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Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on September 05, 2004, 12:59:22 PM
I've just posted this skin to The Skin Department (http://www.ah-skins.com/index.php). It is a Hellcat Mk II of 1839 Squadron operating from HMS Indomitable in the Pacific in 1945.

(http://www.ah-skins.com/skins/screenshot159.jpg)
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: rogerdee on September 05, 2004, 01:18:54 PM
very nice  another  fine  job  
damn it  man    your  work  is just  getting  too  good
:aok
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Kevin14 on September 05, 2004, 05:48:45 PM
Greeb, I thought you said you were done with the carrier planes for a while?  I'm not complaining though, all of your skins are awesome!
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Redd on September 05, 2004, 07:23:59 PM
Fantastic Greebo , I 'm going to think of  that one as an Aussie Hellcat   ;)  Look forward to  flying it .
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: TequilaChaser on September 06, 2004, 12:05:58 AM
Very nice Greebo



Greebo, would you please email me

TequilaChaser@bellsouth.net

I have a few questions regarding F4U skins...thank you in advance
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: AaronM2 on September 06, 2004, 12:31:07 AM
{*drool*} Very nice i love it :)
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: jetb123 on September 06, 2004, 12:37:44 AM
Good job Greebo.
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Nomde on September 06, 2004, 01:36:01 AM
Excellent work greebo :aok

It's nice to have varied country insignias. The library is filling :)
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Furball on September 06, 2004, 03:13:20 AM
wow, that is really beautiful greebo.

i'm looking for someone to do a 109G-2, i have all the pictures ready, would you be interested?
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on September 06, 2004, 01:47:25 PM
Thanks for the kind comments guys.

When I finished the last FM-2 I'd intended to start on the A-20 but got discouraged with the bugs I found in the skin and the lack of variation in the A-20G schemes. So I decided to ignore the mirroring issues with the F6F and do a few of those instead. But I've exhausted the Hellcat now, can't really do any others where I wouldn't just be repeating myself.

I'd do some F4U-4s or 1Cs but I can't find any interesting schemes, dark blue is soooo boring. Besides that skin is horribly buggy.

So I've begun work on the A-20 again. Some nice A-20 profiles and pictures Airmess has just sent me has got me interested in it again. I'll just have to live with the bugs. That's going to keep me busy for the next month or two so I won't be able to do the 109G-2. Isn't it basically the same as the other 109G skins then?
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Citabria on September 06, 2004, 03:34:19 PM
kickass greebo great paint chipping too.

love the burma and pacific paint schemes.

you think about trying the RAAF p47d in burma colors?
Title: Greebo...VF-17 skin
Post by: Reschke on September 06, 2004, 03:52:48 PM
I thought you had that skin posted over at the Skins Departement site? I just went looking for it and didn't find the skin. I know it was a little off the mark but I am trying to do a specific screenshot with it.
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on September 07, 2004, 02:52:44 AM
The VF-17 skin is still up there. It is an F4U-1 skin, maybe you were looking under the F4U-1D skins? Sadly Skuzzy wouldn't let that sort of substitution go though.

Thanks Citabria. I'm not thinking of doing any P-47s, nopoop and coyo seem to have those well covered. However I am going to do a 20 Sqn RAAF A-20. Also a USAAF New Guinea A-20, not sure which one yet, something with some interesting noseart.
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Citabria on September 07, 2004, 04:00:39 AM
heh a20/boston in pacific colors the posibilities for that plane are endless. russian raaf us british etc. and once its greebo'd in high rez textures it will look amazing. superflies 3d model of the boston a20 is spot on in every proportion.

look forward to seeing that.

the boston and a20 skin setup was interchangable in ah1 should be same in ah2.
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Reschke on September 07, 2004, 12:28:01 PM
Thanks Greebo I must have been looking in the wrong plane slot. Anyway I will have to give them a call over at HTC and see why they will not let that work of art go through since it is the authentic one. I think it only compliments the one that never left the states or carrier work ups in the Carribean.
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: oboe on September 07, 2004, 12:58:45 PM
Beautiful job, Greebo!

Hey, I'm not sure how you get such good resolution and detail out of a screenshot.   How do you convert the bmp to jpg?   I use MSPAINT (PS 6 won't open the screenshot bmps).   I usually resize the jpg in PS then, but even with the settings on high quality, you can't see the rivets or panel  line in my skins....

Do you run AHII at 1600x1200?


Thanks!
Title: 1839 Sqn FAA Hellcat
Post by: Greebo on September 07, 2004, 02:04:22 PM
I think the reason Skuzzy wouldn't allow the VF-17 skin is that the F4U-1 is visibly different to a F4U-1A. If I could have got it to work as a F4U-1D skin it might have got through. Unfortunately, the F4U-1D skin has overlap issues on the wings and mirroring issues on the underside of the fuselage and tail. It would have looked horrible from below.

The Boston and A-20 are identical apart from the vertical stab, which is mirrored on the Boston. I reckon I could do 10 quite different looking skins between the two.

The A-20 is good WRT outline, but not so good as far as texture placement is concerned. The nacelles are a hodgepodge of different texture areas which are a pig to get lined up. Also the lower wings are mirrored left and right, but the right wing texture is the scale equivalent of a foot further forward than the left one. So all the lower panel lines are going to be a foot out on one wing or the other. An area of the upper wing outboard of the nacelle is used to skin the upper cowls and extreme rear of the nacelles which has effectively killed off the D Day striped plane I was going to do. Also it means no fine detail on the bits of the nacelles you see most from the cockpit. I'm afraid to look too closely at the fuselage yet, I might get pissed off with it again. :)

Oboe, I have two installations of AH2 on my PC, one for online use and one for skinning. The skinning one is run at 1600 by 1200 and with textures set to 1024 res. I load the screenshots into Paint Shop Pro and crop them to 1024 by 768 for the screenshots. After adding other planes etc as seperate layers I save the whole lot as a jpeg.

If you can't open bmps in PS 6 I'd guess you need to tell PS to become the default programme for bmps, rather than MSPaint. In PSP this is found under File/Preferences/File format associations, not sure about PS though.
Title: I must infuriate Greebo
Post by: Samiam on September 07, 2004, 02:29:09 PM
The way I am always ruining his best work, bringing them home missing peices and full of bullet holes.

Sorry, Greebo. I love your Grumman skins and do not intend any disrespect when I irresponsibly get them all scuffed up.

Keep up the good work!