Originally posted by Krusty
I hate to say it, I really do, but if it's just the plain old SEAC camo then there's not TOO much of a reason to skin it. The problem with these spits is that all the skins are 99% identical. It's like the 15 different P47s all BMF with just different color rings around the cowlings and wing tips.
While the yellow on the nose and around the wolf's head is something, I don't consider that "colorful" -- but this may be because I've been doing "colorful" LW skins -- which have much more variation.
I say if you've got one SEAC painted spit of that mark, ya don't necessarily need another. Are there any non-standard skins? At least different markings maybe? Non-RAF roundels? Something noticably different?
Krusty,
I think the key is to get the best representative group of skins for each Spit variant.
We don't have an SEAC Spit VIII, we have an RAAF Spit VIII. Clive Caldwell's bird.
If you are going to fill the slots, you'd hopefully end up with the two tone brown VIII of the MTO, a Gray/Green MTO bird with red nose and codes, a Gray/Green SEAC bird, a Green/Brown SEAC bird, the shark mouth 457 Squadron RAAF VIII, the 31st FG USAAF VIII in the two tone brown camo
That's 6 VIIIs to go with the default. You aren't going to find much other variation for the VIII. I suppose Kev could do his normal span winged VII skin on the VIII which would give it that high alt camo.
For the IX, you've got the pink FR bird, a D-Day striped bird, possibly a high alt camo bird, a USAAF 31st FG IX, maybe a Russian IX. French marked IX is a possibilty. Black nosed, no tail band 2 TAF IX.
XVI is even slimmer. The one I posted gives it some color with the red white and blue nose, otherwise you are talking the standard home based camo like the 602 bird Kev did or the 2 TAF camo with the black nose and no tail band.
So if someone does one of the Polish Spits it would help as they at least put a bit of nose art on their IXs and XVIs along with bomb symbols etc.
