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Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Greebo on April 04, 2005, 03:13:29 PM

I've posted another Ju 88 skin to The Skin Department (http://www.ah-skins.com/index.php). This one is L1+OK, an aircraft of 2/LG 1 based in North Africa. This is a slightly unusual desert scheme, patches of RLM 80 have been sprayed over the base RLM 79 brown. The white ID band has been painted over, except on the top of the fuselage.

Thanks again to Kwaessa for his excellent LW "dudes".

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/lg1photo.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/lg1sc2.jpg)

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Waffle on April 04, 2005, 03:16:30 PM

Damn them 88s look good :)

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: rogerdee on April 04, 2005, 03:35:13 PM

looks great greebo   i was doing a ju87 in that camo scheme  but mine always looked crap.ill have to give it another try.
 keep up the good work

rogerdee

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Sp4de on April 04, 2005, 04:03:36 PM

Another work of art
wtg bud:aok

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: oboe on April 04, 2005, 05:57:06 PM

Greebo's going to turn me into a Luftwaffe buffer yet....

Great work, man.

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Hawklore on April 04, 2005, 09:13:25 PM

looks really really good..

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Nefarious on April 04, 2005, 10:08:06 PM

Excellent,

Another good scheme would be tan over white, plain, no camo. Could be very useful ;) not saying this one will not :D

Title: LG 1 Ju 88
Post by: Greebo on April 05, 2005, 02:48:39 AM

Thanks guys, its always nice to get positive feedback.

Rogerdee, a few suggestions regarding this type of scheme. First I used colours from Skinner's Heaven, they aren't always right but seemed OK in this case. For the green areas I used an airbrush tool set to about 30% for opacity and 50% density and to around a third the average splotch size. If they end up looking too sharp, a gaussian blur will usually do wonders.

The main thing with this type of scheme is to get the green areas the right size and spacing, otherwise it looks wrong but you aren't sure why. Also bear in mind some areas may be scaled differently. On the Ju88 the fuselage areas are 2/3 the size relative to the wings, so the splotches need to be 2/3 the size as well.

The temptation with this sort of thing is to just knock off the splotches freehand, but what I did was use the above photo and took the time to copy the camo pattern as accurately as I could. The hidden areas I guessed, but I by then had the original areas to act as a guide.

I'll probably do a winter 88 next and then a template. I could do a plain brown 88 but it offers no challenge so I'll only do it if its needed for a scenario or we get a desert terrain in the MA.