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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Larry on December 04, 2005, 12:17:16 AM

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Larry on December 04, 2005, 12:17:16 AM

I need some help from you P51 and P47 skiners on how to make a bare metal look. I mostly skin german planes and not many of them had bare metal but Iv found a 109F that did and have no clue on how to make that shiny metal look.

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Krusty on December 04, 2005, 12:39:23 AM

A 109f.... with bare metal....

I don't believe it! :confused:

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Waffle on December 04, 2005, 02:29:17 AM

prob silver paint or light gray -

Luftwaffe was meticulous about about painting / applying surface protectent...


well, least till the supllies ran out....lol

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Larry on December 04, 2005, 11:49:34 AM

It might be siver.


(http://www.freewebs.com/linkafi/13_2.jpg)

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Krusty on December 04, 2005, 12:24:44 PM

Looks more like it's oversprayed with white, but has dark colors underneath.

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Bullethead on December 05, 2005, 07:24:54 PM

I agree with Krusty that this particular plane appears to have temporary white winter camo applied over its normal darker paintjob.

However, on the subject of doing metal, I recommend you do a search for a thread several months ago started by TexMurphy, called "How I Did the Metal" or something very similar to that.  It's EXCELLENT.  I use his method on all my metal planes.

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Stang on December 05, 2005, 07:59:36 PM

Fester's metal has been by far the best.  

I agree that 109 is probably painted over in white for winter.  I haven't done much in the skinning department, but I wonder if overpainting in white could look really cool in a skin.

Title: Help with bare metal.
Post by: Larry on December 05, 2005, 09:28:21 PM

Yea its a white overpaint:

Unit: 5./1.V.Szd 'Puma'
Serial: V-32
East Front, February 1943.

I take it Russia is still ganna be covered in snow during feb.