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Forum members' repaints / Re: 104 European Diamond Katanas

« on: October 04, 2026, 01:44:22 PM »

I think I modified the props on my FS9 for the Katana, as the transparency wasn't good enough for my tastes. A fairly static disc isn't what I wanted, so I thinned out the transparency and created a radial "blurred blade" effect on it.

The backs of many props these days are painted black, and with a fairly coarse tough paint. It's because the rear of the blades gets eroded by dust and salt water over the years, and black is also kinder to the pilot sitting behind it.

I'm not quite sure how to get those texture effects in FSX. It might mean finding a suitable texture on another aircraft and creating a copy of that with the ANAI filename.

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Forum members' repaints / Re: 104 European Diamond Katanas

« on: October 04, 2026, 12:34:25 AM »

I think it's because FSX handles alpha channels differently, but I can't recall how this gets fixed, as I've never had to do it! Perhaps if there's an FSX version or an FSX paint somewhere, the prop texture can be used from that? In FS9. the best place to put it is in the default texture folder, so it gets applied to all liveries using just the one copy, and that might also work for FSX.

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DJ's repaints / Re: G-AZYU Piper PA-23-250 Aztec Private Owner

« on: September 03, 2026, 06:48:30 AM »

Ha! Perhaps the older models were created on a steam-powered computer. Todd's models generally get an update or two. It's a pity none were compiled for FS9, as I'm an FS9er that likes GA. The more, the merrier.

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DJ's repaints / Re: G-AZYU Piper PA-23-250 Aztec Private Owner

« on: September 02, 2026, 09:00:57 AM »

It's a problem that can be worked around by amending the model. For some reason, and maybe only on some systems, it needs 8-character filenames for textures even though the names of the textures we paint are longer. I resolved a similar problem with Todd's Skymaster (for someone else's FS9 conversion) by opening the MDL file in a hex editor, finding the texture name, and reducing it to 8 characters.

I can't quite recall what the original texture name in the model was, I think it was probably "skymas~1", which is standard Windows procedure for working with longer file names. I fixed it by changing "skymas~1" to "skymastr" using the hex editor. I then altered all the original Skymaster texture names to Skymastr as well, "Skymastr.bmp". The lightmaps have longer names (_L at the end), but they work okay (well, I heard nothing back, so I assume they do).

You could try that with the Aztec. Is it a conversion?

I'm not sure why Todd's models have this quirk when no others do, as far as I'm aware.

So, use a Hex Editor to open the model, look for the filename, and see whether it ends "~1". If so, and for simplicity's sake, change it to something that fits the existing filename in length, which will be 8 characters. So, not "Aztec" but possibly "TB_Aztec". Then change all the texture names.

If it doesn't end with those characters, it will be some other problem that needs to be investigated. Life's full of challenges.

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Forum members' repaints / 104 European Diamond Katanas

« on: July 11, 2026, 03:14:52 PM »

Paints for a lot of Diamond/HOAC DA-20/DV-20 Katanas - 104 to be precise. Painted as DXT1 for FS2004. Most of these are still in operation with the same organisation, some may have moved on, in some cases into private hands. The Spanish one crashed last year! My FS2004 AI system is frozen in 2019, and it was flying back then. So, use or discard at your discretion.

The aircraft CFG file will need to be renumbered (FSRenum or other programs can do this for you).

As far as I can tell, the only Katanas made by Andras Neuman came with "boots", or spats as I prefer. Most of the aircraft painted have had these removed and fly with bare wheels.

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Forum members' repaints / Re: Robin DR401/155 CDI Private LX-PHI

« on: May 30, 2026, 09:51:21 PM »

Thank you, Robins are always welcome. I will hopefully be able to put out a package of FS9 Diamond Katanas fairly soon, a few possibly no longer active. There may be 60 or 70 of them.

Unfortunately the wing on the ANAI DA20 is set slightly too high, which squeezes any side stripes a little bit. They are all European or UK, primarily German. It'll be a few weeks.

