B-17 skins

[leespeakman]

i am pretty disgusted  to say that i have not seen any olive drab painted B-17's.  all i have seen are these shiny silver bombers.  if you want to be as accurate as possible, you might want to consider putting a few more skins on the game suchas the "Memphis Belle" or "Yankee Doodle"  they could have different nose art and everything.  just think of the war time era.  i will tell you a good web site to look at it is under the "Mighty Eighth"  you will find more than what you need.  thank you for your time if you actually read this.

[XtrmeJ]

I've seen a black B17. Still waiting on a green bomber, green looks good on fire.

[Waffle]

uhhhh, did the community hire an art director?

[Cooley]

"Rosies Riveters" from the 100th HBG would be nice



Or "Miss Conduct" also with the 100th
 
*Cover artwork painting from COMBAT AIRCRAFT #35 Lancaster Squadrons 1944-45, by Iain Wyllie © Osprey Publishing Ltd

[Easyscor]

We don't have the dark green B-17 modeled in AH.

"Rosies Riveters" is a good example of the early green B-17s, an "F" model if I recall.  Notice that it isn't the "G" model we have in the game, you can tell because there's no chin gun and the waist guns are not staggered.  The closest we can do is the "light green" model but even those didn't have the Cheyenne tail gun or staggered waist guns.

[Easyscor]

Originally posted by XtrmeJ
I've seen a black B17. Still waiting on a green bomber, green looks good on fire.

Remember that the next time one shoots you down.

[jay1988]

Here are some pictures of a Memphis Belle Toy Airplane. Very good Pics for skins.

[jay1988]

Here are some more Memphis Belle pics. A little diffrent from the ones above

[Cobra412]

To do skins such as Rosies Riveters we'd first have to get confirmation from HTC as to whether or not they'd accept a skin which was flown on a different model.

There are very noticeable differences with earlier B-17s that may discourage HTC from allowing them.  The B-17Gs had the following additions in comparison to the Fs.  The Gs had dual .50 cal nose guns and nose turret, staggered waste gunner positions, and I haven't seen any earlier models yet with the cheyenne window.  The Fs had a single .50 nose gun, no cheyenne window, no staggered waste gunners, open waste gunner postions(may have had late war mods for this though), no chin turret, and last but not least they had a single .50 in the radio gunner position.

[rogerdee]

there  is  a  saying

                if you want something dome do it yourself.

  just  a  idea
these  skins  are  done by people who enjoy  trying things  and making them  they are not paid  and  some  do not  even  get taken  by HTC to be put in the MA.

  keep  up the good work guys

rogerdee

[coyo]

so they wouldnot be historically accurate skins.

I did, however, see a green b-17g skin a few days ago on the skins page. Hopefully it was submitted to HTC for approval

[wklink]

Originally posted by Easyscor
We don't have the dark green B-17 modeled in AH.

"Rosies Riveters" is a good example of the early green B-17s, an "F" model if I recall.  Notice that it isn't the "G" model we have in the game, you can tell because there's no chin gun and the waist guns are not staggered.  The closest we can do is the "light green" model but even those didn't have the Cheyenne tail gun or staggered waist guns.

Early G models were painted Olive Drab.  It wasn't until late 1944/early 45 before new bomber were delivered unpainted.  Depending on the aircraft you could have darker or lighter planes.  You are right about the gun positions and the cheyenne tail, those are in later model Gs but that is really nit picking IMHO.

The 457th BG had a bomber named arfnarf (I think) that was a G with a camo front and silver back, made from two different bombers that were pieced together.  

So an olive drab G model would be historically accurate.

[Krusty]

That's not why we don't have colored b-17s yet...

The reason we don't is because the "silver" gloss on most shiny US planes is hard coded in! If you do a green it looks all freaky and shiny and stuff. Nothing you can do to fix it. As such most people just leave it be, and don't bother.

Most are waiting for the B-17 skin to be remapped anyways. Then they'll try it.


Oh, and HT has said he'd accept spit versions that aren't in the game (I think the example was a Spit VII skin for the SpitV plane) so I see no  problem with skinning a non-cheyenne tailed b-17, or hell, even a B-17F. Now the B/C/D/E LOL those  might be a bit off.

My $0.02 ($3.98 CAN)

[Sp4de]

Why make B-17 skins when Spade can make skins in 5 mins.. here they are hope u enjoy











yeah its a work in progress.. imagine what i could do with 10 mins!:eek:

[XtrmeJ]

JOC will be so pleased spade. Better get that to him asap, he will be most appreciative.