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Painting

womble55

womble55

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It was a long time ago that Ivan mentioned in passing the possibility of painting an entire aircraft then grafting the relevant sections for the final paint session.
I have sort of tried this but with the sections already cut.
If you take my Miles M20 that I uploaded today, the wing has a round roundel, something I found extremely difficult to master before I used this method. I used the 3-view drawing to help in this matter.
1) In AF99, work out how much of the drawing will be needed.
2) In Paint Shop Pro, cut that section from the drawing.
3) Paste as a new image.
4) remove all of the irrelevant detail, like external outline etc and extend the vertical lines to the edge of the drawing.
5) Mark the extremities of the roundel as a square also marking the inner circles as well.
6) Resize the drawing to 256 x 128 pixels.
7) check and redraw any lines altered by the resizing.
8) Save as a Bitmap
9) Open drawing in MS Paint and draw the roundels to the new extremities.

The rest is just plain sailing, Thanks Ivan, a chance remark has made my life a lot easier.
 
Hi Womble55,

I can read what you just wrote, but I actually have no idea what exactly you are describing.....
FWIW, I was debating on starting another aircraft painting thread because the last one seems to have gotten stripped of all the illustrations without which it isn't very useful.

Whatever I did, glad it helped!
:kilroy:
- Ivan.
 
Is anyone interested reviving the old "How to Paint a CFS Plane" thread from way back? I still have most of the images which were removed when the system was upgraded. Anyone for a New Painting Thread?

- Ivan.
 
I will take you up on that offer

Ivan said:
Is anyone interested reviving the old "How to Paint a CFS Plane" thread from way back? I still have most of the images which were removed when the system was upgraded. Anyone for a New Painting Thread?

- Ivan.
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Yes Sir,
It all starts here and everything else people learn moves on up into the next FS or combat fs. Can we start with your P47?

Dave www.thefreeflightsite.com
 
Hi No Dice,

We actually CAN'T start with my P-47 because it has already gotten its original paint job. I am writing about how to start texturing a plane when the basic shapes have been created and nothing else. In other words, how to lay out the textures onto a bare model.

- Ivan.
 
Ivan said:
Hi No Dice,

We actually CAN'T start with my P-47 because it has already gotten its original paint job. I am writing about how to start texturing a plane when the basic shapes have been created and nothing else. In other words, how to lay out the textures onto a bare model.

- Ivan.
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texturing 101
yes, please
 
We COULD start with a P-47 on floats, but we would end up with a P-47 Submarine....

:mixedsmi:
- Ivan.
 
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