Last time I talked to him, he planned on asking for one of his 4th FG skins to be replaced. IMHO, that is a mistake since the two 4th skins are significantly different (invasion stripes and the very unique Man-O-War) from anything else in the current selection while the two 352d birds will be very similar with the exception of the yellow wingtips. I tend to look at how a plane looks as another plane flying near me so big color contrasts tend to be more important to me than the fine details. They're his skins, though, so until an official skin rotation policy is set up (and it should be!!), I'd say it's up to him to ask for what he wants done with them.
Here's Fencer's 4th FG skins currently in the game:
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Regards,
Hammer
Hiyas Hammer.
First of all when I submitt the skins they become the property of HTC and they can do with them as they will. All I can do is ask. I had asked a couple months ago for Skuzzy to delete two of my P-47D11 skins as there were several new D11s being done, and I had did mine back in 2005 and they were dated by my new "standard" that I can accomplish with skins. I had no desire to go back and redo them, and had hardly ever saw them in game, so why not open up a couple slots. Skuzzy was kind enough to agree to take a look at doing that, and hopefully a couple new D11 skins will get in game.
The 4th FG 51D with the invasion stripes was the first skin I did. I have updated three times or so since as I got better and it is by far my favorite P-51 scheme ever. Yet it has been in game since winter 2006. Again these are HTC's and all I can ever do is ask them to replace a skin with another skin. I recently did that for Shifty and the 353rd FG guys, before they transfered to a bomber squadron, and HTC was kind enough to replace a rather unique skin 357th FG "Frenesi" which was one of two all olive drab 51D skins we had. Probably not the ideal thing based upon Hammer's criteria (which I cannot and will not dispute) but I knew the 353rd skin would be used and appreciated.
As I stated in another thread I am going to do more 51 skins. They may never get added but I like doing them, they are a way for me to relax and 51s are my favorite plane. If all 7 planes I submitted for this latest skin pack get accepted I will have close to 50 skins accepted by HTC with vast majority, baring 1 51B and 2 51Ds, in game. While I love 51s I decided early on to do other skins for other people's favorite planes, some of these planes I don't even fly but I wanted to do what I could to flesh out the skins in the planeset.
So I do intend to do more 51s, as well as other planes, I updated the panel lines on my template to anti-aliased and added more detail to it. The only way to get different 51Ds in game, baring skin rotation by HTC, is to ask HTC to replace the ones I have in game. I asked the 4th FG guys to pick a 51 they would want to keep, and got one response from PH. Guess the majority of the 4th don't care or appreciate them.
Out of the 4 51Ds I have in game asking to replace a 4th FG skin to add a new skin is the only way to add a different 51D skin without depriving a squadron of one to fly. I had thought about replacing it with a 352nd skin as that is my new squadron, giving the 352nd two 51Ds to fly, after all the ability to do skins should have some benefit for me! I have recently been pondering asking them to put the 348th FG skin in game instead and just redoing Cripes A Mighty 3rd to the new standard. I know how much Skuzzy loves updating skins already in game!
