Thanks to the dedication of Ray "Rotton50" and Peter Booth the bubble-top Typhoon is getting off the ground. Ray stepped in to polish the very rough attempts I had made to fix the old HR model. Pete, has spent many hours finding data, color's and potential squadrons to paint.

This is the first draft of RAF 198 Squadron, June 1944.






The skinning has just started. 8 and 24-bit D3D versions are looking ok. The first glide viewing was very disappointing with wings upside down. I'll figure it out.

Man, your skills are just getting better all the time. Nice work...

A pleasure to see you touching this one up.
The "Tiffy" was a fearsome tank killer-- as long as you didn't shake the tail off in a dive.
Wonder if Ray O. can give you a 3-D pilot for this nice W.I.P., Mike?

Looking good Mike...here's some more detail
for ya showing her a couple of months later
with invasion stripes, yellow leading wing
edges and matching yellow spinner..

And looks like the spinner RS needs fixing, but a very nice skin.

First rate, Mike!

Ade, this is the base skin. I lacks the leading edge yellow stripes, the lower fuselage invasion stripes, and the pilot's personal markings. Peter has given me quite a few illustrations and line drawings to choose from. I'm almost finished tweaking the base. I've moved the fuselage codes and roundels, lined the belly band parts up, painted the cannon barrel openings, and hidden the seams, mostly. I still need to shade and highlight the cannon (read round) barrels. Weather and wear the skin, once all this is done then 15 more skins will come fairly quickly.


Col. the spinner?

Closing in on the final version.

Lovely work as usual Mike, but can I just add one comment.... shading on the nose cone ??... a single colour 'lump' on the nose of the plane looks bad....


cheers,



Pobs

Mike

Here's a second pic which might help you with
the yellows m8...

Using photoshop v9 calibrated to Pantone solid
coated colour, the yellow in pic below is Pantone
1245c allowing for shadowing and the red is pantone
174c on the code letters and 1815c on the roundel
and tailmark.

If your graphics proggy is pantone calibrated, the above
settings will help to get colours so close as to appear
correct.