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A rework of the VF-14 'Tophatters' with WW 'nose-art' ....;) .....and teeth.

Two more submitted here...;) Breitling.... ....has shiny bits...;) And.... Red Bull...

These two have been submitted here...;) Half Camo....'Vulcan style'... Or... Full Camoflage .... 'Vulcan style'...

Another one....early days....:) Edit.....done...;)

This one's done.... ...time to do some more uploads...;) ...again with the chrome window trim....on black contrast.

Rework of the old Blue Angels......;)

And this Breitling one looks about done...got carried away with 'chrome' bits....;)

Next one to upload should be this one....based off the Avro Vulcan graphics... 2 vers...one with half camo...and this one with 'full' ....though it's kinda odd why you'd have the pattern on the US ....unless you planned to land it inverted...;)

I expected it might....it did come from a 29 afterall...;) Now if someone could come up with correct text for 'Avenger team' or similar ....that wasn't a babelfish "my hovercrafts is full of jellied eels" then I'd be happy to alter it/them...;) None of these are 'quite right'... - Победа - Victory - К Победе - To Victory

Glad you guys are liking them. I'm still finding ways to improve the layer make-up ... latest trick was to remove the 'Danger Jet intake' graphics onto their own layer so as to have options for white or red . Every now and then I confuse myself....doubling up of texts....;) Edit.....eagles' eyes and a shark's mouth don't make a lot of sense....so a little rework...;)

I'm still working on 'mastering the templates' .... found a few more bits to per-pixel align. Hopefully I can apply some logic to the layer choices and upload a 'conservative' version of it as a Paintkit for others to mess with....;)

Spent 'all day' trying to get some teeth to look right...;)

Meanwhile....back at the ranch...a S/F one...'SHADO 1' from UFO ....;) I'll see what I can do with Star Wars/Trek inspirations...;)

And another two of these critters styled on P-51s... Princess Elizabeth... And Miss Suzi Q.

These two have been submitted...both styled on P51 Mustang aircraft... Boo-Man Choo... Hell-er Bust.

These two have now been submitted here.... both variations of the Mig-29 Display team "Swifts" ...;)

Managed to get the bottom thin blue lines on with less dramas...so it's as good as done...;)

A straight line with 5 corners.... ...to get that thin line on top...6 straight lines with 5 bends in it.....now what's the bet it won't mirror to the other side without some swearing? ...;) Edit...Yep...needed a bit....but after half a day of tinkering it's getting closer...;)

dvj ...those screenies look half-way decent....can't possibly have been my skin...;) Meanwhile....here's why the stripe causes so much grief....the thin blue line above has one bend in it...at the wingfold...yet forward of that the line clearly isn't straight - compared with the thick line. I'll need to dog-leg the thin line just to give the white in between a chance to be even...;)

Tommy...yes, even at 4096 you're chasing single pixels in an attempt to get the stripe looking even remotely right. The model does 'interesting' things shape-wise along that edge...;) Of course...now that I'm getting my head around this stripe I'll have to look at the T'birds' paint again....and see if I can't do the more 'correct' nose striping...;)

The leading edges at the wingfold do odd things....one reason I shied away from the edge striping in the past...so that 'lump' in the blue will take a bit of fudging to hide...;)

I'm having a go at the blue/white U2 style....early days...as I need to do the stripe around the edge from scratch...which means it needs aligning on 6 separate image sections.

OK...it didn't take long to run the old NASA paint through the 'mill' with the improved detailing... Before... ...and After.

These 3 have been submitted here ...;) Before having a go at the blue/white vers I'll see how a rework of the old NASA uploads goes...;)

Probably the main difference with those older NASA vers already uploaded is the 'plainer' metal finish. I could rework them and add the extra text/details....and see how they look...;) The first ones were done per-pixel...slow and painful to alter....since then the squillion layers I set up means things can be changed/improved far more easily. These days they're all at 4096 res with a detail that sees linework as a single pixel width...and even the 'tiny text' is legible . I added cannon ports and gas exhaust vents...and even little external gauges for hydraulics etc just to 'justify' the high resolution - none of which is real or even likely ....but adding cannon effects just makes things more 'fun'...;) There's probably a few more Demo Teams I could hunt down....they tend to have sexy graphics ...;) Currently it's all done with 2 PSDs ....the main is 363meg and the alphas are in their own at 246meg.