The ones that I posted are obviously not real attempts at making a detailed/realistic skin, just something to dick around with in CO-OPs with friends a few years ago in IL-2 1946. I was not a photoshop expert in any sense, but my wife gave me a short demonstration and that was it, able to master all of the tools to create a high quality skin.

Clod takes care of the weathering and panel lines for you, all you have to do is trace the paint job onto the skin. Oleg mentioned this over a year ago and everyone was falling over themselves because it was so easy. The game does the hard work for you.

I guess me posting a tutorial for interested people is out of the question because "regular forum users" could never do this according to you guys. Only a few "enlightened artists" could ever hope to paste a decal or nose art onto a skin or make a few curved lines and then fill between them.

Ask Randolph or the other skinners, they'll tell you exactly how they do it.

Cheers!

p.s. some other skins acquaintances of mine have made for our online jaunts. None of these people claim to be experts, and historical skins are not a priority in our non-historical furballs, but making skins is not hard in 1946, and even easier in CLOD. Some of them even took the time to add weathering/stains. It's not rocket science.









This might explain why I can't focus on flying.


Nobody I know has bothered to make CLOD skins since playing online isn't really an option at the moment.