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Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: oboe on October 22, 2004, 12:10:21 AM

EDIT: I think its pretty much completed now.   I just plain ignored the texture map errors and went ahead I did everything I could on this one.   Its a generic 20th FG, 55th FS P-38 correct as close as I could get.

The errors are obvious on close walkaround, but for the most part they are unnoticeable from the cockpit position or at typical game distances externally.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/81_1098479060_p-38l-20thfg-55thfs.jpg)

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Dux on October 22, 2004, 08:24:43 AM

Nice! That's a huge inprovement right there. :)

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: nopoop on October 22, 2004, 08:38:12 AM

VERY NICE !!

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Octavius on October 22, 2004, 11:58:54 AM

woot!  Submit that twittler as default :)

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: United on October 22, 2004, 04:08:58 PM

Oboe, thats a beautiful P-38!!!  I absolutely love it!


OT: I found a link to the 51-B nose are of Boise Bee if you're still interested:
(http://www.fourthfightergroup.com/resource/nose/images/d-beeson.jpg)

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: thebest1 on October 22, 2004, 04:10:31 PM

:eek:
!!!!!!!!!!!
This is about how far i got with bare metal. this is a half finished P51 for IL2
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/663_1098478721_il2fb2004-10-2216-44-38-26.bmp.jpg)

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Guppy35 on October 22, 2004, 04:17:05 PM

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Originally posted by United
Oboe, thats a beautiful P-38!!!  I absolutely love it!


OT: I found a link to the 51-B nose are of Boise Bee if you're still interested:
(http://www.fourthfightergroup.com/resource/nose/images/d-beeson.jpg)

Thats the P47 nose art United.  No Boise on the Mustang art.  I'm guessing it's the same Don Allen art I posted in an earlier thread.

Dan/Slack

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: United on October 22, 2004, 04:27:28 PM

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Originally posted by Guppy35
Thats the P47 nose art United.  No Boise on the Mustang art.  I'm guessing it's the same Don Allen art I posted in an earlier thread.

Dan/Slack

Oops. :D

I knew it was one of the two though!  I couldnt find which thread it was in, so I went ahead and posted it here.


Again, great work Oboe!

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Fruda on October 22, 2004, 07:53:26 PM

It's strange how the P-51D at AHII standards looks better than that P-51D from Il-2.

Title: Re: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on October 22, 2004, 09:58:45 PM

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Originally posted by oboe
EDIT: I think its pretty much completed now.   I just plain ignored the texture map errors and went ahead I did everything I could on this one.   Its a generic 20th FG, 55th FS P-38 correct as close as I could get.

The errors are obvious on close walkaround, but for the most part they are unnoticeable from the cockpit position or at typical game distances externally.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/81_1098479060_p-38l-20thfg-55thfs.jpg)

You think maybe you could do this skin in honor of Jack Ilfrey off of that one?

(http://www.327th.com/images/Savage/hapyjack.jpg)

There is a better pic of the original with a decent view of the nose art posted in the general forums, Dan posted it in his announcement of Jack's recent passing.

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: oboe on October 22, 2004, 10:14:00 PM

I absolutely promise to do Happy Jack's Go Buggy when the 38's texture map is fixed.   Right now their are too many problems - mirrored textures (makes the noseart spelled backwards on the nose's right side), textures built into the 3D model (I have no control over the flat black antiglare panel on the nose, or the red devil on the tip of the nose - I can't modify or eliminate them).

Maybe it'll be fixed with 2.01...you never know....

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Guppy35 on October 23, 2004, 03:10:52 AM

Lets hope we get an early model 38 and someone can do his "Texas Terror" P38F as well.

Dan/Slack

Title: Natural metal P-38 test
Post by: Shane on October 23, 2004, 10:15:42 AM

Ifrey also flew a pony....

http://www.eaglestrikeproductions.com/cgi-bin/amddecals.pl?scale=48&setid=565&dbs=aeromaster&pgs=2&currpg=1&dclimg=ad48565


it's the bottom one...

this you *can* bdo, altho perhaps the pony slots are filling up...