Tom's Cat
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and the shot of the 3dpit ??? was great !!!
O.k. then you have convinced me.
I must pack, Franconia iām comingā¦
By the way, get ready Brats, Beers and of course the nice sexy chicks!!!
Now we all get back to the theme of this thread :tjacked:Hey āstingray_SIX_TWOā any news about releasing your great skins for the loved F-14? Iām waiting this beauty:
http://imageshack.us/a/img59/9073/20130125152625.jpg
Thank you very much for your hard efforts mate!
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Figure of speech in the english language implying a state of affairs (Tomcat is the greatest fighter of all time) which will persist regardless of the frame of time (past, present, future).
Iām pretty sure that is what xxscorpion was saying and Iām also pretty sure that he is 100% correct
Iāve understood
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BMS runs on my notebookā¦:eek:
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that my friend is a cool screen
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Working on this very first squadron right now, I havenāt done anything new in forever and just throwing all the old stuff out now feels wrongā¦somehow
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Some progressā¦this should be a ****inā beauty!
More on that over the weekendā¦
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did i ever mention which is my favorite squadron?
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7 hour train ride todayā¦Wolfpack finished. Canāt start Falconā¦will have to wait for the rig.
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did i ever mention which is my favorite squadron?
For the last time Mike, yes, you mentioned it a gazillion times all throughout this topicā¦
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WIP of VF-2 Bossbird BuNo 165202. Errors on ventral fins, front fuselage stripes, some shadows and the anti-glareā¦
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Some more impressions of this bird that I like waaay more than I expectedā¦
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Finished productā¦99% of errors fixed. I had to do that twice over as I failed to save anything and then crashed PS with a wrong button combination > :eek:
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WIP of VF-1 Bossbird BuNo 158979 (very early airframe), like the VF-2 bird late 70s era, deployment aboard Forrestal, Enterprise, Ranger among others. This is basically finished except for a few minor issues and the drop tank stencils which are way too largeā¦
I donāt know if this was always implemented but I just noticed the beautiiiful crew and cockpit design/animations, the authentic A model engine nozzles and even the spoilers extending out of the glove vaneā¦great stuff!
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Final versionā¦these two birds are the first original work Iāve done this year, hard to believe itās almost June already.
Iāve decided to release everything in packs of 6 skins at a time cuz I absolutely will never get finished if I try to release it all at the same time. With each skin I go to intensive lengths (most definitely too far, no doubt in my mind) to ensure authenticity, so the stencils, BuNos, colors, little details, Modex numbers, deployment cycles etc. are all checked against real life photos from the era and all other non-photographic sources that are available (and I got quite the Tomcat database after 7 years ). This means this still is the most extensive and authentic collection of Tomcat skins on the net (and Iāve checked it against everything on every platform thatās out there, not to prove my skins but rather as potential source material during research) but it also means none of it is available to you guys. That seems like a nice little project of mine that doesnāt help anyone accomplish anything
So Iāll start releasing whatās finished as it gets finished one set at a time for the three slots (A/B/D) and Iāll try to have the right jets stick to the right slots (everyoneās free to rename the skinfiles to fit whatever slot of course) and eventually itāll all be released. I like it better this way anyway cuz it also increases usability and might open this up to ppl who donāt give a ratās ass about this jet and then find themselves appreciating the immersion in a theater where the tomcat is present and its skin complies to the particular setting.
I used to state to not work on any new (Tomcat or other) skins while compiling everything and putting it up for download but thatās a futile thing to say - if I find a new source or see a new jet Iād like to skin, Iāll do it anyway
Laters ya crazies!
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Beautiful art work !
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They are looking sooo nice, Pete.
I had to do that twice over as I failed to save anything and then crashed PS with a wrong button combination > :eek:
While doing GFX, one thing Iāve learned quickly was ā¦ save often, better save often and incrementally.
Ohh and donāt forget to backup your work on another data medium periodically.
(would be a shame if you would lost your work due to a HDD failure)Cheers,
LS