What ever happened to Compans and Hammered, man i use to love their old beat up skins..remember these old classics..


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When Compans did that old beat up Hurri there was nothing like his style of skinning at the time, his work always sort of reminded me of an old oil painting or a Trudgian artwork, wicked stuff. Also ..excuse my severa lack of AA and AF as i cannot seem to get it to take in game, but i will crank another thread about that so this one doesnt go ot with boring tech stuff.

..and raise a beer to the old skinners who have wandered on

Hammerd's stuff was top notch. He did some excellent work with Jane's as well.

Can these still be found? Either pay or free? Man they DO LOOK GREAT!

Found the old posts where th eoriginal skins were released ..the Hurri was 2003 , but most were at the old il2 skins mega site that went down, sad days when that happened as we waited for it to come back but it never did.

Compans Under the White Rose campaign here CAMPAIGN

Do a search through m4t maybe ? (need to be registered) M4T I know Kamikuza had a 20 skin download pack yeeeeeeaaaaars ago with all of Compans skins but he has also disappeared of the il2 radar.

There is also check six if you want to try a search there CHECK SIX

After much searching i managed to find where Hammered hid his skins in 2005 after a forum request but the page is long since dead.Hammered used to be part of Blitzpigs which is also now folded but they had a link to the Pilots Pub so someone there may now where to contact him.. PILOTSPUB

The Fly also has some impressive older skin work here THE FLYS SKINS

Hammered's site was still live until very recently.
http://members.cox.net/hammerd/Main.html
I seem to remember reading that cox was going to drop their website hosting service.


Several if not all of Hammered's skins are still available at the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100924004515/http://members.cox.net/hammerd/Main.html
Click the blue "impatient" link if it doesn't load right away.

Wheels

Edit:
Cox Ends Free Web Pages For Internet Service Customers http://consumerist.com/2011/11/cox-ends-free-web-pages-for-internet-service-customers.html
Cox ended their hosting service as of December 06, 2011.

Nice find Wheels..now what about Compans and Kamikuza

You can't forget my good German friend Snorri...because before myself, Hammerd, Compans, Cpt_Ferrel, etc there was his beautiful 512x512 skins.


Anyways!

http://www.france-simulation.com/skins/snorri/snorri.htm

When I created the first Emil template with Snorri He had such a fun time learning rivets at such a small size; guess who taught him?














2 of mine

Cool work Rudel.


Compans was online today so he might respond to a PM ?
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showmembers&contain=compans&sendit=Search

Kamikuza still has a link in his signature to his site but he has pulled the skin pages from his site.
http://skinz.dojak.com/

I found them on the Internet Archive but all the links to the skins are dead there too.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080428062732/http://skinz.dojak.com/index.htm


Wheels

Snorri's B-17 template is what got me into skinning in the first place. I'm forever indebted to him for that!

Thanks a LOT GUYS!
No please, go tell my wife I'll be reinstalling IL1946 and will not show up for couple weeks, willya?