#2095740 - 12/25/05 12:52 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Sinbad 2
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It looks very good to me. Similar to Jasta 18 but blue instead of red on forward areas. Is this a historical skin?
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#2095741 - 12/25/05 02:36 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Barkhorn1x
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A little insight here. Gambit probably used the illustration in the Squadron/Signal DRI book? (am I correct Gambit?)
This picture got it wrong, the blue should be red. The Squadron/Signal WWI monographs are error ridden and should be used w/ caution.
Nice skin from a technical stanpoint tho'.
Barkhorn.
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."--- William Ralph Inge
"The ORIGINAL Barkhorn"
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#2095744 - 12/25/05 03:32 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Ivor H
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Very nice Gambit looking forward to flying this, blue or red!
On a point of detail I'm pretty sure the final (thin) style of "Greek" upper wing cross as carried by Dr1s did not have an outer black line; just the white border.
Also, if the illustrations in the Osprey Dr1 aces book are accurate, the thiner style of cross when carried on the Dr1 upper wing usually had a white outline at the ends of the cross arms, like the earlier, thicker Greek cross. Tho this was not factory standard on that type of marking, most if not all Dr1s started life with their crosses painted on white squares, so the thinner style of Greek cross would have been a field repaint, not a factory job; so the white ends are plausible. Hence I'm inclined to think the Ospery interpretation is accurate, the photos on the book seem to bear this out.
When you soar into the air in a Sopwith scout And you're scrapping with a Hun and your gun cuts out Well, you stuff down your nose till your plugs fall out 'Cos you haven't got a hope in the morning!
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#2095746 - 12/25/05 05:40 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Ivor H
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Hi Gambit, she's looking well!
Another thought, this time re the struts. On the Dr1 the undercarriage and interplane struts were steel tube, definitely not wood. So they would have been painted not "wood effect". The interplane struts, one of my sources (an excellent Airfix Mag article dating from the 1970s) says were wood, sometimes varnished, sometimes painted in undersurface blue, sometimes in uppersurface olive green.
When you soar into the air in a Sopwith scout And you're scrapping with a Hun and your gun cuts out Well, you stuff down your nose till your plugs fall out 'Cos you haven't got a hope in the morning!
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#2095750 - 12/26/05 12:40 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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PC777
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Hello Gambit, Yes please keep up the good work, the Dr1 has to be one of the most recognised aircraft of the 1914-18 war and a favourite to many. I am surprised someone else has not pointed you to this site: http://www.fokkerdr1.com/ Here are some photo's I managed to take around Easter time 2005 of some Replica Dr1's & some other aircraft, hope you find them of interest. http://photobucket.com/albums/v640/pc777/Classis%20FIghters%202005/WW1/ Regards to all - please keep the great skins comming!! PC
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#2095752 - 12/26/05 02:41 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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gambit_168
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HEY Thx pc777, lov the shots of the dr1's u took they look the nuts m8, i have a lot of C&C & the osprey aces series, and a great REVI mag, no 19, thx for the dr1 site url, any help is a great help cheers Hi dasriech, I can only change the default skin in its folder at this time, but i spend my time between quick combat n skinin, so for now i will just swap out , the single skin for each type as i make a new 1, but im sure WM & the OFF team , will be looking too expand on the amount of skins in the air at any given time, pc777 dr1 lineup in the paddock would be so good 2 reproduce in OFF, fingers crossed
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#2095754 - 12/26/05 09:19 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Nice one Steve, send it too me via messenger when its ready
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#2095757 - 12/27/05 09:11 PM
Re: DR1 skin
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Anonymous
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looks nice gambit I will pass it on to my sqaud memebers.
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#2095758 - 12/28/05 04:50 AM
Re: DR1 skin
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Marhkimov
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OK, technical question: how did you edit skins in Photoshop?
The original texture is in .DDS format, and Photoshop CS2 won't read it. So I worked around that by using Irfanview to convert it to .BMP format, and then I opened it in Photoshop and converted it into .PSD format... But now I can't get it back into .DDS format. Hmm...
So how do you edit your skins?
Marhkimov
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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