Carenado D18 released

D18s

doublecool said:
All they need is an amphibian model and they will most likely have the top seller Carenado ever had!
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Yes, it's great! I agree it could be their bestseller! (I must admit that I am biased, being a round engine nut ). I hope they develop the theme, E18 (hightop), floats etc. I have just downloaded Martial Feron,s F.A.F. And I must admit I like the slightly weathered aluminium look.Any chance of a average working type texture?J.K. Any chance also of repaints in FSXMany Thanks
 
U.S. Army Repaint

Well, good news and bad news, I was able to locate the U.S. Army TM 55-1500-345-23 which is really cool. Anything you every wanted to know precisely with every marking and stencil too. http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Sources/TM_55-1500-345-23.pdf

Bad news...I tried to paint this according to Bill Womack's utube video for aircraft with no layered paintkit and it didn't work for me. One of you guys a lot better at me than repainting please do this for him and the rest of us.:dizzy:
 
Set the layer with the white textures above your paintwork, and set that layer to multiply, that should do it
 
thanks for the hint

I still can't get this to work so I'm not going to work with it. Jan please create the U.S. Army repaint for the DS18 for him. Thank you for trying to help me anyway.
 
Just Finished NAF Detroit

NAF Detroit's most challenging part was the tail artwork. The textures otherwise were beautiful to work with as are all of Milton's G7 aircraft. Now THIS ONE! this is a whole lot more challenging with all the dirt and ding layers incorporated into the background only layer provided.

I am going to try again and see if maybe I just got frustrated too soon. Like the man says, if it was easy anyone could do it, right? I'm going to fly for the rest of the week hopping around the Med' in a mission set I downloaded last night and then tackle the U.S. Army again on Monday early nice and fresh. Thank you Jan for the tip. I will go at it again, wish me luck.
 
Monday's Efforts

First, thank you Jan for your advice. I started a little late on this because I was trying to do something else and got wrapped up all morning and most of the afternoon on it and after all that it was a bust. Bummer!!! Anyway after that even though I wasn't as fresh as I would have liked to be, I decided to tackle the U.S. Army repaint for the D18 or a C45 as its called. Here are my two hours of repainting though it doesn't look like much, I'm learning and learning and.......
I am pleased with results so far though. Both cowlings are painted. I thought I was doing both vertical stabs/rudders but not so. I guess that the starboard one is on the other psd file. That'll be fun trying to exactly match the yellow areas but I got an idea that should work. Hey Jan, how would you do it to be sure they both match exactly? I'm open to advice before I try.

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Working on an Air America repaint here. It's a real challenge to find all these bits and pieces on these texture maps!

Cheers,
Mark

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Isn't that the truth

Working on the U.S. Army C45 above I so know what you mean! But then, when we have completed our work, and yours is really nice, it will be a satisfaction and a job well done. When I first looked at it as you can tell from one of my posts above, I was undaunted and confused with nothing but a "background" in the psd where I am used to finding layers that can be identified in the model in MDCx but the nice thing IS that the psd is exactly the same layout as the DDS's which is 10x easier than a psd that is nothing but a profile of the entire airplane side view and the DDS files are bits and pieces. I like this a whole lot better. All that has to be done when a texture has been painted is DXTBMP upload of the 32bit and "flip the image and alpha" and voila!!! load it into the texture folder. I am off to the paint shed. Looking forward to your completion and add into the Warbirds Library as I will do with mine when completed.
 
The repainting itself is easy, but you have to make your own layer structure on top of the original psds. That's quite a challenge, especially when you have to take care of a custom diffuse alpha channel and the spec map + alpha in a mixed flat paint and polished aluminum scenario.
I worked into the evening and had a (one!) beer while doing so. That was enough to mess things up :) Don't drink and repaint, lesson learned.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Surprised

I was surprised I did as well as I did last night starting late but I was blessed and got it all right. Thank you for the tips. I have learned in THIS psd how to outline and flood in Paintshop Pro when it works. Sometimes it floods the whole screen and then its paintbrush time. That works too though. I also learned from Bill Womack how to use "color legacy" equal to color burn in Adobe to allow the detail layer to come through. I am giving you a link to a really cool site I just found. I ran across one of the Beechcraft Restorations newsletters and just found another. A Google Search took me to their site which I am sharing here:

https://beechrestorations.wordpress.com/about-us/

We just "keep on truckin'

Richard
 
Thanks, Richard. Interesting website. I'm looking for authentic C-45 interior shots in color, because I might want to change the interior and cockpit colors, too. Army or Air Force version didn't have these lush leather seats and stuff.


Cheers,
Mark
 
Navy Too

I am sure that the other services did not have lush leather seats either unless it was a general/admiral staff transport aircraft which there were some.

Just finished my morning's work and very pleased it all worked praise the Lord. I found out that what I learned in kindergarten was applicable here: stay inside the lines when you color and it will flood well. Made it twice as quick to complete. All the yellow is done. After lunch I am going to tackle the gray.:applause:

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Phase 3-Afternoon Work

Here are two shots of my work after lunch today and I feel like I am learning every moment. Toughest part was getting a white top kept wanting to be gray when the color layer from normal was applied no matter what I did but I figured it out-fill with a reduced opacity to show the details below.

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tgycgijoes said:
Here are two shots of my work after lunch today and I feel like I am learning every moment. Toughest part was getting a white top kept wanting to be gray when the color layer from normal was applied no matter what I did but I figured it out-fill with a reduced opacity to show the details below.

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Looking good. Thanks for doing this.
 
Here's a grey (Army / Air Force) version of the instrument and switch panels, and everything else that was green before. Also leather is a tad darker.


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Cheers,
Mark
 
henrystreet said:
Mark, this looks great! Please make it available. This work is underappreciated.
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+1

Is there a way to hide the anachronistic GPS ? I tried to comment out the gauge in the panel, but the underlying background shows ... a GPS :(

Thanks - Gérard
 
USAAF/USAF Panel

Can you put the panel in the aircraft dropbox folder? I would like to install it in my repaint. Thanks

Richard
 
It's not done yet, I have to adapt the night mask and I'm also trying to get rid of the GPS. I'm also having a slight problem with a misaligned alpha mask, which was crushed to 2048 by DXTBMP.
But as soon as it is ready I can give you a notice.

Hmm, maybe I could make military style non carpet wall panels while I'm at it.

The passenger compartment is a bit hindered by the very good 3d models of the of the luxury seats, but could also be made in a more spartan military look. Did you guys notice that you can have a seat and extend the folding table between the seats? I love the attention to details in that model, Carenado did a very good job here. My hat's off!



Cheers,
Mark
 
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