Not the plastic surgery kind..the painting planes in flightsim kind...hehe.

This is some of the detailed work that goes into paints....(one's having all these items)

Starting with one of the hardest things a painter has to deal with.....  painting TEXT near the tip of the nose.

With KLM....you have a double-whammy because they paint A330-300 under the nose cone and the last letters of the reg (in my case KF) above the cockpit.

To get a good idea of what painters have to deal with painting on a 2d map that gets wrapped around a 3d model...in this case a cylindrical tube that tapers at the end (i.e. nose)...try this:

1. Get a balloon and a Sharpie
2. With the balloon deflated, write your name on it.
3. Blow up the balloon.  See how distorted your name is?
4. Get another deflated balloon and try to write your name so it will be
5.  perfectly straight and not warped in any axis once it's blown up. 🙂

Also worth noting is that these areas are right against part boarders....one pixel too far and the texture goes off into the land of lost pixels 🙂

Its a lot of trial and error to get it looking somewhat right...moving text one pixel at a time and seeing how it looks in the sim.  A lot of work but in the end the results can be great!

Other tidbits I added you see noted by the yellow arrows....

• The cockpit frame is not painted (On KLM it's not...on others it is...)
• The red paint extends down the panel line on the "No Tow" paint on the nose gear door.
• The sensor has a gray/metallic color inside the red
• The array of sensors near the bottom...on KLM...has an extra set of "seal before washing" brackets
• The rain gutters are 3d on this plane...thus have corresponding 3d parts on the 2d map that have to be painted...1st you gotta find them on the map hehe...then remember to paint them.  They stick out like sore thumbs when you have a non-white top fuse.  You'd be surprised how many paints are missing this detail.

I hope to have this one ready soon for you crazy simmers to blast out of Schiphol with. 😁

 

 

 

I was not wrong when I called you a 'Picasso', Steve. Luckily just bought this aircraft, if this is the goodie awaiting from you😃

Edited December 29, 20196 yr by vc10man

32 minutes ago, vc10man said:

I was not wrong when I called you a 'Picasso', Steve. Luckily just bought this aircraft, if this is the goodie awaiting from you😃

Hehe...thanks Rick.

I just finished the last parts a few mins ago....taking release screenshots then will be releasing her here:

Click here to see all my Aerosoft paints...

This will be one of the release shots....(love this angle and time of day....with PBR effects of the sun glinting off her) 🙂

 

 

@Steve Dra

meh. It’s adequate.  😂

2 minutes ago, thibodba57 said:

@Steve Dra

meh. It’s adequate.  😂

Getting "adequate" from you based on the fact its a ScareBus....that is quite the complement 🙂 Thank you. 😉

 

32 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

Hehe...thanks Rick.

I just finished the last parts a few mins ago....taking release screenshots then will be releasing her here:

Click here to see all my Aerosoft paints...

This will be one of the release shots....(love this angle and time of day....with PBR effects of the sun glinting off her) 🙂

 

 

Having just done a short test flight with it, having gradually moved up the scale from A320, then A319, then A321, I am glad I got this from AS. Felt good to handle.

Am going to download from your link right now.

2 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Am going to download from your link right now

You'll have to wait just a bit for the KLM....please enjoy the Delta and Lufthansa paints I did in the mean time....

Thanks to @thibodba57.....I'm now adding metallic reflection to the cockpit window frame...Please forward all angry email and comments for the release being delayed a bit to this gentleman please. 🙂

 

Wanna know how close I was?  This is usually the very last thing I create before I upload it:

 

 

1 minute ago, Steve Dra said:

You'll have to wait just a bit for the KLM....please enjoy the Delta and Lufthansa paints I did in the mean time..

That I was aware of, Steve.What I meant was I'd download what you have already uploaded to Aerosoft Forums, which I have just done.

It's only a matter of patience awaiting your work. That Brian is a 'hard' taskmaster 🤣

14 minutes ago, vc10man said:

That Brian is a 'hard' taskmaster

You ain't lyin'.....the guy keeps me honest...hehe.

Ok Brian....here is your metallic window frame....happy?  (don't answer that)

 

She's over at the Aerosoft download page now. 🙂

 

Nice one, nice one, Steve. Top Marks,pal!👍

Steve's post regarding details & time taken should be referred to when replying to anyone who's impatient when asking for a repaint from ANY repainter (is that even a word? You know what I mean though!).

Had to laugh at Brian's adequate comment