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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: nopoop on September 19, 2004, 05:36:40 PM
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P47D-27 as per Guppys information. Getting it together Guppy :). At first with lack of fancy stripes
or camo I was at a loss. But with the sparse markings I got interested in aluminum panels.
I found the more you fiddle with them, the more you learn and the more you enjoy "just" aluminum.
Hope you like it, still have the other side to put together. Regardless I'm learnin bunches.
Driving my lady nuts.
"LOOK AT THIS PANEL HONEY !!!!"
"Oh that's neet dear..."
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1095632623_vikingpost.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/474_1095636193_vikingpost3.jpg)
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Being a (http://www.teamflagstore.com/packers.jpg) fan, I must object to this insanity :D
Football aside, looks great :)
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Ah come on, you don't like Daunte and Moss?
Anyway, that skin kicks ass. If HT approves it, it will be my main Thunderbolt skin.
Great work, dude.
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Thank you very Nopoop.
I know he'll be thrilled.
This is he (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=48951&referrerid=710)
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nopoop whats ur secret, I MUST KNOW. all of ur panals and weathering looks amazing.
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Originally posted by thebest1
nopoop whats ur secret, I MUST KNOW
It's no secret. It's fiddling. And always fiddle on a seperate layer. Look at real photo's, other guys work, Quite a few guys here have some real sweet stuff. You'll get an "eye" for what looks right.
After many many MANY experiments that really look like crap you'll discover one little thing that works. And then move on to the next layer..
Don't be satisfied with the first, second or third draft, or even number thirty. Be satisfied when it looks right. When it looks "right" then go with it, not before. Take your screen shots with the best light. Fiddle with light like you fiddle with layers.
THEN you'll see someone do somethin different that is reeeel sweet and just drools realism. How did he do that ??? Figure it out.
Every skin you learn more. I look at skins that I've done that looked "right" when submitted and now all I see is "Jeez that sucks, why didn't I do this or that", or "I should have beat this one up a WHOLE lot more.."
Every one is a new adventure, a new challenge, something to build and learn from.
If you use Photoshop drop me an email. I have a little 1.5 meg PSD that shows wing panel layers and gives you somethin to fiddle with and get ideas.
nopoops190@sbcglobal.net
Thanks guys !! You make it a blast.
as an example thebest the second photo shows the cowl coloring as brighter then the rest of the fuse. Fiddling will commence. On a different layer :D
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Thx nopoop, you've done earl a well deserved honor.
I'm working on a 1/48 one. gonna be a beetch to freehand the lettering and llightning bolt. unless i rip it off and make a stencil from your skin.
:)
here's more info about earl...
MILLER EARL D.
SS DFC AM
P-39/P-47
USAAF 350th FG/345th FS
N.Africa to Italy
He also served in viet nam flying Sky Raiders (Sandys) - A1-D/H's
http://www.worldwar2pilots.com/earlspage.html
http://www.worldwar2pilots.com/earlspage.html#347th
http://www.worldwar2pilots.com/AAF-F-Miller,Earl01.htm
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thebest, nopoop made that sample for me, and I tell you what. I learned more detailed things from that small sample than I have my entire time skinning. Its great, and I definately recommend getting it from him.
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Thanks. In a very very small way, if it's a salute' to a veteran, it's more than I can ask for.
Our salute' to him.
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Its a salute to all the great work you do, and that you're very helpful as well. :)
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Looks great nopoop :)
Your work is very very much appreciated!
Dan/Slack
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Too bad we don't have a P-39 to skin after the one Earl flew.
ack-ack
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nopoop, you rock.
WTFG man, ~S~
culero
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Wow. that is superb Nopoop. Was going to attempt making a skin but what I had so far was.....well I'll be totally honest. It's the equivalent of a cavedrawing in comparision to your art :)
Thanks. (is it available via email or link?)
Westy
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That's as sweet as earl himself.
Sakai
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NoPoop,
Nice work, After CON Ill have call Dutch (earl) for Lunch and show him the screen shots. Maybe can get him to sign them and mail them to ya.
Thanks for your efforts.
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Can you tell there are a lot of fan's of Earl out there nopoop :)
He's a heckuva nice guy if you ever get a chance to meet him.
Image of Earl in his postwar P51D stateside in 1947
Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/169_1095715854_earls51dflight.jpg)
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Originally posted by Grimm
After CON Ill have call Dutch (earl) for Lunch and show him the screen shots. Maybe can get him to sign them and mail them to ya
Better yet Grimm, why don't I do a hi rez 8x10 of a screeny, frame it up and send it to you. You could write on it a tribute from his friends here and AW.
Email me, will do somethin nice. He sure has alot of friends here, it would be a great thing to do.
I'll send an extra. Love to have one on my wall :D
nopoops190@sbcglobal.net
Thanks Guppy, I didn't know, glad I do now.
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A couple of tweeks, zipped and submitted to HT and up at the skins site.
Thanks guys.
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just checked it out!! love the way the wings look from the cockpit and it looks great in externalview!
very nice
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Thanks Cit. Your suggestion on the rivits made the difference.
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Originally posted by nopoop
Better yet Grimm, why don't I do a hi rez 8x10 of a screeny, frame it up and send it to you. You could write on it a tribute from his friends here and AW.
Email me, will do somethin nice. He sure has alot of friends here, it would be a great thing to do.
I'll send an extra. Love to have one on my wall :D
nopoops190@sbcglobal.net
Thanks Guppy, I didn't know, glad I do now.
great idea, poopie!
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Looks so clean compared to other skins bye nopoop:p