Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch..

Another one...

gaucho_59 said:
Another of my pet peeves about 2D panels... There abound far too many cut-and-paste jobs that put present day instruments in the
panels of yesteryear's venerable Zero-sen and other Japanese pre- and WW2 aircraft... as well as other nations... So I am conjunctly embarking on
a project to create true-to era instrument bezels... Here are a few I've started...
By the time someone feels like collaborating, I will have built a considerable archive of useful textures...
btw... the one solitary request to collaborate DID reassert himself and said that the offer to use my work still stands... only
his work-group needs to finish an extant project...

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This one is for the P-40 N... from a photograph of derelict being restored...

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Still more...

gaucho_59 said:
This one is for the P-40 N... from a photograph of derelict being restored...

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Here are a couple more... the first one I did for Francesco Giuli for his excellent modelling of the
Vizzola... and the second was for his S81 - which he didn't know I was doing and never got used
'cause he had already released it in SOH... I also did textures for it... so if I get his permission I
could release as a complete aircraft repaint...

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Thank you for your posts. I wish I had the talent to be able use your panels, they look great.

T.
 
In answer to Blood_Hawk2...

Blood_Hawk23 said:
Those are beautiful.

Have you done any WWI aircraft?

Could you give us a list of what you have available. Maybe that will help spark some intrest. You never know what project someone might be working on. I wish I had the software to do them justice. Otherwise I offer to help.

Superb artwork. Absolutely Superb.


Till later,
John
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If you should want a special WW1 panel, I would be more than glad to re-do it for you... Just send me a pic or the extant bmp
from your aircraft... Send me a PM and I will give you my email address... Here is an example of an existing panel that had
great possibilities and I re-did it... a 30s vintage Wapiti...

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I got up this morning...

gaucho_59 said:
If you should want a special WW1 panel, I would be more than glad to re-do it for you... Just send me a pic or the extant bmp
from your aircraft... Send me a PM and I will give you my email address... Here is an example of an existing panel that had
great possibilities and I re-did it... a 30s vintage Wapiti...

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I watched a History channel program last night about the rise of Nazi Germany... So as soon as I got up... intrigued by the sinister appearance of
Hitler... I wondered how sinister he would look without that ridiculous moustache and hair style... so I "doctored" a couple of his pictures from the
'Net to see what he would look like without them... Not a very fearsome look, eh?

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LOL the one in the top right looks like bloody John Boehner minus the crocodile tears ;)
but with a light stache

Stefan
 
Someone posted a re-do of a Japanese "Ann"...

gaucho_59 said:
I watched a History channel program last night about the rise of Nazi Germany... So as soon as I got up... intrigued by the sinister appearance of
Hitler... I wondered how sinister he would look without that ridiculous moustache and hair style... so I "doctored" a couple of his pictures from the
'Net to see what he would look like without them... Not a very fearsome look, eh?

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The redo of this aircraft looks like a nice project to undertake...
I just got the very primitive 2D panel for it redone this morning...
and plan to repaint the textures too...

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Hi gaucho_59,

I really admire your work on these various panels, and have been following your updates constantly.
Some great effort has gone into these.
Would you be prepared to publish them as they stand, so other developers can have an attempt on your gauges (As you said , gauge improvements needed).?
It is a shame that so many are just being shown as screenshots, with no actual 'function' .
I would love to get my hands on some of these... (for use- not programming).

Please keep up the great work,

Kind regards, Stuart

Edit: Yes, I think you might be slightly addicted... :icon_lol:
 
The addiction does show.... lol

stuartcox said:
Hi gaucho_59,

I really admire your work on these various panels, and have been following your updates constantly.
Some great effort has gone into these.
Would you be prepared to publish them as they stand, so other developers can have an attempt on your gauges (As you said , gauge improvements needed).?
It is a shame that so many are just being shown as screenshots, with no actual 'function' .
I would love to get my hands on some of these... (for use- not programming).

Please keep up the great work,

Kind regards, Stuart

Edit: Yes, I think you might be slightly addicted... :icon_lol:
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Thank you for your comments...
I can let you have the original bmp files, just send me a PM with your email address...
Like I said before... if I started programming configs for every one of those...it would be
a never ending story... I just have more fun doing the artwork... Essentially, when I see
a panel I like...[or need for a model] I try to work out the errors of perspective, color, tasteful additions, etc. and
use their basic config. file to reposition or replace insturmentation... especially, those that
have embedded securing screws... which I prefer to be part of the panel and not the xml artwork
for the aforementioned not always fit the specific panel since they were taken from another... like stock CFS2 gauges
"plopped" into a Brit panel, etc.
I've gotten pretty good at changing the gauge artwork eliminating "built in" screws.. changing needles, etc. but it is very tedious
and time consuming work... The panel itself is child's play... can turn them out like sausages... lol
Just this morining I did the preceding biplane and the attached Brit panel...
I really would love for someone experienced to take my artwork, config it, and publish it as complete panel so everyone can enjoy
it...

