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EHM-1001 Robert:
Very nice repaint, but I would like to give you some rules for the future, that I learned from Gergely about the EHM stripes.

The main thing in the livery are the 2 lighter coil stripes. When  adding the livery layer, you can distort it several ways to fit nicely to the aircraft body. Here is my technic:
1. I adjust the height of the 2 coil stripes by resizing the whole layer. The 2 stripes should fit nicely within the area of window line and the wing. I usually let a gap below the windows about 0,5...1,0 height of the window. Then let the bottom dark blue area to almost hidden by the wing.
2. Setup a basic length. I resize the whole livery so it fits to the whole length of the aircraft, but I try to do it so the stripes start to bend upward only after the last window in the line. If it is not possible, than leave it for a while.
3. Checking the nose. I move the whole layer to forward toward the nose, and move it until the stripes bending nicely downward. There is a nice point where the bending stripes do not take too much space from the nose.
4. Checking the middle section. I usually do the steps 2...4 many times to find a good result. Here I try to adjust the length of the stripes to be not so short. I mean I try to adjust that section of the 2 stripes when they replaces each other, to look nice. By this, usually the back section is distorting and with luck it will look nice.
5. Chacking again the back sectio, so the stripes start bending upward only after the last window. If not, I lengthen a bit the back section of the stripes. Then according the aircraft shape I occasionally distort the section when the stripes brake upward, and adjust its correct length.
6. Finally when the stripes are wided/lengthened correctly, it is time to finish them. Because i nthe 1st step you surely distort them, so they will not fit the whole body vertically. In the bottom they will not reach the aircraft bottom. So finally, I manually paint the areas at the bottom of the aircraft, and manually lengthen the short stripes/areas at the nose too.

I hope it may helped and was clear ;D Keep up the good. work.

EHM-1358 Tim:
The engines look nice tough.

EHM-1539 Pierre:
Thanks, and thanks a lot for the advice.
I'll try to finish it this week, but i might not be able to before january. Have a lot of work, storyboard, video, etc to give back monday and tuesday... Taking off for Bangkok Thursday evening :)
For the stripes, i'll do what you tell me, and if it's not optimal, i'll redraw them (had to already for the top tail under illustrator).

And after that, since I'm used to my addons, I'm planning to repaint my favourite next classes addons too if able, and share it if people are interrested. That would be :
-Aerosoft ATR 42
-Aerosoft ATR 72
-Wilco/Feelthere CRJ-200
-PMDG 737-800 (Murray is already working on it so I'll see)
-PSS Airbus A330
-PMDG 747-400 Queen of the Skies (when it's out ^^)

EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by maabaa
-PMDG 737-800 (Murray is already working on it so I'll see)

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Bless you, but the 737-800 repaint is Robert's.

My only involvment was badgering on the forums until Robert did it, then writing a quick install post ;D

EHM-1539 Pierre:
Oops, my bad. Sorry Robert :s

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