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Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Saxman on December 13, 2007, 06:12:31 PM

USAAF variant of the SBD-5. Sorry for the picture size, only period photos I found online.

Think it'd be interesting to see.

(http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051121-F-1234P-015.jpg)

(http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051121-F-1234P-014.jpg)

(http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051121-F-1234P-012.jpg)

(http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051121-F-1234P-011.jpg)

(http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/051121-F-1234P-010.jpg)

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Mus51 on December 14, 2007, 10:26:37 AM

I'd say you should give it a try! :aok

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: moot on December 14, 2007, 12:12:38 PM

Thanks for the pics Saxman.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: oboe on December 14, 2007, 04:44:30 PM

The Dauntless would look great in Army green.   I thought of doing a green one a long time ago, but never got started.   The French used them too:

(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/FME081_CAT.jpg)

I know I saw very detailed photos - possibly of a fine scale model build, of this plane somewhere.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: EagleEyes on December 30, 2007, 01:46:21 AM

id very much like to see some new SBD skins as well as some new TBM ones!!

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: lyric1 on January 02, 2008, 07:23:19 AM

A link to a New Zealand sbd. http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/sbd-5_nz5057.htm

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 02, 2008, 12:48:02 PM

Sax, I did one for the old AH1 tunisia terrain... I still have the artwork somewhere. It might be 512 tho... :(

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Fencer51 on January 02, 2008, 01:05:17 PM

It is still 512.  I was doing one for a particular Bombing Squadron, its quite interesting compared to the new 1024 skins.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 02, 2008, 01:30:26 PM

Did I send you a copy a long time ago, Fencer?

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 02, 2008, 01:59:48 PM

Found the old artwork... it's only 256. :(

Anyway... free to a good home. Resave as BMP.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 02, 2008, 02:01:05 PM

and...

Note: The Alpha channel file is not needed on this skin as the Banshee did not have perforated diveflaps. Do you still have to black out the Markings file, or did they update that?

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Saxman on January 02, 2008, 02:24:42 PM

Take a closer look at the photos, Dux, those birds all have the perforated flaps.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 02, 2008, 02:35:29 PM

Right you are... never mind. IIRC, the example I had when skinning that didn't but that could have been a unique example.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Fencer51 on January 02, 2008, 06:00:24 PM

No I was recently working on a skin for something upcoming.

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Motherland on January 02, 2008, 06:11:31 PM

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Originally posted by Dux
and...

Note: The Alpha channel file is not needed on this skin as the Banshee did not have perforated diveflaps. Do you still have to black out the Markings file, or did they update that?

What is this "alpha channel" you speak of?

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: G0ALY on January 02, 2008, 08:24:04 PM

Here is a link to the example thay have on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton.

http://www.fourfold.org/billm/Aviation/USAFMuseum/WWII/DauntlessDiveBomber/DauntlessSBD.htm

Title: A-24B Banshee
Post by: Dux on January 04, 2008, 01:51:28 PM

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Originally posted by Motherland
What is this "alpha channel" you speak of?

It's another texture that makes the holes in the flaps transparent. It's better to do something like this with a texture, rather than making actual holes in the polygons of the model itself.

Export the SBD skin, you'll see the "_a" (alpha) file included and see how it works.