repainting

[jankees 917]

Hi Guys!

I'm new on Mutley's, but when I saw you had a repaint forum as well, I just had to join.

I've been painting for a few years now, mainly warbirds, and thought I'd see if I could help.

So if anybody has any questions about repainting, feel free to ask.

You can see a few examples of my paints in the screenshot section, but here's a few more:

my main interests are warbirds, but I've done a few GA and tubeliner paints as well.

For me it starts with a good model, and the paint then just applies itself.

I've never done any fictional paints, for some reason they do not interest me.

In most cases, I tend to paint the not-so-obvious paintschemes, assuming that the more famous ones will be done anyway.

Doing the research into a certain paintjob is part of the fun for me, as is finding the story behind the aircraft.

Pointless details is another thing I like, as I believe they give your paint authenticity.

Look at this one for instance:

the original had all these touristic stickers on the side, you can imagine the job recreating all of them, but it is details like that that are the icing on the cake I think..

OK, that's about me and my hobby. I hope I'll be able to contribute to your forum, and help people on the fun path of painting aircraft.

Cheers,

JanKees

[mutley 4,498]

Hi Jankees,

I have created a few re-paints myself but they have always been fictional for our Around the World Challenges here in the forums. The main reason I don't paint real world aircraft is I know my limitations and I could never paint that well!

A lot of your repaints look to have very realistic bare or shiny metal liveries, do you have any tips on creating these types of finishes?

Thanks,

Joe

[jankees 917]

Bare metal?

Usually I use the paintkit supplied (like for the P-38 above), or I use the original textures and adopt them if there is no paintkit (like the B-25 above).

I have created a few bare metal skins myself, usually, you paint the main texture grey, and play around with the alpha channel (which gives it the shine) until you have something you like. If you like (in FSX), you can also play around with the spec files, which dictate the reflected colors and the intensity of the reflections.

A good trick is to take a bare metal paint you like, and use the grey/alpha settings from that when making your own paint.

Here's a few examples:

This Saab Safir had a very shiny bare metal stripe on the side. The main texture file is plain grey, but the alpha is dark grey, giving a very reflective, polished look:

For this Catalina, I wanted to create an old and oxidised look, so the textures are still grey (with some different colors of grey to imply changed panels), while the alpha channel is lighter than in the previous one, so it has a more matte shine to it:

For this P-40, I did the same as the previous one, but this came with spec files too, so I played around with those to give a bit more fuzzy depth to the reflections, so it is not very reflective or mirror like, but it still has a metal shine to it:

I hope this helps?

[ddavid 149]

Sch-yeah! You are the man, Jan Kees!

Thanks for sharing......

Cheers - Dai. :biggrin:

[mutley 4,498]

JanKees, a great explanation, that is very valuable advice.

[allardjd 1,853]

You're going to be a handy guy to have around, I think.

John

[hurricanemk1c 195]

Thesse are simply superb!