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Honestly, any one of you can make any of these skins in less than 15 minutes with Photoshop.

[louisv]

Really...

Originally Posted by louisv

Really...

There are different layers for the rivets/panel lines and the weathering/wear. All you have to do is drag lines across the aircraft body, use the fill tool, and "VOILA" new skin. If you want to get fancy, you can add your own grease/oil/smoke smears and use gradient fill to add different tones. All Randolph is doing is straight fill, and his look good. It's not hard.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

There are different layers for the rivets/panel lines and the weathering/wear. All you have to do is drag lines across the aircraft body, use the fill tool, and "VOILA" new skin. If you want to get fancy, you can add your own grease/oil/smoke smears and use gradient fill to add different tones. All Randolph is doing is straight fill, and his look good. It's not hard.

There is a bit more to it than that, finding the right colours is not simple.

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

There are different layers for the rivets/panel lines and the weathering/wear. All you have to do is drag lines across the aircraft body, use the fill tool, and "VOILA" new skin. If you want to get fancy, you can add your own grease/oil/smoke smears and use gradient fill to add different tones. All Randolph is doing is straight fill, and his look good. It's not hard.

You got a site we can view all your work on mate, sounds as if it will be stunning

Originally Posted by kristorf

You got a site we can view all your work on mate, sounds as if it will be stunning

Just load up a 3 way view of your favorite aircraft, replicate it on the template, and "voila". You can even change the tint and hue of each section you painted after the fact.

Just saying that you don't need to wait for someone to create your ideal skin, just fool around with it in Photoshop or Gimp. I'd fire up photoshop and make some, but I'm at an LSIL/HPV seminar all week and don't have it on my laptop.

Edit: You obviously know what I'm talking about since you're advertising skins in your sig.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Just load up a 3 way view of your favorite aircraft, replicate it on the template, and "voila". You can even change the tint and hue of each section you painted after the fact.

Just saying that you don't need to wait for someone to create your ideal skin, just fool around with it in Photoshop or Gimp. I'd fire up photoshop and make some, but I'm at an LSIL/HPV seminar all week and don't have it on my laptop.

Edit: You obviously know what I'm talking about since you're advertising skins in your sig.

Personally I think and we both know he's calling you out on your blatant BS... yes its takes a few mins to make a skin, but a lot more to make a good one!

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Personally I think and we both know he's calling you out on your blatant BS... yes its takes a few mins to make a skin, but a lot more to make a good one!

I don't know why you guys think that it's hard to make a decent skin. It's even easier than the original IL-2 since it has integrated layers that take care of the panel lines and weathering for you now. No more using the smudge tool to create oil stains.

Here are two of my old IL-2 ones that happened to be online on another forum. They're obviously not historical, but the gray one is based on a modern aircraft (bonus points for identifying which one) The fire one isn't really anything special, but both of them retain their panel lines which is the hardest part of creating a skin for IL-2 in my opinion.

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Creating a historical skin is even easier as you can have the skin you are making overlay a "3 view" drawing of the original aircraft, and just trace over it and fill. So you're essentially just tracing over an already finished example. When the seminar is over I might make a tutorial and post it on youtube. It's honestly really easy to do, and you only need to use a few tools to give it the right blending and look. Those of you that have airbrushed models would find the method quite familiar as well (except you can skip the primer coat .

Edit: Here is a good example of a source. You're obviously going to have to pick the exact colours from an exemplar online, but you take this image, add it as a transparent layer to your photoshop project, and just start painting over it on your working layer. That way you can follow the panel lines exactly, do some blurring/smudging if you want, add decals and markings, and even custom oil/smoke stains that are not included in the stock weathering options. I find that scale modeling sites and forums are a goldmine or finding correct colour examples and very detailed "3 view" drawings. Good luck!

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[kristorf]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Honestly, any one of you can make any of these skins in less than 15 minutes with Photoshop.

Interesting...

[Foo'bar]

...thank of Maddox' genius layered skin technology. Today everybody is lucky about it - months ago everybody was complaining.

Nice work though.