06.05.2010, 20:20
Although according to some of the posts here your skin may not be completely historically accurate, you did an excellent job replicating the paint scheme of the profiles that you had. I like it.
A couple of things you could try sometime would be to blur the mottling on the side slightly so the edge isn't quite so sharp, and apply a texture over top of solid markings rather than lowering opacity to give the impression of wear (I currently use a image of a scratched surface with the dark areas turned to alpha channel as a airbrush tool). Spray it on it's own layer so you can adjust the amount of weathering to your liking.
Different texture layers can dramatically reduce shine.
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It is actually quite possible, if you consider:
1) Luftwaffe pilots stayed in action pretty much continuously unlike their allied counterparts.
2) Many of the German aces began fighting in WW2 in 1939 when it started and continued fighting until 1945 (if they survived) unlike many allied nations that were either over-run by the blitzkrieg in the beginning, or joined the war late. Therefore they were much more experienced than many of their advisories and had much more time to build up a high tally.
3) The really high scoring aces were also fighting against the Russians who began mass producing aircraft (something like 40,000 odd IL2 alone), therefore they also had allot more targets than the allies.
To say the tallies of any airforce, either side, during WW2 were 100% accurate would be naive, but what your proposing insults peoples intelligence.
A couple of things you could try sometime would be to blur the mottling on the side slightly so the edge isn't quite so sharp, and apply a texture over top of solid markings rather than lowering opacity to give the impression of wear (I currently use a image of a scratched surface with the dark areas turned to alpha channel as a airbrush tool). Spray it on it's own layer so you can adjust the amount of weathering to your liking.
Different texture layers can dramatically reduce shine.
Blasph-Mossquitty Wrote:Oh please. What a piece of work and Nazi Propaganda. Good camo scheme, but I'm pretty sure the man only got around 110 kills, and the rest were credited to him by the freaking Nazis' propaganda bull-ogna. There is absolutely no way he came up with 352 victories, unless he got most of them butchering unescorted IL-4s. (he was shot down a multitude of times as well)
Seriously, people, stop worshipping this statue. He may have been the top-scoring ace, but not the finest. The finest ace of the war was either Alexandr Poryshkin or Johnny Johnson, not this fake-ass nazi SOB.
It is actually quite possible, if you consider:
1) Luftwaffe pilots stayed in action pretty much continuously unlike their allied counterparts.
2) Many of the German aces began fighting in WW2 in 1939 when it started and continued fighting until 1945 (if they survived) unlike many allied nations that were either over-run by the blitzkrieg in the beginning, or joined the war late. Therefore they were much more experienced than many of their advisories and had much more time to build up a high tally.
3) The really high scoring aces were also fighting against the Russians who began mass producing aircraft (something like 40,000 odd IL2 alone), therefore they also had allot more targets than the allies.
To say the tallies of any airforce, either side, during WW2 were 100% accurate would be naive, but what your proposing insults peoples intelligence.