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Is the Ground Crew He-111 model shineable?

Well smack me sideways, Brian's back, yippekayae Mo Fo. Great to see you back, 'bout time. You know my feelings on the last time you posted!! Took yah time bro. Missed yah.

Always good to see old faces, makes this place the 'oasis' in the dessert that it is, a fecking sight for sore eyes.

Any paints you have are in my download list, but hands off the Hampden, that's mine!! LOL.

:very_drunk::ernaehrung004:
Jamie.
 
SW said:
Rob are you taking skin requests? If so, an Iraqi skin please!

Thanks either way,

Steve
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Steve, I will see what I can do. If you any pictures or profiles of what you want, please post a picture.:encouragement:
 
He 111 in Iraqi markings - images

RobH said:
Steve, I will see what I can do. If you any pictures or profiles of what you want, please post a picture.:encouragement:
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Found on t'internet, I hope they are useful:

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he111iraq.jpg
 
Great job Brian. Only glitch I can see is that the model you're using hasn't got the X-Gerat aerials on the fuselage removed.
I can't remember without looking but were they alpha'd out in some way, or was there two separate models?
 
Good catch! Thanks. I forgot to include the proper alpha channel for that texture sheet. Oops!:banghead:
 
I think the model needs a little shine and was wondering if anyone here had added shine to theirs? Also, since I am on Windows 7, I was curious if anyone was successful before I start creating a virtual machine just so I can run the utility mk_mdl_v2. It's been a long time since I played around with the He-111 and I keep thinking that this model wouldn't let you add shine to it, but I could be wrong.

Thanks
 
Now that,s a good question , I think it was the tail end of Fds-vr1 , so probably not shineable , the modelers could probably check the source file , to see if Fds-vr-2 , was used to confirm that ,
 
Sarg Willy said:
Now that,s a good question , I think it was the tail end of Fds-vr1 , so probably not shineable , the modelers could probably check the source file , to see if Fds-vr-2 , was used to confirm that ,
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Thanks Sarg. I checked the read me and it says it was built in Gmax. Does that help?
 
RobH said:
Thanks!:very_drunk: I will give it a shot tomorrow morning, when I'm not so tired.
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Hi Brian,

you can shine it with Morton/Hsu's mkMDL utility. I set mine 02-04 resulting in a soft satin finish, the only shine that a camo flat paint would give under direct sunlight.
With natural metal aircrafts, or late war US Navy night blue glossy finish, I increase the shine factor to 05.

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Well apparently I cannot create a virtual XP machine on mine without having a XP operating system disc.:banghead:

Anyone got a suggestion on how to create a virtual XP machine on Windows 7 home premium? I have tried both Vm player and Virtual Box.
 
Did you try using Windows XP Mode? XP Mode is free and is designed to run on Windows 7. You don't need an XP disk.

I used it on my first Win 7 machine. It worked perfectly and allowed me to run any of my older programs (like CFS2) in XP. Eventually I realized Win 7 was everything XP was and more so I didn't bother to install it on my next PC. If you have an old program that ran great on XP but not on Win 7 then XP Mode is the way to go. You do need to be running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate[FONT=WOL_Bold]to install it.[/FONT]

Here's a link to the Windows site explaining it and leading to the download page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7
 
....or you could download MDLmat from Martin Wrights site (click program list on left) and manually add shine to each material individually, not as straight forward but one benefit is you can add extra shine to the transparent materials to make your glass a bit shinier.

Jamie.
 
Hallo,

of course for the "beauty" it would be nice to have the aircraft have siny surfaces. BUT, the camouflage paint was mat just to avoid also shiny effects!
Today you might see warbirds with shiny camouflage paint and factory fresh.
Sorry but this goes totaly against the reality in wartime use.
Later especially US airforce planes did come over the war theatre with out camouflage and also natural aluminium or othe fresh paints. Those might have gloss or shine. Also please think to this that the german paint especially at the end of the war was of poor quality and just aplied as less than possible.
To help you please try to search over the net old wartime photos and you will see - no shine.

Happy landings
yours
Michael "Papi" Vader
 
Hi Michael,
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one.

Most, if not all ac paint had a sealer either mixed in with it or was applied afterwards over the top. Yes, after use it did matt down but it always still had some residual sheen (subtle sheen or subtilen glanz) on it. As shown with late war german paint quality, which reduced greatly, and even became water based at the end, even then the metal underneath would add a sheen through to the surface paint.

The Brits thought that true matt black on night fighters would be harder to see at night. This was proved to be incorrect, and it also took some 20mph (32Kph) off the top speed, so they reverted back to standard paint types. This is why truely matt paint was never used by any airforce (the shine also protects the paint, so lasts longer).

Yes, wear on paint may matt it down, but oil, petrol, hydraulic and brake fluids on paint and then being wipped off would shine the surface. If you look at an old car that has not been re-painted and has gone matt, in bright light or sunshine, it still has a sheen to it, in german, 'subtilen glanz'.

It is one of my great frustrations that people either produce or convert an ac and believe they are doing it justice by making it matt or forgetting to add a touch of shine, it is not realistic at all. In the model world it would be described as not being 'scale' ie not realistic.

These two pics are of the WoP Fw190D9 in CFS2. The first pic is of a matt painted aircraft, the second is of a lightly shined ac. Personally I think that the subtle areas of highlighted shine or sheen, bring the ac to life and make it look more realistic in the sim. Also here are a load of photos showing shine and sheen on german, japanese and british ac. I agree, bright shiney WWII ac are very rare, but lightly shined with a subtle sheen is a must.

Cheers Shessi


P.S Brian, and yes the GC He11 does shine up well...
 
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