Vultee XP-54 - Texture Artist Needed

[Milton Shupe]

Howdy Good People, :-)

Just finished mapping this (filler project) experimental aircraft for textures and looking for a texture artist willing to put in the time to do textures with a basic paint kit with panel lines and usual noise and grime.

I have reference pics (not many), 3-views, etc to help.

Give me a shout if you are interested.

Thanks

[Mick]

I just read about the XP-54 in an old AAHS Journal!

I'm not very good with panel lines and I'm hopeless with the usual noise and grime. I mostly just change markings and sometimes colors on textures that others create. There are many painters around SOH who are much better than I am at creating textures from scratch.

If nobody else steps forward I could give it a shot. I could probably get the major panel lines, but not the noise and grime, so the plane would look like it just rolled out of the paint shop, not like it must have looked after being flown a few times. I sure hope someone can do better than that! But if not...

[Blackbird686]

Mick --

I would welcome your brushwork on this model, Nothing wrong with a factory fresh version.

BB686

[Milton Shupe]

Mick --

I would welcome your brushwork on this model, Nothing wrong with a factory fresh version.

BB686

Yup, there were only two prototypes. I reckon they were factory fresh, albeit modified dozens of times and a bit raggy looking at times. :-) I am not looking for expert work here; heck, I created this in 9 days, borrowed and mod'd parts from my inventory; bent, banged, and molded into shape. Mike Kelly stepped up last night via Email but I will put this out for anyone who wants to take a shot at this. You have only yourself to please.

[Milton Shupe]

I just read about the XP-54 in an old AAHS Journal!

I'm not very good with panel lines and I'm hopeless with the usual noise and grime. I mostly just change markings and sometimes colors on textures that others create. There are many painters around SOH who are much better than I am at creating textures from scratch.

If nobody else steps forward I could give it a shot. I could probably get the major panel lines, but not the noise and grime, so the plane would look like it just rolled out of the paint shop, not like it must have looked after being flown a few times. I sure hope someone can do better than that! But if not...

Mick, my gosh, you are more particular than I am about this stuff. I'll get a package together for you and Mike and anyone else who wants to take a shot at it. I appreciate your interest and time.

[HorusJ]

Whoa! I never saw this coming! And it was just a few weeks ago I added Jeff Nissen's 54 to my sim.
Happy day!

HorusJ

[Milton Shupe]

Whoa! I never saw this coming! And it was just a few weeks ago I added Jeff Nissen's 54 to my sim.
Happy day!

HorusJ

I could not find a downloadable version of his 54. Anyhow, I wanted a project to use potentially for a video tutorial, although this may not be the best candidate having now struggled through it.
Also, could not find any cockpit pics of this aircraft so I borrowed one from my Republic xp72 project; fit perfectly. :-)

[Milton Shupe]

Vultee made only 2 prototypes of this before it was cancelled: 11210 and 11211.

11210 finally got painted but 211 never did remaining in bare metal.

It was done in by role change (mid-altitude fighter to high-altitude interceptor/pursuit/escort) and failure to deliver workable engines from P&W or Lycoming.

[SOLOBO]

Howdy Good People, :-)

Just finished mapping this (filler project) experimental aircraft for textures and looking for a texture artist willing to put in the time to do textures with a basic paint kit with panel lines and usual noise and grime.

I have reference pics (not many), 3-views, etc to help.

Give me a shout if you are interested.

Thanks

Hello Milton, very nice and very interesting project !... As well...

[Milton Shupe]

Mike Kelly has stepped up last night via Email to do the detailed textures and paint kit.

If others are interested as well, I will make the package available to you too.

I have updated teh package so both FSX and FS9 components are included.

Once I get back from dinner out, I will upload that package and send a link to those of you who asked.

Thanks for your interest; it's really appreciated.

[Milton Shupe]

Hello Milton, very nice and very interesting project !... As well...

Yes Sir! Thank you :-)

[wbuchart]

Wow, the Swoose Goose is one of my favorite fighters (or would have been if it went into production). Milton, your "filler" projects are better than most other's "top shelf" products!

Really looking forward to this!
Bill

[Milton Shupe]

Wow, the Swoose Goose is one of my favorite fighters (or would have been if it went into production). Milton, your "filler" projects are better than most other's "top shelf" products!

Really looking forward to this!
Bill

Ah, thanks Bill; you are too kind. :-) Hopefully you will like what we put together.

[Milton Shupe]

Okay, great; we have several focusing on textures now so I will get back to finalizing the cockpit/pilot animations, getting gauge faces changed, and working on the flight model. Thanks to all of you who have expressed interest in the project and for joining the effort to see it to fruition.

Not sure what an H-2470 Lycoming sounds like with 103 cu. in. per cylinder but I know it sounded good. Hopefully we can find something like that or have someone step up to creating such an orchestra. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_H-2470