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[Piotrek1]

A lot of work, but the effect is impressive!

Best regards,
Piotrek

[Aragorn1963]

Nice looking plane.

[Mission_bug]

A lot of work, but the effect is impressive!

Glad you are happy with it so far Piotrek1, a few days in and I think I should have gone with making new engines from drawings but that could also have
meant I would have needed to alter the wings as well, not to mention any other alterations I might have found if I started to look at scale drawings, so for
now I will see how it looks when I complete this particular task.

Nice looking plane.

I always liked this particular series of Dornier aircraft, the engine change for this version does give it a unique style that is very attractive, to me anyway.


Work progressed to making lines yesterday:







When Alex ( Bison_M) put this together he did a good job of merging the engine change into the existing geometry, however, there
are areas where the lines I added merge into other things or are little thicker and blurred in places, most likely Alex had to stretch
or enlarge things a little to make them come together.

Anyway, the point of the project was to add everything to the same texture so it could be skinned in the usual way, that is done
so I will push on and maybe add some rivets to the lines I have done and create two skins, one Hungarian the other Swedish and
see how it all looks then.

Take care.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[Piotrek1]

Hello Pete, new skins, template and fully skinned plane - the best news I've heard lately ,
heartfelt thanks to Alex , thanks to whom the project Do-215 saw the light of day.
I keep my fingers crossed for finishing the work as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Piotrek

[Mission_bug]

new skins, template and fully skinned plane

Hello Piotrek, yes a template so you can make some skins yourself, I am only doing one to create the tga files needed.

The engine has been mapped onto my existing template for the Do-17 that was created to make some Finnish skins:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&c=127

I only needed to add the lines and rivets to that with the new mapping and use the existing ones already there for the remainder
of the aircraft so once I finish the alterations you get a template just for this particular aircraft so those of you with the information
can create a series of schemes for those Air Forces who operated it.

My task primarily was to allow that so you are not dependent on swapping tga files for any new scheme you might want to create.


Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[Piotrek1]

Thank you for your explanation,
I'm very excited about the prospect of making my own skins .
Best regards,
Piotrek

[sparky]

Great work mission bug. Not sure if it's just my viewpoint, but to me, the engines look too shallow, and the spinner too elongated and pointed compared to real life photos. What do you think?

[Mission_bug]

I'm very excited about the prospect of making my own skins .

Good, I am glad about that, it turns me into a nervous wreck which is why I do not do it often, trying to align some things is a nightmare on some models. 

Great work mission bug. Not sure if it's just my viewpoint, but to me, the engines look too shallow, and the spinner too elongated and pointed compared to real life photos. What do you think?

Yes sparky you are correct, this is essentially a franken, it uses engines from existing aircraft rather than having them made to drawings, Alex, who put them together originally does not do 3d work but makes things happen in the hier to get as close as possible without him needing to make the new parts and at the time this was put together my 3d skills were rudimentary, still are some would say. 

What I am doing was essentially a experiment to map those engines he used to the existing skin, no more than that, to enable you to make a few skins.

Could I make new ones, yes, however, the Do-17 itself was primarily a franken to start with, Ranwers used his wizardry to create what we have now so if I go down that road I might as well make a complete aircraft, sorry not going to happen, if I start sure as night follows day someone will import one from another game so it would be a waste of time when what we have here will suffice for now.


Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[sparky]

Could I make new ones, yes, however, the Do-17 itself was primarily a franken to start with, Ranwers used his wizardry to create what we have now so if I go down that road I might as well make a complete aircraft, sorry not going to happen, if I start sure as night follows day someone will import one from another game so it would be a waste of time when what we have here will suffice for now

No worries mate  , just my observations thats all. As no one else had mentioned it I wasn't sure if it was just me

regards

[Mission_bug]

Getting there finally.

Added a few rivets here and there, unfortunately due to stretching they are not on the underside air intakes:





I searched my files and I do still have the java for this aircraft lying around on the hard drive.


What brought me back to the thread was the question from Piotrek1 regarding having Hungary as one of the default schemes, currently
there is one for all, Germany and Hungary appear to be the principle users of the type so both could be set up in their respective defaults
I guess, maybe put the Swedish skin when I make it in as Multi1 although I think we only have one map with a small area of Sweden on it.

The weapon slots in the java would allow for additions, however, I have no information at all regarding the tank carried on the Swedish aircraft.


Anyway, I will do the artwork first as that is mainly my priority.


Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[herbarnold99]

Great work mission bug. Not sure if it's just my viewpoint, but to me, the engines look too shallow, and the spinner too elongated and pointed compared to real life photos. What do you think?

I wonder if Bf-109E or Me-110E spinners could be used? Just a thought...

[Mission_bug]

I wonder if Bf-109E or Me-110E spinners could be used? Just a thought...

Hello herbarnold99, seeing as the engine itself is from a 110 you would think so, however, Alex must have thought otherwise when
he put it together so I will go with his choice, I have enough to do.


Wishing you all the very best, Pete.