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Title: Some more natural metal P-38s
Post by: oboe on August 02, 2008, 11:28:14 AM

Been experimenting with a new natural metal finish techinique and here are some more test subjects:

8th FG/80th FS P-38J "Down Beat" - flown by Richard Bong briefly.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/DownBeat-2.jpg)

18th FG P-38L - A fairly new and unused bird (only used about 2 weeks before the War ended).  It seems to me though, that
the dirtier the skin, the more realistic the metal comes out looking.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/P-38L-18FG.jpg)

Update to an ingame skin - 474th FG 428th FS P-38J "Baby Shoes The Second"
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/P-38J-474FG-428FS-Baby-Shoe.jpg)

Title: Re: Some more natural metal P-38s
Post by: evenhaim on August 02, 2008, 11:53:20 AM

Congrats oboe they are all beautiful

Title: Re: Some more natural metal P-38s
Post by: Stoney on August 03, 2008, 10:11:15 AM

Do you have an in cockpit shot looking down the wing?  The BMF effect looks nice from the screenies...

Title: Re: Some more natural metal P-38s
Post by: oboe on August 03, 2008, 11:00:30 AM

Sure.   Here is a shot showing the wing and inner boom of one of the new BMF '38s.   The effect is much better in external shots I think; it seems like the material.txt file has a negligible effect on the metal surface when viewing from the cockpit.

(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/BMF-P-38J-port-rear-looking.jpg)

Title: Re: Some more natural metal P-38s
Post by: Banshee7 on August 03, 2008, 12:19:13 PM

oboe...i love you

(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd148/tjlaven/DownBeat-2.jpg)