P51 In Progress

[TX-Zen]

As I mentioned last night, I think the skin looks great and you are more than welcome to TX-ize it with the standard position of the logo, TX lettering and pilot name on the wing. This skin is really good and while I don't like anything other than our standard camo scheme (and prolly never will) I will authorize Eco's completed silver mustang skin for general use as desired. That means you are welcome to fly either skin for the mustang...it really is a nice looking silver and I can appreciate the appeal. I think with the TX touches added it will be a damn fine skin. Having said that, I'm back to the drawing board. Every skin has it's own quirks when applying the camo pattern and for some reason the mustang is more difficult than others. I have to redo a few things because frankly I'm not happy with what I created last night. Here's an idea of what to expect though:TX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-Zen]

And yes Manford, it actually has too much black. Never thought I'd live to see the day when I said that, but it does. TX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-Zen]

Anyone up for some teeth?(A little too large, needs to be downsized some and the position readjusted as well, but you get the idea)TX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-Deck]

Yep, too much black.  Not sure how you did that, I didn't think it was possible.The template is 90% of the battle, so it looks to me like both of you guys are off to a great start.  Nice work!TX-Deck out.

[TX-EcoDragon]

Wow. . . it looks baddazz!! It is the Blackest of the TX skins I have seen though. . . though I have always liked black.  I just want to fly a server with skin dl on so we can see the skins in all their glory once again.S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-EcoDragon]

Here is one of mine that has actual bare metal P-51 photos laid up in the layers. On the ground, and in normal flight attitudes I think it looks awesome!  Buuuuut. . .roll her inverted and. . well .. you guys look and tell me if you like the more homogenized skin that looks less good most of the time, or this skin that look great some of the time. (please ignore the top and bottom of the fuse, the wings and horizontals stabs. . I just did the fuse sides and vertical tail so far as a test.  I am looking for that happy medium. . this is a pain in the but, but I am also really enjoying it! After looking at this thing doing the fly by I started to think that most of us are gonna look at it level .. and that this looked sweet!Anyone have a pref??ooofS!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-Chukar]

That looks pretty cool Eco, are you using photoshop?

[TX-Rahman]

I saw LeadSplitter's blue nosed bastards skin and thought it would be cool to have something similar but to have the nose color match your elemental color....Look at the pics below...do you all like the nose color thing?  I would like to have the checkerboard thing near the prop like Eco...maybe we could work together on this one?I even wanna name my P51 and paint it on the nose of the plane...Regards,TX-Rahman"BLUE 2"

[TX-FlightRisk]

Very nice Zen. Looks mean.. I love it.No Eco I said that all wrong. I meant that the base color they started with was white and they added light greys and dark greys to get the colors.... "Dirtied". I did not mean that you made an ugly plane ... it's beautiful...Nice work Rahman!!!!!!!!!!!!! As usual...S~TX-FlightRisk Black 3

[TX-EcoDragon]

hehehe .. . I know FR. . ;-)Interesting that you should do that Rah. . I just did that same thing!!I was experimenting with the ruddder being colored also, for whatever reason it just didnt look right to me. . .especially the white and the black. Well, it just dawned on me that we can test these as AI. . so lets get a server going and compare and see what we have going. I sorta though Leadspitters  base looked a bit blotchy. On the one hand it looks great in many of the more colorful skins that he does like teh moonbeam McSwine etc.  I have used some of his layers for adding the colored nose and tails as is evidenced in my last pics, and then tried the BNB nose colors as teh template for the TX sections. I would like to get in game with some folks and show some of the templates in game,  though I think Zen was  no go on the checkers.S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO