Hey guys...just a little progress shot on my AA paint.  Spent the entire night working on corrections to the paintkit, just on the wings (Don't really like to call out other painter's work, but you will not find a painter who's painting this plane that doesn't agree the paintkit is terrible, full of mistakes, and just about all details were removed from it before it was released it to the freeware painters...makes me ill when I see how much time I've been spending fixing issues that I shouldn't have to, especially on an $80 payware product..ok..rant off...done).

So..after I got all the fixes done ...I did some work on the reflective surfaces (read: creating and adjusting a custom alpha layer), especially on AA planes.  This pic below shows the result.

You can't really appreciate how cool the reflective metal looks in a still pic...but as I was letting the plane complete this turn and keeping this view...the reflections just floored me as they gleamed off the polished areas!  If you notice on the right wing, I accidentally added alpha to the aileron area where I should not have...and the dark area surrounding the spoilers and aileron should be reflective, as it is on the left wing. 

BTW I'll be sharing my wings with my painter friends so they'll have accurate wings and won't have to spend the time I did fixing them.  

 

 

Nice work Steve,Thanks for Sharing.

Thank you Steve for your time and facilitation.

Kind regards

I think if you keep practicing Steve, you'll get the hang of this painting thing in the end

10 minutes ago, Paul Golding said:

I think if you keep practicing Steve, you'll get the hang of this painting thing in the end

Naw...Paul I'm gonna' give it up 3 years from now when I hit my 20th anniversary of freeware painting if I don't get it right by then!  You guys will have to put up with my constant paint previews until then.   (but I've really semi-retired to the point where I only paint planes I want to fly and special requests from a very, very select few in our community....nothing like the back in the SGA days where Eric was pumping out great models almost faster that I could paint them...LOL)

In fact, you're one of the few who can relate to this post:

 

Edited March 9, 20188 yr by Steve Dra

2 hours ago, Paul Golding said:

I think if you keep practicing Steve, you'll get the hang of this painting thing in the end

Ladies and Gentlemen, Paul Golding in the house!

On ‎09‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 12:49 PM, Steve Dra said:

Naw...Paul I'm gonna' give it up 3 years from now when I hit my 20th anniversary of freeware painting if I don't get it right by then!  You guys will have to put up with my constant paint previews until then.   (but I've really semi-retired to the point where I only paint planes I want to fly and special requests from a very, very select few in our community....nothing like the back in the SGA days where Eric was pumping out great models almost faster that I could paint them...LOL)

In fact, you're one of the few who can relate to this post:

 

It's scary where the time goes Steve!

On ‎09‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 3:18 PM, ryanbatcund said:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Paul Golding in the house!