Author Topic: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766  (Read 3950 times)

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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2011, 04:02:31 PM »
Good find. There are several panels and doors that are around the noseart that is not present in your skin. You might want to browse through other B29 photos to make sure that you have all the panel lines and rivets on your aircraft. Gear doors and bomb bay doors are also lacking in some subtle detail.

The B29 skins files are large. Take full advantage of it! There are so many things you can do to enhance your skin (adding more detail such as weathering, metal strees/fatigue, oil stains, dirt, etc.). Get creative, my friend!
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2011, 04:29:24 PM »
I was a little hesitant on going heavy with weathering and dirt since the aircraft didn't have many sorties before it was lost.  But you still think more?  I'll play with it some more.
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2011, 08:14:30 PM »
I was a little hesitant on going heavy with weathering and dirt since the aircraft didn't have many sorties before it was lost.  But you still think more?  I'll play with it some more.

I wouldn't hesitate.  If it's wrong, too dirty, etc... Krusty will come in here and inform us!  :D
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2011, 11:15:28 AM »
OK, trying something new...I've tried to give the metal panels a little more life...Opinions?

I think this has a more textured look to it...
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2011, 02:00:50 PM »
I think that is going in the right direction. :aok

You have lost that flat plastic look & it is now taking on the appearance of metal.

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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2011, 02:23:17 PM »
I think that is going in the right direction. :aok

You have lost that flat plastic look & it is now taking on the appearance of metal.

Can't say I disagree  :aok
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2011, 02:48:20 PM »
OK, trying something new...I've tried to give the metal panels a little more life...Opinions?

I think this has a more textured look to it...

Coprhead,

That is exactly what I was trying to describe! This is absolutely fantastic bare metal finish right there, sir! :salute
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2011, 04:04:42 PM »
Better Pics
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2011, 05:01:29 PM »
Coprhead,

That is exactly what I was trying to describe! This is absolutely fantastic bare metal finish right there, sir! :salute

Aren't the B-29s painted silver?
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2011, 05:07:48 PM »
The picture at the top looks like bare metal to me...but I have seen other pictures where they have a painted look.
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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2011, 09:48:47 PM »
Aren't the B-29s painted silver?
I always thought they were bare metal? At least this one is.


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Re: The Leading Lady B-29 42-24766
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2011, 04:05:53 AM »
That's a nice skin 5PointOh. The rivet shading effects are definitely a worthwhile improvement.

WRT painted areas on the B-29 I've done a fair bit of research on this, including reading the painting instructions in the B-29 maintenance manual. Apart from the first olive drab examples B-29s were mostly unpainted inside and out. The exceptions to this were the pressurised crew areas, the exposed areas of which which were painted in chromate green. The bomb and wheel bays were left unpainted. Externally the gun turrets, front lips of the cowlings and the bomb aimer's canopy framing were primed and then painted aluminium as well as all the fabric covered control surfaces. The front nose leg was often painted in yellow green primer.

Also on the B-29A much of the wing skin was made of a higher strength alloy that corroded more easily, so this was also primed and painted aluminium. On the default skin you can see this as a darker area extending across most of the upper wing between the front and rear spars and out to the wing insignia. Underneath the wing only part of the area between the inner nacelles and fuselage was painted. The fuselage section adjacent the wing join was also painted this way.

Early B-29s had a different wing construction and so may differ here, I'd guess the fuselage section may not have been painted on these. Also I am not sure if all the internal areas of the olive drab B-29s would have been painted in primer or left unpainted, I've not found any good info on this.

Note modern restored examples of B-29s are not good references to paint on B-29s, particularly "Fifi". Many of these have been painted to protect them from the effects of corrosion more than for historical accuracy. The exception to this is the Enola Gay in the NASM, this shows the painted sections of the wing particularly well.
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