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A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby xsaint » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:53 pm

Hi Folks...

Now my attention is on A6E craft....

I decided to do up two liveries for it...One will be in blue (BlueSaphire) and the other will be in all black (DarkKnights)
Here are some pictures....these are still in development stage.... will be uploading them to www.unitedfreeworld.com real soon...

In the mean time see these pictures and comment.....Thank you

DarkKnights Series

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More pictures of this crafts are posted at http://unitedfreeworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90#90



The BlueSaphire Series


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More pictures of this craft is posted at http://unitedfreeworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90#90

I guess fast progress could be made and will be made available at www.unitedfreeworld.com


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Re: A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby Natovr » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:58 pm

for some reason I just love the blue navy liveries :D They both look great ;)
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Re: A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby xiii » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:54 pm

Sorry, I do not find this livery nice, not at all. You should focus on higher quality standards.

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Re: A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby xsaint » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:37 am

Xiii i do agree with you as well, definitely this livery could have been done better (in fact i am still trying to edit to make it better)

I was looking for more serious livery in actual fact that a "fun" livery, but all i found was a total grey,white sort of liveries. It will be helpful if any one of you have a good picture of this plane and post it up here and i can consider doing that....

In the mean time, i shall try to make this look better...as the title of this post,its a preview and still in development....

Thanks for your fair comments,definitely this livery can be made better


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Re: A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby xiii » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:18 am

Hi xsaint,

Well the A-6 Intruder never had fancy liveries, only the tail has nice drawings, specially in the 70ties. I have chosen the actual livery, buno 160996 from VA-35 because of the nice AJ squadron marks which was like a wink to AJ MacLeod (which modeled the Lightning) and I tried to be as accurate as possible, which is some time quite difficult.

I've found one picture of an A-6 in camo paint scheme: http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/7316/camoa6.jpg but unfortunately there is no indication about its squadron, so no way to guess the other signs like tail signs.
Note that the Flightgear A-6 has a special mapping that prevent having a nice drawing like camo over the whole surface. It was a test I've made to give the maximum definition on some marks in the minimal texture size. This could change with a later version as this method is not compatible with AO textures. Then it will be much easier to add lots of different tails drawings. When that will be done I will be happy to provide the .xcf templates along with the expected AO texture layer so you or any one can do nice (but accurate) variants.
But I'm still convinced that this would be a shame to put a Prowler or whatever random paint scheme on an A-6E Intruder!

By the way, I've seen the beginning of Pensacola work for the A-10 texture (he sent me a copy some time ago), this was stunning detailed, why don't you try to use it as a template ?

You may have noticed while flying the A-10, the A-6E or the F-14B, that I'm really concerned by accuracy and quality. I know that not many people can spend as much time as I spend on my cockpits or models, but I really think that all FlightGear aircrafts deserve the best effort to make them the nicest as possible.

Fly on,

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Re: A6E- BlueSaphire And DarkKnights-preview

Postby xsaint » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:29 am

Hi Xiii....

Thank you for your pointers....appreciate that....
Since A6-E does not have much variants when it comes to livery, i shall just these fun liveries as it is....
if you have a copy of the template do let me know for the 10, i shall strive to make an accurate livery for it.....Besides, was there some mistake in my A10 Camo (Army) livery? Do let me know if you spot any...

Once again, thank you for your tips, greatly appreciated
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