Spitfire Mk Vb 4k (Battle of Kuban) Template pack released - Including normal map and skins

[Bullets]

Also found this, not sure if its been posted anywhere and if its useful or not        http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/Spitfire%20MKx1x/SpitfireDrawing.jpg

[vanscov]

Hey! Does it mean if I pre-order BOK, I can use the Spitfire on mission already? now? I don't need to wait to December for BOK?

Edited July 22, 2017 by vanscov79

[Bullets]

Spitfire is released and ready to fly for those who have pre-ordered BOK 

[ICDP]

Hey ICDP could you please add invasion stripes as an option under markings ?     Thanks!

 

Hi Bullets.  Check OP, I have added a new download for some invasion stripes layers.  I made these deliberately hand painted looking, no nice straight perfect lines because I was going for the authentic look.

Edited July 23, 2017 by ICDP

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

I can't seem to get your marking painted on into the skins folder spitfire MKVB it don't see them.

 

closterman is is corrupted?

 

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2017 by 71st_AH_Mastiff

[vanscov]

I download it past week but I forgot to post thanks that day!! I like all skins, that was a great work! sorry for this poor english. THANK YOU

Edited August 4, 2017 by vanscov

[ICDP]

I can't seem to get your marking painted on into the skins folder spitfire MKVB it don't see them.

 

closterman is is corrupted?

 

closter.jpg

 

clostermann.jpg

 

 

It looks like a placement issue.  Make sure the stripes are placed in the correct area as the ones in the samples here.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/67v3zyz8d6bdlib/RAF_DDay.zip

[vanscov]

Anybody can make this please? I can't find it enywhere. Thanx in advance to artists who cares!

Edited August 11, 2017 by vanscov

[56RAF_Roblex]

I hope you don't mind, but I bastardized one of them for personal use when I fly with 56 RAF 'Firebird' Squadron.  I am not skilled enough to do skins but I am capable of adding things to an existing skin.

 

Would you be willing to let me have an unnumbered version and the digits as my squad are asking if they can each have one with a different number and it has just taken me over an hour to construct a number '5' out of the existing number '3' I am not sure what else I can make out of bits of '3' :-)

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2017 by 56RAF_Roblex

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

ICDP, I started work on a skin today with this template using GIMP.  I have used many of your templates since the 4Ks came about.  We each get a little better at the things we do each time we do it, you with your templates and normalmaps and hopefully, skinners making use of them.  I just had to say that this is the best one you have produced.  Not just attention to detail, but the very organization of the template.  Well done.  You have really reset the bar to a new level.  Thank you for your continued effort.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

ICDP, I am pretty much done with a skin using GIMP.  Just have one issue holding me up.  When I produce the dds and check it in Viewer or the game, the metal of the struts are much lighter grey than the rest of the plane and are much lighter than other skins I have for the Spit, either 2k or 4k.  They just don't look right.  I have tried various things to correct it to no avail.  I looked at the Alpha Layer but it looks fine as far as I can tell. 

 

Thoughts?

[unreasonable]

I have one strange issue with this template - having changed out the main paint colour for a PR version, I now have the foot-well behind the rudder pedals in the main outside colour instead of dark green. Not entirely sure where this area is represented in the file.

 

It does not affect the external look, but still a bit jarring. If no-one knows I will be able to find out by trial and error changes - but if someone can save me an evening work I would be grateful!

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

I knew that when importing PSD to GIMP that one of the first steps was to check Overlay layers.  On this template it was also the Soft Light layers that would not show if in a Group.  Once I moved them out of the group, they worked fine.  It did not however solve my strut issue.  Here's a comparison pic of the strut issue along with a black area I noticed when flaps are down.  This black area is present on all 4K skins that I know of, including yours ICDP.  On all the Official skins it show dark green.  Should this be black?  Top is Official Default skin, bottom is my WIP.

 

Pic deleted

 

 

EDIT:  If you look at the flaps and wheel wells you will also notice I also seem to be missing the dark shading on the metal ribs and cross pieces.  It's like there's shadowing to the parts from the Aircraft Parts layer missing.  Maybe that's the heart of the whole issue.

