General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: oboe on July 01, 2020, 02:45:52 PM
Title: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: oboe on July 01, 2020, 02:45:52 PM
Trying to get one more skin in before tomorrow - a P-51D that's been a long time coming to the game. I've redone the Normal, Env, Spec and Power maps and that required some adjustments to the original art and detail layers. Appreciate the feedback - I know I have to darken the white yet, and perhaps make the screw heads lighter in the white painted area, and maybe the fuselage/wing fillet as well.
EDIT: Found an original WWII color film clip (you'll get an error, but just click "Watch on YouYube" and it'll play. Can't get a better reference than this. Close ups start at 0:45 or so:
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Vraciu on July 01, 2020, 02:57:44 PM
Awesome. Good to see this one. :aok That nose art was not easy to pull off. Nice job. :cheers:
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Fencer51 on July 01, 2020, 02:58:09 PM
:cheers: Purty. Oboe rather than post on all your skjns, let us just assume I am in awe and love them unless I state otherwise. :aok
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: oboe on July 01, 2020, 03:01:28 PM
:cheers: Purty. Oboe rather than post on all your skjns, let us just assume I am in awe and love them unless I state otherwise. :aok
LOL thank you Fencer. come back and fly it. I'm so anxious to actually, finally up it in the game.
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Nefarious on July 01, 2020, 03:13:57 PM
Amazing work Oboe. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Devil 505 on July 01, 2020, 03:16:25 PM
Beautiful work, Oboe.
If you go to 1:20 in that video, you'll see that there is "WR" under the port wing. I don't see anything there on your skin. Maybe "F" should be there too?
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: oboe on July 01, 2020, 03:19:46 PM
If you go to 1:20 in that video, you'll see that there is "WR" under the port wing. I don't see anything there on your skin. Maybe "F" should be there too?
That under-wing "WR" was painted on after hostilities ended - I don't recall where I read that - but, it was an aid to identify the young flyers who were breaking rules and buzzing the local populations.
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Vraciu on July 01, 2020, 03:21:46 PM
That under-wing "WR" was painted on after hostilities ended - I don't recall where I read that - but, it was an aid to identify the young flyers who were breaking rules and buzzing the local populations.
Yeah, that's a buzz number. It was post-VE Day.
Title: Re: P-51D "Down For Double" LtCol Gordon Graham, 355th FG / 354th FS
Post by: Devil 505 on July 01, 2020, 03:22:34 PM
That under-wing "WR" was painted on after hostilities ended - I don't recall where I read that - but, it was an aid to identify the young flyers who were breaking rules and buzzing the local populations.