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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: oboe on January 19, 2005, 11:14:50 AM
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I just submitted these skins to HTC. Can't seem to login to ah-skins.com to upload them there, but I will put them up there when the login problem is fixed. Hope you guys like 'em!
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/81_1106154491_p-51b_357thfg_runway_promo.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/81_1105659701_p-51b-4thfg-334fs-miss-dall.jpg)
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I can't logon to ah-skins either.
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Very Nice Oboe-San!
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Do you do requests? How do you feel about B-24's?
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Thank you, sir! I'm working my way up to bombers and have been mulling over a B-26 and B-17; but what particular '24 did you have in mind?
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Would like to have a 90thBG 320thBS OD Green B-24J With The exact Shark's Mouth (Like over in the RAAF LIBERATOR post), white Skull and Bombs over a OD green background and the red rudders. Generic or whatever nose art you want to add.
(http://www.b24bestweb.com/images/B24/ASNAPPINNABITIN2.JPG)
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An 8th AF OD Green B-24. 44thBG (CIRCLE A) or 389thBG (CIRCLE C). Similar to below:
(http://www.histoiredumonde.net/images/20_eme_siecle/avions/b24/des.gif)
(http://www.histoiredumonde.net/images/20_eme_siecle/avions/b24/prof.gif)
(http://www.militaryhobbies.com/custom/productzoom/rg4529.jpg)
(http://www.web-birds.com/8th/466/attlebridge%20-%20flynn%20plane.jpg)
If you want to do it I can track you down markings, numbers & nose art for a specific A/C.
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I'm sure something can be worked out here - but prolly should wait until 2.02 specularity control is enabled for green drab skins.
Greebo, United any of you other B-24 skinners - it may be a while 'afore I work myself up to this beauty, so ifluff'n you guys got the urge, have at it!
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Being from Texas I feel it my duty to give that Miss Dallas a ride:lol
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Originally posted by oboe
Thank you, sir! I'm working my way up to bombers and have been mulling over a B-26 and B-17; but what particular '24 did you have in mind?
NOOOOOOO you cant do b17 skins!!!! noooooooo youll make mine look bad!! damn you!!!!!!!! lol:lol :D
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Not to worry Sp4de, your B-17 is a beauty. And I have a few more fighters to work out of my system before I try a bomber!
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Hey Oboe can u help me out? i need to know what i need to cover up in that alph thinc cause im making a P51B (captured :) ) and even the exhaust doesnt come out!
heres a quick pic i took, still needs weathering and stuff and i have to fix the letters but i need to know all the things i have to _a thing.
where is the prop and the wheels on the .bmp too?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Thebest1189/ahss416copy.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Thebest1189/ahss417copy.jpg)
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Love those P-51Bs Oboe. Not sure if HTC would accept a B-24D like Flak Bait for the MA.
With so many people working on B-24s I think it would be selfish to submit more than about six skins. I've worked on five so far, the RAAF and Queen Mae are already submitted, and the PB4Y-1, the olive drab "Naughty Nan" and 70 Sqn RAF night scheme are pretty much done pending the 2.02 specularity switch. I'd really like to do that 90th BG scheme with the shark mouth, but still need an entire aircraft's worth of markings for it. I can't find any pictures of a whole one, just the noseart. Anyone got a piccy of one?
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Thebest1-
If you want to eliminate the default nose art, kill markings banner on the fuselage and national insignia, there are 3 files you must modify:
P51BART1_a.bmp, P51BART2_a.bmp, and MARKING_a.bmp
These files should be 256x256 bmps filled with pure black - x000000. You also need to include the corresponding bmp files in your custom skin folder for the a/c (P51BART1.bmp, P51BART2.bmp, and MARKING.bmp).
The prop blades, landing gear, wheels and exhaust stubs are in the file P51BSID.bmp file. You may have accidentally sprayed over them?
Greebo-
Thanks, I didn't start out to do so many 51Bs, but not many people are doing them and its a great bird with plenty of skinning options in spite of its texture problems. I agree about the B-24D - after a plane is up to the new standard skin layout, HTC is going to be a real stickler for accuracy in skins.
Go after that 90th BG B-24! I can't help you with photos, but maybe Jester can.
Hey anybody know what happened to nopoop? Haven't heard peep out of him here for quite a while.
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Hi Oboe
I am astounded at the great job you and all the others up here do with the skins. I am just too old to figure out how it is done.
As an old retired military airplane driver, one of my hobbies is aircraft markings and paint schemes, Allied aircraft WWII.
I have an extensive library and would be pleased to assist anyone in any complicated markings or paint schemes they might want to create.
I noted that you might move up to bombers. Please note that the Brits used B26's in North Africa in WWII. I could get you some pics of B26's with the dark earth, light earth, sky blue paint and RAF roundels with some squad markings if you decided you wanted to do one.
Also, I hope that someone gets some P51B RAF skins up in the game sometime soon. Brits used a number of them in WWII. Need to fashion a "Malcomb Hood" to go with them.
Keep up the good work, really great.
Majors
249 RAF
Oldest Yank in the RAF
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Majors:
First let me thank you for your service to this country. I have a ton of respect for you guys who wear/wore the uniform. Which airplane did you drive? When were you in?
And thanks for your compliments! We all appreciate it; it helps keep us going. I'm nowhere near the league of a Waffle, Fester, or Greebo and the rest of the masters, but I'm learning something with every skin I do.
We're all glad to hear of more library resources - if you have a scanner and access to the AH Picture Hangar you can jump in any time when people post here asking for help - in fact I may have a question in a later post about a P-47 I'm looking at doing.
Bombers are still a ways away for me, but I'm starting to think about them now and mull over subjects. Usually I do 2 or 3 skins per bird, since so much time is invested in rivet/panel lines.
