Mikey's Repaint Links

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Mike,You have Mail.

[mikeblaze]

[/quote]Sabena & Alitalia?
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Half-right...... :{)

[mikeblaze]

Everybody take a breath, this is like dangling a baby chick over a piranha pond. I will address some things in order:

AFR, I have the 743/744 done, just need to upload. No World Cup paints, whoever wants to do those may use my paints as a basis for that, just please credit me back if you do.

TEA, no plans at this time, but it's not off the table in the future. If anybody else wants to do it, feel free.

BAW world tails for the FAIB 744s/763s, absolutely not unless I am sure that the other painter isn't going to follow through, as that will be a several-weeks-to-months-long project working on nothing else, at a minimum. There are very nice world tail paints out for the AIA models which should satisfy everybody until the next generation of paints shows up. There are even 3rd-party P3D conversions for the AIA models. All free, need I say more?

Lastly, let the 747 guessing continue...... It ain't that hard, we are actually starting to run out of mainline European 747 70s-90s operators for the FAIB models, but there are a few scattered left. The ones I know are either done or very close are BAW, EIN, AFR, UTA, DLH, KLM, LGL, OLY, SWR. The ones left up for grabs at this point are CFG, AZA, IBE, TAP, SAB, and barring any unforeseen events, I plan on having all five done by the end of spring. And, before anybody starts going nuts, yes I have plans for the Baci and Bulgari logojets. There are some smaller charter users but for the most part European 747s for that time period will be done by then.

I'm starting to be on board with the 1998 project, it seemed to be the absolute zenith of 747 use before the ETOPS and Airbus 4-holer generation really took hold, and the last year of Kai Tak, the best airport ever..... IMHO, of course, lol.


:{)

[mikeblaze]

Nice, diverse KLM 732 fleet, I'm waiting for the obvious TRA question, lol......

763s, I used a slightly different swan for the webjet, I couldn't find any good photo-real pix that would look crisp scaled up to the 4096 paint kit.


It's good to be able to upload pix again, a big thanks to the staff...... :{ )

[eth72s]

Ha! Don't forget about VIR 747!

[mikeblaze]

Mar 12, 2019 15:25:34 GMT -5 eth72s said:

Ha! Don't forget about VIR 747!

VIR has been done, but only compiled for FS9, so I will re-do them at some point, but not immediately. The other UK carrier to be done is TTN (Highland Express Airways) with their one lone 741 in 1987, but it's an important add for the 80s crowd (that aircraft eventually passed on to VIR). The Scots will love it. :{)

[chasensfo]

Mar 12, 2019 12:54:14 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

Everybody take a breath, this is like dangling a baby chick over a piranha pond. I will address some things in order:

AFR, I have the 743/744 done, just need to upload. No World Cup paints, whoever wants to do those may use my paints as a basis for that, just please credit me back if you do.

TEA, no plans at this time, but it's not off the table in the future. If anybody else wants to do it, feel free.

BAW world tails for the FAIB 744s/763s, absolutely not unless I am sure that the other painter isn't going to follow through, as that will be a several-weeks-to-months-long project working on nothing else, at a minimum. There are very nice world tail paints out for the AIA models which should satisfy everybody until the next generation of paints shows up. There are even 3rd-party P3D conversions for the AIA models. All free, need I say more?

Lastly, let the 747 guessing continue...... It ain't that hard, we are actually starting to run out of mainline European 747 70s-90s operators for the FAIB models, but there are a few scattered left. The ones I know are either done or very close are BAW, EIN, AFR, UTA, DLH, KLM, LGL, OLY, SWR. The ones left up for grabs at this point are CFG, AZA, IBE, TAP, SAB, and barring any unforeseen events, I plan on having all five done by the end of spring. And, before anybody starts going nuts, yes I have plans for the Baci and Bulgari logojets. There are some smaller charter users but for the most part European 747s for that time period will be done by then.

I'm starting to be on board with the 1998 project, it seemed to be the absolute zenith of 747 use before the ETOPS and Airbus 4-holer generation really took hold, and the last year of Kai Tak, the best airport ever..... IMHO, of course, lol.


