NEEDED - Skins for Midway

[ramzey]

Im still loking for color profile/squadrons marking for PBY, friend promice me send a colour photo of b17 from 19th BG
I hope skin foer goon will be ready friday night. B17 saturday or sunday.
I repainting all lines on aircraf for template . That give possibilyty to easy make other skins for that plane /RAF c47, euro b17/

ramzey

[jordi]

THANKS !

[Dux]

... apart from a couple of minor details, this one is ready. Jordi, e-mail me if it looks like something you'd use. Next on deck is the TBM and Wildcat.

[jordi]

Originally posted by Dux
... apart from a couple of minor details, this one is ready. Jordi, e-mail me if it looks like something you'd use. Next on deck is the TBM and Wildcat.

I will let sundog look at it to be inserted into the Midway terrain.

THANKS and keep them coming !

Jordi

[Voss]

Originally posted by Wotan
US colors

http://www.concentric.net/~Rojo1/camocolors.html

Heh, a lot of mystique about aluminum. Apparently, the author didn't recognize the reflective properties and off color print problems.

[Grimm]

Nice looking PBY/C47  I got it in your Mail.  I forwarded that mail to Jordi to see.

Between all you Skin Guru guys, We will have some cool planes for Midway

Thanks to all that have stuff done, or in the works.

Grimm

[ramzey]

im still loking for b17 color schema

now working on VAL skin /green/, finish time saturday if im back from paretnts citty, if not sunday.

ramzey

[jordi]

skins previes for PBY/goon are ready/

Im not finde any dravings with sure historical markings
And decide to use only standart scheme for USNY.

NO squad markings, no serial number, no tac number.

To not make bigger historical mistakes;)

pictures are here:









skins:
http://www.raf303.org/ramzey/skins/PBY/C47A2.bmp
http://www.raf303.org/ramzey/skins/PBY/C47A1.bmp

ramzey

[ramzey]

LT Kobayashi Michio's
Aichi D3A1 Type 99 "Val"
Hiryu Kanjo Bakugekikitai














This plane flown by LT Kobayashi Michio, Commander of Hiryu's Bombing Squadron on June 4, 1942. Kobayashi, flying BII-201, along with his gunner, WO Ono Yoshinori, led the first counter attack by Hiryu against Yorktown on the afternoon of June 4. This strike composed of 18 D3A1s, divided into two nine plane Chutai (the rough equivalent of US divisions) and six A6M2 Zeros.

Only one bug /or mby not bug/, elevators top/bottom cannot by paint separatly, so i live all green.

Big for man/woman who make skins for last update, looks much better then early HTC skins

skins:
http://www.raf303.org/ramzey/skins/Val/D3A1.bmp
http://www.raf303.org/ramzey/skins/Val/D3A12.bmp

ramzey

ps. im still loking for b17E midway paint schema, so farr have only one from AW scenario

[ramzey]

me, once again;)

if u need more skins, pls finde me colour painting shcema , or pictures/in color/ of aircraft or scale model .
Much more time i spend searching historical data, then rework skins, and my modem burs;)

ramzey

[Dux]

As best as I could considering the original mapping. You'd be surprised how much wasted "whitespace" is on this skin.

[Epsilon 5]

Originally posted by Dux
As best as I could considering the original mapping. You'd be surprised how much wasted "whitespace" is on this skin.

Umm he said the TBM is for both teams. maybe you should remove the logo, since he asked the tbm to be generic.

[Dux]

Ummm maybe I will wait and see if they actually use the skins first, then I can easily remove the roundels if they ask me to.

Ramzey, have you started the B-17 yet? If not, would you like me to? I was going to do the Wildcat next, but after looking at it closer, I realized it is already in Midway-era scheme... so one less skin to work on.

[ramzey]

Dux,
i chk b17 skinning possibilyty and finde colour schema
but HTC make couple errors skining b17, all markings have alpha channel which one cannot be removed from skinning leve.
And som white holes on elevator and wing ruine green camuflage .

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66942

So i think this b17 model cannot be repainted to 1942 army schema.

So its end  of list skins, Zeke can be repainted but i dont see reason to do that. Now schema are correct, and we can change only carrier markings on the plane

Jordi, Grimm any other requests?

ramzey

[Dux]

Hey Ramzey, I found a trick for those Alpha-channel markings...

One of the "blue" planes that I exported from the Terrain Editor (don't remember which now) had 2 extra files, in addition to the normal skins; these 2 files were called MARKING.bmp and MARKING_a.bmp. The first file is a skin of a couple styles of blue & white stars, a Russian star, and a Canadian oak leaf. The second file is the alpha for the first, which clips the silhouette of the markings.

Check your Savedtex folder to see if you have these files already. If not, export a bunch of Blue planes and they will show up.

All you have to do is open the Alpha file, and black out the hole for the unwanted marking. When you compile the shape, the old marking becomes invisible. That's how I did the SBD and TBM.

Only drawback is... any planes that are used in this terrain AND use that markings file will have to have their markings painted directly onto the skins. Not a big problem though.

As for the mystery panels on the B-17...? I think having a 95% green B-17 is still better than not having one. I'm planning to work on this plane regardless of Midway, so if I find any solutions, I'll pass them on.