506th Fighter Group - Mustang Units of the Pacific War

[CHSubZero]

Mustang Units of the Pacific War

 

Download

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2828272/

 

Release Notes

v06: Roughness Metallic layer redone for DCS 2.5.4

v05: PBR Ambient Occlusion layer optimized

v04: Roughness Metal layers completely redone. Tested with DCS 2.2.0

v03: Planes MEATBALL and SHANGHAI LIL added, custom pilot and patch textures added

v02: THE ENCHANTRESS added

v01: FIGHTING LADY added

 

FIGHTING LADY, 44-72570

Flown by Lt. Ralph S. Gardner and 2nd Lt. Chester Jatczak, 457th FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

THE ENCHANTRESS, 44-72671

Flown by 2nd Lt. William Saks, 457th FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

SHANGHAI LIL, 44-72588

Flown by 1st Lts. Edward J Linfante and Darrell S Bash, 462nd FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

MEATBALL, 44-72505

Flown by Lts. Ed Balhorn and Steve Treacy, 462nd FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

 

Edited February 22, 2019 by CHSubZero

[Automan]

I've modified USAAF stencil for you.

PNG format:

[KIZIR_77]

Hi Dom,

 

Maybe this one will serve you.

Very nice project, looking forward to see the final product. :) +

[CHSubZero]

v01 released, please find details in 1st post

[Automan]

Fantastic work, do you need 528 for "The Enchantress" too?

[CHSubZero]

Fantastic work, do you need 528 for "The Enchantress" too?

 

Would be great :)

 

THE ENCHANTRESS, 44-72671

Flown by 2nd Lt. William Saks, 457th FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

[Automan]

Here we go:

 

A bit more spaced, from what I see the fonts used in Pacific Mustang were not standard :D

 

[CHSubZero]

A bit more spaced, from what I see the fonts used in Pacific Mustang were not standard :D

 

Thx and yeah, they are sometimes different in the same squadron and also on the same plane (port and starboard)...

[CHSubZero]

v02 uploaded. Please find details in 1st post

[Art-J]

My oh my. Up to that point, Tom Weiss was the only man who did a bunch of excellent Pacific and CBI skins for the Pony. Nice to see some competition, finally, especially based on this superior custom template. Keep up the good work!

 

P.S. - wouldn't mind some 'Stang with Luzon campaign style invasion stripes, 'cause nobody did these!

[LcSummers]

Nice skins Zero!

 

I love skins from PTO.

 

Thank you

[CHSubZero]

Thx for the kind feedback! I've planned to add 4 or 5 more PTO or CBI Mustangs to this skin pack :)

[DoomEngine]

Stellar work, as usual! :thumbup:

[CHSubZero]

A pilot of the 457th Fighter Squadron is helping out the new guy of the 462nd Fighter Squadron

by showing him the surroundings :D

 

SHANGHAI LIL, 44-72588

Flown by 1st Lts Edward J Linfante and Darrell S Bash, 462nd FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

[DoomEngine]

that is AMAZING

 

EDIT- I have a soft spot for the Pacific theatre- my grandfather served as a radio operator USMC at Guadalcanal. 40 years later I would take the the trials at Parris Island. Semper Fi.

Edited August 12, 2017 by DoomEngine
Nostalgia

[LcSummers]

This is what i was thinking about seeing your skins.

After some green it would be nice to see some yellow.

 

And bam, the 462nd FS.

 

Great, another beautiful ac and skin:)

[CHSubZero]

I'll upload the full pack very soon

[CHSubZero]

Update

 

Release Notes

v03: Planes MEATBALL and SHANGHAI LIL added, custom pilot and patch textures added

 

SHANGHAI LIL, 44-72588

Flown by 1st Lts. Edward J Linfante and Darrell S Bash, 462nd FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

MEATBALL, 44-72505

Flown by Lts. Ed Balhorn and Steve Treacy, 462nd FS, 506th FG, 20th AF

Based at North Field, Iwo Jima, June 1945

 

Download

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2828272/

 

[uscstaylor]

Keep em going Sub..Nice work mate

[LcSummers]

Love them:)

 

Thanks for sharing these ladies:)

[CHSubZero]

Update

v04 uploaded: Roughness Metal layer completely redone

 

With v05 I'll update the wrong stencil fonts :) and maybe I'll add a bit blue to the green and yellow pack.

Let's see what I can research :)

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2828272/

 

[Art-J]

Absolutely love the new roughmet map, scratches on the wings are also a nice addition - though maybe too upscaled and located even on surfaces where there shouldn't be any. On the same subject of weathering, though, sorry, but I cannot avoid noticing that you're starting to seriously overdo it.

 

Pre-shading on panel lines, already a bit on the too strong side before, reached parody levels now, especially on wings and empennage. Exhaust stains look grotesque as well. Both aspects are puzzling when compared to various photos of the real Iwo Jima Mustangs, examples of which you posted yourself on the first page :D.

 

Being ex-scale modeller of PTO/CBI planes I remember old times when I also had this fetish and thought the dirtier everything looked the more "realistic" the weathering was, shading and staining all lines everywhere like an idiot. Needless to say, in the end it was anything but.

 

For one of the best collections of reference pics of Iwo Mustangs, I recommend sub-galleries here:

http://www.7thfighter.com/album/index.php/

 

Cheers.

[CHSubZero]

Yeah I know :) I‘m still trying things out with PBR. I‘ll change them for sure somehow

[Art-J]

Just for the record, I use gamma 1.5-1.6, which tends to make black things more black :D. Maybe they're not so apparent for you If you use higher values.

 

With all DCS colours & saturations going full retard after 2.2 update, God only knows what tone mapping fixes the 2.5 will bring anyway. Let's wait and see.

[CHSubZero]

v6 uploaded: Roughness Metallic layer redone for DCS 2.5.4

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2828272/