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I wonder, even if it isn't MS providing them, ARE there paint kits available, or at least, people working on paint kits for FS2020 aircraft (as opposed to just liveries)?

As I added retro AI to my FS2004 world, I tried to find a sufficient repaint for the MD-11 in American Airlines' livery - growing tired of finding repaints where the repainter attempted a photorealistic look by stretching jpg images loaded with artifacts, to repaints with various detail related issues - from logo colors/sizes/fonts/kerning/etc to things like window counts, I did my own on the "UTT" MD-11. This was, however, before I learned about the stuff they were doing with the models others made, what was going on with them. I decided to finish it anyways since I put a lot of work into it. Since there were at least 2 configurations over the course of American operating the -11s, I did both. This is the first repaint I've really done, followed through to completion, but even so I am a royal pain in the &@($* when it comes to attention to detail - like how on both sides of the aircraft, the scissors eagle will ALWAYS face foreward and not aft - which was kindly pointed out to me by the folks at the Retro AI Traffic Group forums. Trans-Atlantic Configuration: Port Side: Starboard Side: Trans-Pacific Configuration: Port Side: Starboard Side:

Pardon me for necromancing this thread, but I think it is important. I was in need of some PAI models, and had the same issue looking around when it hit me, "why not try the Internet Archive (archive.org)? I've got nothing to lose." Believe it or not, some snapshots of the site - 2004 and 2006 especially - archived well not just the pages, and graphics, but the actual files - as in, yes, you can download traffic installers, packages, etc. No gaurentee that you can get everything that was on the site, and in fact the paintkits section seem to largely be a miss (for example), but still the fact that a lot of stuff has been saved is amazing. (Let's just hope another person doesn't buy the projectai.com domain and put a robots.txt file on it - I say this because of the internet archive's idiotic policy of retroactively applying the file to stuff already archive / and purging archived stuff, flying in the face of how it's actually supposed to work [by which I mean how both the robots.txt and internet archive work].)