Expert Metal Worker Needed...

[Wrench 9,848]

Wanted:

 

Expert level skinner, intimately familiar with Natural Metal finishes. Person is needed to assist in skinning one of the most important WW2 Allied aircraft.

Template will be provided.

Standard NDA is "don't tell nobody" (as if we all don't know this aircraft is coming!)

 

This job is being offered (ok, requested), as the main skin/ini dancer sucks at NM skins.

 

screenie below is WIP shot; not all decals are finished, nor is model fully ready.

 

If interested, and meet the requirements, contact me in this thread, or via PM

 

The WW2 Players, and I,

Thank You

Edited June 15, 2013 by Wrench

[macelena 1,070]

Take a look at the new Il-28 beagle skins, Flogger23 is the droid you are looking for

 

Btw, don´t feed him past midnight

Edited June 15, 2013 by macelena

[Wrench 9,848]

don´t feed him past midnight

 

 

 

good one man!!

[+FLOGGER23 3,064]

I'm beginning not to like you Marcos, wait for my jokes in FB more often bro 

 

Kevin if you want me, i can help you with a metal finish for that beast, no problem :D

[Wrench 9,848]

thanks man!

 

I'll PM the aircraft WIP to you sometime over the next day or so. Put in a request with Veltro for some LODs fixes (mapping won't change, which is good!)

[Centurion-1 1,228]

Wrench you need to turn up the reflectivity and glossines in the TEXTURESET.ini.

 

Comparison

[TextureSet]
Name=Iraqi Silver
Nation=Iraq
StartDefaultDate=1
Specular=1.000000
Glossiness=0.500000
Reflection=0.800000
DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE

[TextureSet]
Name=Iraqi Silver
Nation=Iraq
StartDefaultDate=1
Specular=1.000000
Glossiness=0.100000
Reflection=0.000000
DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That being said Flogger does excellent templates and skin work!

[+gerwin 451]

Zur's F-86 sabres are a good example of doing metal textures.

[+russouk2004 6,958]

This is from my p47...I made the metal look by using real aluminium pics and selecting bits to use as each panel etc,adding weather etc is time consuming but worth it...

[+russouk2004 6,958]

even with basic textures you can give look of flaky paint and metal looks...this is a flaking paint real pic I pasted and made opaque to give the wear n tear look...it also applies to bare metal...these are  from my Indian Flanker.

[Wrench 9,848]

I tried following the 'metal working' tutorial in the KB, and came out terrible!!

Camo is easy compared to NM!!

[+gerwin 451]

That P47 texture is very convincing.

 

One of the things I remember from doing the F-5E, was to select a individual panels, then give them a slightly different hue/saturation/lightness compared to the surrounding panels.