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Hey fellas. I thought it might be good to have a place for our personal skinners to showcase thier work and get some feedback. I started doing skins this week, with help from Olham pointing me in the right direction to get started. I'd like to see more of CJ's flamed Dr.I as well as the Polish Air Force D.VII that Olham is working on.

These are two shots of a D.III I did. Ididnt do anything too dificult here because this is my first skin.I think Im gonna restart though because, like I heard OvS saying, the red is too neon-ish. Let me know what you think.

-Rooster
 
Very striking Rooster - I like it. Yep little less saturation and some weathering and it might be a winner.
 
Good start

Hi, Rooster
You made a good start there; especially as you seem to have kept the original structures underneath, instead of just overpainting all. Now, the next problem is, to get the colours right. If you work with Photoshop, you can choose the red area, for example, and try in "variations", to add a little yellow, and even cyan or green ("breaks" the neon brightness). There's a slider, were you can adjust, how strong the effect will be, and you see the result in the upper right picture. To eleminate it, you can click on the left pic, the original. When the colour is right, you may also try "darker"; as your's is still too bright.
But you'll see - one learns a lot by doing, and they'll become better.
Have fun. Cheers; Olham
 
Nice skin Rooster. Question - what paint program did you use to create your skin? I think I might start dabbling in creating some custom skins once P3 comes out.
 
Thanks guys. Im already working on the next one! Thanks Olham for the tips. I dont use Photoshop but they should generaly apply to my program.

CaptSopwith, I use a free program called paint.net which you can get here http://www.paint.net/ I like it alot. Its a ton less hassle than when i used to mod my RB2 skins with MSPaint:costumes:

-Rooster
 
Another good one that's free is the Gimp.

You can get it here:

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

I used it for the old B-17II TME skins I did in the old days, and for RB3D too. It's actually a very versitle and easy program to use, and I'm using it to make some new Hurricane skins for BoBII right now. Compared to other programs I've tried, and maybe it's just that I'm used to it, but it seems to allow more "freehand" artwork that I'm used to doing.
 
I used GIMP to add WWI USMC roundels to a captured D.VII that still retains the lozenge camo. A total work of fiction, but, hey, there's no JN-4 "Jenny" for me to work on (yet). Also, I'm not ready to skin a plane from scratch, but after about 10 hours of trial and error, this is what I cam up with.
 
Nice work Jarhead.

Whilst I'm here I might as well pop this one up......my old boys of 60 squad N17....I tried to keep it plausible but identifiable(?).....still got a Looooooong way to get anywher near Makai, Sanbagger and OVS's level though.
 
Nice paint schemes guys! I'll check out both paint and Gimp. I'm in the mood to do some skinning once phase three hits... providing I live long enough to earn the right to paint my kite ;)
 
Let me know if you want the jenny

ns13jarhead said:
I used GIMP to add WWI USMC roundels to a captured D.VII that still retains the lozenge camo. A total work of fiction, but, hey, there's no JN-4 "Jenny" for me to work on (yet). Also, I'm not ready to skin a plane from scratch, but after about 10 hours of trial and error, this is what I cam up with.
Click to expand...
GOT ONE ON AN OLD HARD DRIVE ILL SEND YOUR WAY:costumes:.

PD
 
I found that making skins is almost as addicting as playing the game.....almost. I barely got up in the skies this weekend. I did some work with colors but you cant really have a neon tan color can you? If my German is any good the elevator reads - Not Today!

I think my next area for improvment will be getting the weathering down, and to get the darn checkerboard to line up right on the cowl:costumes:
 
Gee, this is becoming an art school canteen. Yeah, it's addicting, isn't it? And difficult. I still haven't found a good way to keep OvS's-Makai's-Arto's-Pol's wheathering effects, when I need to airbrush the whole plane, like I did with this Pfalz DIIIa, using the paintscheme of the Halberstadt in the Museum of Munich. But it looks too clean still (well, maybe freshly painted).
The Albatros ain't new, but I always find it so touching, when I can bring my wingmen back, and they stay so close with my plane after a fight (***).

Hi, Rooster
"Nicht heute!" is correct; with a small "h" rather; but you can keep it as it is, I'd say. You made a progress; the chessboard-scheme looks also good.
 
Thanks Olham. I like the blending of the colors on your Pfalz alot. But I have a question for you. Which area of the skin in bitmap format is for the nose cone color? I cant seem to locate it. Thanks.

-Rooster
 
Hi, Rooster
For the Albatros, the nose cone is a square field somewhere at the lower right of the bmp. For the Pfalz, I think it's round, and above the tail at the right.
There are several areas I didn't know of, what they were. So I gave them obviously wrong colour stripes like cyan, magenta and yellow, saved it under it's name plus "...test.dss" and looked into the game. That way, you can always find out.
Have fun; Olham
 
The skin of a Lady...

Hi, WomenFly2, Rooster and everybody
Here's a new Albatros DIII skin I did for WF2 (hope you like it). The other pics see thread "Polish airmen..."
Good night for now; need a bag of sleep...
Olham
 
That looks great Olham. You definately deserve more than a bag of sleep for that gem.

-Rooster
 
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