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P-51 'Jumpin Jacques' is now 'Tall in the Saddle'

As if it wasn't tough enough already, deciding my favorites from amongst the numerous spectacular p51 paints you've already done!
 
That looks stunning John - looking forward to the finished article.

I must say, I really do like this scheme!

Cheers

Paul
 
John those screens are fantastic. The first few I was hard pressed to tell them apart from a photo!
 
Hey guys, I'm tremendously sorry for the very long wait in making this available. Sometime back, I ended up redoing a lot of the texture work, as well as putting together new bump (normal) maps as well as making new/updated "Jumpin' Jacques" textures, for those who still wish to fly it like it was. Still need to make some final adjustments and get them packaged together and uploaded.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Hey guys, I'm tremendously sorry for the very long wait in making this available. Sometime back, I ended up redoing a lot of the texture work, as well as putting together new bump (normal) maps as well as making new/updated "Jumpin' Jacques" textures, for those who still wish to fly it like it was. Still need to make some final adjustments and get them packaged together and uploaded.
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Sounds Good!

This is not just a texture will be a new package?

Zsolt
 
Bomber_12th said:
Finally, getting very nearly there. I have been developing the repaint using the restored 'Geraldine' model in "Mustang Tales" (my go-to), but I will also be releasing versions of the repaint for "Restored Part 2" (the one with "JJ") and "Little Friends 1" (the textures will all look the same).

Although a new paint scheme on the real aircraft, I already have a huge collection of photos of the aircraft gathered over time in research. Save for a few minor details, I have generally worked to portray the aircraft just as it looks. All of the markings are done just as they are on the real aircraft - including the lack of the yellow stripes along the bottom-side of the flaps, and the majority of the factory stencils missing (save for the region of the nose/cowlings). These items all still may be added at some point in the future on the real aircraft (I think they may have run out of time, ahead of the scheduled debut/flying season), and I can certainly include a version of the repaint with all of those details added. The, what are believed to be, bullet hole patches on the fuselage and vertical fin, have been recreated matching the real aircraft.

Once I'm completely happy with the repaint, the next step will be to do the minor conversion work to fully form it to the "Restored Part 2" and "Little Friends 1" selected models, and perhaps do a little cockpit texture mods, but it shouldn't be too long now.







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When will be available?
 
Okay, I'm starting to upload the repaint(s) now (will be available here, at Flightsim.com, and Avsim). Included are two versions of "Tall-in-the-Saddle", for the Warbirdsim P-51D 'Restored Part 2' and P-51D 'Mustang Tales' products. With the 'Restored Part 2' installation, you'll get the aircraft much as it is right now, very accurate but with a jump seat in the aft cockpit - with the 'Mustang Tales' installation, you'll get a restored depiction but also all of the stock military details in-place, such as the armor plate, fuselage fuel tank and military radio sets in the aft cockpit.

Since the last screenshots I posted to this thread, I went through and updated/corrected all of the colors to more accurately reflect the real aircraft/fed-standard colors used. Also, all of the normal maps/bump maps have been specially tweeked for these repaints and saved in HQ format. They've also got some ambient occlusion effects added, as well as modified VC textures.

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Also, new textures depicting the aircraft still as "Jumpin' Jacques" are also included, for both the 'Restored Part 2' and 'Mustang Tales' products.

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Paul, I can't really say much with regard to the P-39, though it has been a challenging son-of-a-gun to try and get finished up (then again, working full-time (and often times more), outside of flightsim, for years now I haven't had anywhere near the amount of time (or passion) I was able to put toward the Mustangs when I originally began those - they were my full-time work at that time, and still it took me almost two full years just to get the first P-51D finished). Always hopeful that this will be the year that the -39 will be finished up (one of my goals has been to try and make sure it is finished before the next real-life P-39 restoration, that I've been following, is finished/flying). I started an album of a few of my favorite P-39 renders on my Flickr account several months back (for some friends outside of flightsim), but they're all dated by at least a couple years now (https://www.flickr.com/photos/34363610@N08/albums/72157675462290536). I've been trying to hold-out on showing any more images, since those, until all of the visual work is absolutely finished, as once you get it so-far along, it might look complete to some, but still be filled with unfinished items, and then once the product is out there, some of those original early/unfinished previews might be viewed as being the actual final product (where as with really early previews, it's certainly easy to tell that they were only work-in-progress and not final release).
 
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Here are some more screenshots that I liked, but were taken before I shifted the color of the light blue a bit more (everything else is the same, as I have it uploaded).

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