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Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: oboe on December 16, 2007, 07:51:22 AM

I made a pdf version of Fester's great skinning tutorial.   I changed the layout to 2-column landscape and fixed the grammar and typo errors Word was complaining about, and added a reference to the Simmer's Paintshop (a great skinning resource for colors and markings).

Anybody got a place to put a link to this document?

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: Angrist on December 16, 2007, 07:56:07 AM

Wow!  Nice!

I wish I had a place for you to put it.  But when you do find a place I can't wait to take a look!!

Thanks for taking the time to do that!:aok

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: hyster on December 16, 2007, 08:16:54 AM

i can host it for u.

pm me or add me to msn. "ncaod at hotmail.com"

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: hammer on December 16, 2007, 09:12:58 PM

oboe,

I'll can put it on netaces

Regards,

Hammer

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: oboe on December 20, 2007, 06:47:16 AM

Much thanks to Hyster and Hammer for hosting this, and especially to Fester for sharing his knowledge and techniques.

Here is Hyster's link Fester's AH Skinning Tutorial (http://ah2res.co.uk/download/Fester's_AH_skinning_tutorial.pdf)

EDIT: Anybody know why this code doesn't show up properly?

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: Mus51 on December 20, 2007, 10:17:13 AM

Because its a pdf file and it doenst end with a html or something like that.

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: hyster on December 20, 2007, 11:24:42 AM

http://www.ah2res.co.uk/download/

just click the link or if it loads in the browser right click and save as.

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: Citabria on December 20, 2007, 02:45:29 PM

note for the shading I have found my older stuff to be overdone and am using more subtle shading to simulate rivet deformation and skin stress. this has a lot to do with getting a new monitor that is an LCD screen. (my old CRT screen was old and dark and losing its picture quality)

the key is to have just enough to give the impression that the exterior of the plane is a thin sheet of aluminum and not asolid mass.



also flush rivets I only use a white transparent layer and no black rivet layer now.

I draw the shading effects by hand around the single rivet layer to give the impression that they are slightly sunken.

I have found this to be a step towards more realism and a step away from over done rivet effects.

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: mensa180 on December 25, 2007, 03:09:24 AM

Woah!  Thanks Fester for the awesome guide, and oboe for fixin' it up.

Title: New .pdf of Fester's tutorial (with pictures)
Post by: splitatom on December 27, 2007, 04:46:23 PM

where are the templates