7 New Paints for Dino's F-14D

[MenendezDiego]

Mike Durao has asked me to share these WIP with you all. They will be released as a package once specular and bump mapping has been completed.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku2.jpg
VF-31 AJ101

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku1.jpg
VF-31 AJ101

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku3.jpg
VF-31 AJ102

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku4.jpg
VF-31 AJ103

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku5.jpg
VF-213 AJ201

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku6.jpg
VF-213 AJ206

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm206/MenendezDiego2008/zaku7.jpg
VF-213 AJ213

Will keep you all posted on any updates, criticism and/or positive feedback is welcome.

Regards, Diego

[Quicksand]

They are beautiful, Diego. Mike has done some very nice work, indeed!:medals::applause:

[wilycoyote4]

good news :applause::icon29:

[MCDesigns]

:ernae::ernae::ernae:

[GT182]

Beautiful work. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/GT182/Thumbup.gif :applause: :ernae:

[MenendezDiego]

Well guys, sounds like he's figured out the bump mapping. Should be no time at all

[Zaku]

Bump maps are nearly done; I'm just going to wait for the specular-mapped model to come out.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1294/catbump1.jpg

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5353/catbump2.jpg

[GT182]

Zaku, that is lookin sweet! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/GT182/Thumbup.gif

[Railrunner130]

Very nice!!

:icon29:

[Shark]

Very cool! Been flying Dino's F14D a lot! In addition to the new "skins" on my wishlist would be a manual wingsweep capability. :ernae:

[DoyleChris]

What About VF-103

[Zaku]

VF-103 never operated F-14Ds; the only squadrons to use them were VF-2/31/101/213. I'm going to make real high and low-viz schemes for every squadron.

[Wings of Gold]

Someone was doing VF-2. Any progress? Who was it?

Bill

[peter12213]

I just want a low viz puking dogs one then I'm happy!!

[Zaku]

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9094/bountyw.jpg

Line bird in progress; will be released along with the VF-31/VF-213 pack.

[Zaku]

Line bird's done:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5290/bountyline.jpg

VF-101 schemes in progress.

[wilycoyote4]

:applause::running::running:glad to see them, looking forward to release :icon29:

[Zaku]

Hell, at this point I'm just going to include every F-14D scheme.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9652/ad100.jpg

[Zaku]

Also a bonus for any Ace Combat fans:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4179/garuda2.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2194/garudau.jpg

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9213/estcat1.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9576/estcat2.jpg

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8950/estcat3.jpg

[Dino Cattaneo]

Mike, your repaints are looking really nice.
I'm packing the model with specular maps right now (I am trying to mitigate the shading issues on the tails).
Specular effect is subtle, but it is definitely an enhacement.

By the way the new model will not have the "modeled" burner anymore...as the source for that model was lost (file corrupted ...and no backup), so they will be (removable) particle effects.

I'll make a post on my blog once the file is ready.

Dino

[Zaku]

Thanks. I'm still trying to figure out specular mapping anyway, so it'll probably be about a week or two until these are all done. Once I understand it I'll make maps for these textures and get them uploaded.

[Zaku]

Edit: See new topic