F/A-18 Repaint Kit

    🇫🇷 Version française

    Bonjour à tous,

    Je souhaite récupérer le Repaint Kit du F/A-18 pour Aerofly FS 2/FS 4.
    J’ai bien été validé pour son téléchargement mais le lien officiel
    https://dl1.aerofly.com/aerofly_fs_2_sdk/aerofly_fs_2_sdk_aircraft_workshop_f18.rar
    renvoie actuellement une erreur (404 / Internal Error).

    Un commentaire en janvier 2025 signalait déjà ce problème et, à ce jour, le fichier reste inaccessible.

    Est-ce qu’un membre du forum ou un modérateur pourrait partager un miroir fonctionnel ou remettre le fichier en ligne sur le filebase ?

    Merci beaucoup d’avance pour votre aide et vos efforts de conservation des outils pour la communauté !

    — [OCOUDERT]

    🇬🇧 English version

    Hello everyone,

    I’m trying to download the F/A-18 Repaint Kit for Aerofly FS 2/FS 4.
    I have the authorization but the official link
    https://dl1.aerofly.com/aerofly_fs_2_sdk/aerofly_fs_2_sdk_aircraft_workshop_f18.rar
    currently returns an error (404 / Internal Error).

    A comment back in January 2025 already reported this issue, and as of today the file is still unavailable.

    Could any forum member or moderator provide a working mirror or re-upload the file to the filebase?

    Many thanks in advance for your help and for preserving these tools for the community!

    — [OCOUDERT]

    There is no SDK available for FS4, except for the one for the small DR-400, but it won't be of much use to you.

    Maybe Jan link can help you. https://www.aerofly-sim.de/download/download-aeroflyfs2

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    Regards, Pascal

    Edited 2 times, last by Tomfa (September 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM).

    The AF2 paintkit wouldn't work even if you could downloaded... IPACS changed the UV mapping for the F18 in AF4, so all the repaints I did for AF2 didn't work in the new SIM. Jan supplied me the files I needed to create a new paintkit but I've had no time to really try it out yet. Hopefully I will get to it, at some point, because I'd like to redo my repaints.

    Matt

    For me, the variants VMFA-112, VFA-15, VFA-27, VFA-81, VFA-86, VFA-87 and VFA-105 still work in the FS 4 on the Mac.

    Tschüss, Michael (🍎🚁)

    Configurations:

    - MacBook Pro (16", 2024); Chip: Apple M4 Max; actual macOS
    - Controllers: | WinWing: URSA MINOR-Fighter-Joystick R, EFIS-L & FCU & EFIS-R | Thrustmaster TCA AIRBUS EDITION: 2x Quadrant, 2x Quadrant Add-On | Pro-Flight-Trainer: PUMA X | Steelseries: Nimbus+

    - iPad (12,9", 4th Generation, RAM: 6 GB); actual iOS | Steelseries: Nimbus+

    It doesn't help with availability of a Paintkit, but forget what I said about my repaints. Michael has supplied me files that make them work again. Amazing... nice to be able to us them again as they where a lot of work. As to general availability of said files, Michael will have to comment on that... but at least I can cross off redoing my F18 repaints from my to do list.

    Matt

    Edited once, last by MDIvey (September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM).

    Quote from MDIvey

    It doesn't help with availability of a Paintkit, but forget what I said about my repaints. Michael has supplied me files that make them work again. Amazing... nice to be able to us them again as they where a lot of work. As to general availability of said files, Michael will have to comment on that... but at least I can cross off redoing my F18 repaints from my to do list.

    Matt

    I would love to use them again, as they were available on flight-sim.org ^^

    Moin Matt,

    From my point of view, it is and remains your files and therefore you can freely dispose of them as before. The only thing I probably changed is the addition of the option.tmc. And I renamed the addon object folders after my system.

    Tschüss, Michael

    Tschüss, Michael (🍎🚁)

    Configurations:

    - MacBook Pro (16", 2024); Chip: Apple M4 Max; actual macOS
    - Controllers: | WinWing: URSA MINOR-Fighter-Joystick R, EFIS-L & FCU & EFIS-R | Thrustmaster TCA AIRBUS EDITION: 2x Quadrant, 2x Quadrant Add-On | Pro-Flight-Trainer: PUMA X | Steelseries: Nimbus+

    - iPad (12,9", 4th Generation, RAM: 6 GB); actual iOS | Steelseries: Nimbus+

    Hello everyone,

    Many thanks to all of you who replied to our initial request about the F/A-18 repaint kit — we really appreciate your help and your suggestions.

    Just to clarify: our main goal is to find the official F/A-18 repaint kit for Aerofly FS 2 (not FS 4). If anyone still has a working link or a copy of the original SDK file for FS 2, we would be very grateful.

    Thank you again for your support and for keeping Aerofly alive!

    Best regards,
    O. Coudert