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Greetings to everyone! Does anyone here have the following repaints of these 2 TACA 737-200 liveries?

same plane just different view

I've never even heard of TACA much less seen any paints available, but I do really like the 233 livery. It's lovely!

Yeah. TACA, it was the flag carrier of El Salvador. Does anyone know how I could make these repaints myself?

limacharlie wrote:Yeah. TACA, it was the flag carrier of El Salvador. Does anyone know how I could make these repaints myself?

Well you wouldn't have chosen the easiest place to start.
Paintkits from various addon developers for their aircraft range from next to useless to very sophisticated, Milviz paintkits are at the sophisticated end of the scale rather than easy to use, and that's a good thing.
Having said that though, there's not much work to the fuselage here, just the tail really of the first livery anyway.
IMHO - You need some version of Adobe Photoshop (others will tell you it can be done with GIMP etc etc and it can, but it gets complicated).
And you are looking for the best, closest, square on, biggest, highest resolution photo you can find of that tail, because you're going to copy/recreate it.
I'd suggest start by checking out Photoshop options, I think there's a freebie crippled 'Starter' type version not sure what it doesn't do or it's name, but you need Layers and their blending abilities and the ability to make PS 'paths', that's the essentials anyway.
Good luck, you can ask me for help, PM if you need.

John

Hey, CRANKPIN. Thanks for the information. Appreciate it!