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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: 5PointOh on March 03, 2011, 07:18:25 AM
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(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/ahss16.jpg)
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/ahss15.jpg)
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z235/nathanyoung1980/ahss14.jpg)
Just noticed I forgot the bomb markings... :( :(
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Nice :aok
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cool :salute
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Better shots via film viewer
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I think it needs much more detail on the skin. In the second picture, I can't even see the seams on the skin sections. Second, the nose art needs to be better defined and up the color saturation so the colors aren't so muted.
My $ .02...
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They show up nice on my PC? So I am confused on how the seems don't show up
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Nice Copr! :aok
Would love to see someone do Gen. Hansell(s) bird Joltin Josie the Pacific Pioneer. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/msh-images/4473648623/ <-----pretty neat write up on her.
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They show up nice on my PC? So I am confused on how the seems don't show up
Well, maybe its just the pics you posted, but, for example, the one with the bomb bay doors open--there's no detail visible on the entire underside of the aircraft (in your picture). For whatever its worth...
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Well, maybe its just the pics you posted, but, for example, the one with the bomb bay doors open--there's no detail visible on the entire underside of the aircraft (in your picture). For whatever its worth...
I see a whole lot of detail on the underside in that pic on my screen... panel lines, rivets, etc.
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I see a whole lot of detail on the underside in that pic on my screen... panel lines, rivets, etc.
On the wings, yes.
Check the outer side of the bomb-bay doors.
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Coprhead,
Your skinning skills have improved quite a bit the past few years. As far as details, you got most of it down. Engines look good, wing panels and weathering looks good, flap surfaces look good. The thing I see missing in your screenshots are the tail surfaces. We need an up close shot. The panel lines and rivets on your fuselage looks too faint. Bring them out a bit more. Also, the noseart looks too faint as well. Put a bit more color in them, or turn down the transparency a bit. The noseart, IMO, should look vivid against the bare metal finish. Exterior bomb bay doors seem to lack some detail as well. May want to go back and check those.
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I also forgot. Check the very leading edge of the engine nacelles. There looks to be a band of straight bare metal finish without any weathering and other details. You can see them as they are right next to the air intake scoops.
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Ty Plazus
Patch 1.0
-increased panel lines opacity 5%
-increased rivets opacity 5%
-Reduced shading on rudder by 10%
-Added dual layer to nose art (color burn for effect)
-Fixed engine nacelles (No weathering effect)
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Looks great! Do you have any photos or profile pictures that you could share with us? Would help with making some comparisons before submitting. :salute
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Ty Plazus
Patch 1.0
-increased panel lines opacity 5%
-increased rivets opacity 5%
-Reduced shading on rudder by 10%
-Added dual layer to nose art (color burn for effect)
-Fixed engine nacelles (No weathering effect)
Nose art looks much better. Bomb bay and gear doors in the second picture still look a little plain...
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Story about the memorial.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2717298-B-29-Leading-Lady-Crash-Site-Pictures&p=68516868
(http://www.fredonia.edu/faculty/emeritus/edwinlawson/b29/images/Z_Sq_22_The_Leading_Lady_3.jpeg)
Film of the crash (Graphic Warning)
http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/jpnews/movie.cgi?das_id=D0001300370_00000&seg_number=002
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Good find. There are several panels and doors that are around the noseart that is not present in your skin. You might want to browse through other B29 photos to make sure that you have all the panel lines and rivets on your aircraft. Gear doors and bomb bay doors are also lacking in some subtle detail.
The B29 skins files are large. Take full advantage of it! There are so many things you can do to enhance your skin (adding more detail such as weathering, metal strees/fatigue, oil stains, dirt, etc.). Get creative, my friend!
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I was a little hesitant on going heavy with weathering and dirt since the aircraft didn't have many sorties before it was lost. But you still think more? I'll play with it some more.
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I was a little hesitant on going heavy with weathering and dirt since the aircraft didn't have many sorties before it was lost. But you still think more? I'll play with it some more.
I wouldn't hesitate. If it's wrong, too dirty, etc... Krusty will come in here and inform us! :D
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OK, trying something new...I've tried to give the metal panels a little more life...Opinions?
I think this has a more textured look to it...
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I think that is going in the right direction. :aok
You have lost that flat plastic look & it is now taking on the appearance of metal.
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I think that is going in the right direction. :aok
You have lost that flat plastic look & it is now taking on the appearance of metal.
Can't say I disagree :aok
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OK, trying something new...I've tried to give the metal panels a little more life...Opinions?
I think this has a more textured look to it...
Coprhead,
That is exactly what I was trying to describe! This is absolutely fantastic bare metal finish right there, sir! :salute
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Better Pics
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Coprhead,
That is exactly what I was trying to describe! This is absolutely fantastic bare metal finish right there, sir! :salute
Aren't the B-29s painted silver?
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The picture at the top looks like bare metal to me...but I have seen other pictures where they have a painted look.
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Aren't the B-29s painted silver?
I always thought they were bare metal? At least this one is.
(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/B29Attacks6.jpg)
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That's a nice skin 5PointOh. The rivet shading effects are definitely a worthwhile improvement.
WRT painted areas on the B-29 I've done a fair bit of research on this, including reading the painting instructions in the B-29 maintenance manual. Apart from the first olive drab examples B-29s were mostly unpainted inside and out. The exceptions to this were the pressurised crew areas, the exposed areas of which which were painted in chromate green. The bomb and wheel bays were left unpainted. Externally the gun turrets, front lips of the cowlings and the bomb aimer's canopy framing were primed and then painted aluminium as well as all the fabric covered control surfaces. The front nose leg was often painted in yellow green primer.
Also on the B-29A much of the wing skin was made of a higher strength alloy that corroded more easily, so this was also primed and painted aluminium. On the default skin you can see this as a darker area extending across most of the upper wing between the front and rear spars and out to the wing insignia. Underneath the wing only part of the area between the inner nacelles and fuselage was painted. The fuselage section adjacent the wing join was also painted this way.
Early B-29s had a different wing construction and so may differ here, I'd guess the fuselage section may not have been painted on these. Also I am not sure if all the internal areas of the olive drab B-29s would have been painted in primer or left unpainted, I've not found any good info on this.
Note modern restored examples of B-29s are not good references to paint on B-29s, particularly "Fifi". Many of these have been painted to protect them from the effects of corrosion more than for historical accuracy. The exception to this is the Enola Gay in the NASM, this shows the painted sections of the wing particularly well.