Okay moral of the story is this... (i think)
download the high res Redfin balao skins on page 3
change all the file/folder names from where it says Balao to Gato
then download "FooBors" high res gato skin
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=gato+skin
then take the
Submarine\ 0O1.dds file, the texture\tex tower files; 0O1.dds and 0O2.dds from the
gato high res and overwrite them into the RedFin mod that you just renamed all the files in.
with those files overwritten, all will be good in the gato redfin world
nice job Cox and
nice work Foofighters, and thank you for your help and time
OR
simply, as foofighters said earlier, download the redfin balao, change the file names, then delete the tower 0O1 and 0O2.dds files from the texture\ folder that also seemed to work. (strange) this stuff is way beyond my pay grade
anways, nice work guys