AH B-25 Mitchell for MSFS Released

For the repainters, AH help desk just assured me the NORMAL map for the straferfuseA albedo of the gunship model will be included in the next update, as well the suit heater in the cockpit will no longer poke through the strafer nose's exterior.
 
Sorry it is taking so long, but a holiday interfered, and the frustration of trying to paint the anti-glare panels on the engines. I've given up on those... and painted something else that I hope you'll like as well

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but why are those exhausts suddenly outside?
 
Thats our (AH) Mitchell B-25B "Doolittle Raider" . Jan the exhausts are not on the outside. It is just that the port one is longer than the starboard one as it incorporates a heat exchanger.
 
bazzar said:
Thats our (AH) Mitchell B-25B "Doolittle Raider" . Jan the exhausts are not on the outside. It is just that the port one is longer than the starboard one as it incorporates a heat exchanger.
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AH..there you are bazzar - is it possible to know if you have noted the issue with painting the anti-glare panels onto the engine cowling inboard surfaces? or if there might be a fix in the mix at some point? It would be great to have the bare metal paint schemes with that necessary feature available to the painters like JanKees if possible.
 
Actually I am not aware of antiglare panels on the inboard sides of the nacelles. All we have there currently is exhaust staining on the B-25J. The B-25B of course has different exhausts. We have a major upgrade to the Echo19 sounds coming so I will take a look then.
 
bazzar said:
Actually I am not aware of antiglare panels on the inboard sides of the nacelles. All we have there currently is exhaust staining on the B-25J. The B-25B of course has different exhausts. We have a major upgrade to the Echo19 sounds coming so I will take a look then.
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yes - I was referring to the J model as I believe the earlier Mitchells were not generally flown in bare metal.
in this image of Panchito you can see the green paint applied to the inboard cowls and the fuselage in front of the windscreen and apparently there is some issue with painters not being able to recreate those antiglare
panels on the cowlings (not sure about the fuselage) - I appreciate your reply above - thank you
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Painting the panel itself is not the problem, it is the exhaust stubs on the panel. They are chopped up in many different parts, and finding all of them on the textures so far has been elusive. I'm sure that if you do it in 3D it would be simple, but I still don't master that skill, maybe I should learn....
 
I am afraid Jan the story is the same for the cowls. I seriously doubt you could ever paint the anti-glare panels unless you do it in 3D. The maps are made for substance painter which doesn't care where the components for a particular piece of geometry are. You paint what you see in the 3D space.
 
Jankees, even in 3D it's challenging because of texture overlaping used to texture those small parts.
I found this section on bare metal Mitchells in my research.
 

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bazzar said:
I am afraid Jan the story is the same for the cowls. I seriously doubt you could ever paint the anti-glare panels unless you do it in 3D. The maps are made for substance painter which doesn't care where the components for a particular piece of geometry are. You paint what you see in the 3D sp
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no, the panels were relatively easy to find, but it's those exhaust stubs. Each one is divided up into at least 6 miniscule parts that are randomly distributed over the textures, and the textures for left and right are different too. I've given up finding all of them. So I can give you OD panels with metallic exhausts, or leave things metal. However, if someone who càn paint in 3D is willing to help...
 

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Hi JanKees - so if I read your post and illustration correctly, the cowlings can be painted properly - only the exhaust 'bumps' cannot be completely covered, as they are mapped differently - is that right?
In my view - since we're only talking about 3 exhaust bumps and that it appears the tops of these WILL have the green antiglare paint on them and only be bare metal around the sides of each - In my view anyway, I'd be ok with that.
I wonder what the consensus would be though... If in fact the only other alternative is to learn and master the 3D painting program.
 
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