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#4005039 - 09/04/14 04:51 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: RAF_Louvert]  
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Originally Posted By: RAF_Louvert
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You poor bastiges, you can all say good bye to the lives you once knew. With the skinning monkey now firmly planted on your collective backs you're all goners. The middle of the night wake-ups, suddenly jonesing for a new paint, with no choice but to park in front of the computer until it's done; at a party when a new skin idea crawls into your brain and eats away until you are forced to go and satisfy the insipid thing; the tender family moments forever invaded by the harrowing hunger that can ne'er be sated. All this and more is yours now that you've entered the hell reserved for 'skinners'. Welcome.

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Lou, and don't forget that moment when the wife approaches you to design alternating stripes into a new dress for her!! biggrin She might even go out and buy you a sewing machine!! OOOch!


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#4005055 - 09/04/14 05:17 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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A tip for those who are getting desperate with distortions:
if you can work with layers, you could copy milimeter- or math paper from a web pic,
and put it on the wings and fuselage. Either half transparent, or, if you can't do
that, you must cut it so, that you still recognise enough of the underlying skin parts.

Over that layer, you work out your paint job.
Now make a DDS-file from that, go into WOFF and make screenshots from all angles.
Make corrections and repeat that proceedure.
When everything is fine, switch off the math layer or delete it.
That may help you to aligne the stripes correctly (although with my "Quillfish" Alb
I gave up at some point and thought "What the hell...!")


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#4005089 - 09/04/14 06:46 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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Olham, that's some excellent piece of advice! A real eye-opener.

And yes, you're right that my Nieuport's skin looks a bit "German". I think I was inspired by Udet's red and white Fokker that is now in my loading screen.


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#4005112 - 09/04/14 08:00 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Robert_Wiggins]  
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Originally Posted By: Robert_Wiggins
Lou, and don't forget that moment when the wife approaches you to design alternating stripes into a new dress for her!! biggrin She might even go out and buy you a sewing machine!! OOOch!


No no, you have it all wrong Robert. It is the alternating stripes on the wife's dress that inspire a new paint idea, prompting one to think, "That would look really good on a Camel". Unfortunately, being a skinner and totally absorbed in the new design forming in your head, you unintentionally voice your thought out loud and within earshot of the wife. This results in much slower progress on the new Camel skin due to the distractions of one eye being swollen shut and a mind-numbing ache in your lower jaw caused by several loosened teeth.

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#4005114 - 09/04/14 08:02 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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...not that I'd know...

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#4005116 - 09/04/14 08:05 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: RAF_Louvert]  
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Originally Posted By: RAF_Louvert
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...not that I'd know...

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#4005143 - 09/04/14 09:05 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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Here I am , having trouble with a Straight line or painting a V popcorn

#4005152 - 09/04/14 09:37 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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Consider yourself lucky Carrick. thumbsup

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#4005157 - 09/04/14 09:47 PM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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Carrick, you seem to eat too much popcorn lately... biggrin


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#4005211 - 09/05/14 12:19 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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carrick58 don't forget the click-release-hold-shift line technique from the video!


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#4005217 - 09/05/14 12:26 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: RAF_Louvert]  
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Originally Posted By: RAF_Louvert
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...not that I'd know...

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#4005226 - 09/05/14 01:01 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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The breakthrough for me was understanding the "anchoring" of a pic onto a layer. And then using the magic wand to remove the background from an image. That was quite the learning curve, and I spent many days rewinding the tutorial and watching that segment over and over again.


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#4008530 - 09/12/14 12:33 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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My new Jasta 12 ride. Thanks for the push, Rick.







Last edited by Slick Wilhelm; 09/12/14 12:33 AM.

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#4008534 - 09/12/14 12:45 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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That is super nice Slick. Great job.


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#4008566 - 09/12/14 01:50 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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Nice! That ought to get some attention...
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Last edited by Rick_Rawlings; 09/12/14 01:51 AM.

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#4008593 - 09/12/14 03:15 AM Re: It's Rick Rawlings' fault. Instead of flying, I'm... [Re: Slick Wilhelm]  
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The skin got my attention and it looks Super Slick.

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