Still on the Phenom Trail repaint how to?
Posted: 31 May 2018, 10:31
Raking around in the back of my FSX hangar I found another payware Phenom 100 - this one is by FeelThere and was published some years ago. I suspect that FeelThere are no longer in business and although the Carenado Phenom 100 looks the same on the outside the A/P and nav. systems perform differently. The FeelThere product also supplies a detailed manual containing a very useful set of instructions for the supplied test flight.
I was able to complete my own test flight from Southend to Edinburgh using the instructions for the FeelThere test flight as a guide. Fuel consumption seems very high and will need to be investigated but the main thing is that I managed to make the aircraft systems work and I arrived at the correct position to make an ILS approach and landed at the prescribed speed (also at the correct airport!).
I have done some simple repainting some years ago using DXTBMP and MSPaint - just simple stuff.
Searching the Internet I found a paintkit for the FeelThere aircraft. Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of DXTBMP and installed that program.
I have never used a 'paintkit' before but the Phenom 100 paintkit is an attractive grey toned set of textures. Now I have a dilemma, how best to use this paintkit? My usual repainting efforts have involved erasing all the painted textures from an FS9 acft. and then proceed to repaint using DXTBMP and MSPaint.
Can someone please tell me if it is possible to repaint over the grey toned areas so that they still show through - they are so well done I don't wish to waste those 'blank' textures - if not can a forum user tell me how best to proceed?
Prior to thinking about repainting I did try to apply repainted textures downloaded from the Internet for the Carenado Phenom 100 to the FeelThere Phenom 100 but that did not work.
I was able to complete my own test flight from Southend to Edinburgh using the instructions for the FeelThere test flight as a guide. Fuel consumption seems very high and will need to be investigated but the main thing is that I managed to make the aircraft systems work and I arrived at the correct position to make an ILS approach and landed at the prescribed speed (also at the correct airport!).
I have done some simple repainting some years ago using DXTBMP and MSPaint - just simple stuff.
Searching the Internet I found a paintkit for the FeelThere aircraft. Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of DXTBMP and installed that program.
I have never used a 'paintkit' before but the Phenom 100 paintkit is an attractive grey toned set of textures. Now I have a dilemma, how best to use this paintkit? My usual repainting efforts have involved erasing all the painted textures from an FS9 acft. and then proceed to repaint using DXTBMP and MSPaint.
Can someone please tell me if it is possible to repaint over the grey toned areas so that they still show through - they are so well done I don't wish to waste those 'blank' textures - if not can a forum user tell me how best to proceed?
Prior to thinking about repainting I did try to apply repainted textures downloaded from the Internet for the Carenado Phenom 100 to the FeelThere Phenom 100 but that did not work.