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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 06:36:54 PM

Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 06:36:54 PM
Okay this is the last 205 I had planned. I wanted to do a herring bone, and a grey that's partially applied to the herring bone, but then I had a mostly completed grey skin as well. Add the proper nose art and numbers, etc, some tweaks and adjustments, and viola.

That means there's one brown, one grey, and one halfway between both!

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1164328464_c205_3-1.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1164328478_c205_3-2.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1164328495_c205_3-3.jpg)
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 07:33:37 PM
Hrm... I don't think I like the side mottling there... I'm going to redo that part of it.
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 10:43:34 PM
That looks a heckuva lot better....

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1164343406_c205_3-4.jpg)
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: *UH* on November 23, 2006, 11:31:08 PM
cant see any difference
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 11:45:54 PM
Below the grey splinter pattern on the top, all along the sides from the nose to the tail. Before the end result was really a dim cloud. That's not what I wanted it to look like. That's not really what it should have looked like.

In the last screenshot you can see definite splotches and patterns in 2 different shades, from the nose to the tail (all along the sides).
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: prhim on November 24, 2006, 03:04:23 AM
Fab! - best 205 skin yet
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: SkyChimp03 on November 24, 2006, 06:35:05 AM
Exaust stains too dark they dont go around wing to dont have gap ;)


Also add exaust on wing! One is mirrored on gear door tone down markings.


Skin looks a little to clean to me:D
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 24, 2006, 10:32:42 AM
Chimp: Can't have the exhaust touch the wing. That's why it arches up so much. The very base of the rook is only a few pixels stretched to a large amount. It was hard to map out the camo patterns on the herringbone camo because of this.

Nothing I can do about the mirrored gear doors.

Which markings?
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: SkyChimp03 on November 24, 2006, 10:41:39 AM
Just dirty up teh markings lol. Copy markings get a low op eraser and attack them..:D Or another effect is make a brown layer (dark) above markings have low op eraser attack it to you get effect you like.
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 26, 2006, 07:46:48 PM
I think I'm ready to submit this one too.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1164591724_c205_3-5.jpg)
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: weazely on November 27, 2006, 06:02:16 PM
how long does one skin normaly take to make?:huh
Title: 3rd C205, 1st Squadriglia, 1st Gruppo Caccia
Post by: Krusty on November 27, 2006, 06:26:30 PM
It depends on a lot of things. If you've never done a skin for a plane before, it can take a while to figure out the boundaries inside the skin, how the panel lines match up, and all that. My first 205 took several months of on and off work. However the second one (once I had all the hard work out of the way) only took about a week. The third even less, but that's because it used a lot of the work from the second one.

On and off, I think a lot of skinners her put many months into their skins. They want it to look good. That takes time. Consider, however, that we're not working all day on them. If we did they'd get done a lot faster.