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Offline Sp4de

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« Reply #150 on: July 10, 2005, 03:41:53 PM »
Working on Raf c47


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« Reply #151 on: July 11, 2005, 08:13:33 PM »
umm Bullethead....

i started "black 12" back in april / may... and submitted on june 1


just an fyi, posted it in this thread i was making it.
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« Reply #152 on: July 11, 2005, 08:41:47 PM »
I sent that in to HTC on 29 May, having started work on it the day the new FW models came out.  I'm a trucker so I don't get in here much, and it takes me a long time to do any skin anyway.  So usually I'm the one who's a day late and a dollar short.  However, I guess I beat you this time.   But let the better skin win.  Winner buys the loser a drink at the next Con :D.

FWIW, I only heard back from Skuzzy on Schwarz 12 on Friday.  That should give you an idea of how lagged he is on skin submissions.  And guess what he complained about?  It was the missing arm on the lower right wing cross, where they did the skin panel replacement and didn't bother repainting the missing piece.  So I had to send him the photos of the real plane showing that was how it really was.

This is yet another example of the uselessness of sending in the info.txt file with a skin submission.  EVERY nitpick I've gotten from Skuzzy on all the skins I've submitted has been about stuff that I've clearly explained in the info.txt file.  Because it's a text file, you can't have pics in it, but they ask for links to pics, and I include those.  I sometimes send in pics as separate files, too.  But all to no avail.  So why bother?

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« Reply #153 on: July 11, 2005, 09:25:37 PM »
well sir

wish you would have mentioned you were working on that particular skin. that was my first attempt at a skin, and spent over 2 months on it : (

oh well.
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« Reply #154 on: July 11, 2005, 10:12:50 PM »
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wish you would have mentioned you were working on that particular skin. that was my first attempt at a skin, and spent over 2 months on it : (


I'm on the road for at least 14 days at a time.  During that time, I'm able to get online about once a week at most.  Last year at this time, damn near every truckstop had Wi-Fi, but last Fall the main provider, Truckstop.net, went belly up.  Thus, these days I can only get online at a specific chains of truckstops that have their own Wi-Fi systems:  TAs and Flying Js.  Neither of these chains is as widespread as, say, Pilots, plus all the independent truckstops were on Truckstop.net, too.  Thus, I'm not usually able to stop at a Wi-Fi truckstop these days, and even when I can, sometimes I either don't have time to mess with it, or can't park within range of the antenna.  And when I'm home, which is only for 2 days at a time, I'm stuck with 26.4 dial-up, so I tend to avoid threads with lots of big pictures in them.  I've got enough problems downloading several hundred emails totalling several megs.

This last week has been an exception.  I was stuck the whole holiday weekend, from Friday to Tuesday, at a Flying J, and I've been home the last 2 days.  That's why I've been posting a lot lately.  In between, I work on skins offline as time permits, as my entertainment on the road.  So I'm usually operating in a vacuum, with no knowledge of what's already been done or what other folks are doing.  

Usually, I discover that the skin I've spent a lot of time on has already been done.  Before the new FW models came out, I called dibs on Schwarz 12, Rudel's ride, and a JV44 red/white belly Dora.  But nobody cared, and I've since found that the latter 2 were already done before I got even my 1st Dora submitted.  A couple of the A5s I was interested in have also been done already.  Now I see I've stepped on your toes with Schwarz 12.  I'm sorry, and believe me, I know EXACTLY how you feel.

However, with yours coming in about the same time mine did, I'm sure Skuzzy will hold them up for comparison, especially given his backlog.  Thus, perhaps yours will beat mine out in terms of quality.  In which case, you'll owe me a drink :)

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« Reply #155 on: July 17, 2005, 07:40:04 PM »
Once the P-51 is released I'm hoping to do both of these...

Dutchess Arlene of the 332nd Fighter Group. 0 bombers lost to enemy aircraft when the 332nd was on the job.


There's also a squadron that flew with black indians heads on the tail of their P-51s... can't remember the details though, but I've been asked to do one.
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« Reply #156 on: July 21, 2005, 10:37:52 AM »
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Once the P-51 is released I'm hoping to do both of these...

Dutchess Arlene of the 332nd Fighter Group. 0 bombers lost to enemy aircraft when the 332nd was on the job.


Well let me be the first to stand in line for the 332nd skin. I don't care if it gets submitted to AH or not, I'd be thrilled to just have it in "my" game :aok
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« Reply #157 on: July 21, 2005, 01:53:21 PM »
i am redoing my p51b 315 squadron raf skin

and a runsian skined c47 and a japanese skined c47
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« Reply #158 on: July 22, 2005, 07:34:19 AM »
Here's another one I'm planning...



369th Fighter Squadon.
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« Reply #159 on: July 23, 2005, 08:44:53 AM »
i am doing a RAF p51b 315 squadron and a p51d no3 squadron RAF
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« Reply #160 on: July 23, 2005, 10:28:58 AM »
ROGERDEE is that 3 sqn RAF or 3 sqn RAAF? just to be clear.

tks. I was looking at the RAAF 3sqn
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« Reply #161 on: July 24, 2005, 03:05:33 PM »


And p51d lady doris

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« Reply #162 on: July 25, 2005, 02:27:17 PM »
yes sorry it was RAAF no 3 squadron got pic for a b and a d pony what one wsa u goig to do i started on the d pony
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« Reply #163 on: July 26, 2005, 11:20:04 AM »
Actually hadn't made up my mind yet, but was leaning toward the B. Trouble is I haven't found a good photo. Thanks for the reply..

Ok I'll start on the B pony.. May I see your photo? please. tks
« Last Edit: July 26, 2005, 11:24:05 AM by FTJR »
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« Reply #164 on: July 26, 2005, 01:14:13 PM »
hmn... i   made dziubek's mustang skin :rolleyes:http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/horba/horba.htm, we propably made the same skin rogerdee, can you stop?
 if your work is not far advanced ofcourse

greetz