• 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.

F7F Tigercat SOH Project

Guys & Gals,

I not new as a simmer, but I'm looking to expand into painting. I don't know wear to start. I want to make my own paints of the tigercat and the invader (Daisey Mae and Spirit of NC). What programs do you use, wear to get it, and how much? Basically what I'm asking how do I get started?

A26
 
A26 said:
Guys & Gals,

I not new as a simmer, but I'm looking to expand into painting. I don't know wear to start. I want to make my own paints of the tigercat and the invader (Daisey Mae and Spirit of NC). What programs do you use, wear to get it, and how much? Basically what I'm asking how do I get started?

A26
Click to expand...

Hello-
I don't consider myself a veteran by any means, but I think I can sum up my methodology so far as follows:
1) Preparation- scrounge all the photos, profiles, 3-views, etc. of your subject that you can- knowledge is power!
2) More preparation- see #1.
3) Get comfortable with the painting software of your choice- I use Paint Shop Pro 9, but there are some others, some cheaper (I think I paid $50 for PSP9), some free (I downloaded paint.net but I haven't tried it yet), and some can set you back some $.
4) Check out some of Martin Wright's programs- DxtBmp, Show, MdlMat- Very useful tools for viewing and working with your texture files. And they're free.
Once you have all of the above in place...
5) Another program I find handy is Abacus' FS Repaint- you can take a look at your work without having to boot up the sim all the time. It even has a simple painting program included... $30.
6) There are lots of excellent tutorials and information available here and at www.SimmersPaintShop.com - studying the work of others can be very educational as well... like I said, knowledge is power!
Don't forget to back up your files- this saves much grief!

Good luck and have a ball! -Mike Z.
 
Thank,
I'll take a look and see what there is (I like Free option), but we will see what happens.

a26
 
Oh my gosh Franz .... that is awesome looking. :applause:

You do understand that the mapping for textures is temporary ...
 
Hello Milton.

I know that this is not the last Texturemapping, and in this Time i learn to Paint better:salute:


Franz LOWG
 
franzi said:
Hello Milton.

I know that this is not the last Texturemapping, and in this Time i learn to Paint better:salute:


Franz LOWG
Click to expand...

Thank you Franz. I wanted to ensure that you were aware. Your work on this texture is very impressive. :)
 
to see all of this fantastic work
being done with temporary textures
makes me wonder what it will be like
when the mapping is complete.
the interest for this project is amazing.
well done, guys!
keep it up

heck, I'm not a painter,
but, I've even dabbled with it a bit.
 
You're quite welcome, Fliger- the paint job needed to be decent to properly compliment the beautiful job you guys did with the model and the flight dynamics so far! -Mike Z.
 
Again test flying the -3 off Midway Island for Carrier Quals on the Leyte Gulf (FSX). However found a small glitch in the FD, correcting this is now allowing the plane to now rudder roll, a trait for which it was famous. However that has bolloxed up the spin... Nice having some instruments in fromnt of you!

T
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top