Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 13:27:34 GMT -5
dreamliner said:
Some good points have been made here. Just to add something: I'm very well aware of the theory that we'll never have it complete, but with every flight plan and every repaint we come closer. 
I'm a very funny guy, sometimes I can't paint and every repaint I start does not look right to me, that is the time when I return to flight planing. Sometimes I can do 5 repaints in one week, sometimes I can do 1 in 3 weeks. And, to be more funnier now, sometimes I start working on the repaint without beeing happy with the result, if I'd continue, I would not be happy after 3 weeks, by doing a different one it clears my brain and works when I return to work on it again. I agree with Chris that it is extremly important that I have something "in common" with the things I'm working on. Maybe I have flown on this "repaint" or "timetable" or it just hits airports where I prefer spotting. If I'd do anything else instead the result would be worse. Just to explain my funny "releasing behaviour" and just in case I'll do a double one in the future. Given the handful "producers" here I think we release a lot. Thank you all for your contributions 
I completely understand what you mean about repaints. Back when Danial and I were running Braniff International VA, I was known as a stickler for detail - perhaps annoyingly so - and I did not include a great many repaints on that site because they didn't pass muster with me. But, OTOH, that attention to detail made us the "go to" guys for a lot of Braniff painters - Mike Verlin at HJG bounced a lot of his work off us before releasing it, and I shared various logotypes with others - the logotype on Wayne Tudor's repaints came from things I sent him.
But the quest for accuracy comes with a price, not the least of which is that some repaints have yet to see the light of day - ask on Tom's forum about my MIA Braniff DC-7C El Dorado and DC-6B El Conquistador. Eventually, they will get done - I just hope it's before FS2010 comes out. ;D When you get into the mindset of doing and redoing things because they don't seem right, I'm reminded of a quote by Johnny Reznik of the Goo Goo Dolls, explaining the band's absence for a few years between the minor hit "Slide" and the huge hit "Iris" in 1999. (One of the best songs of the decade, IMO) "Writer's block doesn't mean you don't write - in fact, you write all the time. It's that you think everything you write sucks." That can apply to painting - I have tons of repaints around that are unfinished or unreleased because they just aren't "right" in my mind.