2k WWII Fighters Rammjager P-51D "Six-Gun Seductress"/ "DIRDY BIRDY" skin

[brianjgregory]

This is my first attempt at an homage to Darren "Hammerd" Covington's P-51D skin (re-named to conform to contemporary tastes) "Six-Gun Seductress"/ "DIRDY BIRDY" from the first really credible WWII combat flight sim: "Janes World War 2 Fighters". It is an adult (slight nudity) fictional skin based on an aircraft of the 352nd FG "Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney". A 4k version also available, if someone can advise me how to post to one of the media sites for the larger 4k skin files. This being my first dabble into the black art of skin alpha settings, I apologise that subsequent revised versions will likely be necessary to tone down the gloss of the noseart & serial stencils may be posted in due course. I also plan to try tackling reproducing Covington's other masterpiece P-47D-28 "Skankee Yankee" in due course. 

2k P51D15NA_SGSDv_08.zip

[brianjgregory]

On 8/16/2023 at 11:47 PM, brianjgregory said:

This is my first attempt at an homage to Darren "Hammerd" Covington's P-51D skin (re-named to conform to contemporary tastes) "Six-Gun Seductress"/ "DIRDY BIRDY" from the first really credible WWII combat flight sim: "Janes World War 2 Fighters". It is an adult (slight nudity) fictional skin based on an aircraft of the 352nd FG "Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney". A 4k version also available, if someone can advise me how to post to one of the media sites for the larger 4k skin files. This being my first dabble into the black art of skin alpha settings, I apologise that subsequent revised versions will likely be necessary to tone down the gloss of the noseart & serial stencils may be posted in due course. I also plan to try tackling reproducing Covington's other masterpiece P-47D-28 "Skankee Yankee" in due course. 

2k P51D15NA_SGSDv_08.zip 4.64 MB · 2 downloads

4k skin here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6bzw3pizx24mpxe/4k_P51D15NA_SGSDv_08.dds/file

[brianjgregory]

 Thanks to substantial help from raptorattacker  & R OCKET_KNUT, reworked 2k Six-Gun Seductress skin with corrected alpha channel attached. New screenshots attached, resemble those above only pesky excessive noseart & tailfin shininess issue from certain viewing angles resolved.

 

4k skin here: https://www.mediafire.com/file  /j8ib91eghy5r833/4k_P51D15NA_Six-GunSeductress.dds/file

Edited August 29, 2023 by brianjgregory

[brianjgregory]

To complete the original Rammjager WWII FIghters theme, I've created three female harlequin cockpit photos with as near to Covington's original female jester image as I can find; the L & R versions rotated 15 degress left & right respectively, in case that's needed for particular cockpit setups.

 

The .dds files, correctly formatted for IL-2 Great Battles cokcpit photos, are at:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/40jv9uzwp5m78/IL-2_Cockpit_Photos

[brianjgregory]

Finally located the original Gil Elvgren in-cockpit Joker card image. Three versions are attached as with the above alternative version. Open your preferred .png file below in GIMP & export it as a .dds file. Having first backed up the original custom_photo.dds file, copy the .dds file you've just created into the relevant IL2BoS /data/graphics/Planes/Textures folder (e.g.,  P51D15/Textures); then rename whichever BOSNew82xx.dds version you used to custom_photo.dds. Hey Presto! You've got Rammjager's original World War 2 Fighters Joker cockpit photo.

[brianjgregory]

Rammjager Joker images link:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/40jv9uzwp5m78/IL-2_Cockpit_Photos

 

Now back to the P-47D-28 to try to get the "Skankee Yankee" skin alpha channel right!

 

[brianjgregory]

Have finally returned to this skin, armed with experience gained by trial-and-error regarding merging layers. Links to the updated 2k &4k versions here:

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/5anmev8k2a87zje/2k_P51D15NA_SixGnSdctrss.dds

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/f4lfx2thhus8p9a/4k_P51D15NA_SixGnSdctrss.dds/file