Ki-84-Ia 29th Sentai Finished

[Kweassa]

While still busy working on the "Historic 190s Project", couldn't resist doing this particular Ki-84.

 I'm pretty sure there are others already working on this one as it is one of the most famous profiles available, so I'd like to wait and see how others are doing also.  



 Only the basics are finished, and no weathering is applied yet.

 As you can see it doesn't look bad under some lighting angles(bottom pic), but I'm having trouble depicting metallic conditions under low light intensity(top pic).

 I'm wondering if anyone's got a good "metal plate" texture with nice visible results. The metallic textures I'm using on this Ki-84 was borrowed from experimental works I tried with the P-48 way back, and its got some problems.

[Kweassa]

About 80% Finished, still no weathering applied, some fixes/additions left.




 
 Studying methods to depict baremetal looks is an interesting experience. Not sure if its sufficient, but seems much better than first attempts.

 Pic was taken at 14:00, the same time, as the very first pic. Much better metallic look despite same sun light conditions.

[Cooley]

Very Nice, I have a pic of that one w/ the Blue on it.
In one of my books its described as flyin for  HQ Chutai, 29th Sentai summer of '45

[Fruda]

Now that's a spicy meatball! Great skin, man.

[Shane]

looks good...

[Wmaker]

Beautiful as always kweassa!

Are those canopy frames off limits as far as skinning goes or you just haven't got to them yet?

[Kevin14]

Yeah, how is that bitmap for skinning?  Any mirroring, unreachable areas...

[DYGCaps]

The top one looks sweet...wtg

[United]

Originally posted by Kevin14
Yeah, how is that bitmap for skinning?  Any mirroring, unreachable areas...

The B-24 and Ki-84 have no mirroring or stretching at all that I have noticed.  I just glanced at the Ki skin but I know that the B-24 has no stretching or mirroring.

[Kweassa]

Are those canopy frames off limits as far as skinning goes or you just haven't got to them yet?

 Some minor stretching involved with the anti-glare part, but rest of the areas are clean and scot-free, no mirroring at all. The canopy areas are  unfinished

 However, like IL2/FB all of the plane textures have been compiled into a single bmp file, so inevitably there is some loss in resolution.

[Octavius]

Noticed that Kweassa  Although the cockpit resolutions will certainly increase a ton with the other 1024 bitmap.

Looking good so far

[Kweassa]

By the way, anybody have a good reference on Ki-84 markings and texts?

 Geez, I live in the same international time zone as Japan, but you guys won't believe how hard it is to aquire Japanese books in Korea(much less Western literature!). Can't seem to find any decent reference on markings used in JP planes. I've seen the IL2/FB versions of Ki-84s but I think they're all too exaggerated in the first place.

 Any good sources?

[United]

Originally posted by Kweassa
Any good sources?

Mitsu

[thebest1]

Anyone have some pics of a cool KI84 paint? and i need to know how to make rivits on adobe photoshop 7 with out placing each one dot by dot!

[moot]

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