• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Early Messerschmitt Bf109 B1 uploaded

zswobbie1 said:
Quite a few years ago, I found a Hurricane with transparent skin, so you could see the spars and all the insides of the plane.
Click to expand...

It's not uncommon in museums

Reggiane 2000

img_9785_re-2000_j-20_sweden_900.jpg


Fiat G.91

249385.jpg
mm6280-italy-air-force-fiat-g91

mm6280-italy-air-force-fiat-g91
 
By the way, BIG thanks to shessie for fantastic work on this beautiful early Messerschmitt Bf109 B1 version! Also big thanks to Papi for his magnificent 2D-panel. A real joy to fly this machine, definitely a keeper! :applause::very_drunk:

​daypharris
 
Early Messerschmitt Bf109 B1 uploaded "This one?"

Ach Du lieber Gott !
The panel included was in my beginnings LOL
Times has been changed a bit
Yours
Papi
 
Now I'm reloading my GW3 installation.
Really nice version of the 109 people, a belated 'thank you' to all concerned.
:encouragement:
 
Work in progress

Although the basic templates for IL2 are quite nice, I decided to start a sort of paintkit from scratch....

Just to give you an idea of what is coming, but as the title already explains: Still work in progress.......

t5GTo4x.jpg


5CMbg85.jpg


whg6ZAz.jpg
 
Looking forward to this Huub! Don't forget a little weathering. Your paints always add a bit of character to the aircraft!
 
Very nice Huub, as usual. Out of interest I've noticed on previous paints that parts of the rudder appear darker than the vertical tail-plane - almost as if a shadow has fallen across it. Is this my imagination or something to do with the model or alpha channel perhaps? I've had a look at the texture file and the shadow doesn't appear to be painted on. Is it possible to correct do you think?

Regards, Taff
 
Thanks aeronca1. Don't worry, I will add some weathering, but there are two reasons why this aircraft won't be too weathered.

The first reason is a technical one. As the complete textures is on only one single 1024 X 1024 sheet, its very difficult to add details.

The Bf109 B-1s were only used for a short period, before the B-2 arrived and most original B-1s were retro fitted with the metal variable pitch propeller. So there actually wasn't much time for the B-1a to get weathered :biggrin-new:

Cheers,
Huub
 
Taff,
That shadow is actually stressed polys within the model, not Huub's paint work..ha!

On converting over projects like this and taking them into FSDS, where they were never created, I have to smooth the parts, and sometimes reduce the vertice points, this sometimes leads to 'stressed polys' and I don't mean upset parrots..;)

I do make a huge effort to get it looking good, but on smaller or thinner areas, such as tails/rudders, flaps and wing trailing edges I can't always get it smooth AND un-stressed, so you might get these odd areas...but it doesn't affect the shape or the actual texture, just a slight shadow now and again which can be seen from certain angles....

Here endeth the first lesson...before you all fall asleep....

Cheers

Shessi

p.s Huub, mooi! really like that JG2 tex, as you say much better than the original 70/71/65 tex
 
Sorry Taff, I missed your post.

As Shessi, this shading is in the model and there isn't much I can do about it. Its more visible with light camo schemes than with dark ones. But with a fair bit of weathering on the light schemes its hardly visible.

Shessi said:
p.s Huub, mooi! really like that JG2 tex, as you say much better than the original 70/71/65 tex
Click to expand...
Thanks Shessi, I assumed that the future B-2, C-1 and D-1 versions (yes I'm greedy:a1310:! ) would use more or less the same template, which made it worth the effort to build a new paintkit. Now I only need to adjust some panel lines at the wings and I have my all new paintkit for these versions ready.

Cheers,
Huub
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top