Mitsubishi F-1/T-2
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Sa-Weet! Love those dual-canopy variants… : P
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Hello !
What’s new here ;
Basically, We are very close from a release status for Mitsubishi F-1 :
I just finished custom fuel tanks, and also, I managed to have main undercarriage doors opened when aircraft is at ramp, to simulate accessibility for technician (most ramp F-1 pictures are like that).
Today, I also spent a lot of time to adjust weathering, and also little name tags, that are painted all over the plane.
Maybe you don’t see the difference with what I shown up recently, but I can tell you that there is more and more little details that enhance the experience !
I also reworked some smoothing, to have something perfect.
Right now, I want to work a bit more gears legs, as they are a bit too white.
Stay tuned, I have to go now with my best friend to sushi restaurant !
Enjoy reading,
Radium
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Hello,
trying some high pass processing, to enhance global texture :
You can see that between colors, there is some automated painting opacity simulation (I know it’s tiny). It kinda simulates automatically and with a perfect homogeneity the weathering of the painting.
Stay tuned !
Radium
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https://i.imgur.com/C7mmEVY.png
GEE… that is a beautiful screen…!!
One of the nicest I’ve seen.
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(I’m a poet, and didn’t know it.)
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Hello,
Mitsubishi F-1 model and 3 first textures are now completed.
Here is Tactical Meet 96 livery (I really like this one). It is fully custom, with accurate serials and tail kanjis (thanks to my friend @chihirobelmo for his help !)
More to come… One last livery to be done (full grey), and I will move to Mitsubishi T-2 liveries !
Still a long way to go !
Radium
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@Radium looks awesome!
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@Radium - fantastic work. Your work has a real tangible look to it which really adds to the effect.
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@Radium: Hey! Probably a dumb question: but, why is the roundel on the three-tone green skin just a red “meatball” whereas the roundel on the previous skin includes a white border? Wouldn’t they tend to be the same?
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The kanji ROCKS…!!!
Awesome, Radium.
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Hello,
Thank you so much ! I created some specific technics to simulate PBR on my texturse. So, it has a better looking that what we usually find
I am right now creating the grey livery. As you can see (no render here, just texture itself), some nice metal effect was generated (don’t ask me how I do it, it’s my personal secret) Then, I can adjust it, and make a realistic livery.
Well, I am not so sure. During second world war, IJA and later IJN fighter aircraft were often painted green, and roundels didn’t had any white parts for some of them :
During Tactical Meet 96, Mitsubishi F-1 were painted with a green camouflage, a bit alike WII. With the help of my friend @chihirobelmo that was able to help me to understand the meaning of kanjis on low quality graphics, tail arts were painted with some unusual words on them, such as : 維新 (Restauration - refering to Meiji Era) or 天誅 (Punishment from the Skies), which has a rather warrior meaning. (These Kanjis are all made on my liveries, linked with licenseplates).
From these findings, I guess that they wanted to make a little tribute to IJA and IJN pilots.
That being said, it’s my personal feeling, I may be wrong.
Radium
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Hello,
I wanted to post something.
While doing the full grey livery, I had an issue with the base texture : some of the weahering was adapted to the camoflage. As I didn’t wanted to rework my existing weathering, I had to rebuild a lot, from a bare metal texture.
As you know, without PBR support, it’s almost impossible to have a good render.
Nevertheless, I did something pretty convincing, for Mitsubishi T-2 (not a final livery).
When the first Mitsubishi T-2 were delivered to JASDF, they had a bare metal livery, like this one, at 6th TFSQ of Tsuiki :
On the second screenshot, you really have a nice render. Reminds me formation take-off, long time ago, in real life
Stay tuned !
Radium
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@Aragorn: was that a “royal we” or more of a multiple personality thing?
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@parislord said in Mitsubishi F-1/T-2:
@Aragorn: was that a “royal we” or more of a multiple personality thing?
With our buddy 'Gorn it may be hard to tell. But if we means the BMS membership then I agree!. Great job, Radium, and as always the OFM is happy to incorporate whatever you want to share. This is very timely, too, as we’re working on Kuriles as we speak!
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Hello everyone,
@Aragorn I always guessed that to reach your level of second degree, two persons were necessary ! Just kidding of course. Funny thing is that in my countries, it’s rather common to announce “we” when a radio contact with a ATC, even if alone It’s a way to say : “my airplane and I”
@parislord I never heard about “royal we”. In my countries, third person speach for yourself is rather used. One famous actor here used to speak about himself using “he”, which looks a little bit bold
@drtbkj as always, my 3D models are offered to everyone. It’s not because I do not want to be affiliated with any kind of group or team that I am closed to them. I just want to stay “free and alone, without any trademark”. I am with everyone. In my signature, it’s written : freelance. It expresses exactly what I am here : a mercenary Nevertheless, there is some people that I highly respect whom I work very closely and recurently on my projects, who share similar principles.
To come back to Mitsubishi F-1/T-2 topic, here is some news :
Here is 3rd TFSQ of Misawa (Misawa had two Tactical Fighter Squadrons, the 3rd “Samurai”, and the 8th “Panther”. Misawa is located in northern Japan, close to Hokkaido island, in Aomori prefecture. Tsuiki (and its 6th squadron that I represented a lot for F-1, with the yellow and black roundel depicting a fighting bow) is located in Fukuoka, Kyushu island, southern Japan.
I will now go to an Aggressor livery, from Nyutabaru, Miyazaki prefecture, also in Kyushu. This one will not be easy to make, so, please let me some time before any update !
Radium
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Hello,
This aggressor livery is really interesting and difficult to achieve.
I am doing my best to find the exact colors (the existing pictures are usually too blueish)… I also try to find a good average for faded effects on this livery… From one picture to another one, it changes a lot.
Just a WIP !
Radium
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Hello,
we have now an aggressor livery !
She was hard and long to finish, but here we go !
I am very happy of the final result !
More to come,
Radium
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@Radium she bites