[Jaypack44]

Hi all, it's probably a week or two away from being finished, but I thought I'd let you guys know that I'm planning on making a "mega-pack" of generic skins for all models (except the M7s) of the A6M series. I used a lot of the same techniques as on my KI-84 skins, plus some new ones that I recently discovered. The pack will include both marked and unmarked versions of each skin, and there will be at least 1-2 different skins per model. Anyway, here are some screens that show some of the progress:

A6M5:


A6M5a:


A6M5b:


A6M5c:

(I'm planning on toning down some of the chipping on these)


A6M3: (still needs a few color tweaks)









A6M2: (green and different unit markings versions WIP)

[Ace01]

Yes,
Zero is ma fave bird, about time we see some improvements.
We need more Japanese plane mods.

[chas1963]

Nice...

p.s. Maybe you could take a look at the Ki-27 skins (sometime, maybe?)...always felt they could use some work.

[walter_solito]

Hi!

A nice idea!!!

The skins are pretty beautiful!!!

Can I suggest only a little big thing:

What about make without markings skin but with carrier identification stripe?

My best regards!

walter

[Jaypack44]

don't worry, there will be blank and unmarked versions of all of the skins

[walter_solito]

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrGoldfinger]

Yes,
Zero is ma fave bird, about time we see some improvements.
We need more Japanese plane mods.

Yes, something like the B7A, Ki-45, Ki-48 the heavy bombers, like Renzan...

[stansdds]

Looks nice!

[SparrowThree]

Those look great.

[Jaypack44]

Ok all, here's what will hopefully be the last update: I got the early A6Ms finished up, so now I just have a few minor tweaks and it'll all be ready for upload. Once that's done, I plan on doing the A6M7s and a preliminary skin for the new A6M3-22 that's being worked on over at AAA.

After them, I'm not really sure. I'm thinking about either doing some specific zeros, or possibly making some more generics (the generics will be done eventually anyway- I'm planning on doing the A5M4, B5N and B6N (if I can find templates), D3A1, G4M1 and 2, KI-100, KI-46s, and KI-61s, with some other possible ones like the KI-27s and N1K1s. ANyway, that won't be for at least a few weeks, right now I'm concentrating on the Zekes and also my classes- next week is "dead week" and then finals...)

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and now some pics, which I'm sure is what you guys were waiting for

4 different A6M2s at the moment:











there's one more version, but I forgot it when I was making the screens...

Anyway, hope you like them! as always, and comments, compliments, (and especially) constructive criticism are very welcome!