WW2-1979 Graphics Showcase

[Catfish]

Originally posted by Exile
Thanks Cat. Now can you fix up the JU-88 and B-25 too?

I could, but when you've got other people throwing themselves at you…

Originally posted by fairline
(about 85% of the original in this case, using pixel-resize rather than smart-resize )

Is that directed at me? Yes, smart-size uses anti-aliasing – not good at this scale.

Originally posted by curtsibling
I stick to regular Bitmaps - And avoid all that PNG palaver!

Who's the girly-man now? Try doing that with 40 of them. Nice unit BTW.

Originally posted by jimmywax
@ catfish: Do you use PSP 8 to apply those textures? I have a copy of PSP 7 that is actually kind of a pain in the arse to use. I usually get frustrated and switch back to my old, old, old version of Adobe photoshop. I'm not sure if it is easier to use or if it just has fewer features to confuse me.

PSP 8.10 to be exact (8.01 is quite buggy). Version 9 is out now, but I don't have it. The methods for applying textures are described in the Graphics Workshop thread. Basically, I paint/airbrush/retouch a greyscale version of the subject in layers with a variety of blend modes. I'm a bit vague on PSP 7, but I think it has primitive support for layers, but no scripting.

[typhoon]

Fairline, Catfish, or any other graphics master:

I would like some comments please. I've always noticed that in CIv, Japanese uniforms are couloured yellow. However, in all the books, movies, and pictures I've seen, the Japanese uniform appears to be a light khaki (except for the SNLF, which was olive green.) I've tried to recolour some uniforms to this shade, and would like some professional opinions on them. Do the yellow ones i have posted on the previous page look better, or do these brown ones?

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[curtsibling]

Who's the girly-man now?

That American Senator who looks like Frankenstein, I believe!

Try doing that with 40 of them.

Already have, and then some.

Nice unit BTW.

You have Fairline to thank for it, really!

[fairline]

Originally posted by Catfish
Is that directed at me? Yes, smart-size uses anti-aliasing – not good at this scale.

Nope, you're about the only bloke that it wasn't directed at. I was more concerned with other people having a go at size-reduction of those planes

PSP 8.10 to be exact (8.01 is quite buggy). Version 9 is out now, but I don't have it. The methods for applying textures are described in the Graphics Workshop thread. Basically, I paint/airbrush/retouch a greyscale version of the subject in layers with a variety of blend modes. I'm a bit vague on PSP 7, but I think it has primitive support for layers, but no scripting.

I'm using 20% opacity with the paintbrush as a quick and effective way of applying ToT textures as well; far quicker than my old 8-bit process of palette-selecting colours and more intuitive. I put a 'palette' of a light, dark and mid-tone shade of the colour I'm applying on the magenta portion of the unit and then add progressive hi- and lo-lights to the base colour of the unit. repeated clicks on a pixel adds increased lightness or darkness. That was a crap explanation but the method seems to come out OK.

[fairline]

Originally posted by curtsibling
That American Senator who looks like Frankenstein, I believe!

I'd take Herman Munster over the monkey-boy President Dubya any day of the week. Or that freakish dick-head Blair.

Today is a sad day for world peace....

[fairline]

Originally posted by typhoon
Fairline, Catfish, or any other graphics master:

I would like some comments please. I've always noticed that in CIv, Japanese uniforms are couloured yellow. However, in all the books, movies, and pictures I've seen, the Japanese uniform appears to be a light khaki (except for the SNLF, which was olive green.) I've tried to recolour some uniforms to this shade, and would like some professional opinions on them. Do the yellow ones i have posted on the previous page look better, or do these brown ones?

Yeah they look good, but you need to reduce some of the deep shadow on the legs etc IMHO. Yellowish-khaki was the colour for Japanese Army and a pale-ish olive green for the Japanese marines, pretty much as you say.

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by fairline


I'd take Herman Munster over the monkey-boy President Dubya any day of the week. Or that freakish dick-head Blair.

Today is a sad day for world peace....

Well, King George can't win the next election - I hope!

[techumseh]

What makes you think there will be another election?


Ooops! I better call a mod on myself here.

[Catfish]

Originally posted by fairline
Nope, you're about the only bloke that it wasn't directed at. I was more concerned with other people having a go at size-reduction of those planes

I thought you may have been referring to some of my comments in the past. In most situations I'd go for smart-size (in 24-bit colour), but for really small-scale changes, such as those two bombers, pixel resize would be more efficient because it doesn't have the anti-aliasing problem.

Originally posted by fairline
I'm using 20% opacity with the paintbrush as a quick and effective way of applying ToT textures as well; far quicker than my old 8-bit process of palette-selecting colours and more intuitive. I put a 'palette' of a light, dark and mid-tone shade of the colour I'm applying on the magenta portion of the unit and then add progressive hi- and lo-lights to the base colour of the unit. repeated clicks on a pixel adds increased lightness or darkness. That was a crap explanation but the method seems to come out OK.

I got it. It has a disadvantage (when compared with using blend mode layers) of masking the underlying texture as you increase opacity (either by adjusting the opacity setting or by repeated clicking). I guess you're basically redrawing areas that become indistinct. Note, however, that you can change the blend mode of the paint and air brushes individually – that might add another string to your bow.

Originally posted by fairline
I'd take Herman Munster over the monkey-boy President Dubya any day of the week. Or that freakish dick-head Blair.

You should see the simian we just elected (for a 4th term!). I guess you could say we deserve what we get.

[typhoon]

Originally posted by fairline


Yeah they look good, but you need to reduce some of the deep shadow on the legs etc IMHO. Yellowish-khaki was the colour for Japanese Army and a pale-ish olive green for the Japanese marines, pretty much as you say.

Thanks for the input. I've put a corrected version up.

Here is a Brewster Buffalo Mk 1 in British service. Believe it or not, modified from Tanelorn's Zero

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[curtsibling]

Damn fine work!

I always liked the Buffalo - It was my first model kit as a lad!

[Broken_Erika]

Crappy Tanks

How About Some Good Graphics of very ugly tanks,
Like the russian T35, The German Neubaufahrzeug NbFzA
and the funky looking Panzerwagen PA -I; II
check http://www.military.cz/panzer/index_en1.htm
for pictures and info on these ugly things

[curtsibling]

The Panzerwagen PA -I is great!

[CapTVK]

Re: Test of Time

Originally posted by fairline
ToT units made largely for Tech's wonderful Operation Market Garden scenario. The Panther and JagdPanther are of course Catfish re-skins of Nemo tanks.

I'm making my way through this entire thread and... OMG, those units are amazing Fairline! You can count the rivets on that Brit 25-pdr.

[Harry Tuttle]

The B-36 Peacemaker. The first true intercontinental bomber. Modeled after Fairline's B-29. The B-36 had over 20 crewmen, sleeping quarters, a galley, a lavatory, and was about three times the size of the B-29.

Someone even had the bright idea of putting a nuclear reactor on one to see if it could be used to power the engines, but the whole nuclear fallout thing put an end to that.

The paint scheme is the standard aluminum gloss, but the Alaskan bomber force had red wing tips and tail.

Later variants had 4 jet engines attached to the underside of the wings used for takeoff.