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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on November 14, 2009, 05:20:00 AM
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This is my skin of a 609 Squadron Typhoon flown by Squadron Leader Roland Beamont in 1943. Beamont scored 3 kills in France in 1940 and 3 more in the Battle of Britain, all while flying Hurricanes. After a spell as a Hawker test pilot he was posted to 609 Squadron to help develop combat techniques for the Typhoon. A second spell as a Hawker test pilot developing the Tempest was followed by a posting as acting Wing Commander to the first Tempest Wing. Beamont shot down three more aircraft and 36 V-1s post D Day before being downed by flak and spending the rest of the war as a POW. After the war he resumed his test pilot career, developing aircraft like the EE Lightning and Canberra.
The aircraft I'm skinning here is Beamont's 1943 Typhoon Mk Ib. This is a bit different to the 1944 model we have in game. The propeller was 3, not 4 bladed, the tail surfaces were smaller and the cockpit had more framing and a car door entry like a P-39. I asked Pyro and he said early car door style Typhoons are an acceptable substitution for the game. I considered redoing the panel lines to include the car door but it would have looked a bit odd without the canopy framing.
Beamont's aircraft has the black and white ID stripes below the wings which were applied to Typhoons to prevent them being mistaken for FW190s. It also has a yellow chin band and uniquely for a Typhoon, yellow cannon shrouds. The fuselage roundels are a bit larger than standard as well. The lower set of kill markings are locomotives destroyed.
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/609_Sqn_Typhoon_SC2.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots4/609_Sqn_Typhoon_SC1.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/photos/609SqnTyphoonphoto.jpg)
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Kaz will go nuts. That really is beautiful work Greebo :aok.
I just got done re-reading Tempest pilot by J . Sheddan. Good story. Some brave men flew typhoons knowing full well the hazards of ground attack operations. I :salute Them
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Beauty. That screenshot brought back some memories as one of the first model kits I ever made as a kid was a Monogram Typhoon kit.
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Nice to see something a bit different. Great looking skin.
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:x That is awesome Greebo!!!
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That's sexy mayne! Top job Sir Greebo!
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That is very nice. I always wonder how you have the time to do the skins so fast and play the game for 4 or 5 hours at a time.
Excellent job. <S>
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Greebo, any chance of invasion strips (top and bottom) on the next Typhoon skin you do? I would love, love, love that!!!!! :D :x
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Looks outstanding as usual Greebs. :aok
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Thanks guys.
Kazaa, I've not managed to find a decent photo of a full D Day stripe Typhoon yet. I have half a dozen books featuring Typhoons but not one photo in any of them and nothing on the web either. Plenty of profiles, paintings and plastic kits, but I like to work from a WW2 photo if at all possible. All I've found so far is a video on the web, but the images I've got from that are too blurry to be very useful. Once I find some good source material, I'll skin a full stripe Tiffie.
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That would be awesome! I love how the D day strips stand out.
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Awesome Greebo!
Do you mind texturing the 198 sqd typhoon ( S/Ldr Ezanno) I made for the previous version of the Typhoon ?
I've neither your talent nor the time to make it :(
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Do you have any photos of Ezanno's aircraft Straffo? I've only found one very close up photo of him standing against the propeller of aircraft "TP-E". Ideally I'd want an overall photo of the plane with the airframe code, or at least a profile.
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I'll try to get all I can .
As I moved 1 year ago and lot of my books are packed somewhere I'll ask Skuzzy if he still have the doc. I've sent to him when I made the typhoon years ago.
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My GAWD Greebo those panel lines look to be a mile wide! I think your father wouldnt like that much. :devil
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I guess the lines may be a bit heavy on the cowling. I'll have another look at it, maybe reduce their opacity a bit.
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Sorry I hit so hard about that... Its just that I notice everyone going heavy on lines that really are difficult to make out. I dont have answers on how these should be done but I think the lines should be more of a hint than an actual line.
(http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq197/Chalenge08/HawkerTyphoon.jpg)
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You do make a good point Chalenge.
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(http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq197/Chalenge08/HawkerTyphoon.jpg)
sexy! :rock
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That yellow looks badass. Good choice!