Hey, he loves you in a straight kind of way, Pete. :-lolDaniel P.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpgMember of SJU Photography. [A HREF=http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=9004]Click Here[/A] to view my aircraft photos at JetPhotos.Net!The official psychotic AA painter. :)

Oh come on, was that really necessary? I consider my repaints to be good, but they have quite a few flaws, and I don't have the pressure of a release timeframe. Considering the amount of liveries PMDG put out, I think the quality is reasonable.I don't agree with Jag, but you took it to the extreme... :-rollDaniel P.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpgMember of SJU Photography. [A HREF=http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=9004]Click Here[/A] to view my aircraft photos at JetPhotos.Net!The official psychotic AA painter. :)

Wow...Dez, the first shot of the KLM livery you're posting just scared me for a second, because it looked more like a mapping issue rather than a painter issue (which would mean somehow a model issue, not a repaint one)..Factly the windwows on the rear of the fuselage seem on that pic to befew pixels below as well.Gonna download the paintkit, I want to tackle a Saudi repaint myself.I will upload it to Avsim when its done.Daniel, I think it is normal that tastes are different, and thatsome users prefer handpainted work more than 'photoreal' or 'photopasted' textures.So you cant blame people for begging high quality textures -which means handpainted-pathed repaints- and this is not the most commonfiles in Avsim library, to say the least.

No offense taken, I didn't paint that, and I'm not a PMDG painter, just to be clear. :-lol I just think the tone of your post could offend the painter of that livery.Daniel P.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpgMember of SJU Photography. [A HREF=http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=9004]Click Here[/A] to view my aircraft photos at JetPhotos.Net!The official psychotic AA painter. :)

Note the word "some" in the quotation. Others from the freeware painters are excellent, and an inspiration. Unfortunately, not all fall into the latter category.For the paying customer without bags of time to fiddle around with these things, PMDG is a quick and easy badge of quality.As I say, this is not a big deal because the overall product is excellent. A couple of the major/more attractive liveries are missing from PMDG, but I do not regard that as more than a minor disappointment.Note that someone else started the thread.Michael

My comments were carefully addressed to the PMDG professionals, not the freeware painters.If a PMDG livery is defective, I have standing as a customer to point it out (although, personally, I would not do that in a public forum). If I do not like a freeware livery, I have no such standing. That's a big difference in practice for us customers. More to the point, for those of us with limited time on our hands, the PMDG brand inspires confidence. Hard as it may be for you to believe, we don't all have time to trawl through every freeware repaint of interest, and test it in every set of conditons.Even more to the point, and this is for PMDG, it is not unreasonable to ask about liveries that were promised as part of the pre-release promotions.I repeat again - this is not a big deal. The product is worth more than the price, but the absence of some of the more attractive liveries with the PMDG hallmark is a minor disappointment. (Same goes even if PMDG chooses to disavow its own hallmark.)Michael

>I'm a PMDG Professional??? :-lol :-lol :-lolWell, are you?Michael