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Offline Greebo

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805 NAS Buffalo
« on: March 02, 2014, 05:13:38 AM »
This aircraft was originally part of a Belgian order for Buffaloes that got taken over by the British following the fall of Belgium in 1940. It was assigned to 805 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The Belgian Buffaloes lacked arrestor gear and so were never used off RN carriers. During 1941 805 NAS was stationed in Egypt and was equipped with a mixture of Buffaloes and Fairey Fulmars and later with Martlets (Wildcats). This aircraft was one of three Buffaloes sent to defend Crete, but all three were already unserviceable by the time of the German invasion of that island and were destroyed on the ground.





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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2014, 05:51:35 AM »
Friggin' gorgeous.

Man.

Wow....

How do you guys get the flat paint effect?  Amazing!
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2014, 06:29:28 AM »
Beautiful skin! Now that we have that out of the way.

BURN THE BREWSTER!  :mad:
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2014, 10:50:23 AM »
Great skin, as usual Greebo!  :aok

Beautiful skin! Now that we have that out of the way.

BURN THE BREWSTER!  :mad:

Brewsters are still over modeled... 

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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2014, 11:37:42 AM »
 fantastic! :aok
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2014, 12:26:26 PM »
expertly done.  :salute
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2014, 01:23:27 PM »
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2014, 12:07:58 AM »
Great skin, as usual Greebo!  :aok

Brewsters are still over modeled... 

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They aren't overmodeled, but this skin should not be allowed on it.  No skin that isn't Finnish should be allowed on it.
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2014, 04:41:52 AM »
I can see your point of view Karnak, the Finnish variant had a better performance than any other Brewster used in WW2. However I checked with HTC when the B-239 came out and they are OK with any Buffalo variant being skinned on it.

Vraciu, the skin uses a specularity map which lets me alter how matt or shiny any pixel on the skin appears. In this case the base paint is RGB 32/32/32 on the spec map and there are various darker dirt effects overlaying that. The holes, shadows and panel lines are made much darker and so more matt on the spec map while the paint chips, glass lenses are mapped lighter and shinier. This gives a more realistic effect especially when the screenshot is taken from the right angle for the sunlight to reflect off the plane and show the effect.

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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2014, 07:44:57 AM »
I must fly it.  :noid
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2014, 07:50:26 AM »
 :salute
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2014, 08:09:10 AM »
They aren't overmodeled, but this skin should not be allowed on it.  No skin that isn't Finnish should be allowed on it.

Looks Finnished to me :bolt:
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2014, 11:46:13 AM »
Nice skin!  Too bad we dont have the actual model to put it on.   ;)
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2014, 12:44:55 PM »
I can see your point of view Karnak, the Finnish variant had a better performance than any other Brewster used in WW2. However I checked with HTC when the B-239 came out and they are OK with any Buffalo variant being skinned on it.

Vraciu, the skin uses a specularity map which lets me alter how matt or shiny any pixel on the skin appears. In this case the base paint is RGB 32/32/32 on the spec map and there are various darker dirt effects overlaying that. The holes, shadows and panel lines are made much darker and so more matt on the spec map while the paint chips, glass lenses are mapped lighter and shinier. This gives a more realistic effect especially when the screenshot is taken from the right angle for the sunlight to reflect off the plane and show the effect.

Amazing.  Is it hard to get the panel lines to match between layers?  Visualizing the process makes me think it would be tough.
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Re: 805 NAS Buffalo
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2014, 01:26:30 PM »
Looks Finnished to me :bolt:

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