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Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 22, 2006, 03:13:36 AM

I've been working on a few more F4Us. The first two are ones I originally did on the old template and the last is a request from lwdwn.

The first is a 1835 NAS Fleet Air Arm Corsair Mk I (F4U-1). This was used for training in the States.

The second is another FAA Corsair, this time a Mk IV of 1841 NAS. This aircraft was flown by a Canadian pilot Lt Robert Hampton Gray. He was awarded a posthumous VC for his attack on a Japanese destroyer in the last few days of WW2. His aircraft was hit and set on fire early in his bomb run but he pressed home his attack and sank the destroyer before his plane crashed into the sea.

The third is an F4U-1D of VMF-441. This USMC squadron flew mainly ground support missions and was credited with 49 kills.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/1835NAS_F4U1.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/1841NAS_F4U1D.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/VMF441_F4U1D.jpg)

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: RAS on December 22, 2006, 07:52:14 PM

Very nice (as usual Greebo).

Thanks for continuing to build the skins sir !!!

RASCAL

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Citabria on December 23, 2006, 11:03:39 AM

awsome greebo! :)

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 24, 2006, 03:13:45 PM

Thanks guys.

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Bruv119 on December 25, 2006, 02:03:18 AM

Love the British one Greebo!

Thanks for your hard work


Bruv
~S~

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Hazzer on December 26, 2006, 11:39:20 AM

Has anyone else noticed that the bottle of jim beam as gone missing/from the f4u1 floor since the remodel:( If they remodel the Typhoon could they put a bottle of the famous grouse in the cockpit for me:aok Love your skins Greebo especially the FAA skins. Thanks to all the skinners and a happy new ywaer:aok

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Apeking on December 26, 2006, 12:34:03 PM

"Has anyone else noticed that the bottle of jim beam as gone missing/from the f4u1 floor since the remodel"

I remember that. It would be more appropriate in the P40B, because you'd have to be a bit drunk to fly it. Perhaps the Typhoon remodel could have a fire extinguisher or a dead canary in the bottom of the cockpit, on account of the engine fires and carbon monoxide.

Or the Zero could have a samurai sword lurking around underneath the seat, for those occasions when you have to choose between burning to death, being eaten by sharks, or dishonouring the Emperor by bailing out.

If I do a Google search for the word "dishonouring" the first result is from a page about Islam which states that "if a man invokes Allah that an evil should befall another man, the other man may invoke Allah that the same evil befall the first man ... if a man has killed another man by burning or submerging in water or by strangling, the guilty may be treated in the same way. But if the offence was a forbidden act, such as if a man has forced another to swallow some wine or has violated him sexually, no retaliation is allowed".

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 27, 2006, 04:33:34 PM

Sinner asked me to do this skin. It's Lt. Cdr. Roger R. Hedrick's F4U-1D, from VF-84 on USS Bunker Hill.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/VF84_F4U1D.jpg)

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: rogerdee on December 27, 2006, 04:55:12 PM

very nice greebo

As useual your work turns me green with jeylousy the scren shots look good.

mate how do u get your damn skins to show up off line,i cant get the ones i am working on to show upp offline in the game and its driving me mad.

i can use the skin viewer but i like to see how they look in game and get  a shot,plus i dont have to re cache the game everytime

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Fencer51 on December 27, 2006, 06:01:55 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Greebo
Sinner asked me to do this skin. It's Lt. Cdr. Roger R. Hedrick's F4U-1D, from VF-84 on USS Bunker Hill.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/VF84_F4U1D.jpg)

Love it, very nice.

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 28, 2006, 02:44:13 AM

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Roger, I'm not sure why you can't see skins offline if you can see them in the viewer. My best guess is you've named the naming file incorrectly. That would allow the skin to show up in the viewer, but not the game.

For reference the VF-84 skin is in a folder called f4u1d_4 which in turn is in my AH skins folder. The skin file is f4u1d.bmp and the naming file is f4u1d.txt. Did you perhaps call your naming file something like f4u1d_4.txt?

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: rogerdee on December 28, 2006, 10:28:15 AM

umm i dont know ill have to delve in to the files deeper.

what i do know was there wasnt any problems till the corsairs came out and the new skin numbering system:rolleyes:

just when i am managing to get things right they change the bugger

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 28, 2006, 12:52:17 PM

Roger, have a look in your Aces High skins folder and tell us what the problem skin folder is called and also what files are in that folder. I'm pretty sure the problem lies somewhere there.

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: B@tfinkV on December 30, 2006, 02:29:35 PM

S! greebo very nice work.


i may have asked you already i forget, but in the old corsairs there was a vmf (im vaguely think VMF-14?) bird with yellow stripes on the wings and some kind of armour plating or aluminium sheet securing the very rear of the tail section.



was wondering if you had thought of redoing it at anytime, was the best hogD skin imo. :D

of course im hankfull for all your work and am not 'requesting' it as such more curious about it.

bat






edited for below reply:


thanks, forgive my not searching harder!

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Greebo on December 30, 2006, 03:20:47 PM

Thanks Batfink, I think you mean the VMF-351 Corsair flown by Lt. Col Yost. It has yellow stripes and part of the tail section was painted white. Variations of the white and yellow scheme were common on the light carriers' air groups towards the end of the war.

I've already updated and resubmitted that one, there are screenshots of it in this (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=193998)  thread.

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: rogerdee on December 31, 2006, 07:05:47 AM

pretty pretty planes

i must have my precious:rofl

great work greebo

and i finaly got the skins to show off line must be a miricle for the new year

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: EagleEyes on December 31, 2006, 04:50:14 PM

Question for you guys.......


Would it be possible to make a VF-31 skin for the Hellcat??  I know they were around during WWII.  But cant find any pictures of the Hellcats online.  Maybe im not looking in the right places.  ANyone know where a good place to find the pics are??

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Fencer51 on December 31, 2006, 09:04:45 PM

Yeah it could be done, but they are slated for an updated 3D model soon, so it would not be around that much longer.  Better to wait imho.

edit:  Osprey's Hellcat Aces of WW2 has one profile of a VF-31 Hellcat.

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Citabria on January 01, 2007, 12:20:11 AM

you nailed it greebo thats gonna be my f4u1d skin whenever I fly it for certain :)

Title: Some more Corsairs
Post by: Gary26 on January 06, 2007, 01:45:50 AM

Greebo Im sorry I dont check in the forums much. The skin you did for us looks great!!!!!:O  Hope to get in the game soon.