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Title: Barbie III
Post by: Greebo on September 02, 2007, 02:21:17 PM

Here's a couple of screenshots of my 1st Air Commando B-25H skin, Barbie III. It needs a bit of adjusting with layer opacities and the paint chipping but its 95% done.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots3/BarbieIIISC1.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots3/BarbieIIISC2.jpg)

(http://home.att.net/~c.c.jordan/BarbieIII.jpg)

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Bosco123 on September 02, 2007, 02:28:59 PM

That didn't take long, did it.

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Widewing on September 02, 2007, 02:45:45 PM

Outstanding!!!!

I'll forward the images to Baisden.

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Citabria on September 02, 2007, 02:57:10 PM

its a beauty greebo.

but the white oultine should only be on pilots side.

the b25H only had the armor plate on one side.

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Widewing on September 02, 2007, 05:47:21 PM

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Originally posted by Citabria
its a beauty greebo.

but the white oultine should only be on pilots side.

the b25H only had the armor plate on one side.

Ok, I had to do some serious digging in my photo archive, but after about an hour I found this photo of Barbie III's right side.

(http://home.att.net/~c.c.jordan/BarbieRightSide.jpg)

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Barbie III
Post by: evenhaim on September 02, 2007, 06:19:14 PM

beautiful greebo

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Citabria on September 02, 2007, 06:20:17 PM

it might seem odd but every b25H ive ever seen only has the armor on the pilots side. I have seen picture after picture of b25H photos of the same birds shown from both sides showing only pilot side armor. while on copilots side there was the two blast plates as shown on default skin.

I have yet to see a single b25H with armor on the copilots side. the logic behind this might be that the b25H was a single pilot aircraft.

B-25J did indeed have armor plates on pilot and copilots side but it had two pilots.

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Greebo on September 02, 2007, 07:24:55 PM

Thanks for the kind words guys and for digging out that photo Widewing. It never occured to me the right side armour was different Cit, I just pasted the lines across from the left side. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll correct it tomorrow.

Title: Barbie III
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on September 03, 2007, 09:48:45 AM

:cool:

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Bullethead on September 03, 2007, 04:55:39 PM

Very nice.  Glad you're doing this one.  We need more Air Commando skins :).

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Greebo on September 05, 2007, 01:10:03 PM

I've fixed the problem with the nose. The zipped skin package can be downloaded from here (http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/files/b25h.zip) if you would like to take a look at it offline.

Title: Barbie III
Post by: Bullethead on September 05, 2007, 10:46:42 PM

Citabria said:

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I have yet to see a single b25H with armor on the copilots side. the logic behind this might be that the b25H was a single pilot aircraft.

Did anybody else who was a kid in the 60s have one of those plastic B-25H toys?  They were pretty common, the sort of thing you'd find all the time in the $1 toy basket at a grocery store back then, along with the rubber snakes and gorillas.  They were about 1/72 scale, had all the rivets molded into them, but were just soft plastic, usually red on top and black on the bottom.  Many of my friends had them, too.  Anyway, this thing is obviously an unimpeachable source, and it had armor on both sides :rofl