56FG/63FS "Fireball"

[5PointOh]

56FG/63FS "Fireball", still have a little of finessing to do around the dorsal.  Everything there stretches odd.

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[StokesAk]

Looks nice Copr.

[B4Buster]

WOW! I like that one.

Anyone start a 62nd Green/Grey bird yet?

[Plazus]

Looks great Copr. My only opinion is are you able to make the nose art a little bit more "vivid"? It seems that its really toned down and faint. Otherwise, looks great! 

[texastc316]

need to sharpen the edges on the green text up top, and that color red in the R on the top left corner isnt the right shade for apr 45.


 

[Fencer51]

need to sharpen the edges on the green text up top, and that color red in the R on the top left corner isnt the right shade for apr 45.


 

 

[cactuskooler]

It kind of looks like your "Fire Ball" text is smaller than the picture shows.

[B4Buster]

The outer edge of a fire ball that is a lighter color should be a bit wider in the very front. Yours is a uniform width.

The tail of the fireball should flare up more than it does also.

The strip of red on the nose looks too dark aswell but it's a tough call.

[oboe]

Wow another beautiful skin.   I wouldn't be surprised if the fireball noseart actually had more yellow included for the flame effect but it may not show through on the old B&W photo well.     Just a suspicion, though - I have no proof to back it up.

You know if I were a pilot in WWII I think "Fireball" is the last name I'd put on my a/c.   I think back then tho "fireball" had a different connotation-probably associated with speed more than anything.

[Stoney]

IMO, lose the gun soot...

[Knite]

Heya Copr! I like it!

Only suggestions I'd have are to maybe "brighten" up the reds a hair to make the nose, fireball and the name stand out a little better (at least on my work monitor the text and image seem to be too close in luminosity to each other to stand out so I could be wrong on this one), the name itself looks a hair bigger (i.e. needs to be bigger), and shorten those gun soot trails a bit. Otherwise, 
=)

[5PointOh]

Thanks for all the great suggestions gents...I used everyones suggestions. For some reason the pic doesn't show the reds like in the game. The blue around the dorsal is a little wider than it should be, but I had to do it like that or else the round stretching made it look atrocious. But here it is...

[Stoney]

Another thing I just noticed...

On the P-47, when the flaps are retracted, they fit flush up against the trailing edge of the wing skin, so the only transition should be a straight line, with no shading to simulate a rounded front edge of the flap.  The aileron, on the other hand, should be shaded to simulate rounding, as you have it.  I think the aileron shading is much too heavy. 

Last, give us some different angles and bigger pictures so that we can see the details around the various parts of the plane.

[B4Buster]

tail of the flames still don't flare up enough.

[5PointOh]

Another thing I just noticed...

On the P-47, when the flaps are retracted, they fit flush up against the trailing edge of the wing skin, so the only transition should be a straight line, with no shading to simulate a rounded front edge of the flap.  The aileron, on the other hand, should be shaded to simulate rounding, as you have it.  I think the aileron shading is much too heavy.  

Last, give us some different angles and bigger pictures so that we can see the details around the various parts of the plane.

Shadowing fixed, Bigger than 1680 by 1050?