[max_thehitman]

THanks for the kind words all, yet what I really need are suggestions and criticisms to get it looking right not just passable.

Thanks again,

K2

To really be "looking right" as you said, you will have to go to the original airplane , photograph it about
a 1000 times and then go to your PC-photoshop, slice every single image and make a skin out of it.
A photoreal skin.
But that is impossible.
SO your best bet is to do what you just did. It looks good as it is.

You want more suggestions ?...
Paint chips where there is something rubbing against it. Friction creates the paint to chip. So, think of
places where that happens on an aircraft.... flaps moving ... wheel doors opening and closing... cockpit canopy sliding
back and forth.... all kinds of doors being opened and paint chipping in and around the edges.
But sometimes these details will not be noticeable by people using your skin.
I know, I have done quite a few skins already and no one has said they liked those details. I even added little details in some areas of the aircraft where you see a hand-print from a greasy-mecaniques hands near the engine or near the ammunition/guns doors. He put his greasy hands on the airplane and forgot to clean it ! hock: LOL
These are all very nice details that we like to add to OUR skins, but sometimes ONLY WE know they are
there and its our "special skin", it is our art, but no one else will notice these things.

Let me ask you, did YOU EVER LOOK inside the wheel doors when the aircraft has the landing gear down?
I bet you never looked in there.
But even I have gone as far as making that area of a skin to look nice.
Because only a crazy artist like me looks at ALL the airplanes details including the little holes underneath
the airplane or wheel wells. But that is only me. I am a crazy artist. I like seeing details. But most people
will NOT notice these litle things.
So do not hit your head too hard trying to make the "perfect" skin, because there is not such thing as the perfect skin.
its only a game and what really counts is flying the airplane. If you want the real thing, you might as well go
to a historical museum and ask if you can fly one of their airplanes. LOL :wink:
Like I said before, this skin of your looks great! Its good to go!
Congratulations !