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Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: nopoop on September 06, 2004, 06:47:17 PM

Lotsa fiddlin left to do. But figured a beautiful mudmover was long overdue.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1094514190_354thpost.jpg)

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: Guppy35 on September 06, 2004, 08:20:09 PM

umm...err..... WOW!  I'd say you hit another home run with that one :)

Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/169_1094519973_eaglestonjug.jpg)

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: nopoop on September 06, 2004, 09:03:55 PM

Thanks man, gonna steal your photo, I have the same one but the quality of mine sucks.

See some fiddlin just from your good quality shot.

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: Shane on September 06, 2004, 09:15:56 PM

cool one. I have the decal set for that jug.

but make it a pony - he did fly 'em.

:D

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: TBolt A-10 on September 06, 2004, 09:23:19 PM

I love it!  I'm guessing that you're gonna dirty it up before Pyro calls it a "pimp mobile?"  :)

That's the D40, correct?

nopoop

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: nopoop on September 06, 2004, 09:55:33 PM

LOL Shane I have a Hasagawa 72nd scale of it that got relagated to a Christmas ornament..

Tho I reeeely like 72nd scale Christmas ornaments. Got a BUNCH of 'um :D

T-Bolt I don't know on the beat um' up thing. Everything I try with a reflective skin looks like doo-do. If I do alittle you can't see it. If I do alot when it isn't reflecting...

Lotsa experimenting. The guys doing Ponies could probably point me in a direction. I'm sorta at a loss on where to go.

Thanks guys.

Title: Maj Glenn Eagleston’s P-47 D-30 353rd FS/354thFG
Post by: oboe on September 06, 2004, 10:35:14 PM

Can't wait to see it in game, nopoop!   Looks like its coming together well.

I learned one trick with Photoshop recently for bare metal.

First, make sure you have panels that aren't all the same shade of aluminum - there should be natural differences between access covers, patched sections, etc.   The create a new layer for variation.   I take a big airbrush and make giant splotches of black and white liberally on the metal surface.  Then I add some deep sky blue splotches  as well.  Then go to Filters and select Blur, Gaussian Blur, and crank up the radius to 40 or 50 - play with it a bit.    You might want to adjust the opacity of the layer too.   You wind up with nice, indiscernable variations that take on a bluish caste in certain reflected light.   You have to experiment a bit but sometimes it comes out amazingly lifelike.

Your black stripe on the stabilizer looks either to thin or too for outboard - can't tell which.

I really love that scheme - thanks for doing it!