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here is one I did from scratch... on a Hellcat
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Another rescue...

gaucho_59 said:
Thank you for your comments...
I can let you have the original bmp files, just send me a PM with your email address...
Like I said before... if I started programming configs for every one of those...it would be
a never ending story... I just have more fun doing the artwork... Essentially, when I see
a panel I like...[or need for a model] I try to work out the errors of perspective, color, tasteful additions, etc. and
use their basic config. file to reposition or replace insturmentation... especially, those that
have embedded securing screws... which I prefer to be part of the panel and not the xml artwork
for the aforementioned not always fit the specific panel since they were taken from another... like stock CFS2 gauges
"plopped" into a Brit panel, etc.
I've gotten pretty good at changing the gauge artwork eliminating "built in" screws.. changing needles, etc. but it is very tedious
and time consuming work... The panel itself is child's play... can turn them out like sausages... lol
Just this morining I did the preceding biplane and the attached Brit panel...
I really would love for someone experienced to take my artwork, config it, and publish it as complete panel so everyone can enjoy
it...

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here is one I did from scratch... on a Hellcat
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Just finished another one...

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This is problem as I see things....

stuartcox said:
Hi gaucho_59,

I really admire your work on these various panels, and have been following your updates constantly.
Some great effort has gone into these.
Would you be prepared to publish them as they stand, so other developers can have an attempt on your gauges (As you said , gauge improvements needed).?
It is a shame that so many are just being shown as screenshots, with no actual 'function' .
I would love to get my hands on some of these... (for use- not programming).

Please keep up the great work,

Kind regards, Stuart

Edit: Yes, I think you might be slightly addicted... :icon_lol:
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My original intention was to produce panel bmp files WITHOUT incongruencies... i.e:
jet age bezels in WW2 vintage aircraft... errors of perspective, etc. Frontal elevation
gauges hanging there in thin air or ON SIDE PANELS...
Now, at the risk of sounding like a crotchety old dude... I prefer my panels be used "as
is"... or if one adds to them... it somehow enhances them rather than turn them into what I term
the "more is better" idea of some of our fellow sim devotees... I think that only "better
is better"... in other words... if one can improve an artist's work... DO IT but... if detracts
from somebody's efforts... leave well enough alone...
Personally, in the example herebelow ... "termed 'I tricked Gaucho's panel'...." I think the
"tricking" does no enhance the original work.... but rather turns it into exactly what I am tryingto do:
panels that do not look like a hodge-podge of bezels every-which-where!

I did a panel - published since - from an actual photograph - of an Italian pursuit plane - with a
lot of effort... even redid the artwork of the gauges... and find it published by the author with gauges
(very correct) but hanging in thin air... added in excess of what was in the photograph...
I think that if one commissions someone to do something... you either say "it is not what I wanted"
and do it as you like... or say "I'd like thus and so... change it"
But doing amateurish corrections to someone's relatively professional quality work..without their consent...
is not the best of things... I AM NEITHER OFFENDED OR UPSET... I just don't like the idea of someone who
pays attention to detail thinking... this old guy preaches one thing and then puts out the same "sh....t" that
he SAYS is wrong in many 2D panels...
I anyone thinks my reaction is inappropriate please point it out...

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FJ3 Fury...

gaucho_59 said:
My original intention was to produce panel bmp files WITHOUT incongruencies... i.e:
jet age bezels in WW2 vintage aircraft... errors of perspective, etc. Frontal elevation
gauges hanging there in thin air or ON SIDE PANELS...
Now, at the risk of sounding like a crotchety old dude... I prefer my panels be used "as
is"... or if one adds to them... it somehow enhances them rather than turn them into what I term
the "more is better" idea of some of our fellow sim devotees... I think that only "better
is better"... in other words... if one can improve an artist's work... DO IT but... if detracts
from somebody's efforts... leave well enough alone...
Personally, in the example herebelow ... "termed 'I tricked Gaucho's panel'...." I think the
"tricking" does no enhance the original work.... but rather turns it into exactly what I am tryingto do:
panels that do not look like a hodge-podge of bezels every-which-where!

I did a panel - published since - from an actual photograph - of an Italian pursuit plane - with a
lot of effort... even redid the artwork of the gauges... and find it published by the author with gauges
(very correct) but hanging in thin air... added in excess of what was in the photograph...
I think that if one commissions someone to do something... you either say "it is not what I wanted"
and do it as you like... or say "I'd like thus and so... change it"
But doing amateurish corrections to someone's relatively professional quality work..without their consent...
is not the best of things... I AM NEITHER OFFENDED OR UPSET... I just don't like the idea of someone who
pays attention to detail thinking... this old guy preaches one thing and then puts out the same "sh....t" that
he SAYS is wrong in many 2D panels...
I anyone thinks my reaction is inappropriate please point it out...

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Working on a repaint of the FSX model revived by Bob Cichilo... so I redid his
version of the cockpit...

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