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I dont think leeh1y has heard of the phrase "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". I would be embarrassed to produce work like this amd get caught just using images I found on Wikipedia on my "expert official skins"

But.....you take others work and use it ? You use model aircraft decals on your skins. im confused. I dont understand what is ok and what is not now.

so someone is using a skin you published for public use? have they claimed it was all their own work or just used it in their squadron? have thy uploaded the files claiming it is theirs ? If they have used a skin that is available they can do what they want to it....unless they are caliming it to be theirs or re-uploading it to user files, they havnt done anythign wrong...

i made them as a special request im afraid

this is the kind of qualkityt ED are wantign to include ?! REALLY ?!

asking for people to contribute to a number of skins that Wags wanted in-game, then tellign everyone not to bother because they have picked someone who has been considered a controversial choice - who is for soem reason popular among a vocal minority but there are questions around their technical ability.

There has been some very odd activity around previous competitions - the Apche one asked for entries and had some amazinbg skins produced....and the winners were plain green with a different squadron badge. The B17 competion and the discussions around roughmets and PBR/Specular maps.....then the Mossie competiion that again, the winners were rather similar to what was available already. A competiion usually showcases the best and the most innovative, the most creative, a winner should be head and shoulders above the others. For @Wags to ask for entries and then a minute later say we are going with someone who in my view is surpassed in terms of creativity and innovation by many others seems again, unusual. Its also sad that the most talented livery creators out there dont even bother to enter the livery competions any more. They just dont see the point of putting days of work into a complex, custom 3 colour Apached camoflage pattern when the see winning entries are indistinguishable from t he default one. I produce skins for several prominent content creators, official campaign makers and third parties. i know many others pixel-pushers that do. We all would have liked the oppertunity to contribute to what we all spend countless hours on, day in, day out. You missed another opeprtunity, ED, another missed oppertunity. Sad times.

Hi, I have just uploaded my version of the Spirit of Goldsboro - it has all new hi-res decals in true 4K and is as accurate as i can get it i believe.

Some teasers.....progress is slow, but hoping it comes together and is something special...

Hey everyone, here is my AH64D (Royal Navy AH1) livery, "Wildcat" I hope you like it ! https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322489/ null

Did you ever get this sorted mate? That's pretty slick!

Come on ED, do it!!

Hi MadMaxter, ive been working on some skins for the T45 - its a lovely little plane, wel ldone - but i cant seem to edit t he Roughmets - the default roughness maps in the textures folder cannot be edited, only replaced? Id like to be able to make changes to the roughmets on my liveries (RAF hawks were not very shiny!) but i can only replce the default texture, which will change every livery....is that correct? ive tried everything i cna think of....Thanks for your help!

I have done the Mig29 one it is on user files by "narked_fish" I will do more when I get time

I'm doing a totally new Killer Bee as as side project and might squeeze them in afterwards

You can drag and drop the shark mouth layers from the old model into the C2 with no problems. As the noseart is not copyrighted I would suggest that you trace the outline of the mouth you are looking for from an existing freeware skin and onto a new layer.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315610/ the Mirage!

Deffo, it cant be that much of a technical challenge?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IdHjfPrZQ4baWGum84uz2cuh5IULHqMz/view?usp=sharing This is a historical tribute livery, Swedish Airforce from 1950. it was painted onto the last propeller driven fighters, the J22, before the arrival of the mighty Draken and Viggen before Squadron F3 was stood down and its home base became home to the Swedish Airforce Museum.

The VF-6 fighting Six. This scheme is a tribute and commemoration of the airmen on both sides that fought in the Pacific theatre in WW2. Lt. Alex Vraicu achieved 19 kills in his Grumman F6 while flying in VF6 - the Fighting Six. After a number of name changes to US Navy squadrons in and after WW2, VF6 ended up being VF3 and later, VF31 - The Tomcatters. So the F6 that fought in the Battle of The Philippine Sea could be considered to be both a technical, and spiritual granddaddy to the F14 Tomcat that flew in VF31, the last unit to fly the Tomcat. The actual F6 Hellcat "WHITE 19" still flies to this day, and is owned, and flown, by none other than Nick Grey - of Eagle Dynamics https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wkboQXXVbuw6POIbwqZPGkXr_Uyi1dnd?usp=sharing

It's already up my friend!

The brand new F16 paint scheme from Forth Worth, the 457th FS 75th Anniversary bird will soon be available for download from the ED website User Files area. Stunning scheme, thanks to Caulun Belcher https://www.instagram.com/txavgeek/?hl=en for the amazing photos and Thomas Vercauteren for the equally awesome screenshots!!

I'm just about to upload the 75th anniversary scheme to user files

Hi, you can delete the tail codes and anything else from the template. Have you got the F15C texture template from the DCS downloads section?