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Awesome man! Well I wish we had clear communication, one of the Brazilian guys in my project(who does high quality work like you) already did the KLM 737s and 767s, and I didn't even know he started lol. So the 737s are done unless you want to go ahead and make yours anyway for more variety. The 767 I know you started, as long as ours is another tail number we can just upload it. Another thing to consider is I was contacted by someone who is doing the whole Ansett fleet on FAIB models who gave me a heads up not to paint them, so what is left for Ansett(and Ansett New Zealand) will also be completed.

[mikeblaze]

I will do my 732s, since they are already done, as well as my 763s, as I am adding one more serial (late 2006 right before retirement with the Skyteam sticker). My 733s and 734s are basically done in master texture, just have to do serial production, but if they pop up on AVSIM from another author, and match mine color-wise, I don't have a heartache with that. Other than communication, everybody should also try to color-match to others' already-released work. My late KLM will work with any of JB's paints, if somebody is doing a mid-2000s AI environment. Some of my work I want to run right up to the mid-2000s, which is why I do such comprehensive painting. Your chums can have Ansett, one more I don't have to worry about hunting down pix for, lol. I may release my 733/734 paints because they are in advance production, and because I take the package all the way to the end-of-service for the aircraft.

My only other request is that we (collectively) begin to start focusing on FSX and beyond. I have seen a lot of wonderful recent work only in bitmap textures, with no DDS offered. I go back to my original post a few days ago that FS9 is done, and that any painting that people want for it is already virtually all available in the older models. I think the other painters will agree that less time doing dual-texture work will give us more time to paint for the future. I'm not ready to say I won't still offer dual-format painting, but possibly by the end of this year I will only publish DDS textures for the newer models. I already do it for the FSPX models, and nobody has asked me to replicate the painting on the TFS models, so that is worth something, in the humble opinion of this painter. I love to paint, I love to share with the community, but I don't get to fly as much as I like, and maybe I still want to do some of that too, on the wonderful new generation of sims. P3Dv4 rocks, and at some point I would love to start setting up a retro environment in it.

I do have my eye on Transavia 1988-2000, three generations of textures not done for DDS yet, and maybe I can sweet-talk somebody out of the HD AIG 757 paint kits......:{)

[sunking]

Mar 12, 2019 23:57:12 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

My only other request is that we (collectively) begin to start focusing on FSX and beyond. I have seen a lot of wonderful recent work only in bitmap textures, with no DDS offered. I go back to my original post a few days ago that FS9 is done, and that any painting that people want for it is already virtually all available in the older models. I think the other painters will agree that less time doing dual-texture work will give us more time to paint for the future. I'm not ready to say I won't still offer dual-format painting, but possibly by the end of this year I will only publish DDS textures for the newer models. I already do it for the FSPX models, and nobody has asked me to replicate the painting on the TFS models, so that is worth something, in the humble opinion of this painter. I love to paint, I love to share with the community, but I don't get to fly as much as I like, and maybe I still want to do some of that too, on the wonderful new generation of sims. P3Dv4 rocks, and at some point I would love to start setting up a retro environment in it.

You've got a pm, as it sounds great.

[mikeblaze]

Here are the KLM 737-400s, I know that the 1998 crowd is working on these for that project as well, but I try to finish what I start, and when I get the 733s done later today, I will upload everything (737, 767) to AVSIM tonight. Even if paints are replicated occasionally, that is okay in my world, because it gives more choices for the fans, and I do try to not flagrantly duplicate others' good work, but once in awhile it happens. Plus, the way I currently package them, it offers the entire service life of the specific aircraft, and is done in dual-format textures (for now). I did PM the 1998 group with my intended schedule of painting, so there's plenty of work to go around, to be sure. And I checked JB, JC, FC75, AVSIM, and Flightsim, and these aircraft/model combinations are not currently available through those websites. I know that JB and JC sometimes drop out-of-service paints or obsolete model paints off of the site, I'm sure to save cloud storage space (nothing's really free in freeware, lol).

I know a lot of people have been turned off by AVSIM because of one singular incident back in 2010, otherwise known as "the hack." For those of you who either weren't in the hobby yet, or simply didn't know the whole story, here's a two-sentence summary. A young, immature, and later to be determined very mentally ill individual who had administrative-level privileges for the AVSIM server, for mainly reasons of personality conflict with others, did the deed to try to destroy the AVSIM server, nearly succeeding completely. Very tragically, this individual took their own life 28 days after doing this, so there were much greater issues in play than just being in conflict with others in a hobby. Food for thought the next time somebody wants to squawk negativity in open forum.

