[photos] Weathered A-10C in progress

[Ryan Barnes]

UPDATE 6-23-14 Get the HD weathered skin HERE

 

 

 

I'm currently working on my own weathered A-10c skin. It features an all gray base with streaks from each fastener as you see on many "dirty" aircraft in real life. I think it really adds to the realism effect. Very time consuming process to airbrush each and every rivet and screw!

 

 

Here you can see the difference between the stock wing and my weathered wing and fuselage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 23, 2014 by Ryan Barnes

[Tone71]

Great work! Looks super-cool!

[OttoPus]

Amazing. What about removing some plastic cover from engines? (in the first shot that material looks like everything but metal)

[Mainstay]

Looks very nice i like my planes as heavy weathered as possible. How long till you finish her?

[Ryan Barnes]

Amazing. What about removing some plastic cover from engines? (in the first shot that material looks like everything but metal)

 

I haven't worked on the engines yet, I'll see what I can do with those.

[Ryan Barnes]

Looks very nice i like my planes as heavy weathered as possible. How long till you finish her?

 

I'm plugging away at it as I have time, but there must be 10,000 rivets in this thing. Everywhere I look there seems to be an opportunity to add some texture, so it's getting quite involved. Like the more detailed you try to make it, the more the less detailed parts stand out so I have a lot of work left. When it's done I'll make it available for download. Hopefully soon.

[OttoPus]

I haven't worked on the engines yet, I'll see what I can do with those.

 

I was just joking, I think that material reaction to light does not depend from skins. I can be very wrong though.

[Ryan Barnes]

You're right, it is a global setting. It's got to be in a lua file somewhere we can edit.

[Ryan Barnes]

I got some more work on the wing done. I weathered the flaps and ailerons, as well as the rest of the rivets. The left wing is nearly finished now. Some tweaking left to do.

 

ORIGINAL

 

 

 

WEATHERED

 

 

 

I also completed some work to the gun, nose, and fuselage concerning accumulation of grit from the GAU.

 

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AFTER

 

 

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[eFirehawk]

Excellent work so far! In all the skins I've made I've just increased the opacity and adjusted the curves of the dirt and weathering layers of the template, but I always had the feeling it wasn't nearly enough :) I really like what you've done in the area behind the canon, looks fantastic! :thumbup:

[Mike Busutil]

Excellent work Ryan! She is a work horse and should be dirty :D

[Ryan Barnes]

Here you can see what a difference some subtle shading makes. Compare the intake of the left engine with the original on the right.

 

 

 

And both done...

 

 

The interior on the exhaust I thought was too illuminated...

 

 

A little darker...

 

Fixed the inside of the landing gear bays as well...

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AFTER

 

 

It's lots of small changes like this that trick your brain into imagining more realism.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Ryan Barnes

[Mike Busutil]

NICE!!!! She's looking REAL good Ryan!

[-Rudel-]

As a tip, run an eraser over some of the rivet streaks. Not all of them need it.

 

[Ryan Barnes]

After all of the rivets are done, I will go back and selectively lighten some of them. I prefer them with a more uniform appearance though. To me, when the streaks are too random it looks more like there is a leak at that rivet. But with more uniform coverage, the appearance is as if the dirty air the wing is flying through caused the streaking instead. Such as would happen when flying your hog through the polluted air of Desert Storm with all the oil well fires. :)

[Cali]

Sierra Hotel! That is some nice work! Brings back memories when I worked on them in Alaska.

[Mainstay]

Very nice work

[Skulleader]

Hello,

 

WOW great work, it's very awesome !!!

Congratulation, Skull.

[trindade]

Really cool effects!

[Skulleader]

Ryan, do you know when your incredible work will be available because I really love these textures...

 

Thanks again and congratulation, Skull.

[Ryan Barnes]

Well the short answer is "Not until I'm happy with them" and I'm kinda picky about how it looks.

 

I can't say exactly when because I'm just doing it in my spare time but I hope to have something in the next couple weeks.

[NineLine]

Very nice work, looking forward to seeing the final results.

[Skulleader]

Well the short answer is "Not until I'm happy with them" and I'm kinda picky about how it looks.

Hello Ryan,

 

Thanks for your answer, I can wait because I want the best...

Bye and thanks again, Skull.

[Andi31]

Well the short answer is "Not until I'm happy with them" and I'm kinda picky about how it looks.

 

I can't say exactly when because I'm just doing it in my spare time but I hope to have something in the next couple weeks.

 

Any news/progress update? :)

[Mike Busutil]

Ryan,

 

I have a request....

 

I have always thought my A-10 needed an American flag in the cockpit....

 

 

 

 

Do able?