Comments on first attempt Please

[SteffK]

Kev...Did the panel lines as you suggested and they look better.

Greebo...I eventually got them sorted after 7 hours LOL. 3 hours yesterday and 4 today

I got them right by the following in the text window of PS7(CS)

70 point size.
11 point Leading.
-100 tracking.
120% vetical scaling.
110% horizontal scaling

What a beatch

This is how it looks so far, just wing Roundels, tail bars, A/C# and weathering to finish off.

[Josh]

Its preety good for a first try

[Kev367th]

Looks real good for 1st try.

Secrets to skinning-
Keep playing with the opacity (even on templates) to get what you want.
You have to exaggerate some details and tone down others compared to the real thing.
You can't have enough layers.
Experiment

Thats Spit 5 template I sent you is an early one, my latest have the white and black panel lines on seperate layers.
My typical skinning template now usually has 30+ layers and is 30mb+.

[SkyChimp]

I always use black panel lines. Yours still look a little dark i have my 30-60

[SteffK]

Cheers Josh .

Kev...Thanks for all the help, It's awesome .

On my Hurri, I have 26 layers on my HURR1SD and 16 on my HURR1WG, one is 5Mb the other is 3Mb.

It's just getting to know what all the different filters in PSP do .

I have been playing with that Spit template you gave me, when I got really annoyed and binned my Hurri in the Recycle bin...then decided against it...Too much work put into it to not finish it off...Anyway I promised Schatzi, My Squaddie, I would submit it for her as she doesn't have a 71 Sqn Skin for her Hurri

I'm gonna post the Hurri with All letters and roundels on, just with weathering left.

[SteffK]

Sky,

30-60 What?

Fill? opacity? Not sure what you mean, if Opacity, Mine are down to 80%...Will try them at 60% and see

[SkyChimp]

try 40-50:D

[rogerdee]

Schatzi is  a women:rolleyes:  damn and she keeps shooting me down  lol,

the sskin looks great  never bin a project always put it to one side if u have problems and wait for insperation,or a answer to a question from some one.
 u may not go back to the skin for months but hell its not doing any damage just sitting there on pc  ,.

[SteffK]

Update Time.

No weathering done yet, but all insignia and Lettering applied...Can any one spot any mistakes, cause I've been looking at it for soooooooo long LOL.

SkyChimp...I set the opacity to 40%, which seems to have calmed them down a bit

Rogerdee...Did you not know Schatzi is female?...She is a damm good pilot also

















Before anyone shouts out...The A/C # is under the Tail Band...Yes I know...Every picture I have seen has that...Even the Old Flying Machine Co Hurri XIIb they paint as XR-T A/C # BTW is Z3781 FYI.

Cheers Guys

[Kev367th]

Nice -
Only thing I can see is the lines on the port wing aileron.
I think they are supposed to look like ribs, but they need fading down (lower opacity).

Serial numbers ended up in all sorts of wierd configs, I have seen them -
Front end of upper tail (very small)
Partially under squadron codes.
None at all
Lots of diff one for planes with invasion stripes, i.e. overpainted, partially overpainted etc.

Only thing is I think your serial numbers are far too big. If you look at the actual pic of the A/C, they look maybe 1.5x as big as the outer yellow ring on the RAF fuselage roundel.

Look here, not your aircraft but shows relative sizes well
http://www.eaglestrikeproductions.com/cgi-bin/amddecals.pl?scale=48&setid=05&dbs=aeromaster&pgs=8&currpg=2&dclimg=sp4805&prfx=

[SteffK]

Kev,

Cheers, I see what you mean...Will have a bash at those.