Author Topic: Big Beautiful Doll (Read 879 times)

lasersailor184 · « **on:** February 09, 2004, 11:12:39 AM »

Col. J.D. Lander's Big Beautiful Doll, p51d.

Should I put the kill symbols on it?

Still have to do the title, tweak the nose and put the star on the sides. Also put chrome on the exhaust.

Frstrm · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2004, 12:04:52 PM »

You also should check your wing edge.

What I mean, is in the first image where you can see both the top and bottom of the wing, your wingtip colors don't line up.

This happened to me as well. The upper wing is actually a little smaller texture wise than the lower so doing a straight copy from wing top to wing bottom doesn't scale properly...

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2004, 12:10:08 PM »

Hmm, but I ligned it up by the panelling...

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2004, 12:44:25 PM »

Updated.

So should I put kill markings on it?

Frstrm · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2004, 03:19:32 PM »

hmmm, If you were doing a specific plane or pilot, then I would say yeah. If your just doing squadron colors, with no specific pilot in mind then I would so no.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2004, 04:24:42 PM »

Err, any idea of how to add a "Metal" type paint to the exhaust?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2004, 05:28:08 PM »

Nevermind. Spent so much time just to get the vents to be a metal color.

Pictures updated.

Fidd · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2004, 08:00:35 PM »

Looks very nice, you might want to check sources for how far the chequer-board pattern extends inboard from the wingtips, it's a long time since I skinned that aircraft for air-warrior, but I recall more bare metal being visible.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2004, 09:07:38 PM »

Anyone know how to make curved text?

Or fit text to a path? I can't remember, been a few years since Photoshop class.

Oh, and the checkerboard is where it should be. I counted panels. Plus i've done the Main body star and letters, and the pilots name.

I have left:
The title
The kill symbols.

frank3 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2004, 08:28:13 AM »

It really is hilarious to see that ah2 hasn't even came out yet and ppl have already made the most impressive skinns here

Aces High needs these kinds of ppl

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2004, 02:25:14 PM »

Pictures updated. I got the title on (but it will be mirrored on the other side

). I also put the pilot's name on.

Going to work on the kill symbols and the star on the fuselage needs a touch tweek.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2004, 05:59:37 PM »

So how do we find out if our skin is accepted by HT?

Octavius · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2004, 07:06:32 PM »

After flying online in the Beta Arena, I noticed some skins being downloaded in the background.

A message would appear: "skins/P51D1.res has been downloaded" or something similar.

I'm not sure if these skins are already accepted or being used for testing purposes at the moment.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2004, 09:14:14 PM »

Is this what a Japanese Kill symbol looks like? I don't have much to work off, nor could I find any decent ones on the internet.

Gwjr2 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2004, 11:03:31 PM »

i think it was a full mini flag

found this