Dan /Guppy white spit IX

[Skydancer]

so who's going to skin it?

[rogerdee]

i am giving it a try  but i am finding it hard to do bare metal and  harder  to get  a silver colour,all the guys bare metal  loks great  but mine defenitly sucks

[Engine]

Make sure you do the anti-glare panel properly!

[rogerdee]

been having a try with bare metal,damn hard thing to do,dont know how you guys get it to look so good  its driving me nuts.

here what i got so far  any hints on how to get it  looking  better  will be gratefuly recived
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I know i still got miles to go

rogerdee

[oboe]

One thing, with a Spit IX you don't have a material txt file yet, so you can't control the specularity, which for the SPit IX would be set non-glare, camo paint.   SO I'm not sure anything you do will look quite right.

Kev had some really helpful ideas in one of the P-38 threads a while back.   He divided a layer up into panel sections that ranged in shade from balck to almost white.   Then he adjusted the opacity to make that layer just barely visible.   Then he did a different layer, also based on panel sections, with each section shaded in a gradation from the edges inward.   He overlayed these two layers and played with the opacity between them.

Pretty cool effect.   Metal is tough - you gotta just keep playing with it.   Somewhere I had a profile of a metal P-47.   It was a jpg file and you can get colors for silver/aluminum from that....

Found it:

[rogerdee]

still trying  and  this natural finish is damn hard,i dont know how you guys manage to do it,its driving me mad:mad:
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rogerdee