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Offline oboe

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P-51B Work-in-progress
« on: March 30, 2017, 01:33:27 PM »
This is Capt Felix Roger's "Beantown Banshee":


Capt Rogers flew with the 353rd FS of the 354th FG.


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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2017, 01:42:00 PM »
Beautiful.    That exhaust rainbow is killer. The rudder ribbing and mottling are quite good. 

Wow. 
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2017, 01:47:43 PM »



Only adjustment I'd suggest is to desaturate the blue for the national insignia.




And that bottom screenshot needs to  be plastered over everything official AH3 from today going forward.
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2017, 01:48:21 PM »
Agreed, Devil, on both counts. 

That screenshot is amazing.

Reminds me of this:

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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2017, 02:34:35 PM »
Thanks guys.    That look from the Grinnell painting - that's what I was going after.  I've wanted to skin Beantown Banshee ever since I first saw that painting.   AH3's graphics and terrain are amazing - that screen shot is totally untouched except to crop and add motion blur to the background, and a slight blur to the subject. 

Devil can you suggest and RGB value for the blue in the insignia - or should I just desaturate until its basically almost black? 

Sources for this skin were pretty sparse.  I had the Grinnell painting, some photos of model kits people had built, and this photo:


That's all I could find.   Looking closely at it, I think I need to add some more black background around the name in the noseart.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2017, 02:36:57 PM »
Quote from: oboe on March 30, 2017, 02:34:35 PM
Thanks guys.    That look from the Grinnell painting - that's what I was going after.  I've wanted to skin Beantown Banshee ever since I first saw that painting.   AH3's graphics and terrain are amazing - that screen shot is totally untouched except to crop and add motion blur to the background, and a slight blur to the subject. 

Devil can you suggest and RGB value for the blue in the insignia - or should I just desaturate until its basically almost black?

While waiting on D5 to respond...

Roy's painting has the insignia hue in it on the fuselage...

Beautiful skin.  You nailed that screenshot.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2017, 02:45:15 PM »
Quote from: oboe on March 30, 2017, 02:34:35 PM

Devil can you suggest and RGB value for the blue in the insignia - or should I just desaturate until its basically almost black?

You want to gray out the blue more so than darken it. The insignia blue I used on my P-40's is RGB 49/57/67.


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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2017, 02:47:52 PM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on March 30, 2017, 02:45:15 PM
You don't want to gray out the blue more so than darken it. The insignia blue I used on my P-40's is RGB 49/57/67.

It looks too dark to me as is.  :headscratch:
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2017, 03:42:18 PM »
Quote from: Vraciu on March 30, 2017, 02:47:52 PM
It looks too dark to me as is.  :headscratch:

Yeah, the "don't" should not have been in there.  :bhead
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2017, 04:00:47 PM »
Disregard,...I was thinking P51D when I made that post.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2017, 06:53:45 PM »
Quote from: oboe on March 30, 2017, 02:34:35 PM
Looking closely at it, I think I need to add some more black background around the name in the noseart.

Judging from the paining and picture, the black seems to appear darker - like it might match the black ring on the nose just past the yellow - but it seems like the size of it is about right, looks like you went pixel by pixel, very percise from the perspective of a non skinner.

Glad you finally got to do this one Oboe!
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2017, 10:22:11 PM »
Very nice Oboe
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2017, 01:24:33 AM »
Really nice work Oboe.  Do you require any more photos of the aircraft?  I can check my library and see if I have anything is so.
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2017, 04:15:00 AM »
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Re: P-51B Work-in-progress
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2017, 04:34:05 AM »
Very nice Oboe, the insignia blue looks a bit off to me too.
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