P51 In Progress

[TX-Zen]

Gentlemen, for your review. ETA tomorrow night.










TX-Zen
Black 6

[TX-EcoDragon]

I like that deep red. . .heck .. that looks like a fine racing skin as is!I am excited!Thanks Z man!!S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-Rahman]

Rock on Zenford!  Lemme know when you're done and I can put the finishing touches on it and deploy them!!Regards,TX-Rahman"BLUE 2"

[TX-Zen]

Should be finished tonight, now beginning the TX color schemaTX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-Rahman]

Looking great so far....  Is there any way we could also have a polished aluminum TX skin for this bird?  Love her in that suit!!  If not...that's cool too Regards,TX-Rahman"BLUE 2"

[TX-Zen]

If you know a way to get silver to come out in photoshop, hook me up. It's not a real color and is a pain to get done right. There is another layer to this mustang template that has a silver effect on the body of the plane, I bet I can tweak it to get it in the ball park.TX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-EcoDragon]

ahh. . well . there are templates out there. . .that you could look at. . if ya wanted THey never look perfect. . but they look goodd enoughS!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-FlightRisk]

Here is a 262. even though they browned out the lines ... it looks chrome when flying it.S~TX-FlightRisk Black 3

[TX-Zen]

Now thats some cool shat. I'll have a go at it this evening then, though I still prefer we fly the mean black scheme for everything. TX-ZenBlack 6

[TX-Bomblast]

Looks real nice, you think we should have a nightfighter skin and Winter skin too??TX-BomblastRed2

[TX-EcoDragon]

Ok. . me runs off to get the metal templates. . .Just for your Review of course. . .AOL is being troublesome with the files over 5 megs. . .do you have an account at IL-2 Skins .com I have seen some pretty good PSDs by Leadspitter. Squirral, porcipine and. . um. . others. . .S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-EcoDragon]

Testing  . . . 1. . .2. . . I gathered up all of the downloaded PSDs and skins I had. . looked at them all to see which looked the best at medium and high settings (ie most liek metal) some looked better at low quality, but were too colorful at high settings. . I blended some aspects of a few of them, and got this. . . the TX writing should be inboard as Zen did above, and Zen doesnt liek teh chekers. . .but. . anyway. . this is just here for folks to take a gander at, more for the novelty of the metal skinned TX Mustang.S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO

[TX-Bomblast]

Real nice color combos.

[TX-FlightRisk]

can I now say OOOH and AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Nice Colors. i notice its basicaly a dirtied white... am I wrong??S~TX-FlightRisk Black 3

[TX-EcoDragon]

Yes, 3. . you are wrong!!Hehe. . .you need to see it in game, or in photoshop,  its actually fairly colorful. IL-2/FB doesnt handle the mirror finish, so you have to simulate it. The problem is that a mirror finish by nature changes fairly dramatically as it moves with respect to the light source. Simply takinga picture of a real brushed aluminum mustang gives a good effect when the light is from above, but when in unusual atitudes the effect looks funny, so this one is semi homogenized top to bottom, so it does have a more white look to it than some, there are others out there that look remarkable. .  until they start to maneuver.In photoshop you can use a motion blur of a gradient to give the effect, you can use some of the funny filters like Plastic Wrap etc.I will update it a bit, since Zen didn't hack my head off when he saw it!  ;-)S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX Squadron XO