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Offline Greebo

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3 RNAS Camel
« on: March 24, 2010, 11:26:19 AM »
Here's where I've got to with my 3 RNAS Sopwith Camel. The Royal Naval Air Service allowed a lot more latitude with paint schemes than the RFC. With 3 RNAS this aircraft was flown by Lt Breadner as well as Lt Mackay who scored 3 kills in it. Later it was transferred to 8 RNAS and then 213 Sqn where it got one more victory at the hands of Lt Mackay.

The Camel is a bit of a pain to skin due to the texture compression that AH uses. It does not like the RFC olive drab type colour at all and turns dark shaded areas bright green and light shaded areas red. It also loses any subtlety in the shading, you get a blotchy effect which looks awful. This makes it very hard to do any decent 3D effects on the skin. I'd like to be able make the ribs on the wing stand out a bit more, but this colour problem makes the skin look weird if I do that, particularly when viewed from the cockpit.



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Offline lyric1

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 11:45:44 AM »
That is a wild scheme looks like a 21 table. Nice job. :aok
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Offline Krusty

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 11:53:00 AM »
"Place ya bet! Place ya bets!"

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Offline whiteman

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2010, 11:55:44 AM »
Thats badass!
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Offline Nr_RaVeN

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2010, 02:44:06 PM »
Love It  :aok
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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2010, 03:36:27 PM »
Sweet Greebs!
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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2010, 03:45:42 PM »
Great looking Camel, Greebo!

Beautiful job with the prop texture!
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Offline 007Rusty

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2010, 04:21:51 PM »
Great job   :aok      :cheers:
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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2010, 04:45:36 PM »
Sweet.   :aok
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Offline Nr_RaVeN

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2010, 10:44:07 PM »
Greebo...Did you shoot that D7 Because it was pink?
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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2010, 11:28:12 PM »
Awesome  :rock
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Offline Greebo

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Re: 3 RNAS Camel
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2010, 07:32:12 AM »
Quote from: Nr_RaVeN on March 24, 2010, 10:44:07 PM
Greebo...Did you shoot that D7 Because it was pink?

It was a 50/50 chance actually. :) I spent a few minutes offline trying to get either of the German drones to catch on fire but I kept on killing the pilot first which forces it to respawn. In the end I side-slipped to get some bullets into the side of the fuel tank with a deflection shot.

Just realised I forgot to enable self shadowing for the screenshots though, which is annoying. :furious

Reskinning the propeller was pretty easy really, Paint Shop Pro has a nice wood texture effect that worked well on it. I've decided to redo the damage bitmaps to match this skin and that's proving a bit trickier. Think I know how to do it now though.
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