Not sure how many people from here visit the Ubi forums, and visa versa, so I figured I would post it on here as well...
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Newcomer to skinning here. Have been playing on and off for about a 2 years now, took a break of about a year when I got hooked on WoW but it has been about 6 months off of that drug and now I am back to playing something much more satisfying..IL-2
Anyway, thanks to a squadmate of mine (VR_Slugger), I began dabbling and looking into skinning. After trying to edit a P-51 skin to a Mexican paintscheme, I was not very happy with it.
However, I did think that I had learned enough to begin to create my first skin...and from scratch too. Reason why I chose to do it from scratch is because I like the feeling of knowing that all of it (or about 99% of it) is mine, and so I began to work with the void file of the Mig-3, a plane I regularly fly in my squad's (Vultures Row) DCG campaign.
Harder than I thought was to make the base colours and camo, and after workin for about 2 weeks (mostly in trying to just match the different sections, such as the fuselage and wing, or rudder and the Tail), I am ready to say that I am satisfied with it so far,and figure I would start a WIP and do some updates as I go.
So here are the first of (hopefully) many to come:
Based on this colour profile
As you can all see, it is still very rough. Basically, I have the base colour and camo done to a level where I am reasonably happy with it, I may make some changes later but not many. I also have the panel and rivets laid out, with a copy of them changed to white and glassuan blurred. I will also play with them some more, as I still feel its missing something.
Other than that, msot of the stuff is either green or the sky blue on the bottom.
Now I will begin to give it some 3d features, specially with the panel lines and the control surfaces, and then finally the weathering, which I imagine will take me long as its very hard and I want to do a good job.
I appreciate any comments, and hopefully ill be back here with updates soon.
