FS2004 livery / repaint

FS2004 Canadair C-4 Argonaut Paint Kit

Canadair C-4 Argonaut paint kit delivers layered Photoshop PSD base textures for creating crisp repaints, including optional BOAC reference layers, early exhaust staining, and extra North Star support layers with elliptical windows and cargo-door details. Built for FS2004 and requires ARGO_V10.ZIP, with clearly separated fuselage top and engine nacelle texture parts.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

Paint Kit (base textures) in layered Photoshop format (*.psd) for use with ARGO_V10.ZIP. By Jens B. Kristensen.

Screenshot of Canadair C-4 Argonaut on runway.

The files are in layered Photoshop format (*.psd). I have included my own BOAC colours that you must replace with your own layers of paint to the aircraft.

The files include additional layers to support the original DC-4GM North Star of the RCAF. This version had the C-54G fuselage with elliptical windows, aft cargo door etc. I have not made a mdl-file of this yet, but just in case...

Early Argonauts and North Stars had exhaust on both sides of the engine cowlings. That's why 'inboard' exhaust stains are included in some of the files, hidden by default.

The engines nacelle & cowling file names may be a little misleading. Some clarification:

dc4M_cowling_t.bmp covers the cowlings of all four engines.
dc4nacelle2_t.bmp covers the entire nacelle of engine two, not including the cowling.
dc4nacelle3_t.bmp covers nacelle three, it is a mirror image of dc4nacelle2_t and for this reason I have not included a separate psd file for it.
dc4cowl_14 covers the nacelles of engine 1 and 4 (but not the cowlings!).

Also note that the some portions of the fuselage top are textured by a separate file, dc4fustop_etc_t.bmp. This is to preserve surface detail.

The files contain some remains of the DC-6 textures by Greg Pepper and Tom Gibson. Tom has a tutorial at his website, explaining how to use paintkits like this.

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Requires dependencies

This add-on may require the following files to function properly. If this is a repaint, the dependency below is likely the base aircraft package.

argo_v10.zip

How to install this mod

FS2004 livery / repaint

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Place files per readme

FS2004 add-ons go into FS9\Aircraft\, FS9\Addon Scenery\, FS9\Gauges\, or FS9\Effects\.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

What’s inside this archive

The archive c4_paint.zip has 16 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

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Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
dc4cowl14_t.psd	12.21.05	1.27 MB
dc4fustop_etc_t.psd	12.21.05	1.47 MB
dc4M_cowling_t.psd	12.21.05	1.47 MB
dc4nacelle2_t.psd	12.21.05	1.36 MB
dc4_leftaft_t.psd	12.21.05	2.19 MB
dc4_leftfwd_t.psd	12.21.05	3.87 MB
dc4_rtaft_t.psd	12.21.05	2.85 MB
dc4_rtfwd_t.psd	12.21.05	3.08 MB
Fuse_inside.psd	12.21.05	2.33 MB
Readme.txt	12.21.05	1.52 kB
Argonaut and North Star	12.21.05	0 B
FileID.diz	12.21.05	150 B
FileID.txt	12.21.05	150 B
thumbnail.gif	11.20.05	13.19 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B