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IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:24 pm
by Ruffy
This is my little series about the A-7 Corsair II repaints.

Something General:
For all of my repaints of the Sluff, im using Adobe Photoshop CS2, Corel Draw X3 and DXTBmp.


Now to the important thing. The repaints!
The model i want to do is this pretty Sluff
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As the artwork pattern I used this one here. But i want to do all what is blue here in a dark green.
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This is my status now:
I done the grey paints, now im beginning to make the eagle.
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After the Eagle is ready vectorized, im setting myself on the basic stencils.
Hope you are enyoing my little Series in further time ;).

Regards from Germany,
Ruffy

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:42 pm
by aussiewannabe
Looking good, Ruffy!!

Keep us posted on your progress.

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:49 am
by Ruffy
Some News:

I finished the tail and im proud of the work  ;D
Here are some Pictures:

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The only thing were i don't know how to take it, is this little mistake here:
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I realy tried to look how i can eliminate it, but i diddnt get it since now  >:(

Im sitting myself on the stencils know, I've got about 2 big sites full of stencils in Corel ;D

Cheers

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:36 am
by Ruffy
I readyed up the front section with all stencils and the star's and bars. The ohter very little stencils are to little that we cant see them ....

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Il set me now on the Wings and the second fuselage section.

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:16 am
by Ruffy
Pictures of the finished Corsair:

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Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:34 am
by Felix/FFDS
How do you get the eagle so crisp, without jagged edges?  I definitely like the crisp, sharp look of the logo and the rest of the artwork.

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:42 am
by Crussell
Wow, thats amazing  :D

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:30 pm
by Ruffy
At first, i vectorized the Eagle in Corel. Then i exported the file to an *.psd file with the point, that white is transparent. Then i take Adobe and open the Eagle, and copy it into the Repaint-File.

But know you will ask you how I get white into the repaint? It's easy: All of my files are in the CMYK Colors ( Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black). When i want to export white, then ill give only 1% black into the white, because corel dont think it is white any more, its another color.

Hope this answerd your question, Felix (when i understood here right ;D)

Hope you can understand it, i dont know how to explain it better ;)

When if more time this evenig, i will do this Corsair

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this one

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Will see what i want :D

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:21 pm
by Felix/FFDS
Thanks for the explanation.... I'll go try it.

Hmmmm - I don't think you'll stop until you've repainted every A-7 ever painted...  ;)

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:44 pm
by Ruffy
Hehe, thanks.

I came late at home, so i made just a little reapint:

Navy Weapon Center - China Lake Corsair II

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Cheers

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:04 pm
by aussiewannabe
Congrats on a job well done 8-)

I'm understandably curious: How much time did you put into doing that repaint?

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:42 am
by Ruffy
For the first repaint maybe 5 or 6 hours, and for the last 15 minuts ;D

I began to make the VFA-22 "Fighting Redcocks" Corsair.

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Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:16 pm
by Ruffy
So, here is my Third Reapint, i think ill do one more today :D

VFA-22 "Fighting Redcocks"


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Cheers

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:32 pm
by Ruffy
The Last for Today:


VA-305 "Lobos"

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Cheers ;D

Re: IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:10 pm
by igorski
Crackin paints there :D how did you get on with that little problem on the nosecone?