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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Krusty on October 19, 2005, 03:12:08 PM
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I had this for a while but was trying to figure out the stupid font bug in photoshop. finally got that done and viola (or is it tada?)
(http://www2.propichosting.com/Images/450004521/1.jpg)
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CRAP.. the host I'm using resized it down from 1024 resolution, so that it's under 40kb in size. Dagnabbit! Oh well, better than nothing (ya just can't see all the details as easily)
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Looks good. Email me the full size pic and I'll try and post the full size image.
bnicely (@) gmail.com
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Check your inbox
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(http://www.r0013636.hostultra.com/United/110_preview.jpg)
By the looks of it, the lettering isn't bold enough. The ones on the real picture seem much thicker.
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I thought so too, but I did some research and it might just be that this particular picture has bled its colors a bit. The colors are all off and you can't even see the yellow over the white tail band. The other pictures I've seen of ZG26 planes in this camo scheme all seem to have thinner lettering.
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hand draw the letters try not to use fonts... they painted them on by hand anyway :)
looks good though I like the colors... does it have rivet detail too?
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looks good ..but look at the heavy oil streaks over the nacells in real pic...
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Fester: by hand you say? Well, I don't see why I can't do that.. I had to make the 3 by hand. Takes more work, but I couldn't find the right font for it. Personally I'd rather use a font and then modify said font if possible, but what the hey... I'll see how it looks. No rivets. I made all the panel lines by hand (my own template) but I didn't have a rivet source so I never bothered. *I*'m of the mind that rivets on skins are over rated anyways :P (Can't see them on the real 110s in any pics, anyways -- heck even on my 48th scale 110G4 there's no rivets...). Maybe next 110C I do will have 'em.
Selector: I actually had more weathering on there. It doesnt' show up so well against the sandgelb. There's a lot of oil stains and gas stains on the engines and engine cowlings (and along the top of the wing where the engine fairing is). I thought that the smoke and oil from the exhaust (the stuff going back over the top of the wing) was overblown in my last 110, so I dropped it to 50% in this one. I think as a skin it looks better, but realistically you're probably right.