How Many People Go For Repaints

[town]

Just thinking aloud (so to speak) but how important to the simviators out there are repaints - maybe copies of colour schemes you have been associated with etc, or are you happy just to jump into anything.

I just thought I would start this thread to collect opinions as there is no right or wrong just the way people feel.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Well, I try to look for repaints of aircraft which I have flown. This April, we flew on Emirates Airlines Boeing 777-300. The tail number was A6-EMU. Searching through the Avsim file library, I found the tail number and downloaded the aircraft. I then flew the real world flight from Rome-Fiumicino (LIRF) to Dubai (OMDB)...
Cheers,
Ashar

[|| Andy ||]

Anything that looks nice..

I just like a variety of repaints for my a/c collection.. especially the payware bit..  ;)

[TacitBlue]

I usually don't care, unless the paint job that came with the plane is really ugly.

[ozzy72]

I like to have paintjobs of planes I know

[xFLAMESx]

*cough*Spitfires*cough*

Not really a big repaint fan myself, I normally leave them for AI planes, but if there's a paint of a certain warbird and I don't have it...I'll give it a click and download !

Cheers,
Carl.....doing a Spit Mk. IX in Hornet Squadron colours

[TwoLow]

My thrill with the game is to go to priceline.com and just let my imagination go wild as to where I want to go.

For instance, this morning I put in that I wanted to go from chicago to new york and it spit out some Delta and various other airlines I could use. I picked a Delta and it told me a MD-80 flight 886 was the plane.

I downloaded a Delta MD-80 from AVSim.com, made it flight 886, and off I went recreating the flight.

Thats usually how I go about choosing and getting the planes that I fly.

[Souichiro]

I like all sorts of repaints.....Real life or just fantasy paints..Don't care whatever looks good!!

[Fozzer]

As 99.9% of the time I am actually inside the aeroplane flying it, it makes little difference to me what colour it is on the outside... ... ...!
I would suspect that most aircraft painters/re-painters get more enjoyment out of painting their aircraft, than we flyers get out of observing the efforts... ...!
...or is it just me...?

...keep up the painting tho'... ...!

Cheers all...!

Paul.

[TacitBlue]

Repaints are great for screenshots though, and can make all the difference in a contest.

[Carlo]

Just starting to make some simple repaints. Made two repaints today, a DC-3 and a 737-400 (both default FS9). Just to have some fun with it, nothing special. And it's more difficult than I thought it would be.

Crash

[Moach]

i usually don't bother getting repaints unless the original textures are ugly, or i can relate to the new paint job in some way (planes i've flown in real life and such).....

i did go out of my way to find every availabe repaint for the 737 experience though... i wanted to have it in all possible liveries (so far i've got about 15 variations)

also, there were times when i repainted aircraft to make them into something completely different, like when i got the B221 Monomail, i realized that plane would look really good as a Scrounger from the After World (one of my alternate realities.. it's a long story ), so i repainted it to make it look dirty and all patched up, like it had gone through repairs and modifications for a long time

now it looks real cool

c ya

Moach

[microlight]

I tend to go with plane types and airlines that I have flown in, or specific airlines to the country I'm flying in. Having said that, I've also got virtually the entire British Airways fleet and a lot of the Virgin Atlantic fleet also.