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SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer

Duckie said:
:icon_lol: Absolutely! Recently been spending a little time with 2 of my favorite colors, GRAY and WHITE, so, patiently waiting, sprayer in hand, to give it a go.

Steve
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Great! Well, there are actually 7 models ready for painting.

E-1B "Stoof with a roof" Tracer (Paint Kit available by Matt "Smoothie" Wynn); no paints available yet

C-1A Trader: Marcel has done 2 paint schemes for this one (and has a paint kit WIP I think)

S2F-3 Tracker: No paint kit done yet; Laserbeak is looking at this one

S2Turbo-Military variant: No paint kit done yet; Laserbeak is looking at this one

S2F-3-CDF Variant: No paint kit done yet; Tankerguy72 has done paint scheme(s)

S2A-CDF variant: No paint kit done yet; Tankerguy72 has done paint scheme(s)

S2T-CDF variant Turbo: No paint kit done yet; Tankerguy72 has done paint scheme(s)


So let me know your interest and I will get you the goodies. :)
 
Milton Shupe said:
LOL Well, the C-1A has plenty windows :icon_lol:
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Sorry I didn't see. I was focusing on the Tracker shots.
Can I ask you, if possible, to paste a simple transparent texture on those windows ? Recently I made a flight with the HS-748 from Rick Piper and I forgot how good the windows were looking with this multi-color transparent texture pasted on it. Would be nice to have something similar on your planes.

Here is how it looks: http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/657653zkcwj9.jpg
Do you see what I mean ?
People could then get totally transparent windows by simply altering the alpha-channel, if they don't like that.
 
Daube said:
Sorry I didn't see. I was focusing on the Tracker shots.
Can I ask you, if possible, to paste a simple transparent texture on those windows ? Recently I made a flight with the HS-748 from Rick Piper and I forgot how good the windows were looking with this multi-color transparent texture pasted on it. Would be nice to have something similar on your planes.

Here is how it looks: http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/657653zkcwj9.jpg
Do you see what I mean ?
People could then get totally transparent windows by simply altering the alpha-channel, if they don't like that.
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I do see, and great point raised. Thank you.

The glass_t.bmp texture is setup so that the texture artist can vary the primary colors and alphas for degree of opacity, and well as night time appearance.

Some example to show colors below.
 
Beautiful touch!

Milton Shupe said:
I do see, and great point raised. Thank you.

The glass_t.bmp texture is setup so that the texture artist can vary the primary colors and alphas for degree of opacity, and well as night time appearance.

Some example to show colors below.
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Ohhhhh! Most definately YES!

Look how well it sets off the inlet window details too. :applause:
 
johnh_049 said:
Well, I'm (not so)patiently awaiting the release of the C-1A. I really like the looks of that plane.:applause:
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The models are done. We are needing some paint to be thrown on some of them, and we are awaiting panel gauge progress.

We do however have a nice temporary panel put together by Sieggie until the other is completed.

If I had every model painted, I would release them with the temporary panel which is VC based, not 2D.

So, what we really need are some texture artists to finish up these models. (See my recap above.)

Daube said:
Excellent ! Thanks a lot Milton :ernae:
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I hope that satisfies the question and requirement to allow anyone to "doctor" the windows anyway they wish, including some fogging around the edges if desired. :)
 
Shots of Current Status

Here are a few screenies for you ... we need texture artists to finalize our work here. We appreciate your interest.

The blue and gray schemes on the C-1A are from "Mgr"s hangar and paint shop. :)
 
... a few more of the untextured.

You have seen the works of the CDF variants that Tankerguy72 posted earlier. All these variants make up the 7 available models.
 
OleBoy said:
Looks like the Tankers are close to unveiling. Very nice!


Maybe of interest for all watching this topic. Just small bits of reading material. Something I stumbled upon while searching the WWW.

http://www.trevormctavish.com/flyingfiretrucks/mainpage.htm
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That's going to make great reading OB. I'll just pretend I didn't see 'The Thing' though. :icon_lol: It used to get me knee deep in cattle dung.

Hey OB, I'd love to see some of your handiwork on some of these 'Stoofs'!
 
Milton,

currently rebuilding my system from scratch, Windows done, currently doing all the updates on my painfully slow broadband, then comes FS and programs, once I'm done and ready I could lend a hand splashing some paint, give me a couple of days to get everything shipshape and I'll be in like Flynn, interiors, exteriors, etc.

I've been watching this develop from the start, then everything went mammaries skywards on my computer, hoping to be back in soon.

If I can help, I'll do my best.

Jamie
 
Milton Shupe said:
Great! Well, there are actually 7 models ready for painting.

E-1B "Stoof with a roof" Tracer (Paint Kit available by Matt "Smoothie" Wynn); no paints available yet

So let me know your interest and I will get you the goodies. :)
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Alrighty then. For starters, and since Matt has a paint kit ready, I'd like to take a crack at the Tracer, and any good links for color shots you could send my way would be appreciated. :running:
 
JDTinballs said:
Milton,

currently rebuilding my system from scratch, Windows done, currently doing all the updates on my painfully slow broadband, then comes FS and programs, once I'm done and ready I could lend a hand splashing some paint, give me a couple of days to get everything shipshape and I'll be in like Flynn, interiors, exteriors, etc.

I've been watching this develop from the start, then everything went mammaries skywards on my computer, hoping to be back in soon.

If I can help, I'll do my best.

Jamie
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LOL Excellent! Sorry to hear about the computer.
 
Duckie said:
Alrighty then. For starters, and since Matt has a paint kit ready, I'd like to take a crack at the Tracer, and any good links for color shots you could send my way would be appreciated. :running:
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Thanks :jump: Will shoot you a PM on the links.

EDIT: Stuff sent :)
 
Project Status Update

Thanks to those who have stepped up to help get this project closer to release.

Here is the status.
 
Duckie said:
Alrighty then. For starters, and since Matt has a paint kit ready, I'd like to take a crack at the Tracer, and any good links for color shots you could send my way would be appreciated. :running:
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Notice the subtle intonation on the word 'starters'...Steve, I sure am looking forward to dessert!!! :jump:

(icon:Nigel to his wife: How many boxes of fresh bibs did you say you ordered?...oh heck, just tell him to deliver the lot!:icon)
 
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