20 January 2026
To mis-quote Mark Twain, the rumors of my abduction from the earth by space aliens was mostly an exaggeration. Life has thrown me a few curve balls, a few bags of lemons, and given me a puzzle with more than a few missing pieces to figure out but I’m still standing, well, sitting.
I stopped painting for a while, in part as FS2024 was due out and, well, naturally it changed way more than was necessary for repaints. Now that FS2024 is out and fairly stable, and I have a computer capable of running it at high settings, I am slowly planning on reworking paints to be compatible plus adding new ones. As of right now it takes me about 1-2 hours to convert a paint, assuming I just copy over the old textures. If I make any edits or alterations naturally that might take a bit longer. Now, I have well over 600 FS2020 repaints that I plan on converting so if it takes me a while to convert them, well, you will know why!
The website is also going to be getting an overhaul. In addition to my previously mentioned plan to discontinue P3D support and remove those files, I have been slowly working on a name change for the site. More on the re-branding to come but rest assured the paints will be the same.
Today I started converting my PMDG NG3 paints and while I need to do some work to make sure I have the various models sorted out, it’s looking like I have a conversion work flow established for them. I have also done some tests for the Fenix A320 and should be able to get a work flow for them established soon as well. The new Maddog 20th Anniversary edition will take a little more time to convert. The new textures are proving to be a bit irksome in getting them to a workable state (I don’t use PhotoShop and have to convert them to a format I can use as the PSB files don’t load easily) but I am working on them and hope to have a solution soon. I am also considering keeping them in 4k sizing as a way to reduce the file sizes both on the server and in sim.
In the mean time, fresh out of the paint shop on Wake Island, here’s N737BX on a test flight.
