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Offline Guppy35

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« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2005, 11:20:18 PM »
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I believe that I have seen a photo with "Kidd" on the right gear door as well. At least one commercial decal sheet for the plane provides two of them.

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Hmmm.  Everything I've seen said it was just the left gear door.  Do you remember where you saw the info on the right?

It clearly had Kidd on the left before it got the Malcom hood.  This photo shows it during that time.  The pre-Malcom hood canopy is still on.

But the photo from the right side when it's apparently getting the Malcom hood does not show anything but the black ID stripe on the right.
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« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2005, 11:41:01 PM »
POOCHY!!!
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2005, 06:57:37 AM »
Question does the plane have the "nose art" on both left and right?? Are kill markings on both left and right?

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« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2005, 07:37:34 AM »
OK made some progress.

Still a few things to do.

Latest fixes

*Id lines added on wings and elevators.
*"Kidd" added.
*Olive dab adjusted.
*Red nose color moved.
*Kill markings adjusted so that train and ships are included.
*Right side nose art, kill markings removed and QPL corrected.
*Plane lines adjusted to work better with mix of metal and color.



Still left to do.

*Weathering
*Remove olive dab from engine exhausts
*Fix missed things.

Bugs found in model.
*Wheels cant be made white. The currently grey wheels are actually 100% bright white in the texture. (see pic)
*Wheel door is wrong shape. Look at the pics in this thread and note how the wheel house covers part of the wheel. Which it doesnt do in the AH model. (see pic)



Question for Dan.

The line over "Kidd" is it part of the id line or is it "outside" the id line? I think it is so that the area "clean area" between "Kidd" and the line is actually erased id line. What you think? (see pic)



Tex

EDIT: Note: Materials.txt was disabled for these screen shots.
« Last Edit: August 27, 2005, 08:00:28 AM by TexMurphy »
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Offline SkyChimp

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« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2005, 01:11:43 PM »
Heya tex sorry but I don't think the metal looks real. Looks like you added noise and blurred it. Maybe fade the black a little.
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« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2005, 01:15:10 PM »
Also tail stripe too wide
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #36 on: August 27, 2005, 07:31:20 PM »
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Heya tex sorry but I don't think the metal looks real. Looks like you added noise and blurred it. Maybe fade the black a little.


Yeah its a noice effect Ive been workin at which actually does look interesting but is hurting from the "blur" added by the JPG compression.

Its still not tuned though.

Tex.
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« Reply #37 on: August 27, 2005, 10:38:55 PM »
Tex,

Why does your wheel door look different than mine?  Yours is too short, while mine is longer, but with a transparent area at the bottom rear (see http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158635.  Almost as it the whole bottom half of your door is transparent.

Also, I am able to achieve white on my tires (which in turn shows through the rear of my wheel door...).  Could you have forgotten to adjust transparency?
« Last Edit: August 28, 2005, 12:29:34 AM by TDeacon »
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #38 on: August 28, 2005, 05:47:18 AM »
HA!!

Just realized something.... shock absorbers are compressed when landed... takeoff and the shock absorbers are decompressed and hence the wheel moves... you can even see this when you take droptanks and drop them on the runway...

Amazing how much detail there is in the new models.

Tex
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Offline Fencer51

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« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2006, 10:36:47 AM »
What happened to his skin?  Did it ever get finished and submitted?
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« Reply #40 on: January 16, 2006, 11:52:13 AM »
I've got a decal scan with some basic info for an RAF scheme with a shark's mouth under the chin. I don't think I'll ever get around to making it, if anybody's interested e-mail/pm me.
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« Reply #41 on: January 16, 2006, 01:05:54 PM »
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I've got a decal scan with some basic info for an RAF scheme with a shark's mouth under the chin. I don't think I'll ever get around to making it, if anybody's interested e-mail/pm me.


Ah we already got a RAF Mustang.

Anyway back to the topic.  What happened to Kid Hofner's P-51B Salem Representative?
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #42 on: May 28, 2006, 07:29:59 AM »
Finally done and submitted...

Not happy with it but well well... making a mixed metal and paint skin is virtually impossible as the material applies to everything...

Tex
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« Reply #43 on: May 28, 2006, 12:42:45 PM »
Post a pic Tex?  It looked good when we last saw it!
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« Reply #44 on: May 28, 2006, 01:54:55 PM »
Will see if I can get my hosting to work... changed my home network...

In the meantime Im workin on finishing another 90% done project... a extreamly worn Ki84 of the 1st Rensei Hikotai...

Tex
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