Aircraft Skins - Anyone here like to make them?

[Sundog]

You know,
Looking at how many want to make skins, and as Nuttz stated, I am sure there will be more, perhaps we should ask HTC to add a 'Skins' Forum? That way, say Nuttz or I or whoever are working on a specific terrain, we can just request, say Eastern front summer '44, skins, etc.  Then you guy's can post them for everyone to use. Of course, I expect Voss to put up a ton of P-51 schemes for us to choose from BTW, please make me a P-51D of the 1st Air Commando Group with the black lightning bolts

For those of you who haven't made skins, there are plenty of links out there to help you learn, and you won't learn until you just dive in and do it .

Here are some references:
RAF Colors
RAF Colors
UK, US,  and German Aviation Colors

RAF Fonts
RAF Roundels
RAF Squadron Codes

The Hangers Skin Tutorial
The Aluminum Cloud Tutorial

Much of the above information should be useful in getting started. There are also many people who fly AH who are well versed in the use of various graphics software packages who  will also be able to answer your questions. All you need is Photoshop or Corel's pixel editing software, and, for those on a  budget of zero, you could use Gimp, which is free shareware.

Also, you will find if you concentrate on working on one plane type and don't flatten the main source file, it will be much easier after you make the first skin to make others (For those of you who haven't made skins before -)

I can't wait to see what all of you create!