|
Post by Vermin King on Sept 10, 2012 11:44:22 GMT -9
For the life of me, I cannot remember whose post it was or where it was posted, but there was a post, probably within the last six months on doing recolors. As mentioned elsewhere, I am needing to do three airplane models in honor of people who have passed away. On the first one, AC-130 Hercules gunship, the post on using Snapshot has me well on my way. On the second, we are doing a stock model of a Junkers JU-88. On the third, I am in a bit of a quandary. I have a model of a Curtiss P-40, but in my research, the units in North Africa used a desert camo pattern, so no forest green which my model has. It is actually in a camo pattern of forest green and tan. There is no photograph of the actual plane that I've found of Eugene Sanders plane, but if there was a way to get it to a light brown and tan by switching out the green for light brown, that would be good enough. Can anyone point me in the right direction? EDIT: Actually found the post, but I'm not sure it can help me on a pdf. It might just require some thought. cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tonsha&action=display&thread=3279
|
|
|
Post by cowboyleland on Sept 10, 2012 14:30:22 GMT -9
You should be able to import a pdf into gimp. Then you can try Tonsha's technique which is a lot like Hackbarths . cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hackbarth&action=display&thread=2830I think you would need a properly scaled sample of desert camo on the clip board and you could switch it in. I remember another forum older post on this forum that described setting red, yellow and blue saturation each to "0" to create a layer with just shading and then you could throw whatever texture you wanted on a layer underneath. You need to know the "code" numbers for the colours so I really wish I could find the post I think it was one of our South American compadres (or padrinhos) being valuable again)
|
|
|
Post by Vermin King on Sept 10, 2012 15:09:45 GMT -9
I've started with the Snapshot function of Reader, and proceeding with the poor ignorant slob's version of recoloring. Fill and Paintbrush in MSPaint. Yes it is tedious along those curved edges, but it'll get the job done.
|
|
|
Post by cowboyleland on Sept 10, 2012 15:14:28 GMT -9
Sometimes it is best to stick to what you know. You should try GIMP someday, once you get the hang of it you will never go back. BTW I'm sure it was Hackbarth who wrote the other tutorial I was thinking about. He used his mod from Hoard 93 as the example.
|
|
|
Post by hackbarth on Sept 11, 2012 3:13:56 GMT -9
Take 30 minutes of your time to try to learn the GIMP. Try the tutorial from my post (was google translate readable enough?). The whole sheet of minis can be recolored like magic at once, and with much better results than pixel pushing.
|
|
|
Post by hackbarth on Sept 11, 2012 3:23:43 GMT -9
Sometimes it is best to stick to what you know. You should try GIMP someday, once you get the hang of it you will never go back. BTW I'm sure it was Hackbarth who wrote the other tutorial I was thinking about. He used his mod from Hoard 93 as the example. Guilty as charged: Uncoloring paper miniatures
|
|
|
Post by Vermin King on Sept 11, 2012 6:08:17 GMT -9
|
|
|
Post by Vermin King on Sept 15, 2012 5:21:20 GMT -9
Sorry for the double post, but if I only edited, this wouldn't be flagged.
Thank you, Hackbarth for the tutorial and thank you cowboyleland for pointing me in the right direction.
Got the p-40 done in less than 10 minutes, spent more time going back and reading and re-reading the tutorial than on actually making the changes. Then I played with some other models until the wee hours of the morning.
Thanks
|
|
|
Post by cowboyleland on Sept 15, 2012 6:08:48 GMT -9
Welcome to the wonderful world of GIMP! It has often kept me up to the wee hours
|
|
|
Post by hackbarth on Sept 15, 2012 16:06:45 GMT -9
You are welcome, glad that I could help. It was for this that I Written the tutorial.
|
|