Dash 8-Q400 paint kit

[EHM-2198 Didimo]

Hoi Guys,
      Is there any way you could facilitate me a paint kit of this Dash 8-Q400? I would like to practice some repainting with the colours of one of my national airlines (not yet available out there).

It would really be great if I could get my hands on this paint kit. Please???

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Unfortunately most of our paintkits were destroyed in a HDD crash. We can say, that apart from the DC-8 and the new A318, we do not have any. If we need to repaint an airplane we would need to create it from scratch. Fortunately textures are easily reproducable.

Many times there is not a paintkit, so i just used to pick an Air France, or other white plane texture and prepare a paintkit from that. For you, probably the worst is the creator: Dreamwings Designs was closed. Perhaps you can still find a paintkit on AVSIM.com

[EHM-2198 Didimo]

Very unfortunate does that means there will never be an EuroHarmony v5 fleet? -and there again the importance of regular backups-

As you said DreamWings stopped dreaming and is now DeadWings. I have looked all around for this Dash 8-Q400 paintkit and that includes Avsim, FSimCafe and many others (googled it too!).

I had already started by making a new texture folder and editing the files there. Some parts are easy because you just paint it white and then do the colours. There are other parts however that have some sort of gradient shade on it apparently for the sun shade (?). For example take a look at the tail part of the Dash 8-q400, part of it has the standard EHM blueish paintjob with a darkish polygon underneath where the elevator shadow would reflect.

I figure if I erase that darkish part then the paint job will look amateurish and "not reflecting"

[EHM-0654 Murray]

<me as a human hat>I'm no expert at these things, but you can always put a gradient layer back on afterwards in Photoshop or somesuch. Robert and Janos are the experts as far as I am concerned...</me as a human hat>

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Oh no, it does not mean there will not be any more repainting ! It only means the process is a bit longer if we want to repaint again a v4 aircraft which is not planned for close future As the previous livery lived through almost 5 years, the v4 livery will live at least as long

The textures are in a lossy compressed format which means a decrease in quality after decompression, although possible. But anyway, if you are good with Photoshop, the missing of paintkit will not slow you down really

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Me again, grab a paint kit for a commercial aircraft (the FSD International planes are especially good for this)

Many of the better ones split the layers up in a really good way and you can learn plenty of the secrets that way.

(Which reminds me... my C337 SkyMaster needs a more EHM-alike repaint...)

[EHM-2198 Didimo]

I am not good at PhotoShop because it is expensive However I found a PhotoShop plugin for Paint.NET which I use in conjunction with DXTBMP. Now I have to figure out how to work with the layers when giving the image back to DXTBMP as I do not know if it flattens layers automatically or what.

BTW after even more search, I DID find a DreamWings Dash8-Q400 paintkit at AVSIM! it was on the very last page of 9!

AVSIM: dreamwings_dash_8_-q400_paintkit.zip
OR
library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=55153

[EHM-1001 Robert]

It is really a relaxing hobby ! Good luck mate