[Rel] Skin: (weathered) Gato camo/noncamo
 

Hi,

this is a skin for the Gato class boats.
For this one I focused mainly on two aspects: I tried to gave it a weathered look, with rust and washed up colors where appropriate, some black parts where the engine smoke constantly goes by.

I made an attempt to create an oil canning look. Oil canning describes the metal skin of a ship being pushed towards the inner side by the constant pressure. Especially submarines are prone to this as you can imagine ;).
Read more about it here: http://www.rokket.biz/models/modelsw...57/prog1.shtml

I also invented a fictional camouflage scheme. It reminds me a bit of the historical dazzle camo, the US Navy used at these times.

Again, the skin includes a version for the early and late war period each, so that the game will change it appropriately (somewhere around '44).

Here is what it all looks like:
http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/show.jpg

DL link:
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+Gato.../fileinfo.html

I will also a non-camo version and one that looks less weathered for the ones of us who drive some brand new models ;).

EDIT: Gna ... almost forgot to again thank Foofighters for his nice high res skin I used as a base, found here:
http://www.oldsmobile1958.com/silenthunter/

Happy sailing :salute:

quite a beaut !

keltos

I reassembled the layers and created a few new sets of variations of this skin, as I had planned.
I didn't make a full new set of screenshots but I think the changes are clear :)

The skin without any camo stuff but still washed up and rusty and oil canned:
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+Gato.../fileinfo.html

One with Camo and where it looks like it is brand new (highly reduced weathered effects):
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+Gato.../fileinfo.html

showing only the clean late war camo skin:
http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/lateclean.jpg

And as a little bonus (because I built it at least for me anyways :D):
The swordfish emblem for the conning tower, Gato-ready. It is a leftover from my USS Swordfish skin http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=151507 ).
Just activate it after any version of the above skin.
pic:
http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/gatofish.jpg
dl link:
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+Gato.../fileinfo.html

Special request. There were a few S-Boats before the war done up in full dazzle camouflage. I'd love to have that available for the game with a sugar boat!:D I mean the whole bold in your face dazzle job!

great skin
 

Hey Rock, hows it goin?

you doing any mk-10(N) for your S-boats?

I have recomended this weathered skin for the new two Subrons coming operational this june 1st.

SubRon 14 will become SubDiv 14 and SubRon 7 will activate in Pearl and SubRon 21 in Australia... we are growing!

great improvement, looks just REAL

Why hadn't I ever thought of that?
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...idntIthink.gif

I feel a project coming on!:woot:Ichso, if you'll put the sugar dazzle camo S-Boat on the front burner I'll get crackin on the Slightly Subnuclear Mark 10.

Thanks! Especially for the non-camo version. They look great.

Very nice skin, thank you.

+1

a Sugar Boat in Dazzle by someone of this talent would really be awesome.

Thanks!

Did you guys mean something like this ?
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0803605.jpg
(Not posting the image, it is really large).
Looks ... err ... weird, but I guess it's supposed to be :DL

Or more like this:
http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzl...azzle3-600.jpg

or this:
http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzl...azzle2-600.jpg

nice skins thanks:yeah:

Great Job again:salute:, keep up the great work:yeah:.

YES!:up:
Question: how do you hide an aircraft carrier? Easy!:O:

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/wp...-camo-ship.png

Which picture did you say yes to ? :hmmm:

I think it is a general yes to the very bold style of Razzle Dazzle shown in those pics rather then one specific design.

Really, true Dazzle was a WWI type camo. It was used to some extent in WWII of course but not to the garish extent that it was in WWI. (look at the red/blue destroyer in my sig!)

This is a good link that describes many Dazzle "systems" or schemes, good stuff starts on page 19: LINK Also on page 57 they discuss Submarine camo schemes.

Or the bow of a ship? :D

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...01/n01733t.jpg
Click for bigger picture

Last time I was in this thread, the request for a sugar - dazzle skin was like the last post.

Off I went all excited about a skinning project, when I realized today that ichso was also working on a dazzle s-class. A very similar boat skin.

I should have checked with you ichso...I apologize for that.

Did, and no harm done, released mine anyways:salute:

Thank you :)
Which one do you mean for the rest of the roster ? The camo version or the usual one ?

then WHy didn't they keep that paint scheme in RL ?

keltos