SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer

[Milton Shupe]

Milton is there a way to texture the part where the blades attach to the spinner when they are spinning? Right now its light gray.

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No Jeremy; I need to fix that blurred prop hub. The others are okay/textured but not this one.

Will get it to you Saturday.

[tankerguy72]

Thanks Milton! oh yeah and the little square antenna things on top of the wing.

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[mgr]

I'm really sorry to disturb you again with some WIP shots of the Trader repaintkit/repaint





For 90% finished, next stage is adding dirt and oil stains.

Enjoy!

Marcel

[nigel richards]

Marcel, You deeply disturb me!


You see, I don't have these textures...:ques:

[AndyG43]

Marcel, have you cheated and slipped in pictures of a real world Trader?

Guys!! I am in total awe, what you are producing here nothing less than a work of art! I salute you all. :salute:

[Milton Shupe]

Beautiful work all over that aircraft Marcel

[stansdds]

She's looking absolutely beautiful!

Once converted to FSX, I can see me slapping an "N" number on one of these and flying it as a restored aircraft.

[aeronca1]

We used to call this Armistice Day, memorializing the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the war to end all wars. Both of my grandfathers served in that war, one army, one USMC.

We went over a bit on this thread achieving the 1111 th response a bit before 11-11-11.

Thoughts to all who go in harms way past present and future.

T

This year, I reflected that this was a once in a lifetime thing for us. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year this century.

Thank you to all the fallen who made our lives what they are today, FREE!

[tankerguy72]

Working on the A getting the basic colors down

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[tankerguy72]

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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[Milton Shupe]

That looks great TG; a lot of painting going on there.

I will try to have those updates to you Sunday.

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

[patful]

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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[tankerguy72]

That looks great TG; a lot of painting going on there.

I will try to have those updates to you Sunday.

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

Thanks Milton! Which effects are those?

I gotta say when you learn to edit and paint things in flight sim it does take away from your flying time because you always want to fix something or find something to fix, but once i finished this paint I actually took her up for a nice 30 minute flight around Riverside County. Thanks for the great aircraft! masterful work! :salute:

[PeteHam]

Beautiful work TG

Now all I need is someway to add a red stain to the aprons in my scenery's for these tanker guys.

Pete.

[gribouil]

I'm really sorry to disturb you again with some WIP shots of the Trader repaintkit/repaint





For 90% finished, next stage is adding dirt and oil stains.

Enjoy!

Marcel

Fantastic job!!! This one will certainly be my hangar's favourite!!!

[tankerguy72]

Havin' fun now:mixedsmi:

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[gribouil]

Your nickname should be luckyguy at the moment!!!

[nigel richards]

Now, where's those effects from Nigel?

Can't a guy even take a shower round here?.....

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Now, where did you say that fancy 3-1 red shampoo is, and give me a towel.....can't see a darn thing with soap in my eyes!

[nigel richards]

Now shes a little dirty, faded and ready for fire bombing!

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P M M E !

I'm firebombing!!!

[Milton Shupe]

I was just reviewing some requests from TG and Mgr regarding some miscellaneous mapping and texturing changes.

All of these aircraft have over 1200 parts. As such, a lot of the miscellaneous parts get some "general mapping".
That is, you select a whole batch of appropriate like-items, map them together and apply one generalized texture to them.
Otherwise, I would never get these project done.

The subject texture here is the "white1.bmp" texture.

There are probably 300+ parts mapped and assigned to this texture (exterior and interior).
Some of them are external parts that you probably do not pay a lot of attention to, but that the eye sees and helps with realistic appearances.

I made this screen shot of 96 of those parts just to give you a sense of how intense this can get.

I am also attaching a parts list for the C-1A, that has interesting info, and thought some of you who like to see the "behind-the-scenes" stuff would be interested in browsing it.
You can open it with Notepad after unzipping.

By the way, once this project is done, the gmax source will be available for anyone who would like to change, improve, borrow from, and just satisfy curiosity.
Any use of the source must be personal or freeware.

[tankerguy72]

New Brush jacket for the pilot, Theyre usually in flight suits but I remember as a kid seeing Deeno wearing one tho

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[mgr]

The C-1A is also nice in Blue :salute:

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Marcel

[nigel richards]

Marcel, tankerguy72; stunning work. Congratulations!

[Milton Shupe]

Beautiful work in blue; makes teh C-1A look longer and sleeker.

[tankerguy72]

71 is now on duty

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