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Years and years ago I made some aircraft skins for an old flight sim called Strike Fighters: Project 1. They were .bmp files, bitmaps, with no layers, no tools, and no instructions. You looked at the existing texture files, which I think were 256x256 pixels, and you made your best guess. I was unreasonably proud of them but I lost them years ago and can no longer even find screenshots.
They were skins for the game's MiG-17 and MiG-19. The general idea was of Soviet-manufactured aircraft given as military aid in an inappropriate factory paint job then hurriedly painted in half-assed camouflage patterns by the locals. Imagine a WW2 German "Wellenmuster" pattern, done with a spray gun. Imagine that as the aircraft were made for a Middle Eastern country they were shipped with the top half painted in Soviet "Dark Sand" camouflage paint (#a89584) and the bottom half in "Light Blue" (#84b7cb) and the locals felt the color was overall too light, so they got some Soviet "Camouflage Brown" (#574840) and some spray guns, so that the ground crews could put random squiggles and zigzags of brown over the tan, then stencil on the local roundels, plus the local variant on bort numbers. I spent more time researching it than doodling it in MS Paint. I was looking at paint samples and old photos from Cold War-era air shows.
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