Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Shuffler on October 28, 2020, 09:42:15 AM
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Updated 38 now has one skin. Happy for update, sad for one skin.
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As I made the three default skins and so have templates for them ready to go I'll be able to produce more skins fairly quickly (typically a few days per skin). Anyone else will likely have to spend a few weeks making new templates based on the defaults. Once Hitech gets the time to update the skins submission site by clearing out the old P-38 skins and updating the old P-38 file names and sizes I'll make a start on doing some new skins.
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We all know we can depend on our skinners. I just figured I would post before someone else did.
Thank you and all the others that skin the planes we love to fly.
:salute
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Well THAT'S a bummer, man! tm "the Dude"
Oboe had just made what would be my regular everyday 80th P-38L skin but it's all good since ENY has consistently shafted me out of admiring it!
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I'll be getting back to some P-38s shortly. I have to update my Red Tail for a photo shoot with OBOE. We did a test run last week and while the results are not bad I realized my skins have changed dramatically since I updated that one via adoption.
I've got CALIFORNIA CUTIE on tap.
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My red and white spinner PJ had just been updated too.
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All the skins for the P-38 are now gone...
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All the skins for the P-38 are now gone...
That'll happen after a 3D model update.
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That'll happen after a 3D model update.
Huh?
We have a new model?
Well, this sure wasn't explained very well.
:furious
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Huh?
We have a new model?
Well, this sure wasn't explained very well.
:furious
https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,401486.0.html
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https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,401486.0.html
I don't read that forum. I read THIS forum for info about skins. And the Private Skin Forum.
Any way, glad to see this update. It is a definite improvement. :cheers:
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Huh?
We have a new model?
Well, this sure wasn't explained very well.
:furious
I don't read that forum. I read THIS forum for info about skins. And the Private Skin Forum.
Any way, glad to see this update. It is a definite improvement. :cheers:
I was just defending against your claim.
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I was just defending against your claim.
My claim is accurate. No defense required or applicable. It is what it is. Dale can't be everywhere at once, I get that. No biggie.
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I scribbled down all the old P-38 skin info before the submission site was updated so I can avoid re-skinning anything that Vraciu or Oboe skinned previously. Lyric1 asked me to post the lists so he can avoid researching these schemes unnecessarily.
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Thanks, Greebo.
I'm pretty sure I won't be re-skinning all the P-38 skins I had in-game before. Certainly, I won't be making multiple skins for the same FG/FS as I did before, as that was too confusing in the dropdown list; they were all listed with the same name. I envision a much smaller portfolio of P-38 skins from me this time around. I'm trying to develop a natural metal P-38J base right now, but its pretty slow going.
I have some new candidates I'm considering from both the ETO and PTO, but my resources for MTO P-38s are slight.
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Thanks, G. Most of mine were adoptions so I don't have any objection to you working on those.
The few I can think of that I would like to do again are GENTLE ANNIE, LITTLE RED HEAD II, and CURLY SIX. I can't think of any others that I'm invested in beyond those. I'll look at the list just to be sure, but I think you can go for it on some of the iconic ones like MARGE if you want them.
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I also want to do VIRGINIA MARIE and LOUISE again, along with Zemke's 823-Z. The rest are fair game. Have at it and thanks for the consideration.
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Its not really a problem for me as I've got plenty of other P-38 subjects I can skin without having to revisit your work. But it is useful to know what you are both doing in case I get a skin request from a player or for a scenario.
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I'll most likely make Jack Ilfrey's natural metal P-38J from the 20th FG "Happy Jack's Go Buggy" my first subject, as it was my first P-38 skin ever in the game way back when. Just seems fitting to me to continue that tradition. I'm fond of the bare aluminum finish with yellow spinners and nacelle bands; I think it suits the P-38 and looks sharp.
I'm also interested in doing "Trigor Mortis II", a red-trimmed P-38J from the 475th FG, and also looking at "Gung Ho", a 367th FG P-38L.
Of my former P-38s, I'll probably work on skins from this group:
P-38Gs:
49FG/9FS by Oboe "Beautiful Lass"
35FG/39FS by Oboe Tommy Lynch's "White 10" Sharkmouth theme
P-38Js:
8FG/80FS by Oboe "Jandina II"
479FG/434FS by Oboe "Little Edris"
55FG/38FS by Oboe "Journey's End"
370FG/485FS by Oboe "My Little Pig"
P-38Ls:
49FG/8FS by Oboe Itsy Bitsy II
80FG/459FS by Oboe Geronimo
The rest of my P-38s I'm planning to just leave go.
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I'm most of the way through skinning the 485th FS P-38L "Les Vin, Les Femmes et Les Chansons". After that I'll skin a PTO P-38J, possibly one that I did before, the 12th FS "St Louis Blues".
Lyric1's found me some new subjects including a 39th FS P-38G with late 1943 red-rimmed markings as well as "Kwitcherpis'n" a 402nd FS P-38J.
Of my other old skins I'll likely redo the following:-
P-38G:-
459th FS, Frances Rebel
37th FS, (desert camo)
55th FG, Texas Ranger
P-38J:-
431st FS, Wanda/Madu
P-38L:-
96th FS, Gotterdamerung
459th FS, Melba Lou IV
49th FS, Elsie
36th FS, Pay Off
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Looks good to me, guys.
We can always bump this thread as needed down the road.
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I'm feeling a bit giddy
:D
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I'm feeling a bit giddy
:D
Well you can do it without me as I've not gotten the official endorsement from the Butthurt Brigade:
Can't wait to see new P-38 skins roll off your [Greebo's] and Oboe's assembly line! <S>
He just can't help himself. What a schmuck.
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I would also like to see Whiteman take a shot at some '38s. His paint fading, staining and chipping is so good on the Corsairs; I'd like to see his treatment on an olive drab '38.
Are there any dedicated P-38 squads any more (beside the 80thFS) who would like a skin? Seems like at one time we had the 475th Satan's Angels, 479th Riddle's Raiders, 80th Headhunters, the 49th FG, and I think the 82nd FG. Interest in historical-based squads seems to have waned, or at least I'm not running into them any more.
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I would also like to see Whiteman take a shot at some '38s. His paint fading, staining and chipping is so good on the Corsairs; I'd like to see his treatment on an olive drab '38.
Are there any dedicated P-38 squads any more (beside the 80thFS) who would like a skin? Seems like at one time we had the 475th Satan's Angels, 479th Riddle's Raiders, 80th Headhunters, the 49th FG, and I think the 82nd FG. Interest in historical-based squads seems to have waned, or at least I'm not running into them any more.
I honestly thought about doing a J, it's my favorite of the 3. I'm working on a Hellcat template right now then the two Wildcats, then most certainly a possibility.