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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on July 16, 2020, 06:45:14 AM
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Thanks to Lyric1 for sending me the photos for this skin and also to Hajo who sent Lyric1 the 56th FG book he got the photos from. This is an update to an orphaned skin originally submitted by Ratio in 2013.
Bolesław Michal Gładych received his wings in the Polish Air Force on the 1st September 1939. Too late to see combat before the fall of Poland he escaped first to Romania and later France where he flew with Groupe de Chasse I/145, a Polish volunteer unit. After the fall of France in 1940 he moved to Britain and joined the RAF where he flew with two Polish squadrons, 303 and 302,scoring seven kills with them. At the end of his second RAF tour in January 1944 Gladych was unofficially recruited into the 56th Fighter Group by its CO Major Francis Gabreski, an American of Polish descent who had also flown with the RAF. Flying with the 61st Fighter Squadron as Major "Mike" Gladych he scored a further 10 kills and survived the war. During his wartime career he was awarded the Polish Cross of Valour with three bars, the British DFC as well as the USA's Silver Star with two clusters and the Air Medal with three clusters.
All of Gladych's aircraft were named "Pengie" after his then girlfriend and future wife Elizabeth, a Canadian WAAF. This one "Pengie II" is shown as it would have appeared in late 1944, with D Day stripes on the lower rear fuselage and the 61st FS red painted nose and rudder.
(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=400676.0;attach=32860)
(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=400676.0;attach=32862)
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Amazing work. Love it! :aok
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Sweet
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Guns blazing.... looks great. Lyric... do not salivate on the pages of the book. :D
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Most excellent.
A vast improvement over the original.
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Very nice to see these old skins getting updated. Beauty of a skin, Greebo; you pull off the use of bold colors so well! Hard to take my eyes off this one.
I notice the N-map is being used to form bulges under the aileron, where I assume hinges are covered by fairings?
:aok
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Thanks guys, glad you like it. Yes I am using the normal map to simulate the aileron hinge blister shadows, in combination with drawing them in 2D on the diffuse map. Most of the time these will be in shadow so its not going to be often that anyone will see the effect, but OTOH it didn't take me long to do.
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That's a great job on a heck of a subject. He was a brave man, especially to refer to his girlfriend as a penguin! :rofl
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Thanks guys, glad you like it. Yes I am using the normal map to simulate the aileron hinge blister shadows, in combination with drawing them in 2D on the diffuse map. Most of the time these will be in shadow so its not going to be often that anyone will see the effect, but OTOH it didn't take me long to do.
The wing underside of the P-38L has 4 fuel pump blisters, so its great to see that effect can be used on aircraft undersides, too.
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Guns blazing.... looks great. Lyric... do not salivate on the pages of the book. :D
This plane as it was submitted before was so confusing with only one photo to be found at the time. It couldn’t really be updated by Greebo because nothing made sense. Hajo’s book had additional new photos and explanations as to why the aircraft looked the way it did. Hajos book was the glue that made Greebo’s skin possible.
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This plane as it was submitted before was so confusing with only one photo to be found at the time. It couldn’t really be updated by Greebo because nothing made sense. Hajo’s book had additional new photos and explanations as to why the aircraft looked the way it did. Hajos book was the glue that made Greebo’s skin possible.
Hajo's book and you!
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Outstanding work. Thanks Greebo and Lyric1.
Has it been added to the inventory yet?
It's my new ride!
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I have submitted this skin to the current pending batch. As soon as Hitech gets time he will process all these skins so they can be used by players in the MA. He is just back from vacation so hopefully this won't be too long now.