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Forum members' repaints / Salzburg (LOWS) resident aircraft as at 2024 - for FS9

« on: May 09, 2026, 11:27:30 PM »

This is a package of repaints made while progressing my personal FS project of populating the sim - >FS9< (!) - with aircraft operating on 52-week flightplans. I don't intend repeating this for any other airports, in case you wonder!

When I got to Austria on my little quest, I saw many operators that are short on repaints and made a few that are based at Salzburg, a favorite airport of mine in the sim and in the real world. Then realized that they operated smaller aircraft as well, and then realized that there are also several flying clubs that were worth including because Charly Morten had created a few repaints for some of the fleets. If you're already painting a few tiddlers, there is no real strain to paint just a few more.

So the lighter end of the project was largely bootstrapped by Charly's head start.

The fleets involved are...

Flugring Salzburg
Luftsportverband Salzburg
Airlink Salzburg
Salzburg Jet Aviation
Osterreichischer Sportfliegerclub Salzburg
The Flying Bulls (bizjet fleet)
The Flying Bulls 2x historic aircraft fleet that uses other people's repaints

To install all of these you will need some esoteric freeware AI models as well as some payware.

The aircaft included here use these models

Mike Cronin Seneca
Mike Cronin Aeronca (it pretends to be an early Citabria - they are related)
AIG PC-12
Andras Neuman Diamond Katana (boots)
Andras Neuman Cherokee Arrow III (conventional tail)
Andras Neuman Cherokee Turbo Arrow IV (T-tail)
DFAI Citationjet CJ1 (payware)
DFAI Citationjet CJ1 winglets (payware)
FranceVFR Socata TB-9 (payware - imitating a TB-10)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna 150-152 (payware)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna 172 (payware)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna C208 Caravan I (payware)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna 170 (payware)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna 170B (payware)
Henry Tomkiewicz Cessna 182 (payware)
John Young (JYAI) Beechcraft King Air 350i
The Microsoft default Mooney Bravo (to use a very rough repaint for OE-KOG)
Pavel Toman Diamond HK36TTC
Pavel Toman Piper Cub
Richard Faith Falcon 900 (WA - winglets/antenna model)
Richard Faith Piper Tomahawk
Tibor Kokai (AI Hungary) Schiebe Falke
Tibor Kokai (AI Hungary) Cirrus SR-22

please take note that there are other aircraft in some of the featured fleets that are already painted by other people, such as Charly Morten. I just painted gaps in the fleets, in some cases this was most of the fleet. Those extra paints will need to be found on Charly's One Click Hangar website - which is hopefully where you found this archive anyway!

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Forum members' repaints / 52-week plans for America Movil, plus XA-TEI, F900

« on: April 20, 2026, 10:52:47 PM »

Attached are 52-week flightplans in FS9 format for the Mexican operator America Movil.

There are repaints for these aircraft on JCAI.dk.

For people that don't use the payware DFAI Falcon 900 included in these plans. I made a repaint of the same Falcon 900 for the RFAI model available freely online.

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Forum members' repaints / (2019) Learjet 35 Clay Lacy Aviation N626BM

« on: April 17, 2026, 09:40:39 PM »

A repaint for the Clay Lacy Learjet 35 N626BM as it was in 2019, the era in which my FS9 setup is fixed.

It's listed as "private", but private aircaft are often operated by Clay Lacy on behalf of their real owners.

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Forum members' repaints / (2019) Bombardier Global 6000 Clay Lacy Aviation N10HD

« on: April 17, 2026, 09:30:56 PM »

This Global 6000 was on strength with Clay Lacy Aviation in 2019.

As my sim is set in 2019, this paint is good for me. It may also be okay for you. Clay often operate bizjets on behalf of their true owners, so the current situation may still involve Clay.

This repaint was made onto a flat BMP texure and as a result isn't as nice as I'd like. I don't have access to a DJC global paint kit and have had to adapt what I have access to.