This artist rendition is the one that I was basing the camo off of. It's a little more "clean" then the profile that looks to be by Claes Sundin that you posted ramzey. Honestly, I dont have that many black and whites of "Red one". Just a few profiles (none of the detailed upper surfaces, or lower ones for that matter) to work from. It was more or less of a "let's see" thing than an actual full flegded attempt at this skin. The parts are are there, and it would be a fun one to work a little bit more in depth on. I'm not sure if HTC is / and / or / was wanting "historic" individual planes skins - or just skins that envelop the times and different styles of camo that were used in WWII. All is subject to interpretation.
Evidently there is a spinner problem on the d9 that only allows the spinner to be black / white. I tried replacing the "spinner" file with the one from another 190, which was modified with the correct colors - no go. I'm not sure, but this might apply to all GE planes. The spinner on "red one" was RLM 70 and Yellow (RLM 4?) based on the sources that I have - it's hard to tell.
The drawing that you have posted above has the fuse in a base RLM 84 it looks like. Granted, RLM 76(color on my version) and RLM 84 would look quite alike in B/W photos. Here it's up to the artist rendition, and source that you are most likely to trust. I might try scanning some actual color chips in and editing the planes with those colors. The only problem that I can see with that would be the "scale" and the wear. By scale I mean having to lighten the color a bit for smaller visual models. Of course wear would be dealing with the elements and their influence on the aircraft lacquer. this would be proir to any "wear" put on by man.
Anyway like I said, I was just goofing on this one. My main project was the Bad Worishofen fw190-d9 which was a late war officers plane. For some reason I like the look of the natural metal leading edges and fuse extension. All based on late war lack of resources. But the templates worked good - all I had to do was change the camo layer and markings layer to get "red one"
I would appreciate if anyone has any more B/W photos of "red one". I would like to go a little more in depth into and make it more historically accurate for my own enjoyment.
PS: if anyone from HTC is reading this - Would you like skins sent in a photshop format so the art department can touch things up or balance layers? You guys have probably got a better eye than I do when it comes to this stuff. I won't flood your email, I promise. Only when skins are available online will I send them off!
Off to work on a 1024x1024 Tiger
hope that resolution fits the skinning requirements!
Waffle
