WIP Skins

[VH-Rock]

I don't see the point in starting a new thread for each skin that I do, that will only lead to cluttering up the forums and making it harder for users to find what they want, so I though I would start a threat where I will post all of my new repaints. I've been painting in Photoshop for years, and for the last couple of years I part founded and built a skins website for the IL-2 series. That site is going to remain for IL-2 and I will be looking for a new place to upload my work to.

 

Anyway, I will keep a running list in this first post with a screenshot and link to each of my skins. Progress will be posted as the thread develops.

 

Anyway, Here we go:

 

P-51D - Live Bait N5482V

 

 

Available Here!

 

P-51D - Excalibur N151W

 

 

Available Here!l

 

P-51D - Six Shooter

 

 

Available Here!l

 

TF-51D - Little ITE

 

 

Available Here!

 

P-51D - Geraldine

 

 

Available Here!l

 

P-51D - Twilight Tear

 

 

Available Here!

 

P-51D - Gunfighter

 

Available Here!

• I must extend my thanks to my friends Ali Fish, who explained the Specular textures to me, and Blaze who helped me get set up with dds textures.
  

 

• All skins here will eventually be made public when I am happy with them
  

The "To Do" list:

 

1. Glamorous Gal
   
2. Happy Jack's Go Buggy
   

I will take requests, but I will not guarantee doing them and I may not be the quickest. What I will say, is that when I skin, I try to get them as accurate as possible which may take a little more time.

Edited February 3, 2013 by VH-Rock

[SimFreak]

Fancy!

[VH-Rock]

Added image of 6 shooter. Need to down down the reflectiveness of the blue wings and a few other SPEC edits :)

[Tailspin45]

I took the pilot of Wee Willie (the first) for a ride in our SNJ-4. He was an active flight instructor at our field (KCRQ), but it had been a while since he'd flown anything bigger than a Citabria. But he hadn't forgotten anything, and showed me a thing or two!

 

You'll find a short tribute to Calvert ("Lowell") Williams, some details about flying a '51 we don't have to worry about thanks to the Pause button, and even a couple of signs in the background for our biplane, warbird, and air combat business at http://www.michaelmccafferty.com/Lowell.htm

 

Lowell shot down an Me-109, the first victory for the famous 357th on 20 February 1944 flying P-51B 43-6448 (G4-U Wee Willie).

http://www.spitfireperformance.com/mustang/combat-reports/357-williams-24april44.jpg

 

Lowell was one of the orginal "Yoxford Boys" at Leiston Air Field, and also had a confirmed ME-262 kill. He was strafing an airfield in Wee Willie when he saw a 262 taking off and shot it down right after take off. If I remember correctly he had a total of 4 victories to his credit.

 

Lots more 357th stuff at http://www.cebudanderson.com/

Edited June 3, 2012 by Tailspin45

[VH-Rock]

Thanks for the info and links Tailspin :)

[Tailspin45]

Since I'm recalling fond history, you may be interested to know that Shipley started out at Chester County Airport (40N) west of Philadelphia. When our flightseeing business was just one 1929 Travel Air biplane we roosted there, too, until the weather forced us to move to San Diego.

 

If I remember correctly he learned to fly in a T6 that he bought before he could fly it. It wasn't long until he built his own hangar and dressed it with an immaculate P-51 and an American Flag so huge he asked the local fire department to bring their ladder truck to help him hang it. It also had a sound system that would easily make it seem like a P-51 was flying through the hangar when he cranked it up to support video he played on the first flat screen TV I'd ever seen.

 

He was (is?) in the video business, so he put together an awesome flick combining WW2 footage with film and video taken while his aircraft was being restored, including the first flight. Sure wish it was on YouTube because it had some wonderful shots of the bird when it was just pieces, and was a lovely combination of sights and sounds old and new.

 

We moved West, and our paths crossed again when he flew his Corsair off a carrier as part of the Pearl Harbor commemoration events in 2001. There are some shots of him with an F/A-18 flying on his wing, and one of them is hanging on my wall here in the office, given to me by the Hornet pilot, who flew air combat for us in his time off.

 

We ended up with the largest and oldest such flying business in the US after 16 years, but sold it in 2006 as the economic crisis loomed. Meanwhile Ed started the Six of Diamonds, decided he wanted to fly something really big and got a 747 type rating and then a job with Atlas just for the challenge in it...and you undoubtedly know the rest of his incredible success story. Makes what we acheived seem like an amateur effort.

 

Gonna take some digging, but I think I have some pictures of him in his first T6. If I do I'll add it here someplace, for nostalgia sake.

Edited June 4, 2012 by Tailspin45

[VH-Rock]

I'd love to see the pics if you can find them Tailspin, I've heard of the 6 of diamonds, and seen a couple of pictures, but I really know very little about the the early days of Jim and Ed's flying. I've spoken to them in person on quite a few occasions, but there's always so much to ask and so little time. Isn't Jim still based at 40N with his Mustangs, Spitfire, 2 SNJ's and a Cub?