Edited September 22, 2017 by VBF-12_Stick-95

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

For what it's worth, I think I found a work around for the strut issue.  In the Alpha file I found a UC Struts layer.  I copied this to my file right above the Aircraft Parts layer and reduced the opacity until I had the right shade.  Still have no idea about the black hole.

 

EDIT: resolved other issues.

Edited September 22, 2017 by VBF-12_Stick-95

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

that 4k skin looks way more detailed in the gear area.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

I don't see an official pinned thread for Spitfire custom skins so I'll post mine here.

 

The basis of my skin is Spit Registration EP495.  EP495 was part of the fourth order for 904 Spitfire Mk Vs Dated 23 August 1941, which included a run of registration numbers EP485 to EP523.  The fourth order received first delivery of EN763 on 26 April 1942 and last of ER199 on 4 September 1942.

 

 

 

I took the liberty of adding the Guards Badge.  Unfortunately I have no squad ID number.

 

 

In flight:

 

Download link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/933arpclovt2z8r/SpitfireMkVb_EP495_4k.dds?dl=0

 

A big thanks to ICDP for his time and effort producing the template!

 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: Updated 10/1/17 due to layer issues.

Edited October 5, 2017 by VBF-12_Stick-95

[LLv24_Zami]

I don't see an official pinned thread for Spitfire custom skins so I'll post mine here.

 

The basis of my skin is Spit Registration EP495.  The picture was taken in Britain prepping the aircraft for transfer to the Soviet Union.  EP495 was part of the fourth order for 904 Spitfire Mk Vs Dated 23 August 1941, which included a run of registration numbers EP485 to EP523.  The fourth order received first delivery of EN763 on 26 April 1942 and last of ER199 on 4 September 1942.

 

 

I took the liberty of adding the Guards Badge.  Unfortunately I have no squad ID number.

 

 

In flight:

 

 

Download link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/933arpclovt2z8r/SpitfireMkVb_EP495_4k.dds?dl=0

 

A big thanks to ICDP for his time and effort producing the template!

 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: Sorry about the delay.  Details, details...

Nice work! 

[unreasonable]

I don't see an official pinned thread for Spitfire custom skins so I'll post mine here.

 

The basis of my skin is Spit Registration EP495.  The picture was taken in Britain prepping the aircraft for transfer to the Soviet Union.  EP495 was part of the fourth order for 904 Spitfire Mk Vs Dated 23 August 1941, which included a run of registration numbers EP485 to EP523.  The fourth order received first delivery of EN763 on 26 April 1942 and last of ER199 on 4 September 1942.

 

I took the liberty of adding the Guards Badge.  Unfortunately I have no squad ID number.

 

 

In flight:

 

 

Download link:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/933arpclovt2z8r/SpitfireMkVb_EP495_4k.dds?dl=0

 

A big thanks to ICDP for his time and effort producing the template!

 

Cheers!

 

EDIT: Sorry about the delay.  Details, details...

 

Pretty sure that picture was taken in Abadan - sandy/gravel ground with a rock as a chock... anyway that is what the caption to that photo say when I search for it.

 

I have been struggling to decide what these Spitfires would have looked like in detail since they star in my current movie project.  I have no doubt about the basic W.Europe green/grey and duck band and spinner, but the photo you show seems to have no yellow wing stripe, or red patches - or even outer MG ports come to that.  In contrast, the other Abadan Soviet Spitfires picture has both, IMHO.  Maybe different batches?

 

 https://www.google.co.th/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi60.fastpic.ru%2Fbig%2F2013%2F1029%2Fa3%2F880d7fe8f924f7f6099016813b4fd2a3.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsurvincity.com%2F2012%2F02%2Frussian-fighter-aces-on-the-lend-lease-part-4%2F&docid=VsThf8B5PvJIMM&tbnid=I_cxx7xFUrT9wM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiBp47Ro7zWAhXLE7wKHeweBScQMwgrKAcwBw..i&w=800&h=557&bih=862&biw=1745&q=russian%20spitfire%20lf%20mk%209&ved=0ahUKEwiBp47Ro7zWAhXLE7wKHeweBScQMwgrKAcwBw&iact=mrc&uact=8

Edited September 23, 2017 by unreasonable

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks Zami.

