SR603-Flowbee 2180 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) This skin is only semi-historical but I wanted something a bit different for the career mode. Thought I would share it anyway in case some might like it. http://www.mediafire.com/file/9ox5mdw85e3y06p/hurricanemkii_skin_P3886+UF-K_v1.dds/file It goes in folder - ... data/graphics/skins/HurricaneMkII Edited November 8, 2020 by SR603-Flowbee 18 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites
DD_Arthur 2752 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Thanks for this Flowbee! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SMARTAZZ 155 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 A real work of art sir. Your weathering is superb!👍 1 Link to post Share on other sites
timothy55 17 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Thank you very much Flowbee, as I said on Thursday, VVS and African skins will be fine , but we Brits will be partial to a lot of Battle of Britain skins for this magnificent Hurricane. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
smink1701 421 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Superb! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Luger1969 194 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Its a WINNER! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
kingandys 2 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) Very Nice Thank you . Edited November 8, 2020 by kingandys 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SARFlytitus 1567 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 GREAT ! 💖 1 Link to post Share on other sites
keeno 295 Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Excellent! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FurphyForum 181 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Well done sir! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
EAF19_Marsh 799 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Lovely, the first of the many, I hope! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Yankee_One 574 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Fantastic job!! Thanbk you 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Luger1969 194 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Flow that also why I love that T34 skin so much....the browns and greens combo😄 perfect 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SR603-Flowbee 2180 Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) I came across some more information on this aircraft which you may find interesting. P3886, coded UF-K, of 601 (County of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, an aircraft flown by both William Meade Lindsley "Billy" Fiske III and Carl Raymond Davis. A graduate of Cambridge University, Fiske twice won Gold at the Winter Olympics of 1928 and 1932 as part of the US Bobsleigh team. One of only eleven American pilots active with Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, Pilot Officer Fiske was the first to give his life while serving with the RAF. In the midst of the Battle of Britain on August 16 1940, his Hurricane was hit by a German gunner, rupturing the reserve fuel tank and cutting the engine. He nursed his stricken aircraft back to Tangmere whilst the airfield itself was under attack from German bombers. After crash-landing, the fuel tank exploded on the ground, trapping him inside the aircraft. Although he was extracted, he had suffered severe burns and died unexpectedly of shock just two days later at the Royal West Sussex Hospital. Billy's tombstone at St Mary and St Blaise churchyard in Boxgrove, Sussex, bears the epitaph 'He died for England'. Flying Officer Davis began his time in the RAF flying the Bristol Blenheim, and his first combat experience was during the Borkum Raid, in which an attacking force of six aircraft launched a surprise assault on a Luftwaffe base on the Frisian Islands, destroying five seaplanes. 601, the so-called 'millionaires squadron', began re-equipping with the Hurricane during March 1940 and Carl Davis went on to make the first of his nine-and-a-half combat kills on July 11 1940, bringing down a Messerschmitt Bf110. A Double Ace, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during August of the same year. His final sortie came on the morning of September 6, 1940. After 12 frantic weeks of operations, 601 were scrambled on their final sortie before taking leave when they were intercepted by Bf109s in the skies above Kent. Carl's Hurricane was one of four lost in the fight, crashing into the village of Matfield. An eye witness, Eric W Hubbard, described the scene to Davis' wife, "I was the first to enter the cottage garden and saw him sitting in his place, with his feet on the rudder bar and the belt still fastened round his waist, clearly showing that he had not moved again after being attacked. I placed a covering over him." Both pilots were aged 29. Edited November 9, 2020 by SR603-Flowbee 4 Link to post Share on other sites
senseispcc 275 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Very nice work, thanks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingShark 330 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Nice work and thank you for the story. Have a nice day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Melonfish 226 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 @SR603-Flowbee If you don't mind me asking, how on earth have you skinned this so early without the template? what are you using as the base to start mapping it out please? i've been dying to start work on some specific hurri skins and i've only ever really used official templates before. and thank you for the lovely skin. Pete 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SR603-Flowbee 2180 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) I used an existing dds file as a base to paint on. I then used a winter skin, an alpha layer and some info from the bump map to create a rough panel lines layer as an overlay. I also created quite a few panel lines, and rivets from scratch with varying degrees of success. It is all a bit experimental but I learn a little each time. Check out my latest one in post, 'Hurricanes in VVS Service', in the skins section. I think it is really starting to take shape. The next one should be better and so on. It is all trial and error and takes time, lots of it. Edited November 15, 2020 by SR603-Flowbee 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Pierre64 748 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Somebody at 1C, please get this man a template ! 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites
beebee23 4 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Great skin, great weathering, love it ! Congrats😃 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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