WIP: F-14 B/D
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This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. Never before had the chance to lay my eyes on these…
Appreciate that compliment very much especially cuz I regularly use your guys’ scale model pictures for skins and weathering:).
What you see above is the result of four years trying to find the right look, weathered but subtle. There’s 50+ weathering layers including all kinds of streaks, dust, paint alterations, rust, metal wear and so on. Will tweak it a bit more when texturing this bird but I think the look already works quite well.
Shout out to Ron ‘Red1’ Nair and his tutorials which introduced me to the ‘applying panels via channels on the finished texture’. Guy’s a genius when it comes to textures!
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Pure elegance. She’s a real beaty and you totally catch the lines. Hope to see her soon with a cockpit that she deserves.
Thank you.
Agreed, when looking at it you can sense that it was born on a drawing board from a skilled, passionate hand
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Looking fantastic Stingray.
To me, the front gear looks off a little. I cannot tell if the tires are too far apart, too narrow, or the strut too thin. Your thoughts?
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Looking fantastic Stingray.
To me, the front gear looks off a little. I cannot tell if the tires are too far apart, too narrow, or the strut too thin. Your thoughts?
Spot on. The tires need to be a bit wider but the main thing is the strut. Few pages back you can see it’s much thicker, I resized it so I can fit the release bar and actuator assembly more easily. Once it’s one piece I’ll scale it up again. The MLG is much closer to being finished than the nose gear.
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oh man
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Spot on. The tires need to be a bit wider but the main thing is the strut. Few pages back you can see it’s much thicker, I resized it so I can fit the release bar and actuator assembly more easily. Once it’s one piece I’ll scale it up again. The MLG is much closer to being finished than the nose gear.
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It looks fantastic Stingray, and your workrate is on full afterburners and swept wings!
Cheers Obi1
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I have a question for your futures skins, it’s possible to adapt them on the Tomcat already in Falcon ?
Keep it up !
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Just gorgeous, class A, work. Excellence.
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Every picture… I feel we’re juuust a bit closer to the dream.
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I have a question for your futures skins, it’s possible to adapt them on the Tomcat already in Falcon ?
Keep it up !
I originally built the skins FOR the Tomcat in Falcon. I say Falcon as it’s been the same model in FF/RV/OF/BMS etc since 2004. That’s how all of this started my man. The thing you see above is just the latest evolution and current state of my weathering.
Having created all of the skins it just makes it so much easier for me to build the textures for this model now.
If you wanna take a look at the skins for the current model you can find them here (released in 2013, not worked on them since):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/014fg7cc7b1r4y0/stingray_SIX_TWO%20F-14%20TOMCAT.7z?dl=0
It will be high time to kill a few cold ones when this image is recreated with the Pukin Dogs rockin on the new model with full AB at the same angle Long way to go…
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And we wish you a great achievement to finish this project ! Thank you for the link !
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Wanted to update today but RL got in the way. Will post some details on my kryptonite - The WINGS
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8320/28732303040_3eb97e165b_b.jpg
Please have mercy and use Anisotropic filtering if you can it kills the super model…
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Please have mercy and use Anisotropic filtering if you can it kills the super model…
That’s a viewport capture not a render. Will try to do some renders some time soon…
By the way do you know Pong? That’s my zero point when it comes to graphics and ‘fidelity’ and I’ve seen everything since come and go which has been great and very impressive. Given that some jagged edges don’t kill shit for me :D.
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By the way do you know Pong? Given that some jagged edges don’t kill shit for me :D.
Well said!!! :drink:
C9
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No problem man.
Just such a supermodel deserves nothing but the best.
So unleash the wrath of the Kraken Cat and let it purify us in all it’s glory.
:lol:Sent from TapaTalk
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Always a pet peeve of mine when models of the Tomcat in games basically copy and paste the Airbrake so it’s the same on the top and underbelly.