I'M HEADING INTO UNFAMILIAR WATERS ... AND NEED SOME HELP

B

Bill Kestell

Charter Member
I was messing around with some repainting (primative, at best) and wanted to number the aircraft "15".

I put a tail number and fuselage number on the port side fuselage ... but can't figure out how to get it to read "15" on the stbd side? It's bass-ackwards and THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!:isadizzy:

So ... now what do I have to do?

TIA, Bill
 
Bill,

Some aircraft (particularly stock ones) have 'mirrored' textures..... ie, what you paint on one side is reversed on the other.... Do you think this is the problem ?

Which aircraft is it ? if a stock one, most were 'de-mirrored' and are in the download archive. My apologies to the author..... but the name escapes met atm...

Pete
 
Hi, Pete!

The a/c I'm working with is a stock F6F-3. That said, I'll go find one of the B-24 Guy's (?) versions ... or do you have any thoughts as to where else to look?

This was just an exercise on my part, having recently - quite by accident - discovered how to navigate around the m/s paint program. It has it's limitations, but I have been able to redo a D-bolt F4U-1A 1943 into a late 42 version by repainting the insignia (his Big Hog). Then I changed the old yellow recognition stripe on my old F-86's to that nice Marigold color one ... and now I thought I'd tackle numbers.

We're a long way from being a true aircraft painter ... but these little "fixes" are both a learning tool and do correct some things I needed in my hangers.

Thanks, Bill
 
Speaking of MS Paint, while I've modified a few textures with it, I've never really figured out the ins and outs of it. I've looked for tutorials a time or two, but with no luck. Anyone know of a good tutorial for it?
 
Jagdflieger said:
Speaking of MS Paint, while I've modified a few textures with it, I've never really figured out the ins and outs of it. I've looked for tutorials a time or two, but with no luck. Anyone know of a good tutorial for it?
Click to expand...


I think you just need to spend a weekend here with me and my wife (and the animals). We can go to the range and shoot some WW-II weapons and then play with the m/s program and reaint some stuff:icon_lol:
 
I use it somtimes, for limited modifications. There might be a better software somewhere.
You'd better use the zoom option in order to increase the size of the image.
 
AGAS 5 ... I'll do just that. I thought I'd get my feet wet before buying another piece of software that I'm incapable of using.

Something a bit more sophisticated would be useful.

Thanks!
 
Bill,
As Agas suggests GIMP is a good bit of FREE! software. In fact it's just being updated to support more bits and pieces. Not sure when the latest version is coming out, but soon.

Cheers

Shessi
 
I've used MS Paint to fix the alternate mirrored tail and aircraft numbers quite a few times however my fix was/is crude I guess.

All I do is box and select a section of the specific numbers and letters in question that are correctly shown and save each area as new bmp's. I then reopen the reversed numbered/lettered fuselage bmp in question and paste the previously saved areas over the reversed area on the tail and fuselage and then saved each patch. Then I go about about matching the paint then the sheet metal lines and rivet details. I then complete any final touchup painting around the pasted areas to clean up the patching if needed. Save, save, save as you move along! It never fails that if you forget to save Windows will get you!!!

The hardest part for me has always been matching the paint through that custom color console that pops up to define the colors needed. I've gotten pretty darn close everytime but only after sometimes a long time of resaving the color needed and then the next, all through reselecting a closer shade and refining again, again and again!

It is perhaps, a crude way at best trying to fix it, however it works for me. I'm sure there might be an easier way. And yes I've had GIMP for many years now however...

But like everyone else I taught myself if you could call it that! It's great that demirrored textures are available!

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