Author Topic: Coming soon... (Read 882 times)

Treize69 · « **on:** May 17, 2007, 12:00:42 AM »

Along the lines of Krusty's question about skinning a late-model G6 as a G14, I submit the resources for my next 109 project- a late-model G6 of the pro-Allied Romanian Air Force as it would have appeared in the spring of 1945. I'm skinning it as a G14, though if told by skuzzy or pyro to do it as a G6, I will.

I'm not positive which markings I will use just yet, I will probably end up doing one that has either unique markings (like one profiled in an Osprey book with a yellow-black spiraled spinner) or one that can be tied to a specific pilot (like Tudor Greceanu's 'White 3" or Ion de Cesare's 'Blue 1'), I'm using the basic markings and weathering common among the references and will then modify the final product to match the example I settle on.

Treize69 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2007, 12:03:21 AM »

a couple more, these two from Grupul 7 Vanatoare... (the above is de Cesare's 'Blue 1' BTW)

Treize69 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2007, 12:05:21 AM »

Red 1...

Treize69 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2007, 01:46:07 PM »

Heres the photo I've been looking all over for, the one that got me started wanting to do the late G6. Lt. Ion Galea with his Hungarian fiancee and her sister and lt. Teodor Greceanu (on the stabilizer), at Miskolc, July 1945. Pic is low-quality and shrunk, I have it much clearer in several of my books.

Treize69 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2007, 01:49:07 PM »

This is the work I had done on Greceanu's 'Yellow 3' (not white, my bad memory) before the file disappeared off my computer.

MotleyCH · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2007, 05:57:22 PM »

Welcome back!:D

Treize69 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:55:36 PM »

Still don't fly much, usually log off in disgust after about 3 flights, often less. Still enjoy making skins though.

Treize69 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2007, 02:27:21 AM »

For some reason my skins won't show up offline (not listed in the hangar), even though they always used to and I didn't change anything in the folders. Weird.

Anyway, heres how it came out. Locotennt av. Tudor Greceanu, Grupul 9 Vanatoare (despite the G7V insignia, they were merged toward the end of the war), Wk-Nr. 165560, "Yellow 3". He scored no kills in this aircraft, though he ended the war with 18 Kills and at least 5 Probables. All his victories were scored against the Allies before the coup.

Big "Thank You" to Fencer for helping with the weathering, doing it his way came out much better than my G2 did.

Fencer51 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2007, 05:27:35 AM »

Not a problem.

On the listing, did you put in the 109xx.txt file? Also, sometimes they are under different names, check all the ones already there, yours may have replaced it for offline.

psst.. gausian blur that nose spiral..

Treize69 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 24, 2007, 01:02:42 PM »

I left it unblurred because (oh the joys of GIMP) whenever I tried to blur it I ran into problems like this.

I figured better to have it looking too sharp than have it not line up and look all wonky in motion.

Stoney74 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 24, 2007, 08:33:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Treize69
I left it unblurred because (oh the joys of GIMP) whenever I tried to blur it I ran into problems like this.

I figured better to have it looking too sharp than have it not line up and look all wonky in motion.

Did you paint the swirl with the hard pixel brush, the paint brush, or the path tool? If you use the path tool with the stroke function, it does a nice job of anti-aliasing the pixel transitions...May make it softer or perhaps you've already tried it.

Treize69 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 24, 2007, 09:55:30 PM »

A big problem I was having with it was the simple fact that black and yellow don't transition into eack other well. The contrast is so much that no matter how soft I tried to make the edge (pre-blurring) it looked too "masked off" and didn't blend together well.

Its not like white that you can darken a bit and still tell its white, darken yellow and it starts to look brown or orange, and look like crap.

Stoney74 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 24, 2007, 11:15:09 PM »

Well...yeah.

Just don't show anyone close ups without the prop turning...

Treize69 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2007, 03:14:41 AM »

I wanted to show the weathering around the cowling and underside of teh nose, was hoping noone would comment on the spiralschnause.