Hey chaps,

With many thanks to Rick Rawlins for forcing me into skinning, I thought this thread would be a good idea in order to show off your custom skins. Here's mine for my current 1917 8 RNAS campaign.



I've shared mine, now let's see yours!

Great idea!!
We have some real artists here and I look forward to seeing them - hopefully with download links if the artist feels so inclined.
Unfortunately my skills are quite weak!

Although technically it is unofficial skins,thread, but good idea Slick

I like the green job great.

"The official..." sounded like an announcemnt by OBD themselves to me - maybe you could
edit the title to something like "WOFF Users' Homemade Skins Thread" or so?

Your work is very suitable for the Tripe and the British brown tone, Slick!
You may find it a nice hobby to make your own skins, and should you ever fly German scouts,
you could really go into the full paintjobs.
My early skins were often much simpler, but by now I have found out how this or that colour
would appear ingame - experience grows with the working time so to say.

Here is my momentary Albatros D.V, which I will offer for download later, if the pilot should fall.
(Well, he will fall most definitely, sooner or later - that's another experience...)
This must be one of the "loudest" paintjobs I have ever done; the yellow is quite dominant.
I picked the colours from the parade-uniform of the 2. Garde-Ulanenregiment, from where
my pilot came to the Luftstreitkräfte.

Boy that's a beauty Olham.
Wish I had that skin for all the Alb models.
Your on obviously a painting pro!

Polish pilot in German service painted on his machine Polish national emblem - white eagle on the red board (I think that such manifestation of Polish national sentiments wouldn't be allowed in Kaiser's avaition in real life)

Edited the topic. I am not related to OBD in any way, nor do they condone or support anything that might dribble out of my mouth.

Lovely Albatros skin, Olham. My skinning skills are very elementary now. Maybe some day I'll be able to create a beauty like what you've done!

LMAO at the new title

I thought it was official yesterday?!

Manfas, you may be right. Not because it is a Polish sign, but because it is an official
national insignia - which any air force from another country would not have on their planes.
Or maybe, if a pilot would paint it much smaller...
But here you have all the freedom - and I like it!


That is a much better title now, Slick - and so much funnier!


Thank you, SW - yes, you will get on and on finding out the tricks how to get this and that
result even better - if your breath is long enough. Me, I was hooked from the beginning (October 2008).

Olham, still Fxxxng, oeps sorry, jealous about your screenshots, do you use a injector like SweetFX???

This is a good time for skinning since the weather is too bad for flying in the DiD campaign!

Very nice skins here, so far!

Nope - it's all WOFF out of the latest EXPANSION box, which includes AnKor's light & shader mod,
and I think also ArisFuser's cloud mod.

Moreover there wasn't independent Polish state during WWI and Prussia (and then German Empire) occupied some parts of former Polish Kingdom so Polish white eagle on German plane could be interpreted as disobedience against authorities.
On the other side it is interesting to see red-white checkboard on some German planes (I saw Fokker D VII with such insignia)- the marking which was adopted in 1918 by young independent Polish Air Force as a national marking.

This aint my work...but I may dabble into it...one day.

Olham made this for me and its my DID skin at the mo...and he did it within a few hours of my request for help.

First phase for my new Jasta 5 skin,...just the weathering added, later, colours and emblems will be added on top of it:)

Manfas, I am glad that Poland is back on the maps - the Polish people were never gone anyway.

Lederhosen, I must correct you a bit:
my job on that skin only went so quick, because it was the smallest part;
the most of it was already there; it was done by Mark "Polovski" Rogers.

ok ok...but you did a bit.

Here is my "When I feel cocky enough to fly and American Campaign skin". It's because I watched to much TV when I was a kid, and was a Richard Boone fan.






Beard

Fantastic plane skin Burning_Beard! Very well done. Doesn't hurt that I love playing Paladins in WoW either. lol