Ta 152 Skins

[Xasthur]

wow you guys do a great job, keep yup the good work, what program do u use to makes these, and could u paste a VERY brief example of what u do to make these. thanks

I use Adobe Photoshop 7 and it does the job nicely. Unless you get it illegally, it's a costly program, though. I believe quite a few people use GIMP which is a free-download photo-editing program.

I have no idea what the features are like in GIMP.

These are the basic instructions to get you started:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,108740.0.html

Krusty also posted a little tutorial here somewhere too... You should be able to find it with a a forum search.

[Xasthur]

Im thinking of going with somthing like this.

That looks much closer, IMO.

[moot]

I haven't seen it myself, but GIMPstudio's interface was made to be like PS. 

[moot]

Research is taking too long, I just got started on WN 010 as Green 4 in the Czech profile.  After that, I'll probably do 003 and 005 from the same page.

[moot]

The red numbers may not be incorrect.. I don't have everything figured out yet, but 10 Staffel (red numerals) recorded a kill on March 1st '45, so there might have been red numbers on the 152s at some point during the shuffles of reorganisation in the last weeks of action.

[Xasthur]

This thread suggests that our Ta 152 will have one of the most comprehensive and high quality skin selections in the game. Hats off to all of you, particularly to Moot and everyone else who has contributed to the small library of information we now have here on the 152.

 

[moot]

Does anyone have a book that describes how paint was applied?  e.g. Japo's "Focke-Wulf Fw 190D camouflage & markings" books describe it.  I'd like to know exactly how they went about it.

[Bodhi]

Does anyone have a book that describes how paint was applied?  e.g. Japo's "fluffe-Wulf Fw 190D camouflage & markings" books describe it.  I'd like to know exactly how they went about it.

I'll look and see what I have tonight.

[Xasthur]

I'm not sure if you've thought of this or not, Tk, but your RLM 76 looks very blue. By that stage of the war, as I understand, there was no finite definition on colour so it may well be that your skin represents this variation in RLM colours as the standarisation broke down.... it just looks to me on my monitor that your colour choice is particularly blue.

As a side note, it was good fun defending that base with you the other night in GVs... That was definitely the most fun I've had on the ground in this game. 

[moot]

Yeah that's a strong hue TK.  For comparison, Crandall's rendition of a 301 bird:


The most off-hue 76 that I think still looks good, from Wotan's JG53 109G-14 skin:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2308285703_0463b27766_o.png

[Krusty]

How do you know it never saw combat?  It was being tested in a combat zone.   How do you know it was unarmed.

How do you know it was repainted?

It was a skin of an aircraft being tested in a war that was close to the end. 

At the time of testing, the area they were operating was the same location the other Ta152's in the unit were flying.  Maybe they should not be included.


You or Fester blowing a fuse is irrelevant.  You have no proof that it did or did not see combat.  Definitive proof from that time period is very difficult to find.

Stop being a know-it-all.

How do you know the Do335 wasn't used in combat missions? How do you know it wasn't used regularly by war-weary pilots?

You're using false arguments to justify a NON-COMBAT skin, just for the sake of... I don't know actually. Are you just trying to get a reaction, or you just want a colorful skin?

IL2 has lots of colorful skins. They even have lots of bright purple and green flames painted on their skins.

Maybe we should do that too, right?


<oldrolleyes>

[Fencer51]

Actually the Do335 was used in combat.  Pierre Clostermann shot at one and got out ran by it in his Tempest.  Well that's what his book said.  It also said he engaged TA152s... the new version of the book has changed this to 190D9s. 

[Fencer51]

Anyone doing a TA152, check your material file.  The default TA152 file has definate "white" issues on your skin.  I just reshot mine with the default B-25C file (cammo bird) and it looks alot better.

[moot]

What's that?

[Fencer51]

Look in the TA152H folder.  There is a material.txt file which effects the way the skin is viewed in game.  You can see what this does in the skin viewer.