I didn't know you were the long time repainter Don Brynelsen ..

Nice bird!  So that's what it's called!  Time to go download!



As for you're paints, I must admit, all of yours are very nice!  You seem to always get great color schemes!  (with maybe the exception of the little pretty princess ones on the C172 you did ago, a bit to girly for me, no offense. )If you want a little hint from a fellow repainter, I would suggest maybe doing what I do.  It can help add some detail and pop to your paints.  I can't really seem unless I look really hard for them on any of your paints.



The following ramble is my hint if you want to read.
Keep an original paint scheme to use as the backround of the paint.  Then make a copy of it, and do some things to it like change the intensity or something that gives it the color you want, but keeps all the details like nuts, bolts, dirt(y) marks, and breaks between different sections of metal.  It can help to add some contrast.
Then make a general outline of what you want to paint.  Example: http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/1338685528.png
Then go and get a selection tool kindof like the magic wand and select everythign within you're cutout.
Then paste in on into teh exact spot it was on the orginal, it should be easy to tell where that is since it's the exact same pattern as the original, just colored differently.
It keeps all the detail full quality for only a little bit more work.
This is the difference it can make.
Simple tactic.  Though I'm pretty sure it's not yours.

My tactic.

U4EA wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 3:12am:


2 O-2s were just retired at some flight test center. Sorry about the iffy info, I cannot remember much else. I believe they were retired last year.

[quote author=08273E297E7B734B0 link=1338668879/3#3 date=1338676552]Nice bird!  So that's what it's called!  Time to go download!



As for you're paints, I must admit, all of yours are very nice!  You seem to always get great color schemes!  (with maybe the exception of the little pretty princess ones on the C172 you did ago, a bit to girly for me, no offense. )If you want a little hint from a fellow repainter, I would suggest maybe doing what I do.  It can help add some detail and pop to your paints.  I can't really seem unless I look really hard for them on any of your paints.



Thank's for the tip, I generally do what you suggest if the textures have detail to them like rivets and panel lines, but sometimes I have to work with just the basics I'm given. As to the pink Cessna's I did you mentioned, I did those for laughs, and the Princess ones I do for the daughter of my freind who's big into Cinderella and the other Disney Princesses right now. While you're here, check out my two latest Skymaster repaints.
The tan one is based on a real world Caravan parked in the background in a picture of my brother and his Skylane during one of his trips. Someone mentioned that some of the O2's in Nam had speakers mounted on them; now I know what the thing on the side of a built up model I bought at a swap meet is! Seeing as the Air Force is the only branch to fly the O2s, I might do a mercenaries scheme, ora free lanced South American Bananna Republic scheme.










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