by the APU port only showing on the right hand side?  I then renamed the file to 727_100_5_T and the APU port disappeard from the left side but the registration number stayed? Say what?  Anybody painted a wing before so you can tell me what I am doing wrong or is it the paint kit/model set  up wierd?

I hope I have not been boring everyone with my constant updates but here is my final conclusion:  If you look closly at the model the wing stem and of course the spoilers are mapped seperatly.  That is why the APU only shows on one side and not the other.  The front half of the wing and the under side are mapped to the same texture.  That is why if you place name the file ..._4_T your markings are mirrored except for the wing root and APU portal.  Its a bummer but I guess it's life.  The modelers probably did this because it was easier.  I won't be able to put registration wing marking for my mexicana repaint so I that means its almost done.  To those who read and provided feed back, Thanks.

I am curiouse when you painted the wings was it on the -100 or -200?  I have not taken the time to test with the -100 so I suppose there is a possibility that the -100 model is different.  Can you show some examples of where you painted the wings? Maybe I am doing something wrong.