If you have a specific RAF B-26 in mind, post a pic! I looked through my "British Warplanes of WWII" book and found only a single profile of a Martin used in North Africa in 1942. That one would be nice, although I have no images of upper/lower wing surfaces.
Per your request for an RAF P-51B - I do have one in game already:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/81_1098052164_p-51b-raf-112-sqdn.jpg)
It should be coming to you when you are in game, but there are a lot of skins to download, so alternatively you could go to the HTC website download page and DL the whole skin pack.
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Now that screenshot there of the RAF P51 doesn't have the U.S. insignia over the left RAF symbol as the one in the game does. Which one is correct?
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If you've got the US insignia showing over the RAF symbol, you got a bad res file.
If you delete the P51B .res files and the P51B folders from the cache folders, it'll redownload the P51Bs and fix everything.
Not sure how that happened - mine have always been OK.
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Ah, okay. I had it correct when I first got it and then it downloaded and update and it had gained the U.S. insignia.
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Well it redownloaded and it is the wrong one again. Might want to check with HTC and see if they have the correct one.
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Hi Oboe
Many thanks for your response. I was an Army pilot that flew all the animals, Beavers, Otters and Bird Dogs. Mostly did forward aircontroller work in Southeast Asia back in the '60's in a Bird Dog.
As for the skins, I have downloaded the skins and the plane I got which was tagged as 112RAF was not the plane you showed. It was a metal skinned Mustang with no national insignia.
Maybe my PC has gone crazy. Could you check online and see what you come up with when you choose the 112RAF Mustang?
Don't believe any of these 112RAF Mustangs got Malcomb Hoods. The squadron transitioned into D models in Italy later in the war.
Again, great work all you chaps are doing. Keep it up.
Majors
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Hi Greebo
I have some info on a B-24 with a shark mouth. This one is a B24J, 90th Bomb Group, 5th AF, SWPA. Has shark mouth and skull and crossbones, red striped on runner/fin.
You looking for a pic of this one?
I fly your RN F6F regularly. Excellent work mate.
Majors
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Originally posted by Majors
As for the skins, I have downloaded the skins and the plane I got which was tagged as 112RAF was not the plane you showed. It was a metal skinned Mustang with no national insignia.
Maybe my PC has gone crazy. Could you check online and see what you come up with when you choose the 112RAF Mustang?
I got the very same problem.
It was cured by deleting the cache folder in AH directory.
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Hi Staffo
Many thanks for the email. I am not very PC literate.
I see a lot of cache folders in the HTC directory. Which one should I delete? There are a number of P51b's.
Many thanks for your advice.
Majors
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Hi Majors -
Delete all the p51b subfolders in the cache directory; then go to the skins directory and delete all the p51b .res files (I have 6 - p51b1.res - p51b6.res; same names as the cache folders).
This will clean out your p51b cache and force redownload of all 6 skins.
Let us know how it works out - sullie363 above is indicating there is a problem on HTCs end; so if it doesn't work for you either, we;ve got to get HTC involved.
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Originally posted by Majors
Hi Greebo
I have some info on a B-24 with a shark mouth. This one is a B24J, 90th Bomb Group, 5th AF, SWPA. Has shark mouth and skull and crossbones, red striped on runner/fin.
You looking for a pic of this one?
Yes thats what I'm looking for Majors. Would be great if you could post a jpeg of it on the BBS. Thanks in advance.
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Originally posted by sullie363
Well it redownloaded and it is the wrong one again. Might want to check with HTC and see if they have the correct one.
Sullie, find any P51B folders in your CACHE directory and kill them as well as the .res file again.
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Hi Greebo
I scanned some B24 info for you. The scans didn't come out that well but you can see what the markings are on the planes. Have a sheet of USA B24's and another with some RAF B24's. The particular one you are looking for is included. This particular book has quite a lot of all marks of the B24 markings.
Hmmmmm. Note now that I can answer emails on here but I cannot post any attachments.
So, if you send me an email address, I will email the pics to you.
Oboe, I did as you advised and now have the RAF Mustang. Many thanks.
Majors
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Greebo
One more thing, later in the war, they painted up "formation aircraft" for the large groups to form on. Some of these have the wildest paint jobs one could imagine.
If you want, I could send you some pics of some of these B24's.
Sorry for all the messages.
Will clam up now.
Majors
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Majors, you can post a picture on here, but you must upload it first.
Saw, another AHer, has a site up that allows this. http://www.onpoi.net/ah Upload your picture there, then you can post it here.
Just take the image URL and place it inbetween two markers like these (http://
)
Or, you can click the little IMG button at the top of the reply screen and paste the URL there.
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Sent you my email address Majors and thanks again, any stuff will be most appreciated.
I briefly considered doing a formation ship (as below), but seemed to recall a post Skuzzy made about what would be acceptable as a skin. To paraphrase it was something like "that B-24 covered in purple dots isn't acceptable even though it was a WW2 plane." A skin has to be both historically correct and representative of a combat plane I believe. Might be fun to do one anyway though.
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/formationshipprofile.jpg)
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Hi Mate
I have some much wilder ones than that. Will scan them and send them to you too.
Take care
Majors
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Majors, you have mail. :)
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Originally posted by Majors
Hi Greebo
I have some info on a B-24 with a shark mouth. This one is a B24J, 90th Bomb Group, 5th AF, SWPA. Has shark mouth and skull and crossbones, red striped on runner/fin.
You looking for a pic of this one?
Majors
Majors,
Would you please send anything you got on B-24's to me as well. Am doing research on them, especially 90th BG and ETO B-24's.
Thanks.
(My e-mail is below in my signature)
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