Fw 190A-4, 'Weisse 4', WNr 0601 of 1./JG1

[BMathis]

  Sweet ride. Nice job!   

[mensa180]

No skinner here but it looks like the trick is to get the edges lined up with the middle of the plane so no stretching occurs over the top of the nose.  Think it's an issue with UV mapping? 

[Krusty]

The trick is to work with the stretching.

Find where it starts and compensate by reducing or increasing the shape of your "checker" pattern so that when it does stretch it looks better.

That's how I did it 

[Motherland]

I hear the checkerboard can be tough, looks like you did a great job on that one Bubi.

Actually, the only difficult thing is getting the vertical spacing right, since it stretches things out near the top/bottom of the fuselage. Since the default skin had stripes, I was able to use that as a guide.... 3/4 of the work was already done for me The lines were a little off though, had to play with them a bit.

Thanks guys! I haven't submitted this yet as the last thing I think HTC wants to find in their inbox right now is 'subject: skin submission' with the chitstorm of complaints right now.... I'll wait for that to die down a bit.

[Greebo]

I'd submit it now, unless there is any possibility of you altering something on it. The skins just stay in HTC's inbox until they get a chance to look at them. You don't get any warning of when that will be, so you could miss the boat if you wait.