I understand people's hesitancy to upload to AVSIM in the wake of this, but they have been quite secure for the nine years following this regrettable moment. I continue to upload to them for two reasons, loyalty and faith. It is equally frustrating to try to track down everybody's Dropbox account on this forum and other decentralized websites to find paints, often to only find that they are done exclusively for FS9.

I think what I am really trying to say is that this community seems to be getting smaller, judging from my download counts, and if more of our material is available in current format on mainstream sites, we can draw in new members to the group to perpetuate it. I personally don't care about my download counts, if one person downloads my work, then I have succeeded in making someone else's hobby a little better. But download counts are a good indicator of the interest in what we do.

Done with the daily soapbox, More 747s coming......:{)

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E-Mail:[e-mail] Mike I have a lot of DEE Waldron,HTAI,DJC,EVAI,PAI aircraft.The trouble is forwarding them,any ideas as you are limited on E-Mail.

[chasensfo]

Mike, "it is what it is". Everyone working on the 1998 tries to color match, I know that is very important. And of course, duplicates will come out. Gives people choices, as you stated. I have no problem with that. Ranmori is currently working on a personal project which will encompass everything serving mid-90s Kai Tak. He has painted a lot of random stuff like the Mauritius 747SP, so maybe check with him to see what 747s you guys are both working on. But otherwise just know that if you paint something, or even state that you wish to paint it, we aren't going to make our own version of it. It'll only happen as an occasional coincidence, the more people painting the 1990s, the better! One less paint for us to worry about if you or JB or someone else do them.

Thanks for all your hard work, these last few months have been amazing in terms of what you've produced. Not many of us working on P3Dv4 comparable stuff, you have a big impact.

I'd also like to point out that I am inclined to create 1998 flightplans for airlines that people actually want to paint, which is how Brazil became a huge part of this project. If you wish to paint Transavia, I'll do that airline for you.

Mar 13, 2019 17:42:15 GMT -5 @pklitofsky said:

E-Mail:[e-mail] Mike I have a lot of DEE Waldron,HTAI,DJC,EVAI,PAI aircraft.The trouble is forwarding them,any ideas as you are limited on E-Mail.

To clarify, are those working in P3Dv4? I know some models are very hard to find now, I can't even find the PAI ATP which is needed for the 1990s. Can't convert it with no source model, so thank you so much for reaching out.

[mikeblaze]

I use PD3v3 for my retro world, I keep all of my aircraft in a scenery addon, and my traffic files by decade in separate holding folders. When I want to swap decade periods for traffic, I merely copy from one of these folders into my main scenery addon folder, and there you have it. Not planning on using v4 for traffic until good DC-8, DC-10, and 707/720 model families show up for v4.

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Chas,Let me know which ATP you need and I will send it,FS9 models.

[chasensfo]

Mar 13, 2019 23:14:53 GMT -5 mikeblaze said:

I use PD3v3 for my retro world, I keep all of my aircraft in a scenery addon, and my traffic files by decade in separate holding folders. When I want to swap decade periods for traffic, I merely copy from one of these folders into my main scenery addon folder, and there you have it. Not planning on using v4 for traffic until good DC-8, DC-10, and 707/720 model families show up for v4.

I used to do that, then I realized I can just create an "AI Traffic" folder in my "Addon Scenery" folder and add them to the scenery library then check/uncheck as needed. An example is Addon Scenery/AI Traffic/1994-1996/Scenery. I split each era into 1-3 year periods depending on what plans are available(in most cases there aren't enough airlines completed for 1-2 year periods) and then just check/uncheck. I do the same thing for the AFCAD/ADEX files for the airports so I can just check/uncheck. That way in just a few seconds I can switch from 1994-1996 traffic/airports to 1997-1999 traffic/airports.

Just a thought as I only recently discovered this method. It allows one to take advantage of the many eras, much changes in a few years in aviation! This is why eventually I plan do complete more 1995 flightplans. We will have 1998 and 1993 mostly done, but 1995 is very different than the 1991-1994 plans most of us are using in place for the mid 1990s now. But this is a distant project.