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Offline Greebo

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« Reply #120 on: January 18, 2005, 06:08:24 PM »
Working on this 705th BS Liberator, "Naughty Nan", as my next skin.


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« Reply #121 on: January 19, 2005, 04:22:23 PM »
Is HT going to change the reflectivness of the airplane so the skinner can decide if is a shiny metalic skin or a duller painted one?  I remember reading something about this a while back, and the reason I bring it up is because green skins on b17's, b24's or anything else that originally was skinned as metalic by HTC just don't look righ because of how reflective they are.  The same goes for planes originally skinned as painted and dull, like the p47-11 and 25, that do not quite look right when they are given a metalic skin by the skinners.

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« Reply #122 on: January 21, 2005, 02:36:50 AM »
The matt/gloss switch is due on the next version of AH from what I understand.

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« Reply #123 on: January 21, 2005, 03:08:43 AM »
Squadron leader Yves Ezanno sqd 198 2nd TAF as seen at  B7 (Martragny) august 1944.

Special thanks to Kev367th and Airmess.

Still some work to do on this before posting to Skuzzy.



 
 

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« Reply #124 on: January 21, 2005, 05:51:23 PM »
Done the Naughty Nan, next is an aircraft of 70 Squadron RAF. This aircraft was based in Italy and had an RAF night scheme but with dark earth/mid stone upper surfaces.


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« Reply #125 on: January 26, 2005, 10:00:23 AM »
Going for this as my last Liberator. It is an aircraft of the 67th BS/44th BG, 8th Air Force based at Shipham in 1943/44. This shark mouth design avoids the stretched area around the front of the nose and I've got enough data on the other markings.


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« Reply #126 on: February 02, 2005, 09:21:08 AM »
Hmmm  Quantity  v. Quality.   I have seen a number of great skins for the pony and jug, and could only hope that at least some of these may periodically rotate.  The following is a portion of email I recently sent to Cobra for his work on Col. Landers "Big Beautiful Doll":

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Brilliant minds must think alike (winK).  I have made a few versions of this plane myself.  I was amazed to find that it was one of the flying restorations highlighted on the Military Channel, along with Cripes A' Mighty.  I never submitted any of them for HT because of 2 problems (that a poor wanna be skinner like me can't seem to solve).


Check this site out for photos of original Doll, Fighter Aces and stats:

http://www.78thfightergroup.com/history/78thFGAces.html
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« Reply #127 on: February 02, 2005, 07:13:16 PM »
Chilli I have a ton of reference photos for Big Beautiful Doll.  There is a few problems though with the current skin that you can't make it look correct.  Big Beautiful Doll will mirror from one side to the other and cause one side to be backwards.

The checker boards aren't too bad but they will have issues in certain areas.  Because BBDs checker board comes over the top and goes back towards the wheel wells on the bottom of the airframe it gets messed up due to stretching.  Essentially there is a cutoff point where the skin will just take the last color and wrap it back till the next cutoff point.  Basically what you get is checker boards that run into prison stripes in areas on the bottom and top of the fuselage.

I've even done The Gunfighter but never turned it in since there is already an aircraft from that squadron in the skins folder.  I could make a ton of Mustangs from all the Mustang books I have but it seems there is no point unless there is some kind of skins cycling or more skins for particular planes are authorized.  I will be remaking the ones I've already done when the new mustang comes out.  I will also be ripping out new mustang skins that hadn't been sent to HTC before the 15 slots were filled.

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« Reply #128 on: February 09, 2005, 07:03:22 PM »
How about Lanc skins? Go on you clever people. The poor old Lanc is being neglected.

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« Reply #129 on: February 22, 2005, 06:53:26 PM »
Working on this Finnish Air Force Ju 88 at the moment.


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« Reply #130 on: February 23, 2005, 08:50:14 AM »
working onm a p51 b  in raf colours  with invasion stripes  also a romanian ju88 a seac hurican 1 a olive b17 a 09g2 in winter cam  and 109f in deser camo  pls i finishe black 6 ready to send in.
also got a couple 110s  and  a tbm and sbd on the go lol;a little bit of everything

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« Reply #131 on: February 23, 2005, 01:43:22 PM »
I'm working on the :
B-24 Moby Dick 41-24047 90th BG/320th BS

If you want to see pictures, I had it in a seperate thread to make sure no one else is working on it yet.
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I'm basically here to lower the 39th's score :P

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« Reply #132 on: March 09, 2005, 06:04:44 AM »
Currently working on a KG 3 Ju 88, the second one down in this selection.


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« Reply #133 on: March 17, 2005, 03:00:50 PM »
Working on a Ju 88 with a "wellenmuster" scheme. This one or similar.


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« Reply #134 on: March 23, 2005, 04:28:05 PM »


Bf 109G-4 W. Nr. 19347, 13. (Slovak)/JG 52, Anapa (Russia) April 1943, pilot Jan Reznak (32 v. - top-scoring Slovak fighter ace of WW2)
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