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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Krusty on January 24, 2006, 04:33:01 PM

Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on January 24, 2006, 04:33:01 PM: Our Lavochkin skins are lackluster at the moment. Spotted this on e-bay and thought I'd show the skinners here on the forum an idea they (maybe) didn't know about.

EDIT: Link won't work, but if you copy and paste it, it does.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-72-WWII-Russian-Fighter-LA-5_W0QQitemZ6030426590QQcategoryZ1189QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: bagrat on January 24, 2006, 10:45:32 PM: hey krusty, do ya remember that "richard simmons" LA skin? if so it would be a neat idea to have that as a default skin for lala. the reason for this is i dont think new pilots know how to work skin selection area, and until they do they will be flyin in a pink richard simmons la-7.

im jokin
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: gnubee on January 25, 2006, 03:32:05 PM: Ya mean this one???

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/BigTon/la5_6.jpg)
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on January 25, 2006, 03:36:22 PM: Yes, that's the one!
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: gnubee on January 25, 2006, 08:37:24 PM: I'd love it if someone tackled that one...
I never fly La's but I'd fly that! :O
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: thebest1 on January 27, 2006, 04:12:05 PM: if you dont mind ill do it once i get my computer fixed n stuff.. i just need info and stuff on it
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on January 27, 2006, 05:23:48 PM: I have none :P

All I saw was a box art for a model kit :)
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Fencer51 on January 27, 2006, 08:27:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by thebest1
if you dont mind ill do it once i get my computer fixed n stuff.. i just need info and stuff on it

Try this..

Photographed at Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Russia, August 2002
(http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Riabsev/2242L.jpg)

This has got to be the same bird but with a fresh coat of paint.

[edit]
(http://www.samolet.co.uk/jpegs/vp10.jpg)

[edit2] I gotta quit looking..

"15 WHITE The La-5 "White 15", with its shark's mouth, was flown by Hero of the Soviet Union Capt. Georgii Dmitrievich Kostylev, 3.Gv.IAP, VVS-KBF, Leningrad, 1945. Photo taken at the Great Patriotic War Museum, Pobedy Park, Moscow."

Another great photo of her here. (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=955667&WxsIERv=Ynibpuxva%20Yn-5&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Ehffvn%20-%20Nve%20Sbepr&QtODMg=Bss-Nvecbeg%20-%20Zbfpbj&ERDLTkt=Ehffvn&ktODMp=Nhthfg%2021%2C%202005&BP=1&WNEb25u=Naqerv%20Arfirgnri&xsIERvdWdsY=15&MgTUQtODMgKE=Prageny%20zhfrhz%20bs%20Terng%20Cngevbgvp%20Jne%2C%20Ivpgbel%20Cnex.&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=672&NEb25uZWxs=2005-11-08%2020%3A59%3A47&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=&static=yes&width=1100&height=837&sok=JURER%20%20%28cubgbtencure%20%3D%20%27Naqerv%20Arfirgnri%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=13&prev_id=956227&next_id=955666&size=L)
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: 1K3 on January 27, 2006, 08:58:57 PM: That La-5 is nothing like ours lol
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on January 27, 2006, 10:54:21 PM: Close enough.

I wouldn't go with the museum colors. Museums often get the colors wrong (a lot of times they just go with what "looks good"). I'd go with the more accurate olive-drab-like color in the older image.
Title: From the black and white photo...
Post by: Hwkeye on January 29, 2006, 02:59:53 PM: ...it is my observation that the paint appears to be gloss/semi-gloss because of how the light is reflecting off the aircraft as compared to the olive drab of the color museam photo.
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Fencer51 on January 29, 2006, 04:21:55 PM: That BW photo is most likely the same plane at the museum after the war. The paint type or scheme should therefore be suspect.
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on January 29, 2006, 07:01:42 PM: Indeed. This looks more likely, a flat green:

(http://www.samolet.co.uk/jpegs/vp10.jpg)
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: gnubee on February 28, 2006, 11:53:44 AM: Just curious if anyone has taken on this bad boy?
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Stang on February 28, 2006, 11:59:53 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Krusty
Indeed. This looks more likely, a flat green:

(http://www.samolet.co.uk/jpegs/vp10.jpg)
Or maybe the repaint job got it right and the original in the museum photo is just worn, weathered and faded over 50 years? Dan would probably be able to tell us, though a lot of the repaints are done incorrectly it seems.
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: gnubee on February 28, 2006, 12:48:35 PM: we seem to have a bit of a mystery on our hands...
The black and white photo that I posted seems to have a bit of sheen to it, but there are subtle differences between it and the refreshed paint job that make me wonder when the photo was actually taken.

What I'm looking at specifically is the Soviet flag/emblem under the canopy. On my photo, it appears to be furhter forward and higher then it is on the referbeshed paint job where it is all they way back and below the rounded rear window of the canopy.

And on the color photo's of the faded bird it's missing entirely... so who knows.
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: Krusty on February 28, 2006, 07:19:35 PM: It's probably been repainted more than once.
Title: La skin, if anybody wants to do it
Post by: MIShill on March 02, 2006, 08:03:17 PM: FYI, this plane is an La-5, not an La-5FN. If skinning a model that is not entirely accurate is OK, I love this skin.
I have a profile of this plane if any skinner is interested.
MI