P47 Razorback Paintkit

[Scott - A2A]

INSTRUCTIONS:
This is the official paint kit is for use with A2A Simulations “Wings of Power 3 P-47 Razorback (FSX Only).”

This paint kit was created using Adobe PhotoShop 7.01. We cannot guarantee that it will work with PaintShop Pro or Gimp.
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The P-47 rear fuselage suffers from quite a lot of texture mapping problems. This will effect how numbers and letter codes will look on your P-47 fuselage sides. The paint kit includes guides to help you ensure this warping is not noticed. Also look at the default paints included with your P-47 to see how the finished codes should look.
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This paint kit has been supplied freeware and is therefore to be used to create skins for the Wings of POWER 3: P47 Razorback without charge.

These files are to be used on the understanding that they are at the risk of the user and we take no responsibility for any loss of existing files or any other damage that may occur to your computer by the use of these files.
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Paintkit by Martin Catney.

[rsgunner]

The paint kit is outstanding. A lot of work went into that alone.

Russ

[Lewis - A2A]

Hey martyn,

How do I use the paint kit fully.

What I mean is you have included a layered alpha and that's got me a bit confused. I have updated my Halesworth markings to the latest retail paint kit from the aplha/beta one. Now before I am not sure how the alpha works as its a separate .psd? Does this want copying in a full layer to the normal .psd and selecting during the alpha creation stage?

[Lewis - A2A]

Ok just about got the hang of it, here are two WIP,

one is Halesworth and the other was the first profile google image search showed.

First up is the Halesworth Bird that goes brilliantly with Ian's Halesworth Scenery located on his site;
http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/node



Next up is this representation of Lt. Harold G. Stalnaker, a WWII P-47D Thunderbolt pilot killed during the Battle of the Bulge, on 23 December 1944.


Ill get finished soon.

[Lewis - A2A]

Waaaaaay too much fun flying and painting, cheers martyn the kits is brilliant!

[techy111]

Nicely done Lew...looking great.....a little early WIP from me on one repaint.....still trying to line up and resize different mapping areas for the paint....




I know BIG STUD should be angled 45 degrees the other way...i'm working on it.....

Tony

[swarovski]

Lewis could I ask what Duxford scenery that is in one of the images above?

Thanks for any info.

[Lewis - A2A]

It's DaveG's beta version. And its damn good;



http://daveg.cbfsim.org/beta/DuxfordX.zip

[Fodda]

Nice one Lewis... Captured P47! Excellent idea. How about some more RAF repaints please? Would love to see a few.

[Lewis - A2A]

Once this captured one is done I can look into some RAF ones, but the Luftwaffe one may take me a bit of time as the lettering on the fuse is playing silly bugger and I need to create my own guides.

[Fodda]

Well, don't rush it, I've still not bought the 47 yet. Soon, though... Sooon...

[CHBTheDoctor]

Hi Lewis,

could you check something for me ?

In Gimp as well as in Photoshop Elements 7.0 there is no support for layer groups, they are simply not shown.
(may Adobe be blessed with something really itching for this decision )

So could you look for the groups in the P-47 templates and maybe ask Martin to add the group names to the layer names in later paintkits ?

I'll add my text file for the B-377 fuselage so you can see what I mean.

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[sberge84]

Hello there,
I'm new to the whole repainting world, but I just spent the better half of the day repainting this bird in my free trial photoshop 7.0 only to have this program dds converter 2.1 severely blur up the fine details on my nice paintjob. What do you guys use to convert psd files to dds files without the file quality going to poo?? I still have the files, I just need to convert them without losing quality. Can someone help me out? Thanks.

[Lewis - A2A]

No mip-maps

[sberge84]

My God, all day I've been trying to figure that out. It was that easy huh? Thanks a million!! Here is the finished product.