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#3714142 - 01/08/13 09:24 PM First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think.  
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Hi there,

Wanted this skin in dcs-world. and i tried to figure out how. after a bunch of reading and starting over.
Here is an almost finished F-51D from the Kentucky Air National Guard.
First pic i saw of it was this one

After searching around on the web i found a couple more pictures and a lot of other projects of people making the same one for FSX.

After getting the template and not getting the front.psd to open in gimp. i started working on the bare metal one.
This was one of the many tries i did.


The finished product for now,


parts i'm not happy with,
-the yellow color seems off to me. think it nees to be more orange.
-the blue ish wings at around noon time.
- haven't figured out the round spiral on the spinner yet. (doubt it can be done)

So what do you all think. what can i do to improve it ?

Link to some more Screenshots

Last edited by Michiel; 01/08/13 09:29 PM.

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#3715545 - 01/10/13 10:14 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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The yellow is a little bright but it looks good so far. Better than I could do no doubt. It is certainly an interesting scheme. Well done.


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#3717878 - 01/14/13 10:01 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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Tried a bunch of yellowish color's finally settled on this color.
working on the spec files now. not making much progress ;-).

am looking at the files of Tom Weiss to look how he got the "natural" metalic look.

only thing i did after this screenshot was make the yellow a bit more transparant.

but am happy with it so far. i got a whole lot futher then i thought.

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#3717982 - 01/15/13 12:25 AM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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It also looks as if the lightning bolt should be somewhere between your new yellow and your old, brighter yellow (as per the example image).

Awesome skin! cheers


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#3718114 - 01/15/13 08:05 AM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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Damn, now i notice that the yellow in the bolt is another color.... kept looking at the details to much ;-)

thanks


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#3719267 - 01/16/13 10:13 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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I like F-51 skins. Let's see more of 'em.

#3721112 - 01/19/13 07:57 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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am working on a new one.
First flight to check color's, no to work some more on the right color's
will do the spec ones when the other one is finished ;-).





Link to photo album

cheers

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#3731049 - 02/05/13 04:02 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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Hi again,

Well i uploaded my first skin to lockonfiles.
it can be downloaded from following page Here


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#3761117 - 04/01/13 11:41 PM Re: First skin F-51D 463803 What do you think. [Re: Michiel]  
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The yellow in the other screenshot looks right, almost a Piper Cub Yellow as opposed to Lemon Yellow.


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