Unreasonable, your source is probably right, the photo from the Internet I posted of EP495 stated it was in England but I had my doubts.

For my skin of EP495, I did find the following additional info:
Serial      Mark       c/n    Fac           Eng         History  
EP495    Vb                    CBAF        M46        9MU 21-6-42 222MU 6-11-42 City of Lille 8-12-42 USSR 16-2-43     

                                                                                    
CBAF is Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory.
I assume 21-6-42 is the original transfer date to a Maintenance Unit and that 16-2-43 is the date of transfer to the VVS.

Source:
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p039.html


As far as the photo of EP495, I didn't see the yellow stripe on the leading edge either.  I also had issues discerning the red patches or even MGs ports however I found it hard to believe MGs would be absent therefore the logical conclusion was the ports were present, masked with the solid red patch making the MG port no longer a "hole" and that the red was hard to see due to the angle, coloration, lighting, picture quality, etc.  Just my deduction.

I have seen an actual pic of Spit 538 (is there only one?) reg EP210, which was a slightly earlier batch EP164-213 of the same order as EP495 and a CBAF plane.  There is no way to tell from the photo I have of what is on the wings.  Models and skins of this plane are rendered both with and without the yellow stripe however the IL-2 Official 538 skin does not have the yellow stripe.

Your link for Spit BM185(6?), which was from a batch from an order in October 1940 definitely had the red patches and apparently the yellow stripe.  Other planes in the row, e.g. reg AD236, do not show the wings and are from earlier orders and may be painted with both.

Thanks for the comments.  Good luck with the movie!

Cheers!
 

[unreasonable]

Thanks Stick. 90% finished now, should be about by end of October (I am that slow ).  I am sure your are right about the dates - that conforms to what the airforce.ru article says.      For anyone who has not read it      http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/spit/

 

The official 538 skin does have the huge yellow arrow down the side though - how anyone deduces that from the 538 photo is beyond me, so my Spits do not have it. More importantly I think it looks vulgar.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Unreasonable, I forgot to include this source for Spitfire orders, which includes dates and registration series numbers.

 

http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/spitfirefactory/production.htm

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Minor changes to EP495 due to layer issues and some minor camo line work.  DL link in post 56 above:  https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/29955-spitfire-mk-vb-4k-battle-kuban-template-pack-released-includ/?p=513800

[Montana_*VR*]

Hey there

 

First many thanks to @ICDP for this brilliant template!

 

I made a skin of the Spitfire Mk Vb from Robert Stanford Tuck.

 

Wing Commander Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, DSO, DFC & Two Bars, AFC (1 July 1916 – 5 May 1987) was a British fighter pilot, flying ace and test pilot. Tuck joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1935 and first engaged in combat during the Battle of France, over Dunkirk, claiming his first victories. In September 1940 he was promoted to squadron leader and commanded a Hawker Hurricane squadron. In 1941–1942, Tuck participated in fighter sweeps over northern France. On 28 January 1942, he was hit by anti-aircraft fire, was forced to land in France, and was taken prisoner. At the time of his capture, Tuck had claimed 29 enemy aircraft destroyed, two shared destroyed, six probably destroyed, six damaged and one shared damaged.

 

Sadly I'm not allowed to use the image integration tool so here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hic1nuqbwrrvbkp/Spitfire-mk-v-Robert-Stanford-Tuck.jpg?dl=0

 

DOWNLOAD SKIN (.dds)

 

Hope you like it 

 

See you in the sky!

[Black-Witch]

ICDP, please, is it possible that you could make the RAF Squadron letters? in "Sky" colour.

 

Thanks in advance (hoping).

 

I need to do some more work on the (your) Spitfire for my Squadron.

 

Witch

 

[RNAS10_Oliver]

cheers for the template

 

 

Spoiler

 

http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/search?serial=NX924&model=Seafire-Ib&factory=AST&engine=M45&notes=736

http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/search?serial=NX890&model=Seafire-Ib&factory=AST&engine=M45&notes=736

 

 

Is there any reason that the "paint variations" layer does not cover the rudder, though the other control surfaces including both elevators are treated with that layer?

