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#1 Old 28th Jan 2025 at 4:16 PM
Default Worn, distressed, rust or grunge Maxis Window and Door recolours
Hi, I'm looking for any aged, worn, rusty or grungy recolours of Maxis windows (and doors).

Anything that would look good in a post-apocalyptic or abandoned town.

I have pretty much all I can find from this site (but please feel free to link any you really like anyway, in case I missed them!).

I was especially wanting the gearhead windows and door from Apartment life in rusty colours.

I can find plenty of expansions for that set but not many distressed recolours.

Also, if anyone has recommendations for places to get distressed/ grunge recolours of other Maxis items, I'd be very interested!

Thank you.
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#2 Old 28th Jan 2025 at 6:24 PM
CuriousB has some rusty recolours for those windows:
https://curiousb.livejournal.com/4658.html
direct download link:
https://simfileshare.net/download/351555/

You probably already know about the Castaway Conversions, but just in case:
https://s22cdb.livejournal.com/tag/...taway%20stories
There are some nice grungy maxis recolours in that database. Devilsrope has some door options in this collection, for example:
http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/in...g88394#msg88394

CreeSims also has some grungy maxis options:
https://www.tumblr.com/creesims/tagged/grunge

The way I would go on about finding more grunge recolours is by looking through currantpotpie’s defaults and then trying to find grungy options via the credits:
https://currantpotpie.dreamwidth.or...ult+replacement
In part 16 the diner door default is in part accredited to X-Inertia:
https://currantpotpie.dreamwidth.org/77599.html
Going to X-Inertia’s site I found maxis grunge recolours part 1 (the diner door is in that one):
https://x-inertia.livejournal.com/9327.html
and part 2:
https://x-inertia.livejournal.com/9669.html
It’s definitely not the most straightforward way to find more recolour options but it’s the only thing that came to mind. If I think of an easier way I’ll report back
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#3 Old 28th Jan 2025 at 7:46 PM
Well thank you very much, @Corax these are brilliant! Yes, I do already have the castaway stuff, I have all that in game and very nice it is too.

The other stuff I'm putting in-game to try out right away, well done on your detective work! Much appreciated.

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#4 Old 28th Jan 2025 at 8:49 PM
I suggest giving anything made with Shastakiss' pirate woods and yeti metals recolous a try. They're quite distressed looking and would look good in an apocalypse neighborhood.

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#5 Old 28th Jan 2025 at 11:32 PM
Thank you @HarVee what a great idea! Shasta has a load of recolours on Sims2Artists, I'll look there. Thaks for the suggestion!

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#6 Old 29th Jan 2025 at 1:40 AM
@simsample - I uploaded some, many moons ago, over at Leefish .

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#7 Old 29th Jan 2025 at 6:49 AM
Oh wow. Those look amazing! @Michelle

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#8 Old 29th Jan 2025 at 10:36 AM
I was just going to mention Michelle's.
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#9 Old 29th Jan 2025 at 11:39 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Michelle
@simsample - I uploaded some, many moons ago, over at Leefish .

Thank you very much, @Michelle ! The first things I downloaded were your grunge recolours on here, but I never thought to check Leefish. Downloading now, thanks for linking!

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