Nice work Hawk! :up: ...you have come over to the dark side:rotfl:

Thanks Kriller! Oakgroove did great work and his intentions were to make the textures as the boat looks today. I just wanted it to look newer as these boats were new. As many gauges and panels I cleaned on the Torsk, eventually you get through the grime and to find the letters/numbers are white. Next thing I know, I'm coloring this and changing that, etc. I used the original orders bar and made it gray. I got rid of the greenish color that was in the textures.

10-4 will do!!!

That was it good Dr. Thanks a million:up: Houston, I have white needle:D

OK here it is:

Added nice clean rivets to the faces. Here is the kts gauge.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...201924_984.jpg



Depth gauge with clean rivets.


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...201911_281.jpg


My new white needle thanks to Mr Beast! Some nice clean rivets!!! No right and left written on it. You know your right and left correct? I'm sure the crew did also!

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...201854_812.jpg


Note the rosey red color is now grayish and has some wear on it. Of course these are darker at night time. Also, the letters are nice and white...new as it was. The red line on the TDC is good and clean, easy to read. I do like the original buttons on the orders bar and made them gray instead of the greenish brown color. I'm thinking of changing the yellow lighted buttons to red and leave the green light buttons when in use the same.

Very nice work AVG :yep::up:


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http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...212022_421.jpg


What do you think of the read buttons instead of the yellow? I need to clean them up but this gives you an idea.

Not bad, maybe tone them down a tad, but they look pretty good :yep:


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I have made them darker. What other colors might look good?

Good question, let me think on that one AVG :yep:. The red does fit in with the existing scheme. Are you going to add it to the Torp. Selector as well?


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Lookin' good, AVG! :up: Extra LOLs for the SHH! description of Silent Running! BTW, Jimimadrid has made a set of green/red buttons, check that out if you like for proper color saturation. Been ages since I used it, but I'd still recommend it ;)

What torp selector are you talking about:hmm:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...201854_812.jpg
Just the coloring of the lettering, but in looking closer :roll: it prob. would not look that great with the arrow being a similar color.


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Thanks Dr Beast. The change in the .ini did the trick for the white needle. Thanks a million. I have saturated the buttons darker. I'm still not sold on the red over the yellow color. The picture above was just a quick try to see what it might look like. I'm still learning to use Paint.NET. It is a great program and the price was right....free:up:. Again, it seems to be to much red and more imposing then the yellow color. I plan on trying other colors that are less imposing then the read. Really , my main purpose was to make the textures look newer then 65 years old. Next thing I know I'm toying with colors. :roll:

@RDP,

I looked at the textures for the torp door loading/ready indicators on the panel. I got to thinking that the bulbs that light up these indicators were 1940 technology. Not the super bulbs we have today creating white light as opposed to the yellowish light these old time bulbs generated. I decided to leave the lettering that is supposed to look like a lightbulb is behind it that is light up. Oakgroove did a great job creating this effect. However, I might just clean them up a bit to remove some of the wear they do show.

What about a lighter shade of Blue, seems to go well on a greyish background, little easier on the eyes.


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I was thinking blue last night also. Less imposing. I will toy around with colors.

It's a process isn't it, you are doing well with it :yep: Also, thanks for the clarification regarding the lighting (bulbs), makes sense as it relates to the technology of the day.


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Luke pointed out the new orders bar for the add on. It is nice but again they did the rusty look. I do not understand why?

Swdw has a good Idea. Gray out the buttons not being used and the buttons being used colored red. Dark read for night time etc. Remove the green all together.