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Title: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Greebo on April 04, 2012, 04:33:22 AM: Lyric1 recently pointed me to this Soviet Warplanes Forum thread (http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1073.0) showing an I-16 in an unusual colour scheme. This aircraft was painted in the pre-war scheme consisting of two types of gloss grey paint. The paint used on the plywood and fabric areas was glossier than the paint used on the metal areas and was often described as silver. The photos in the thread show the aircraft on an overrun Soviet airfield in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa. It has had its upper surfaces hurriedly brush painted in AII green paint. This may have been the personal aircraft of the CO of 33 IAP. The winged symbol on the tail is the logo of the VVS.

I wanted to skin this this aircraft partly because it shows off the new spec and bump mapping quite well. The grey paint on the fabric outer wings is glossier compared to that on the metal centre section. Also the glossier grey shines through gaps in the duller green paint. The bump mapping shows up the fabric stitching, rivets and plywood areas as well.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/33_IAP_I-16_SC1.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/33_IAP_I-16_SC2.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/33_IAP_I-16_SC3.jpg)
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: FTJR on April 04, 2012, 04:59:38 AM: :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: lyric1 on April 04, 2012, 05:33:49 AM: That turned out well. :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Volron on April 04, 2012, 05:48:15 AM: Will you submit it? I hope you can. That would be my new I-16 skin. :x Very nice. :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: JOACH1M on April 04, 2012, 08:22:40 AM: Quote from: lyric1 on April 04, 2012, 05:33:49 AM
That turned out well. :aok
Bravo! :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: B4Buster on April 04, 2012, 12:18:08 PM: :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Devil 505 on April 04, 2012, 07:23:26 PM: Wow. Excellent job, Greebo. :salute
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: HighTone on April 05, 2012, 09:51:42 AM: Very nice Greebo :cheers:
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: B4Buster on April 06, 2012, 12:10:59 PM: Love the insignia on the tail.
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Greebo on April 06, 2012, 12:58:02 PM: Thanks guys, glad you like it. I'll tinker with it a bit more this weekend and submit it next week.
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Vudu15 on April 06, 2012, 08:51:44 PM: :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Wmaker on April 07, 2012, 02:05:37 PM: Simply amazing Greebo!

I'll try to send you those Brewster references one day. :cry I have some unexpected uncertainties about the colors.
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Wmaker on April 07, 2012, 02:23:06 PM: (http://luftwaffeinprofile.se/BCRSno7.gif)
Polikarpov I-16 Mark 24, Mladshiy Leytenant Ivan Bratushko, 286 IAP, Leningrad - Lake Ladoga area, Summer 1942.

http://luftwaffeinprofile.se/bcrsno7.html (http://luftwaffeinprofile.se/bcrsno7.html)

Here's a cool one aswell. DOn't recall seeing the photo though...
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: lyric1 on April 07, 2012, 04:14:29 PM: Quote from: Wmaker on April 07, 2012, 02:23:06 PM
(http://luftwaffeinprofile.se/BCRSno7.gif)
Polikarpov I-16 Mark 24, Mladshiy Leytenant Ivan Bratushko, 286 IAP, Leningrad - Lake Ladoga area, Summer 1942.

Here you go with Bratushko himself.
(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/I-16%20Russian/red30.jpg)

General consensus it is red 30 not yellow though.

(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/I-16%20Russian/184595px.jpg)
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Greebo on April 09, 2012, 08:04:16 AM: It's a nice clear photo so I'll consider skinning it, but the scheme is pretty similar to an I-16 I've already done.
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: lyric1 on May 10, 2012, 06:11:04 PM: Wow in on this update. :O
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Greebo on May 14, 2012, 04:22:56 AM: It is odd HTC included this one as it was submitted much later than all the other skins that I had accepted. My guess is that they wanted to check to make sure there was no problems with uploading skins that included a bump and spec map.
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Volron on May 14, 2012, 07:45:15 PM: I've already littered the landscape a few times in it. :bhead But I crashed in style! :D
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: lyric1 on May 20, 2012, 05:02:41 PM: Quote from: Volron on May 14, 2012, 07:45:15 PM
I've already littered the landscape a few times in it. :bhead But I crashed in style! :D
Certainly a popular skin in early war. :aok
Title: Re: 33 IAP I-16 skin
Post by: Lukanian-7 on June 16, 2012, 07:19:03 PM: Totally unrelated, but that picture you posted referred to him as 'Bratushki' not 'Bratushko'.