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Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Reynolds on September 01, 2006, 06:06:30 AM
... well, nothing against the flying tigers, but I prefer the US insignia, and have therefore searched endlessly for a P-40E that is Olive Drab, with the Shark's Mouth, but NO FLYING TIGERS emblem! And, I have finally found it, but alas, no matter how I try, I cant even get my skins to stop showing the default skin! So, if post pictures, can someone please do it for me? It was the 23 Fighter Group, flown by Col. Robert L Scott. Due to copywrite laws, the website wont let me put images here, so here is the link to the page with all of the pictures of this specific plane:

Pictures of P-40E (http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=NL9837A&distinct_entry=true)

So, there we go. I will 'Bump' this in the morning just to make sure everyone sees it. Thank you very much in advance, and for those of you who ask "Whats in it for me?!?", My undying gratitude, a permanent thanks in both my squad website and my signature! :D

And for those of you who dont read that all, dont say "Do it yourself" because as I said up there, I have tried and I am incompitent, and I use GIMP.
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: rogerdee on September 01, 2006, 10:43:17 AM
i thought gimp was good to use?

why not try paint shop pro you can get a 3 onth free trail
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Reynolds on September 01, 2006, 11:14:58 AM
rogerdee, its not the program, its my own incompitence and utter lack of knowledge.
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: rogerdee on September 01, 2006, 05:04:39 PM
hey we all got to start somewhere.

 my first  second  third  fivethousand and sixyfour atempts were crap,some still are  but you learn a little each time u try something,the main thing to remember is to do things in layers  and if stuck ask questions on here.

  the guys on here always help
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Guppy35 on September 01, 2006, 05:15:34 PM
All kinds of shark mouthed P40s out there.  It actually started with 112 squadron in the desert with thier P40s.  Before the LW guys jump in, they were also on 110s and 109Bs I believe.

Any of the 23rd FG P40s would have had them in US markings..  51st FG in the CBI also had shark mouths.
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Reynolds on September 01, 2006, 10:24:36 PM
I want specifically a P-40E, with an Olive Drab skin, and ONLY U.S. Markings. I am still trying to do it myself, but I cannot do it. So if someone else would like to make this one skin for me, I would be very appreciative.
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Stoney74 on September 02, 2006, 03:53:42 AM
Just to make you feel better Reynolds, I've started, deleted, and started again my P-47D11 skin about 5 times now.  I started on it two months ago.  I started a F4F that I had almost complete and then trashed.  I started 2 different F4U skins that got to an almost complete panel line set from scratch and trashed them too.

I've now got the P-47 on track, but it still takes time.  In the meantime, I've learned a whole lot about computer graphics programs.  Made some completely useless, but nice-looking U.S. Naval Aviator wings just to try some stuff out.  Keep at it and you'll figure it out soon enough.  I use GIMP as well, and it has a pretty steep learning curve.  But, I'm learning slowly but surely...
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Reynolds on September 02, 2006, 03:56:06 AM
I just dont have the time to learn all of this stuff, and programming comes difficultly to me, and I hope if I ask real nice someone else will make this skin and it will be out real soon.
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: rogerdee on September 02, 2006, 06:47:47 AM
the p40e is not  a good plane to skin its ok  but the hardest thing will be getting the shark mouth right.

ill have  a few beers  and see what looks ok
Title: something like this?
Post by: rogerdee on September 02, 2006, 11:19:04 AM
how about something like this?
(http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/610_1157213800_p40e1.jpg)[/IMG] (http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/610_1157213828_p40e2.jpg)[/IMG]
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Citabria on September 02, 2006, 11:25:35 AM
I recognize my 23 FG sharksmouth
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Blixen on September 02, 2006, 12:10:56 PM
dan 109 C`s had them :D
(http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1128/109c4ts.png)
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: rogerdee on September 02, 2006, 01:40:37 PM
hello Fester

yes sorry mate ill admit  i stole your sharks mouth i couldnt get anything i did to look right,mine looked crap.

i only put it here for a example ill take it off if you want.
No disrespect ment
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Reynolds on September 03, 2006, 08:29:29 PM
sheiBe! That is BEUTIFUL!!!! HOLY CRAAP!!!!! Yes, that is PERFECT! I dont think it needs any more work, that looks great. Is there any way you can get that into the next skin update? Hey, for anyone who uses GIMP, once I have the basic file of the aircraft on my computer, what do I do next?
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Stoney74 on September 03, 2006, 11:57:33 PM
Do all the setup tasks that United talks about in his tutorial at http://www.ahskinning.netfirms.com.

This website is what got me going, along with the GIMP tutorials online.  Do the ones on layers, selections, drawing paths, etc.  Those are the ones most pertinent to skinning...
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Saxman on September 04, 2006, 01:30:32 AM
Nice error message. ;)
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Stoney74 on September 04, 2006, 03:15:56 AM
Hmmm...

I've got that link saved in my favorites and it works.  But, the link I posted doesn't work.

Maybe Google? Try this http://www.ahskinning.netfirms.com./

[Edit] that didn't work either...Maybe the site is down and its just saved in my computer...
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Hap on September 05, 2006, 12:12:55 PM
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Originally posted by rogerdee
hey we all got to start somewhere.

 my first  second  third  fivethousand and sixyfour atempts were crap,some still are  but you learn a little each time u try something,the main thing to remember is to do things in layers  and if stuck ask questions on here.

  the guys on here always help


Maybe so, but Roger made a wonderful P47-11 :)

to all skinners,

hap
Title: Attention anyone looking for a skin to do...
Post by: Krusty on September 05, 2006, 12:19:27 PM
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Originally posted by Guppy35
All kinds of shark mouthed P40s out there.  It actually started with 112 squadron in the desert with thier P40s.  Before the LW guys jump in, they were also on 110s and 109Bs I believe.

Any of the 23rd FG P40s would have had them in US markings..  51st FG in the CBI also had shark mouths.


Actually one of the flying tigers said (I won't directly quote, I can't remember every word, but these are his basic words) "I saw a magazine showing a bf110 on the cover, with a wicked red shark's mouth on it, and thought that's the kind of thing we need! So we went around and hand-chalked the mouths onto the planes, and then had them painted in. Each one was done by hand, so each one was unique"

The LW was using it before the AVG did.

EDIT: Also the pre-war 109s had 'em, as shown