KI-84

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You can take it as a boner in mah britches my friend.  You should've started skinning long ago Inky.

 

 

[lyric1]

Nice it's interesting when up close the grey looks sort of plastic but when you step back it pops & looks fantastic.

[B-17]

Nice it's interesting when up close the grey looks sort of plastic but when you step back it pops & looks fantastic.

I think that's just because the sun is on a wierd angle to the side of the fuselage.

[PropHawk]

I snipped just a few of your responses there.

1) You are right they were not black. However it was not a kamikaze plane. That was the thought when I did my Ki-84 skin, however it turns out with a bit more research the Ki-84s were too valuable to use for that purpose (and there were plenty of other older craft to do the job). These Ki-84s often escorted the kamikaze groups, but were the cover against US planes, rather than suicide pilots. They would have some weathering due simply to the heavy use and the weather and the quality of paint/primers in Japanese use.

2) I think I'm safe in saying that, while there are MANY different roads to take, yours is in fact the wrong one to take. You're not skinning a plane, or applying much actual paint. 3 layers? That's literally doing almost nothing. While you put effort into it, you really need to put some of your own effort in, rather than using 95% of the original. You need to paint your own parts, put on your own markings, etc. Even if you get creative with the mixing of details, with how you want to mimick what's on the default, you still need to do the work yourself. That's not subjective, that's just the right way to do it. You have to do it yourself. The first one is always daunting, but once you get over that uncertainty you'll find it's much easier than you thought it would be. Time consuming or not, that's how you do it. The thing about skins is there is no race. There is no time limit on it. If you only get so much done in a week, a month, a year, you just keep doing it when you have the free time. You don't need marathon sessions.

3) I mean this with no insult or ill will, simply as an attempt to help somebody get on the right path to figuring out how to skin....

The mistake was simply covering up part of the default. I'm not trying to be elitist nor to be snobbish or anything, but that's not skinning. Even if you make something look like something else that has already been done, or even if you want to do the exact same subject as somebody else, you have to do it. Otherwise it's like stealing somebody's work. I've heard one or two cases of that happening with AH skins in the past and the person copied was not happy at all.

Granted the default skins are there to use as a template, so it's a bit of a fine line, but I think if you want to work with skins you need to do much more than you have already. Work on just getting the solid colors in place, then work on the details. As you now the software that will help you greatly in figuring out how to do it. The "how" you do it is up to you, and this goes back to your subjective comments. It is subjective, and for the most part there is no wrong way as long as the results hold up (and as long as you didn't rip off somebody else's work). They just don't hold up here, and the effort isn't there.


I'm not picking on you, it's just not very good to try to skin that way. I wanted to comment on it to help (possibly).

IMHO, there is no right or wrong way when 1 your tattoos look like that  and 2 when your skins look like that   .
 PropHawk out.

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all right I think I am done

 

had a absolute blast making it, now I want to do more 

gonna post up a bunch of pics














 
ok now for some action shots

[lyric1]

 

[STXAce8]

I think i was the G-14 in the last pic! W000000T I shot down a guy flying a prototype skin! But got an assist. 

[USRanger]

Inky, if you'd like to see it as the default Ki-84 skin in a new terrain, let me know.

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I think i was the G-14 in the last pic! W000000T I  was shot down by a guy  flying a prototype skin!  

fixed

here is what happened to ya 

that was actually a good sortie for me I killed 3 of 6 or so...some times I get lucky

Inky, if you'd like to see it as the default Ki-84 skin in a new terrain, let me know.

that would be very cool

I truly hope HTC likes it and excepts it in game

besides two guys who ripped me a new arse...for using some of the default skin in my first attempt,(which incidentally I did not do on this, it is 100% my work ) it seems like it got very good reviews and would be flown by the community, it seems small maybe, but it would give me great pride to see it flown in game by others.


 

[nrshida]

A truly distinctive skin, full of character and personality. Not one trace of rusty steel anywhere. Excellent panel work and missing paint, Brilliant weathering. I especially like the contrast between the top and bottom (I was going to say the underside was my favourite, but I like the top as much too). Definitely got a ghost Hayate of the Pirates of the Caribbean feel about it 

A must for all those pilots who will fly it like they stole it! 

Very nice work. My compliments

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A truly distinctive skin, full of character and personality. Not one trace of rusty steel anywhere. Excellent panel work and missing paint, Brilliant weathering. I especially like the contrast between the top and bottom (I was going to say the underside was my favourite, but I like the top as much too). Definitely got a ghost Hayate of the Pirates of the Caribbean feel about it 

A must for all those pilots who will fly it like they stole it! 

Very nice work. My compliments

Thank You

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Nice dood

[MarineUS]

absolutely beautiful....I must have it xD

[morfiend]

Wow Ink,I've been following this thread and watching the progress. Your talent is showing bigtime!!


  I dub the skin stinky inky!


  Keep at it bro,maybe a G14 skin or a nice RCAF Mossie skin next please.



   

[B-17]

I wouldn't mind having these skins...they are all beautiful... and that poor 190 with no nose just OOZES my flying style.