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[PropHawk]

I have several posts about a nightfighter mossie i made before  2.19 was downloaded. But now I cant get it to work, none of the other skins for mossies either open to suggestions. out

p.s. Go to Mossie 6 skin problem to post details.

[PropHawk]

Also I cant get the propellor spinners to be painted black. what .bmp file is the spinner in?
 

[STXAce8]

http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2009/06/bf-109g-14.html

Does anyone think they can make this skin please?

[FTJR]

I'll be making for the Mossie XVI when it comes. RAF 680  sqd, and  25BG  8 AF USAF.

[DERK13]

just a thought on a bomber skin how bout a 301st BG(H) skin would be nice

[Greebo]

Lyric1 found me some info on this 684 Sqn Far East Mossie Mk 16 which I will skin when I get time. It was painted silver all over to help reflect the heat.

[FTJR]

I'll be making for the Mossie XVI when it comes. RAF 680  sqd, and  25BG  8 AF USAF.

I withdraw my claim to the USAF skin, as I have no time at the moment.

Tks

[eww76]

Sweet. Now Does HTC take these skins into the planning and then into the game? Impressive. I used to do a lot of ww2 plastic model building.Painting and weathering along with the research were my favorite things.  Lots of resources in that field as well for ideas. I worked at a hobby shop and that's all I did was to research all of this stuff lol.Keep up the good work gentlemen.
 I may just try this skin thing......

[crowbaby]

can't get in the air at the moment, so looking at doing a little skinning.

Don't want to hit anything that's already filled its slots, so was going to have a go at the Ju88A-4 just to get my hand in. I know Greebo's already done some good skins there, but thought i'd work around them on some different schemes, maybe a wellenmuster mediterannean skin and a plain desert camo. First though I'm going to start on a basic battle of france/britain era factory default scheme belonging to KG51:

got most of the info i need, just can't find any good references for the walkways on the wings.

[Greebo]

I'm going to skin an olive drab B-29 from the 770th BS called Lady Boomerang.

[jolly22]

I'm going to skin an olive drab B-29 from the 770th BS called Lady Boomerang.

 

[viking73]

I'm doing a B-29 olive drab skin. Either "Ding How" or "Monsoon Goon" of the 444th. One problem I'm having is that it appears too shiny. Even the original B-29 does. Looking into dulling down. Any suggestions?

[Greebo]

Click on the material button in the skin viewer. Push the "specular" button and move all the sliders most of the way to the left. Adjust until you are happy then hit OK. This modifies a file called "material.txt" in your skin's folder. You need to include this file in the stuff you send HTC when you submit it.

[Krusty]

You can actually really screw up the look of a plane if you mess with the materials.txt file without thinking it through. I might suggest a better "fix" is to look for an existing skin that's similar to what you want, say the B-25C. Take the materials.txt file from there, and use that until you master the art of the materials.txt file. Myself and a few others have run afoul of it. You can get glowing skins when you are careless.

[Tyrannis]

I imagine so. I've done a bit of checking, and the A-24 was almost identical to an SBD-3, except it had its arrestor hook removed and used an inflated tail wheel (instead of the SBD's solid rubber). About 170 A-24As were made (equivelant to SBD-4) and the most were A-24Bs (equivelant to SBD-5) of which over 600 were made. A-24Bs were the dominant A-24 variant as early as 1942. Those in use in the Pacific in 1944 were most likely of this version. I also have found a couple of references that label a RNZAF profile as "SBD-5" -- I don't know if this means A-24B or if they actually received SBD-5s also, but given the minor differences I don't see much of an issue.

The only difference between SBD-3 and SBD-4 was switching from a 12v to a 24v system. The SBD-5, the most produced, had a larger ammunition capacity for the fixed guns, illuminated gunsights, and about 200 more horsepower (1200 up from previous 1000).

Given the fact that this skin is due for revision any day, that there's poor variety of options for it to begin with, that there are almost no skins for it at all, I doubt HTC will really reject it based on the A-24 issue. I'm thinking (assuming I do a good job) it will get accepted, then wiped clean for a fresh start when the SBD is remodeled.