[Tailspin45]

Isn't Jim still based at 40N with his Mustangs, Spitfire, 2 SNJ's and a Cub?

 

He wasn't there when we were based there. I think he was at North Phily or maybe even over in NJ someplace.

 

Which reminds me, and it almost brings tears to my eyes to recall it, one of my most memorable aviation experiences was Jim and Ed dogfighting overhead, going at it hammer and tongs, from the sounds of things. I looked in vain to find them above the scattered clouds, but finally just closed my eyes and listened...and wondered how many others had heard that sound and under what circumstances. It was like listening to a requiem for the musicians from many nations who died while creating beautiful music.

 

Which (oddly) reminds me, I had once before heard the sound of a Merlin used like that, but no game, it was applied in anger. I was only 10, standing on a street corner in San Jose, Costa Rica, outside the Pan American Airlines office. Dad was inside buying tickets to Guatemala (he was a missionary, but there are many stories that read like CIA hi-jinks) and Mom and I were waiting outside. I heard the unmistakable tune of a Merlin, saw the equally unmistakable silhouette of a Mustang, and was startled when the front of a government building across the street erupted in shards of glass and concrete dust. People stopped, looked and just kept walking. It was surreal, in slow motion.

 

The aircraft (Honduranian we later found out) was strafing the building! With real bullets! "P-51 Cadillac of The Skies!" hadn't been coined yet, but that was close to what I was thinking. Mom ducked, pushed me behind her, and I desperately fought to see around her skirts. I'd memorized ever detail in the 1954 edition of "Aircraft of The World," and I didn't want to miss a second of my own private demonstration of WW2 aircraft in action!

 

Which, since I'm waxing nostalgic, and we're already way off thread, reminds me of a tale my Dad told me of a similar striking sound, never forgotten. He was in New Guinea somewhere, standing in a line amidst tents and jeeps and dirt and heat and the smell of latrines, where they burned the shit to get rid of it, so he could get his ration of cigarettes (he didn't smoke—mesothelioma from Navy shipyard asbestos where he worked as a teenager killed him instead—but the butts were valuable for trading), and he heard a crescendo of inline engines winding up. Looking up, he saw a P-38 arcing down, down, down out of the Air Corps burning blue, and watched it plow headlong into the line of men ahead of him, killing dozens of them. He told the story in a matter of fact way, as you do when years wear off painful reality, but he was so casual about the story I almost wondered if it was true.

 

Years, lives, pass. I'm sitting on the patio of a hotel on Maui eating brunch with my new (pilot) wife, and a fellow at a neighboring table comments on my warbird Hawaiian shirt. Says he flew A-20s in the Pacific. I said, really, New Guinea, my dad was in Nadzab? He said, yeah, I was there, watched a P-38 plow into a line of guys who were waiting for cigarettes, Lucky I didn't smoke!

 

Asked his name and email, never found it when we got home.

Edited June 4, 2012 by Tailspin45

[VH-Rock]

Status Updated, new skin added. To be released soon :)

[speckfire]

Great work !

[VH-Rock]

Skins now available! More coming soon :)

[derelor]

Skins now available! More coming soon :)

Thank you!

[Spetz]

Excellent work, I'll DL them tonight. Fast question, how do you install these..is MODMAN available for DCS World now?

[VH-Rock]

Hi mate,

 

Go the Eagle Dynamics/DCS World/Bazar/Liveries/P-51D

 

Open the .rar files and extract the folders into this directory :)

 

Thanks for downloading

[PA_Hector]

Great work, thk !

[VH-Rock]

A new project...

 

 

 

 

 

[kyletiernan]

A new project...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks incredible!

[VBS_Nero]

:thumbup:bravo!!!

[VH-Rock]

Cheers guys, appreciate the comments :) Release soon (along with Six Shooter)

[VH-Rock]

Rolled here out of the paint booth this morning for a photo shoot of the finished airctaft:

 

 

After the roll out, we took her up on a test flight and formed up with a camera ship for some A2A photography:

 

 

My test pilot seemed pleased with the result and so posed for photos after landing:

 

 

Uploading to ED site now. Hopefully available soon.

[Double_D]

Rolled here out of the paint booth this morning for a photo shoot of the finished airctaft:

 

 

After the roll out, we took her up on a test flight and formed up with a camera ship for some A2A photography:

 

 

My test pilot seemed pleased with the result and so posed for photos after landing:

 

 

Uploading to ED site now. Hopefully available soon.

 

Nice test flight...:thumbup:

[VH-Rock]

Cheers Wolf! :)

 

Six Shooter and Geraldine have now been uploaded to http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com in the userfiles area. I will post links when the downloads have been approved.

[VH-Rock]

Geraldine and 6 Shooter now available in first post.

[Nirvi]

Great skins, thank you!:thumbup:

[bobd]

Beautiful work. Would love to see Chuck Yeager's "Glamorous Glen III"