Not quite a repaint

CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: Not quite a repaint

I was watching the movie Lord of War and was impressed with the Antonov 12 featured in it. Since I had a 12B in Ukraine Air Force colors, I thought I'd take a crack at producing something that looked like I'd purchased or pilfered the plane from them.

Everything turned out well except that the text on the right side of the tail is mirror image. Since Windows Paint doesn't have a flip or rotate function, I downloaded Paint.Net from Washington State University so I can try to correct the problem.

Can anyone suggest other planes that lend themselves to repainting by dummies?

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Greekman72 · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject:

It seems that we have a new great repainter here. Clap

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CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject:

Greekman,

I see Omega-Air is going to have to buy you eyeglasses. All I did was put some text on a pre-existing pain job. Like graffitti. Rolling Eyes

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Tartanaviation · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: Not quite a repaint

CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

Greekman72 · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

davec · Captain Joined: Feb 05, 2004 Posts: 702 Location: Scotland

Forgot to sign in - that was me above - and I didn't need Google to tell me - bet Google did not include the 'Quite Easily Done' info.
And for beating me to the punch - I don't thinkI will tell Crash how to view his texture files - Aw! Go on - tell him!!!
As 99% of texture files are in extended bmp format - photo editors cannot translate them - you need the DXTBMP.exe from Martin Wright's excellent site- it's free - in fact you can't really carry out all the repaint processes without it

davec · Captain Joined: Feb 05, 2004 Posts: 702 Location: Scotland

My last word (or picture) on the subject Laughing

... and by the way - are we having a whip round for Greekman's
glasses Shocked

Greekman72 · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject:

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CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

davec · Captain Joined: Feb 05, 2004 Posts: 702 Location: Scotland

Crash - never ever be embarassed about learning something new or making mistakes in the learning - knowledge is something that man has been seeking for thousands of years - the man that finally discovered how to make the wheel wasn't embarassed when the first ones he made were square - he learned from his efforts and made the next one elliptical - still not quite right but his life was full of ups and downs!!! Laughing

If he had saved it is extended BMP - he would have been OK Rolling Eyes

CrashGordon · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject:

I usually jump into things like this pretty cluless. No wonder theings don't always go as planned.

Anyway, this is my latest addition. We bought up some of the old Soviet fleet. I missed a few things, such as the numbers on the bottom of the wing (not visible here), but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

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