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A Lockheed "Rounder"

I would dearly love to contribute a skin for this beautiful plane once a paint kit is available! :wavey::wavey::wavey:

This is shaping up to be an all time flightsim classic!:jawdrop:
 
Blaze said:
Matt,
Hats off to ya man! Incredible work! And again, How the heck do ya do it so fast? I started repainting about 3 months ago
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the speed comes from 7/8 years of practice, and also having various things saved all over the place containing stencils etc... for example for panel lines etc i know to use a 1px brush for curved or slightly angled lines, and a 1px pencil line for horizontals and verticals. stencils, 3-views (of which i estimate to have about 3000!) it's a matter of practice, having a graphics tablet also helps, see when i'm not repainting i'm doing logo work (latest being for a US based Defense Co.) or aviation profile art... always honing the skills, an army sergeant instilled it into me 'train to that knife-edge, don't overdo it or you'll get hurt somewhere, and don't underdo it as you'll dull, gotta stay on that edge'

needless to say i will be re-doing my Video series at some point, just so i can pass on what i know to the newer crop of painters, i can never take, i always have to give :salute:

anyways here's the latest:
 
well she's just tasted the virtual skies for the first time since a new lick of paint at my Pacific Paint shop at PWAK (Where Americas day really begins! :icon_lol:).... still a few little bits to do but i'm happy so far, just gotta sort the flap upper sides and we're in business, Milton is it possible to have the Bomb bay textures (inner doors etc) as part of the internal mapping?
 
Matt Wynn said:
well she's just tasted the virtual skies for the first time since a new lick of paint at my Pacific Paint shop at PWAK (Where Americas day really begins! :icon_lol:).... still a few little bits to do but i'm happy so far, just gotta sort the flap upper sides and we're in business, Milton is it possible to have the Bomb bay textures (inner doors etc) as part of the internal mapping?
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The last two image thumbnails actually look like a real one photographed at an airshow. Enlarging them to full size and I see it is FS9, but the thumbs looked like photos. :applause:
 
Matt Wynn said:
the speed comes from 7/8 years of practice, and also having various things saved all over the place containing stencils etc... for example for panel lines etc i know to use a 1px brush for curved or slightly angled lines, and a 1px pencil line for horizontals and verticals. stencils, 3-views (of which i estimate to have about 3000!) it's a matter of practice, having a graphics tablet also helps, see when i'm not repainting i'm doing logo work (latest being for a US based Defense Co.) or aviation profile art... always honing the skills, an army sergeant instilled it into me 'train to that knife-edge, don't overdo it or you'll get hurt somewhere, and don't underdo it as you'll dull, gotta stay on that edge'

needless to say i will be re-doing my Video series at some point, just so i can pass on what i know to the newer crop of painters, i can never take, i always have to give :salute:

anyways here's the latest:
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Awesome work Matt! Looking forward to the video tutorials. My repainting skills are very weak, actually a joke. :icon_lol:

Milton's SOH A-26 is my favorite to tinker with, and the Howard 500 is my favorite flyer. What you have done with this aircraft looks amazing! View attachment 69178
 
Pat,

I will not likely be doing the PV-1 and my hands are full with the Harpoon and Lodestar, and the other 5 aircraft in progress.

Fortunately, there is a payware Hudson and Ventura (I think, and maybe a PV-2) coming for FSX.
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Meanwhile, I am slowly making tough progress with the interior model. Mapped the major parts today, have all animations working and the panel mapped for gauges. What you see here is just the exterior model panel texture.

I do not have a panel gauge programmer for this project so that is a big question mark right now.
If no one steps up for this to do original gauges and textures, I will have to cobble together stuff from our hangars, ... with Scott's permissions of course.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Pat,

I will not likely be doing the PV-1 and my hands are full with the Harpoon and Lodestar, and the other 5 aircraft in progress.

Fortunately, there is a payware Hudson and Ventura (I think, and maybe a PV-2) coming for FSX.
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Not sure about the Payware Ventura but at the moment I am helping beta test the FSAddon Hudson which includes models for the Super Electra and a Lodestar. I am actually doing some repaints during the testing.

The RAAF actually flew Lodestars during WWII so I will have the paint bucket ready for when you release it and the paintkit.
 
:jawdrop: Wow what a fantastic job Matt.
Awesome work Milton with the VC. Hang in there. I can help with placing the gauges with FS Panel Studio, but I know nothing about making gauges. Somebody please step up to the plate.
 
looking forwards to getting some work done on the internals now! that cockpit just looks right, a nice place to be :salute:
 
mrogers said:
:jawdrop: Wow what a fantastic job Matt.
Awesome work Milton with the VC. Hang in there. I can help with placing the gauges with FS Panel Studio, but I know nothing about making gauges. Somebody please step up to the plate.
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I too have FS Panel Studio so no problem with gauge layout. The question is whether I must use our gauges from previous Shupe Hangar releases or if we get new xml gauges for this one. Our gauges do not have bezels included as they are part of the panel texture. The panel textures must also be done and I do not think MSPaint is the right tool for that. :)
 
Some progress on the VC panel front, now with most of the primary gauges in place. I need to improve on the panel background texture and bezels which will take some time. A few more model changes to get the compass and lower knee panels setup for mapping and gauges then finish the ECU and other small parts mapping. I can hopefully wrap up all the VC mapping by the weekend.
 
This one's really looking special, Milton. Looks like the VC might even top the Grizzly's as my favorite. And Matt, that's the most incredibly realistic riveting I've ever seen. Looks photo-real. Thanks, guys.

Pat
 
Wow Milton... I likes lots of levers!!! I thought nothing could pull me out of the Howard cockpit... ;)
 
TuFun said:
Wow Milton... I likes lots of levers!!! I thought nothing could pull me out of the Howard cockpit... ;)
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Ha! Tell me about it!

Here, you can study up :)

Oh? Can't read it ... neither can I but one must continue progress, no excuses. :)
 
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