Skins by Aelius

[JG52Krupi]

That looks AMAZING

[JG52Karaya]

That is an awesome looking Stuka skin!

[JG26_EZ]

First let me start out by repeating everyone by saying, excellent work, and a beautiful job with all of your skins.
Thanks!

Originally Posted by aelius

I am at a loss to understand why they don't, especially if you've chosen the correct Paint Scheme.

With regards to the spinner problem you mentioned earlier with Bf110C-4 NAGr1. I have found, that with the Bf109's spinner, there's a location for the spinner when it's moving, and a location for the spinner when it's stationary.. I found out the hard way, finished my skin and took it for a fly, didn't notice until I landed and shut down my engine that my spinner had changed colour completely heh.

I have downloaded your skin and can see that you have painted only the moving spinner, but can't see the "stationary paint". Could it be that you've forgot to paint the stationary "location"?

I'll post this to give you an example of what i'm talking about.. (if you don't already know)

[JG26_EZ]

Here lies the problem with the Bf110 Spinner...
There's no problem really.. It's just that there are two different locations for the spinner, moving and stationary (as suspected above).

I realize that I didn't pinpoint where exactly it is, but you get the idea.. And if you use a colored/numbered template that was given to me by "V101 Tom", you can find it rather easily. If I was ready to skin the bf110 I'd find it, but I'm having too much fun skinning the bf109 atm.

Stationary Spinner




Moving Spinner






Enjoy the rest of your skinning

[aelius]

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

Here lies the problem with the Bf110 Spinner...
There's no problem really.. It's just that there are two different locations for the spinner, moving and stationary (as suspected above).

Thanks for the welcome discovery!

I've not posted myself for awhile now but, when I finish installing some plank flooring, I'll be back online.

[aelius]

It's been months now since I last posted, and I still have not finished working on the house. But I did find some time to revise my essay on RLM colors, which provides a complete sampling of color hues for those members skinning their own planes.

Here's the link.

[JG26_EZ]

AAAHhhhhhh Most excellent RLMs

Many thanks

[aelius]

Looking at the date of my last post, I realize that it's been almost four years since I last contributed to this forum--which is an intolerable delay.

The Ju 87 "Snake" Stuka always has been my favorite plane and one on which I've worked hardest to skin properly. Returning to it after such a long hiatus, I realize that several things could be improved; indeed, they should have been properly addressed in the first place.

One is that the propeller hub appears differently at rest than when the plane is in flight. I've corrected this by adding mottling to the stationary hub, which is absent when it is spinning. In extending the slatted dive brakes, the design of the Balkenkreuz on the underside of the wings does repeat itself on the slats themselves. And this, after a considerable amount of time trying to discover where they were located on the template, has been corrected as well.

Finally, the snake motif has been slightly modified so that it accords more with the photographs on which it is based and less on the illustration by Egbert Friedl that accompanied the definitive article on the "Schlangen" Stukas in Luftwaffe im Focus (No. 7). There now is a ridge above the eye and a slight correction to the pattern and position of the tail. The aircraft code also has been enlarged and the paint scheme weathered more.

I hope that those who have flown the original will enjoy this revision of the Ju 87 T6+DP--and be certain to extend the dive brakes!

Another shot, this time situated above the Libyan desert, as it might have appeared in the summer of 1941.

The revised template can be found here.