Mus, in general I love your work, but you're churning out a lot of these all based on the same new template before responding to issues with said template.
- They all have the wrong leading edge demarcation patterns. These were not erosion patterns. They were specific shapes and rather uniform. They were also not seen on the H-stabs, as those were too thin to require camo edges like that.
- What's with the BMF-style highlights? White left/right gradients as if catching the light on a very shiny surface, dark shades below as if reflecting ground color (even evident on the blue 8?). Super black wing underside shadows that really are only at home on bare metal skins.
- blue exhaust?
I like your camoflague effects and overall you can paint a plane better than I can. It's all the details that just bug the hell out of me.
Examples:
- Supercharger intake is more than 1 part, and you're not fully painting it so that in-game it has a smooth upper and lower color. You have the ring around the intake, which should have a demarcation upper/lower most times, and then you have the intake itself.
- There is a ring on the front of the fuselage that is part of the prop. It should blend in seamlessly with the prop in most cases, being the same color and same "part" -- just located on another part of the BMP through an oversight.
- The shadow box around the exhaust is not a square shape. It's skewed, with the aft end being 2-3 pixels lower than the front. You can see that it sticks above your "exhaust shroud/sheild" part in the screenshots.
- Stenciling overdone. Red indicator marks by thumb-tab lock-down points, numbers along the fuselage ribs, etc, which were not present on the real craft. The numbers were only on one side of the fuselage, and were for maintenance/production reference. They were rarely seen after the E/F models. Some things were mandatory, like the fill spout triangles, but most of it (especially by the time the G-14s came around) was done away with.
I sent you a PM to spark a discussion with you about some of these issues and hopefully get some of them remedied, but I might as well post it here.
I really like the way you paint, but am starting to really dislike the skins overall. The details are just annoyingly wrong IMO. One or two are forgivable (and, let's face it I've made my mistakes too!), but overall you're applying the same ones to many skins in a row and I gotta point it out now before you do any more!
