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Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: lasersailor184 on October 08, 2005, 03:55:04 PM

The Hurricane Mk2d is my favorite ride.  I love it so much.  However, the skin is starting to grow old on me.


So I went to the internet and books, but could find no pictures on it.  

So I am requesting that someone make a skin or at least post some pictures they have of the Mk2D.



Note that the Mk4 skins also count.  They are practically the same plane.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Krusty on October 08, 2005, 03:59:09 PM

I've never skinned for spits or hurris because I find them so limiting in what they have. There's a chance that the few Hurri2Ds in service (relatively speaking) were converted in the field, so they kept the camo they had before? (wild conjecture here)

Anyways, finding variation is the hard part. They're mostly the same it seems (which sucks for us skinners). Find me anything, something, whatever, and I might give it a shot.

EDIT: I found a couple models (one a IID, one a IV) and they have exactly the same paint as the default skin. Not an exhaustive search, just a heads-up that I've not found anything yet.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: United on October 08, 2005, 04:19:04 PM

I'll see if I can do anything as well, laser.  I've been thinking of doing a Hurri for a while now.

Of course, it depends if Krusty sees anything worthwhile as well.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Krusty on October 08, 2005, 07:51:12 PM

I haven't been looking all day, and there may be sources I did not find, but my initial results are less than uplifting.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Larry on October 08, 2005, 08:07:57 PM

http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/79/9/4/22
Hurricane Mk.IId
Unit: 6 Sqn, RAF
Serial: JV-Z (BP188)
Anti-tank. North Africa, 1942


http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/79/9/4/12
Hurricane Mk.IId 'Our John'
Unit: unknown
Serial: BN795
Camouflage scheme 'A'. Middle East.
 

Thats the only IIds I can find.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: United on October 08, 2005, 08:16:37 PM

Just been screwing around with the fuselage/left wing.

Just updating the old hurri skin to 1024 and new squadron code.

So far it just has camo and a small amount of unfinished weathering. No paint chipping yet.
(http://www.r0013636.hostultra.com/United/hurr2d1.jpg)

Its pretty hard to make a desert skinned plane look dirty.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: SkyChimp on October 08, 2005, 11:40:19 PM

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Originally posted by United
Just been screwing around with the fuselage/left wing.

Just updating the old hurri skin to 1024 and new squadron code.

So far it just has camo and a small amount of unfinished weathering. No paint chipping yet.
(http://www.r0013636.hostultra.com/United/hurr2d1.jpg)

Its pretty hard to make a desert skinned plane look dirty.

Use the burn tool use gray and red :) Skins lookin better :)

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Krusty on October 09, 2005, 01:06:03 AM

So basically like the Hurr1 and spit1 there's only 1 real option. Oh well, mightas well have a high res version of the same, eh?

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: United on October 09, 2005, 02:28:25 AM

Thats what I figured.  Might as well make the current skin look pretty.  Well, kinda pretty.  My lack of skinning skills is holding it back some.

Title: hurricane in grey camo
Post by: rogerdee on October 09, 2005, 04:57:47 AM

there was  a squadron of hurricanes at middle wallop in 1943.
  flying them with the grey green cammo,i have  a profile some where on my pc  and had started to skin it,but other things keep coming up to get in the way.
 the only difference is the grey green not much else

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: United on October 09, 2005, 12:51:56 PM

Went back and adjusted a few things:
 - Added some paint chipping and scratches
 - Changed colors to be a bit brighter
 - Made rivet and panel line highlights
 - Adjusted fabric ribbing to be more pronounced
 - Worked a little with the exhaust streak

I'm pretty angry at the fact that the fuselage gets really blurry in game.  It looks fairly decent IMO on the bitmap, but in game it stretches and blurrs and kills all the detail. Oh well, I'll work on it some more later.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/251_1128880168_hurr2d2.jpg)

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: gatso on October 09, 2005, 02:17:40 PM

The Russians used IId's

Know I have a profile somewhere but I can't find it :mad:

Gatso

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: United on October 09, 2005, 02:31:52 PM

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Originally posted by gatso
The Russians used IId's

Know I have a profile somewhere but I can't find it :mad:

Gatso

If you do get ahold of it, I'd love to give it a whirl if I can.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Raptor on October 09, 2005, 03:29:04 PM

(http://www.airwar.ru/history/av2ww/soviet/hurr2d/1.jpg)
http://www.airwar.ru/history/av2ww/soviet/hurr2d/hurr2d.html

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Krusty on October 09, 2005, 04:14:06 PM

Most likely that's a 1A or IIA/B. It doesn't have the filter or the gun pods. Plus, the Russkies loved using their IL2s for any tank busting.

That airwar.ru site is a good place for ideas, but they often mislabel things.

EDIT: Turns out they did use 'em... I guess their IL2s weren't always the best option for tank busting :)

The ONLY thing I've found so far for a IID/IV is this IID on a decal sheet. It's VVS and uses the previously mentioned Green/Grey.

http://modelism.airforce.ru/decals/aml_decals/Hurri2.JPG

It's a deep link so I don't want to put it as an IMG link, please click to minimize bandwidth theft.

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Raptor on October 09, 2005, 08:10:43 PM

(http://www.rafweb.org/Markings/164Sqn1.jpg)
no 163 Squadron
http://www.rafweb.org/SqnMark159-179.htm

(http://www.histoiredumonde.net/images/20_eme_siecle/avions/hurricane2/intro.jpg)

Title: Request: Hurricane Mk2D:
Post by: Krusty on October 09, 2005, 11:52:10 PM

The VVS often just took a plane and painted over the codes/markings, right? So if they took posession of an RAF green/grey they'd just find a similar color and "patch" the paint instead of repainting in VVS colors, right?