Tom's Cat
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Dude, that just made my day!!! Thanks Jerry
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i have not figured out how to do that. pretty sure its a modeling issue.
If can figure this out, we can give the old Turkey some more flexible loads (like that 2X3X2)
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Whatever I can do to help…
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Toms over the amazing Spanish theater…
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Along with reworking the textures (panels, rivets, weathering, etc.) I decided to take a different base than that of the US NAVY Tomcats. Soon you’ll be able to fly in the true colors of the most air-combat proven fighter in post WW2 history - the IRIAF F-14A.
Persian Cats, Baby!
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Can you mark the skins which were used in the '80s and '90s?
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What is that supposed to tell us?
@Molni:
If by mark you mean skin then the answer is everything from delivery to 2013 digital camo including 80s and 90s ones. Focus is obviously on the 80s and early 90s. I’m currently in contact with some people about specific Iranian Tomcats and their history so I’ll concentrate on those BuNos.
As far as the camo goes there’s been very few changes in the last 30 years. So far I have roughly identified the following timeframes:
1978-1979 Asia-Minor Camo, Grumman Delivery + IIAF
1979-1985 Asia-Minor Camo, IRIAF/Iran-Iraq conflic
1986-1993 Asia-Minor Camo, IRIAF/Iran-Iraq conflict
1994-1999 Asia-Minor/Low-Viz Blue, IRIAF…
2000-2003 Low-Viz Blue
2004-2011 Low-Viz Blue II
2012-XXXX Low-Viz Blue II / ‘Asia Minor Digital’This is by no means complete or 100% accurate…
As there are an estimated 20 combat ready Tomcats left with another 20 airworthy aircraft I’m looking to skin maybe 6-8 Cats in total covering all camo schemes and historically relevant BuNos.
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looking to finish this 79 Asian-Minor camo on the weekend…
For the first time I’ve actually used paths for the camo. Like a year ago Ron ‘Red1’ Nair told me to feather the edges of the camo elements but without paths that is a pain in the ass:) So now I’ve finally been able to deploy that technique. Makes camo elements look more like they’re actually painted on the panels.
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As there are an estimated 20 combat ready Tomcats left with another 20 airworthy aircraft I’m looking to skin maybe 6-8 Cats in total covering all camo schemes and historically relevant BuNos.
Like this@@?
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For the first time I’ve actually used paths for the camo. Like a year ago Ron ‘Red1’ Nair told me to feather the edges of the camo elements but without paths that is a pain in the ass:) So now I’ve finally been able to deploy that technique. Makes camo elements look more like they’re actually painted on the panels.
Nice job on the tails.
Paths in PS is a good thing for this kind of work.
Now Pete, try the following on your tail…
- Create a new layer and stroke your paths with 1 pixel black.
- do a gausian blur of 1-2 pixel on that layer
- set transparency of that layer to 10% or less (depends on your colorscheme)
As result it should make the edges of the camo elements just slightly darker and blured.
Additionally, … did you know that you can use the paths also for creating the panels and rivets?
To stroke the panels is similar to the techinc described above.
To stroke the rivets is also similar, but I use a 1 pixel pencil tool,
and it’s brush spacing set to 1000% for example (press F5 to set the brush spacing)You might experiment with those settings which fits best for your skin.
I hope these little hints will help you to make your skinwork even better.;)
Cheers,
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Lazystone,
Thanx forbthe valuable input. How fitting that urs was the 300th post:).
I’ll definitely try the ‘smoked’ camo.edge thing.
As far as paths for panels go I’ve used the classic way of actually drawing them with the pencil/brush tool. A path has to be closed and that doesn’t work well with panel lines which often just run out. One could then stroke them and delete the surplus parts but I find drawing them as done one the 18 actually pretty quick and effective. I’ll try it anyhow:)
The rivet tool u describe is awesome, the thought of using the spacing didn’t even.enter my mind. Thanks man!
@KL,
Awesome looking skin there, even carries the Iranian missile! Very nice!
Still don’t get what ure trying to say though…I can’t find any Iranian skins anywhere so if all of this is already done and available, great! Post the link and we’re all happy. I’m skinning these cats not because no one ever skinned them before but because I wanna skin them. I’ve worked on over 50 different Tomcats in 6 years and now I wanna work on Iranian ones
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How fitting that urs was the 300th post:).
A path has to be closed and that doesn’t work well with panel lines which often just run out.
Uhmm, … really?
… then I did it wrong all the time.Pete, those path tools in PS are a little odd at the beginning,
but once you’re familar with them, you’ll use them often,
… especially to stroke a path to multible layers, to use differently blur effects, colors, tranparency, … etc.IMHO, it’s worth the effort.
BUT BE WARNED !!!
Do never ever cut or delete a part of your LAYER while a PATH is still selected.
This will result in a deleted PATH.Cheers,
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Awesomeness my man! As you see I’m still learning all this shit
Thanks a bunch for the input! Will post my progress here as I go along…
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The only B variant Tomcat produced.
I’ve no able to build the prototype long-probe for it,also the PW-style exhaust as of what featured F-16,sorry!;-)
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The only B variant Tomcat produced.
I’ve no able to build the prototype long-probe for it,also the PW-style exhaust as of what featured F-16,sorry!;-)
That’s interesting although not entirely correct. I’ll stop asking you what exactly you wanna tell us with your posts, as you’ve ignored my previous two attempts.
You can ask, comment, contribute, critique, make a joke, talk about F-14 related issues >here< (historical tidbits, FM or whatever as the number of interested people is too small to open a different thread for everything) BUT for your own work which I have nothing to do with please feel free to open your own thread. Otherwise it just confuses the hell out of everyone and, in addition, slightly annoys me.
Thank you.
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Yeah …
Cheers,
LSHahaha, nice that for yourself…
So and with my thanks, you have now 600.
Means, that I ROCK. :rofl:
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Lazystone man,
I spent last night creating countless rivet brushes and paths for all the panels. You have saved me probably 1000s of hours :D. Again many thanks for the valuable input! The Cat appreciates it as well…as you shall soon see
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So and with my thanks, you have now 600.
Means, that I ROCK. :rofl:
Cheers,
LS