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Pets Over Poltava
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:58 pm
by :FI:Falcon
I got another request last weekend.
You remember last weekend, when EVERYONE else was playing 4.04?!?!?!
Gah!
Okay, I'm gonna try a Pe2 skin. Probably a gray green camo FIS skin to get familiar with the model and then the recently popular fully total uber historical FI metal Tempest design thing whatever.
Which Pe-2/3 do you want for kicks or looks or performance or HE?
Thanks,
Falcon
Oh ja!
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 6:57 pm
by :FI:Genosse
Patrone!
Sorry for let you hang there yesterday but ...
- no long explanation -
... and therefore I hope you understand.
BTW, would you work on the
recently popular fully total uber historical FI metal skin for the Pe-2? Oh, please! C'mon!!!!
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:29 pm
by :FI:Macca
Will you also skin Elvis?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 12:14 am
by Nightcat
What about the Elves???
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 3:14 am
by :FI:Falcon
Actually,
I AM helping a sweet Korean lass skin an Elf for
Oblivion,
but I don't think it will stand up against any of our lads in a Spitfire.
Okay, the default Pe2 void is not bad, but it has
issues
kinna like Macca after his bedtime or Moog on a day with a "y" in it or Fen after a bottle of ...
whoa, that list will be to long for this post ...
anyway ...
the void will take a few days to correct just so all the lines match up.
I won't be doing my first Pet skin to historical accuracy,
that takes WAY too long,
especially with four or five different models to research,
but the one "all Pet" skin I make should be good enough to hunt.
Falcon
Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:14 pm
by :FI:Falcon
Ugh!
The more I study the default void the more work I see that it needs. There are several stretched areas and I think the void artist NEVER thought the wings were actually intended to connect to the fuselage.
Now doing house, yard, kids,
Oblivion and IL2 at the same time ...
this may take a while.
Falcon
I have read the instruction book for
Silent Hunter III fifty times, but no time to actually play it yet!
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 1:34 am
by Nightcat
Oooo Silent Hunter is cool, its as cool as Elves!
So no Elves?
NC
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:01 pm
by Sapper-FIN
Aren´t PE´s "one skin fits all"?
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:36 pm
by :FI:Falcon
Yes, but normally, when time permits, I like to do it right. There are many different variants of the PE2/3 and each have their own panel, rivet, hatch, markings, etc. patterns.
But yeah ... the first one I do will be precise, but not necessarily accurate.
Flanoc
Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 1:11 am
by Nightcat
Elf?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:56 pm
by :FI:Falcon
Jeez-ah-Pete!
Is there one line that is aligned with another on the flippin' void!?!
I need to make certain design decisions to make this thing look good. I have found no other Pe-2 skin or template on the web that addresses ANY/some of the matching issues. It seems that even some of the best skinners simply use the void and to heck if things blur or clip or don't line up or whatever.
It's not near as bad as the I-16 though. I still have nightmares on that one. ~shudder~
Anywho, here's a progress shot; fixing lines and matting issues and thinking about darker and lighter areas for later.
F
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:51 pm
by Nightcat
If it doesn't line up, get creative! nobody will notice Fal 'perfectionist' con..
NC
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:10 pm
by :FI:Falcon
Creative?
Yeah, that's what I meant when I said "certain design decisions".
More design decisions ...
faded white rivets over blured black rivets creates good initial wear/texture effect.*
F
*wings only at this time.
What th'...
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:29 am
by :FI:Heloego
...
Oooo Silent Hunter is cool, its as cool as Elves!
So no Elves?
You might see Elves in Memphis.
Sorry.
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:42 am
by :FI:RULES
I thought it said Elvis....