P-51B Work-in-progress

[oboe]

This is Capt Felix Roger's "Beantown Banshee":


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

[Vraciu]

Beautiful.    That exhaust rainbow is killer. The rudder ribbing and mottling are quite good. 

Wow. 

[Devil 505]

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.

[Vraciu]

Agreed, Devil, on both counts. 

That screenshot is amazing.

Reminds me of this:

[oboe]

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.

[Vraciu]

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.

[Devil 505]

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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Word to the wise: don't change half a sentence and then not proof read the whole thing. 

[Vraciu]

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. 

[Devil 505]

It looks too dark to me as is. 

Yeah, the "don't" should not have been in there. 

[Skuzzy]

Disregard,...I was thinking P51D when I made that post.

[Owlblink]

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!

[FTJR]

Very nice Oboe

[Fencer51]

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.

[lyric1]

 

[Greebo]

Very nice Oboe, the insignia blue looks a bit off to me too.