Looking forward to your new release. Your mod has really added another dimension to the game. Excellent work, sergei. :salute: :yeah:

Excellent! Thank you.

Great job, love all the new skins, makes you feel like you're shooting different ships.

Any news sergei ? Are you still working on this great mod ?

Just found and installed this mod - dazzle skins!!!

Just sunk my first Hog Island Type A looked so nice as it was going down :DL

Amazing work really does help the immersion element - thanks this is great :yeah:

Any ETA on the final release?

The Merchant Skinpack is no more.

But The Japanese Merchant Marine is about to take its place.
It has a much broader scope than originally planned.

Myself and Tater have been hard at work behind the scenes for several months now.
Expect full details soon.

Teasers

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6...v03aociv01.jpg

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1979/biyogrey02.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4...zzlegrey01.jpg

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/9...zzlegrey03.jpg

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/3...zzlegrey04.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7...zzlegreen0.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8895/nightconvoy.jpg

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1636/convoy3.jpg

Sorry 'bout the delay folks.

It just gets better and better, looking forward to the new release, guys. :salute:

Very, very nice! :sunny:

well done!

Wow!!! I'm so glad you were able to get the two-tone green camouflage measure working. Looks amazing.

Will you guys include Tater's resized smaller flags?

Thank you so much to both of you for continuing to make the game more realistic and immersive.

The flag mod is trivial, I'll release that separately on the off chance anyone actually likes the stock flags. I might make another version with the flag turned entirely to alpha channel, too, so you can scrag the lot of them.

Heck, maybe I'll zip it up tonight for ya.

Right now the trick with the skins s getting the civilian skins to show up in an appropriately rare way (they should be very rare, IMO, though I'm open to contrary evidence).

If I get permission from the Battle for the Baltic guys, we can use this:

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...kitbash_2d.jpg

Looks very much like a Japanese Standard Type 2D (particularly after I scaled and altered the model ;) )

I know I'm getting dangerously close to just brown nosing, but seriously, Tater - that looks awesome, resized and with the smaller flag.

Do you guys have a ballpark ETA on these?

Any word from IABL if he is OK with you borrowing his trawlers?

I posted about it on his thread, need to check. Think I PMed, too, but my box is rather more full than I'd like, and I keep some old PMs "just because" and that keeps it full (some PMs with Dave, etc :( ).

The upcoming mod is more than a skinpack, BTW (as totally great as that would be, frankly, it's hard to test and not take a million screen shots <S> Sergei ).

It will include more variability in merchant appearance aside from the paint---though frankly the paint will wow you so much you won't notice the rest.

Some new gun platforms---note that the stock game had the searchlight platforms armed with AA guns (Nippon). Yeesh. Many armament changes will become obvious as well. Some ships will be less armed, some will be considerably MORE armed.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...SH4/nippon.jpg

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o.../platforms.jpg

A pretty picture (you can see a hint of a tarp on the forward well deck of Nagara):
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...onvoy_dusk.jpg

Looks great! Looking forward to the release with much anticipation! :rock:

Sent one of these to the bottom last night. Was almost a shame. Absolutely gorgeous.

Props mate.

@$#@% Kinposan Maru.

It'd be nice if they had made it look, I dunno, ANYTHING like the real thing.

It's amazing how many of the "official" ships in SH4 are just weak kitbash efforts.

/rant

Kinposan is starting to look like a real ship. Heck, she even looks a little like Kinposand Maru now :)

Pics soon.