[E69_julian57]

Thank you

[Thad]

On ‎7‎/‎6‎/‎2017 at 11:33 AM, Trooper117 said:

Great work... now, if only we could change the pilot skins as well!

Check out the forums Mods section. There are mods to replace the German and Russian Pilots uniforms. 

 

By the way, thanks for your efforts to provide these 4k Spitfire skins. They look great! Well done.  

Edited June 7, 2018 by Thad

[Trooper117]

Yes I know that mate, but no mod to put an RAF pilot into an RAF skinned Spitfire!

[Thad]

Yes, sadly, no RAF pilot skin mod 'yet'. ?

[Trooper117]

Well, as Bodenplatte is coming I guess we won't need one... 

[FoxbatRU]

Playing a career BoK on Spitfire Mk Vb, made my version an appropriate 4k skin-pack (9 skins with numbers from "521 white" to "529 white"). Typical colors of 57th GIAP (spring 1943) were taken as a basis.

  

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1584nt6r1gflys7/BoK_SpitfireMkVb_1-9_foxbatRU_4k.zip/file

 

Because skins 4K, then for them it is desirable to use the normal map from the template author ICDP: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z9n9byo46dhe33r/SpitfireMkVb_4k_Normalmap.zip

 

 

               

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2019 by FoxbatRU

[alpenspion]

Great Skins again from you FoxbatRu!

On 4/27/2019 at 11:15 PM, FoxbatRU said:

Playing a career BoK on Spitfire Mk Vb, made my version an appropriate 4k skin-pack (9 skins with numbers from "521 white" to "529 white"). Typical colors of 57th GIAP (spring 1943) were taken as a basis.

  

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1584nt6r1gflys7/BoK_SpitfireMkVb_1-9_foxbatRU_4k.zip/file

 

Because skins 4K, then for them it is desirable to use the normal map from the template author ICDP: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z9n9byo46dhe33r/SpitfireMkVb_4k_Normalmap.zip

 

 

               

 

 

 

 

[Spuks]

The coincidence, when I played the Jade campaign a few months ago, I have created skins for Spitfires also, several for each squadron.

https://mega.nz/#!U0VlFQZR!s5YAZVlqZwlgf_hFgaJUpluSQ6_c8uDeK-ECMkcd9yc

I like that you @FoxbatRu used historiclly correct spits serial numbers exept EP369(white529) i couldn't find that it belonged to 57 GvIAP. (22 Spitfire serial numbers mentioned in trizna.ru)

 

Edited May 7, 2019 by Spuks

[336th_Ripper*]

My Small contribution. "Buckeye Don" of the 336th. Historically accurate. Created with the 4K ICDP template .

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/17kc9pd26xvc9jc/336th_Spitfire_MkVb_MD-T.zip/file

 

You can also find the one I made for the Spit MkIXe here:

 

 

Edited June 15, 2019 by 336th_Ripper*
Added link to SpitMkIXe version

[Psyrion]

@336th_Ripper* That´s really nice, thanks!

[DD_Arthur]

7 hours ago, Psyrion said:

 That´s really nice, thanks!

 

+1. !

 

Unfortunately says

 

This site can’t provide a secure connection

1drv.ms uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

 

Edited June 3, 2019 by DD_Arthur

[DD_Arthur]

Hi Ripper.  Probably a problem my end.  'Fraid I've no idea how these things work but lots of guys seem to use this

 

https://www.mediafire.com/

 

Nice skin btw

[336th_Ripper*]

1 hour ago, 336th_Ripper* said:

 

I see that! I will open a Media Fire account and upload it there! I will post back later.

 

Cheers!

 

Ok I uploaded it to mediafire. Cheers!

[DD_Arthur]

Got it!

[Trooper117]

Nice... how come that Spit Mk V has the new pilot in it and not the Russki one?

 

(my mistake... it is the Russian one) 

Edited June 5, 2019 by Trooper117