Im confident with the painting of an aircraft using the paint kits, but I would like to enhance my repaints to make them look more realistic by adding dirt or shading, Im currently repainting an IFDG Airbus A320 but the paint kit for it is "Clean". are there any paint kits for this aircraft that include shading or dirt etc, or are there any good tutorials on how to add these effects, i have a couple of tutorials inc the cal classic one but they dont seem to explain how to add these effects from scratch only how to do it using the alpha channels, which unfortunately dont appear to be on any of the paints I have for this "Bird"any help would appreciated

Basically, it's simply artwork so just experiment (using Layers) until the desired results are achieved. I differentiate between 'dirty' and 'weathered' but both are possible if one uses Layers for each test. I repaint using Photoshop but view my results almost instantly in FSRepaint.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/182149.jpgAbove This shading was added using the Gradient Fill for the most part.

I guess everyone has his very own special tricks. I second the above: Trial and error.I