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Not to worry - it'll shoot back! Click shots for hi-res images.

Over morning coffee, I thought I'd expand on making realistic artwork for aircraft. Buried in most every aircraft production contract is an obscure section titled "Gaps and Seams." A gap is the interval between the airframe and a removable panel or opening door. A seam is the interval between two sections of skin attached to the airframe. The section specifies the dimensional tolerances for both - clearly the interval between seams is much tighter than the interval for panels/doors. Indeed, seams are so close together that the human eye cannot resolve the joint at the distance most computer game models are viewed at. There are always exceptions, but usually you do not want to paint lines on your artwork to show seams - only paint lines to show gaps. Lots of pixels are mandatory so the artwork should be large enough to show gaps only one pixel wide. Seams are realistically shown with changes in color or changes in lightness/darkness, not painted lines. Click on shots below for hi-res image.

Supermarine Cyclone...................Project..........CANCELLED.

Progress shots - click to view hi-res images.

A screenshot from 10 years ago.......

Thanks. More examples below - click for hi-res image. It's taken me several years' worth of tinkering to figure out how to get good results in the First Eagles game world. Second shot shows artwork for two different CR32 versions for China or Spain. I'm working out painting techniques for the China version first, because one color is much easier than three colors.

A few weeks ago windows update installed the latest Nvidia drivers and after some hours of use, I can say that flicker his gone! my specs gt 720 2gb DDR 5 windows 7 I3-2100 3.10 and 4 GB ram Cocas

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Major overhaul of P-40 markings and theater bands etc. Serial numbers are different to aircraft numbers on the cowling as the cowling number was given in theater depending on the servicing unit the aircraft was assigned to. P-40E Home Defense Squadrons (including Tonga and Fiji) P-40K Operational Squadrons (Guadalcanal/ Solomon Islands etc) P-40M Operational Squadrons (Guadalcanal/ Solomon Islands etc) Single P-40L delivered to the RNZAF by mistake, however it was assembled in New Zealand and flown briefly before it was shipped back to the USA. P-40N Operational Squadrons (Guadalcanal/ Solomon Islands etc) and OTU (Operational Training Unit) Squadrons 488 (NZ) Squadron Buffalo Mk.I defending Singapore (in vain) 488 (NZ) Squadron Hurricane Mk.IIb (Buffalo loss replacments) defending Singapore at the bitter end PBY-5

The only person people are not saying he's in a better place Thanks Hef!

How about a Hudson?

Article on his contribution to aviation...especially the black bunny fighter jets! :) http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14697/remembering-hugh-hefners-iconic-jet-black-dc-9-big-bunny

EE Thunderbolt F.1

Talk about Hi Fidelity. You can tell that you love what you do. I don't even care if my system can run it. I'll just sit on the ground and "walk around" the thing.

My 8 year old gaming rig recently went pop... could have been the GPU or PSU, decided not to frig with it... just picked up a new (second hand... new to me) gaming rig... so I'll be getting back into modelling the bases for this.

1976 ish... 1

Jungle Scooters - Almost done. I will also upload the D-704 refueling pod tomorrow.

Low-altitude parachute-extraction system credits: C-130: Dels, M551 skin: The Trooper,

You have to wait till it´s finished. but that will still take some time...

Here's an alternate effect, using animated translucent "rings", This one dates back to March of 2009: Movie.wmv