Hadi Tahir's Yakovlev 130 for FSX from 2008 wasn't all that bad as models go being FSX native rather than several equivalents that were quite primitive...[ie. the Aermacchi M-346] but suffered from having just the one paint...in mostly all-over black and in low res 1024.
Having done reworks in high resolution [4096] of several of Tim [Piglet] Conrad's aircraft [first for me was the A12A Avenger II] I thought I'd dive in and have a go at the Yak.
One 'plus' was it was all on the one bitmap, so there was no chasing details across several images. Unfortunately, the way the model was mapped to the image [or the other way round] meant I ended up chasing details all over the one image instead.
Part of the drama [the biggest bit] was that several sections of the mapping were not plumb to the image [or each other], so it wasn't a simple...draw once...mirror and you have the other half....auto-aligned.
And there are no images for the U/C doors insides...or their bays...or the U/C itself, etc.... really only the 'outer skin', and there were 'bits' of that all over the place, but by one bit at a time...and so far 224 screengrabs later of trial and error [like the desktop screenshot below] ....I'm 'almost' there.
I'm still chasing lines... text/details...and have no 'rivets' yet... but I reckon just a mere few more "months" it'll be done...and uploaded as a kit for others to mess around with...
In that shot you see grab 224 on the left... and the psp of the kit and the layers...and the trial/error gridlines I use to define boundaries....and cut the sections so they stitch together with minimal overlap to assist alignments.
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