competition ended DCS: P-47D Thunderbolt livery competition

[BoNidle]

"Five by Five" was a P-47D-30-RA flown by Colonel Joe Laughlin, C.O. of the 362nd Fighter Group, 9th Air Force from August 1944 to the end of the war.

 It is depicted as it would have appeared in 1945.

 Laughlin claimed three aerial kills and is credited with sinking a German Light Cruiser in Brest harbour on the 25th
August 1944.

 

Notes:

The cowling access catches have been reduced to the correct amount: twelve rather than the 26(!) depicted on the template, and are now correctly orientated to the normal map.
The front cowling panel line has also been moved rearwards to its correct location.
The cowling rivets have been correctly aligned to the NM and the superflous rivets (a lot of them) erased.
(There are far too many rivets modelled on the NM and drawn on the cowling area, about two thirds should be removed.)

 

The Swastika victory symbols are deliberately reversed as they were on the actual aircraft. Why did he have them painted this way you ask? Don't know.

The aircraft serial number in the data block has the last three digits unevenly applied. Again this has been done
deliberately as they were applied this way on Laughlins' aircraft.

 

I have also drawn all the art including the "Dumbo" noseart and replaced the maintenance stenciling with a more accurate font and corrected spelling errors.

 

Download: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315175/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barrett_g]

That’s a lot of work BoNidle!  That’s awesome!  It looks great!

[Brigg]

Smacked it out the park again @BoNidle. She looks insanely good 

 

Are you going to update all the skins you have done with the official template?

[danperin]

@BoNidle Beautiful work, mate! 

[Sprool]

12 hours ago, BoNidle said:

The Swastika victory symbols are deliberately reversed as they were on the actual aircraft. Why did he have them painted this way you ask? Don't know

Great work on the skin! This is the sign of good fortune and prosperity in India, (not sure about elsewhere) I was a bit shocked when I first travelled there to see backwards-swastikas painted on the sides of walls and buildings, and gateways to factories.

Edited February 20, 2021 by Sprool

[mambroz]

My entry "Domino" is a two tone fictional livery. "Domino" on User Files.

 

[danperin]

@mambroz I like it a lot!

[Schwarzfeld]

I'm about 99.9% certain my fictional skin shown below is totally inappropriate for inclusion as a stock skin and fairly certain this will trigger some folks for "mildly adult content" but because it was just for fun and I had a good time making it, I figured I might as well clown around some more and post it here where it stands pretty much no chance of winning, buuuuuut because I can... (I think, lol), here it is. 

Totally fictional art-heavy livery where I played with PBR roughmets to make the artwork "multi layer/multi material" so that it "pops" with depth as the acft is moved around in lighting conditions. My apologies in advance to anyone who finds this objectionable, I understand if my post gets deleted... but why not... here ya go!

Skin location on User Files: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315196/

[scorch71]

WIP 

[Tintin]

 

Hello everyone
This is my participation.

Good flight

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315213/

[mambroz]

The "Pea Shooter" fictional livery. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315217/

 

[sadjad-vosoul]

Greetings 

I just noticed the Normal file, Engine cover section is not matched with some lines and latches in defuse file 

I checked with Real Pictures , the Normal mapping is Correct , defuse needs correction !

Please Confirm that if i am Wrong ! many thanks @BIGNEWY

 

ISAAC

Edited February 22, 2021 by sadjad-vosoul

[BIGNEWY]

I will mention it to the team.

 

thank you

[311Gryphon]

On 2/17/2021 at 2:10 PM, BSantos said:

 

 

 

I've actually been working on this same skin...but I'm only about 25% done at this point and yours looks amazing!  Good job and good luck!

[sadjad-vosoul]

Corrected and More accurate Rivets and Lines Layers for Official Template 

After checking twice with Normal Map file and real Pictures , i matched the lines and rivets on engine covers.

Download Link (Google Drive) :CLICK HERE

Comparison:

RESULT :

Installation : Download the layers and Paste them to template 

Correct Position :

 

I hope i could help  @BIGNEWY

 

ISAAC

[danperin]

@sadjad-vosoul

 

Thank you for sharing this, mate!

 

Did this exact same adjustment this weekend and posted comparison screenshots on my candidate submissions

 

Cheers

Edited February 22, 2021 by danperin

[danperin]

My submission #3

 

UPDATED VERSION (FINAL)

 

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt - P-47D-28 JNA Yugoslavian Air Force - Code 13056

 

Download link: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315242/

 

Obs.: Added a Generic version and changed some key details today, 5th of march.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2021 by danperin

[Spooky32]

"Tallahassee Lassie" 

Painted in the colours of the "Tallahassee Lassie," flown by Seattle-born Colonel Ralph C. Jenkins.

He led the 510th Fighter Squadron, initially in England and later all the way through Europe to Germany at the end of WWII. Colonel Jenkins may be the pilot who attacked the staff car of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, wounding the German commander.

 

Big thankyou to @danperin for some really useful advice and tips for improving my skin - I now have a more accurate font for the 2ZT registration, and have also made some other tweaks to the skin and roughmet.

 

 

Download: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315192/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by Spooky32
Updated skin

[Tintin]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315244/

 

 

 

[Warlord64]

Hi Guys

Here is a my submission for the contest.

P-47D "OH JOHNNIE" Flown by Lt Raymond Knight of 346th FS, 350th FG , Italy 1945. 

I have Re- uploaded this skin using the Official ED Template

Thanks

Keith

DOWNLOAD HERE:  https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3312126/

[danperin]

Very unique paint scheme my old friend! Love it! 

[Warlord64]

1 minute ago, danperin said:

Very unique paint scheme my old friend! Love it! 

Thanks a lot Buddy and thank You for recommending Me to enter the contest.

Regards

Keith

[Santus]

On 2/22/2021 at 2:27 PM, BIGNEWY said:

I will mention it to the team.

 

thank you

 

Hello @BIGNEWY
Any response to this? Are we to receive an official fix or should we use @sadjad-vosoul solution for our submissions?
thank you

[Sydy]

14 hours ago, Santus said:

 

Hello @BIGNEWY
Any response to this? Are we to receive an official fix or should we use @sadjad-vosoul solution for our submissions?
thank you

 

Hi Santus,

 

I personally decided to use the official template (15Feb21), but checked the real latches and they are indeed different. I edited the official template with the proposed fix. @sadjad-vosoul did an outstanding job and I double checked it with the blue prints and real photos. I already fixed my liveries (all 33 of them), but I will only uploaded it on the beginning of march so I do not annoy people.

 

These are my 2 cents about it.

 

Kudos to@sadjad-vosoul!!!

 

Good luck and all the best,

 

Sydy

Edited February 24, 2021 by Sydy

[Santus]

Hey there @Sydy

I am well aware that @sadjad-vosoul effort fixes the issue and kudos to him indeed, both for noticing and fixing, but since this is a competition, I would like to know the official take on the subject and avoid doing the same work more than once.

 

Cheers and good luck to you too.