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Post by Chris B on Sept 8, 2005 10:51:48 GMT -5
Well, unfortunately some model makers are sloppy and/or lazy ( ;D  ) so it helps to know exactly what's where on your "canvas"... This is my method - I won't bother with words, it should be reasonably obvious what I did... (it's fiddly, I'll warn you!)   This is VERY useful for wraparound patterns!!! I have just taken on a new project for the eagle and this is a must for the next skin to leave my hangar. The user won't notice the work in the end result, but if you go to this kind of effort, at least you'll know... ...and that is the satisfaction level you should go for. (Darn, I can't wait till we can skin with scaleable PNG stuff!) |
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Post by binka on Sept 8, 2005 16:56:49 GMT -5
yeah mon,
did you know 3ds/gmax have a stock b/w checkerboard pattern in the material library? so hard working fellows like yourself dont have to go to these extremes.
this is for the "clean and/or hyper" max modelers. The alignment of the textures ---should--- be done before the 2d artist sees it.
but that's smart thinkin cbris.
joe
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Post by jordonj on Sept 8, 2005 20:25:17 GMT -5
You do great repaints, but you really should be more careful in your choice of words. Considering how that plane flies, I really don't think either "sloppy" or "lazy" applies...
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Post by Roger on Sept 8, 2005 20:46:37 GMT -5
You do great repaints, but you really should be more careful in your choice of words. Considering how that plane flies, I really don't think either "sloppy" or "lazy" applies... Point well noted. Kevin didn't make the Christen Eagle for painters but for himself and sim flyers. This probably applies to the vast majority of plane makers. However Chris it would seem that there are techniques available to help the repainters out there.  Roger |
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Post by Chris B on Sept 8, 2005 22:49:40 GMT -5
ok, if you don't read the "smiley" in my message (sloppy and/or lazy ;D ), then yes, I wholeheartedly apologise...  Besides - it is "lazy" to build a model with only one wing and then reflect it so that you can cover the opposite side, or to build a fuselage where the opposite side's text has to be created so that it goes on the "inside" of the skin. And.... more to the point, I have yet to see a paint kit which does this "alignment tiool" for you. And YES - before you get the "hurt feeling" flamethrowers out - Kevin has done a wonderful job of the Eagle. A brilliant one. Otherwise it wouldn't even be halfwhere near as popular. Nor would I be so mad about painting the beast. That's got to be a compliment for any plane maker... Or do I understand something wrong? A modeller is not necessarily thinking of the painters when he creates his work of art... After all, there's plenty of mad fool perfectionists (more smileys!!   ) like us around. I built this grid pattern for repaint work, where you don't have or need G-Max. And being a perfectionist (SMILEY!!!  ) I don't want to mess up Kevin's lovely plane by doing a poorly aligned paint job - especially for my next project  - and yes - a couple of my previous Eagles are not perfect - I too was lazy and just wanted to get them up online to boost my ego.... And if this seems like hurt feelings on my part... you're wrong - it's a lecture on reading and understanding my words (MORE SMILEYS... ;D ;D ;D ) Anyone who takes me seriously obviously misunderstands the question... Besides - if anyone's building a model and wants to add a grid - it's a piece of cake and takes only a couple of minutes. Set your paint program's displacement to 16 pixels. Draw a line 1024 long. Copy, paste, move right 1 unit (of 16), select all (usually ctrl A), copy, paste, move right 2 units, select all, copy, past, move right 4 units, select all, copy, paste, move right 4 units and repeat this until the page is full of lines in your first direction. Select every tenth line and colourswap. Select all, copy, paste, rotate 90 degrees... It takes less time to do a grid than it took me to type this using cut and paste... Once done, you can merge the grid to one item and add as an invisible object to your psd file for the paint kit. Now where did granny go? I have some eggs here... |
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Post by Chris B on Sept 8, 2005 22:56:19 GMT -5
PS - you can set up a paint programme to paste a copied object by X pixels, and you can set up a macro to repeat the moves... and a "made" grid is more practical use than the paint programme's fixed grid. More to the point - this is just one man's way of doing things - if there's anything I have learnt about PCs and software - there really are many many ways to skin a cat.
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) so it helps to know exactly what's where on your "canvas"... 
Besides - it is "lazy" to build a model with only one wing and then reflect it so that you can cover the opposite side, or to build a fuselage where the opposite side's text has to be created so that it goes on the "inside" of the skin. And.... more to the point, I have yet to see a paint kit which does this "alignment tiool" for you.
) like us around. 
- and yes - a couple of my previous Eagles are not perfect - I too was lazy and just wanted to get them up online to boost my ego....