IRIS A-7 Corsair II - Repaint Story

[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


As the artwork pattern I used this one here. But i want to do all what is blue here in a dark green.


This is my status now:
I done the grey paints, now im beginning to make the eagle.



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

[aussiewannabe]

Looking good, Ruffy!!

Keep us posted on your progress.

[Ruffy]

Some News:

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







The only thing were i don't know how to take it, is this little mistake here:


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

Cheers

[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 ....



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

[Ruffy]

Pictures of the finished Corsair:

[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.

[Crussell]

Wow, thats amazing  :D

[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 )

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

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



ore

this one



Will see what i want

[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...  ;)

[Ruffy]

Hehe, thanks.

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

Navy Weapon Center - China Lake Corsair II



Cheers

[aussiewannabe]

Congrats on a job well done 8-)

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

[Ruffy]

For the first repaint maybe 5 or 6 hours, and for the last 15 minuts

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

[Ruffy]

So, here is my Third Reapint, i think ill do one more today

VFA-22 "Fighting Redcocks"






Cheers

[Ruffy]

The Last for Today:


VA-305 "Lobos"







Cheers

[igorski]

Crackin paints there how did you get on with that little problem on the nosecone?