skin templates request

[dog1]

hello
I would like to work on  some off your skin templates with the purpose off adding code numbers to copies for squadrons . right now we only have one of any aircraft from you . Could you please consider allowing me access to downloading some skins templates for IL2 use only .i upload my work usually at Mission for Today . Namely these are the templates i need:
Hurricane
F6F 5 and 3
P51 D B
Corsair F4U 1 and A
P 40


kind regards

 

[cromhunt]

You are not the first who ask for a template of mine.I did already an answer about this kind of request,sorry but it stills not.
I spend a lot of time to create my own templates.It's my signature.
All around the web some exist,maybe you could find.
I only share my skins.

see you:)

[dog1]

Could you supply a bmp blank  ? ie no code numbers.

regards 

[cromhunt]

I do regret,it's noway;
So why you don't try to make your own?it's not so hard,just have to spend some time on it.
I do share my work once skins are done only,and the template is sometimes more big than 300 megs.
With several skins you will be able to make a blank skin.
And invite you and everybody to do the same.
see you:)

[dog1]

hello
actually blank skins are useless since you cannot place under the rivets the insignias and markings.

[cromhunt]

yep ,and what are you thinking about making a full layer of rivets?
for each model it's that i'm doing.
once the rivets layer is done and all other layers of skin,it will be easy to make the final skin.
see you next:)

[dog1]

hello
i am a skiner il2  only since last year and upload my work to mission for today . i use the name sgtrock on the forum and my skins are signed agskins . before that for 15 years i was at sim outhouse combat flight simulator 2 scenery developer , name dog1 . Wanting to learn about templates came naturally because i want to skin properly the spitfire vc trop filter used in Malta and North africa 1942-1943 by the RAF and SAAF but as i mentioned earlier the exhaust manifold texture is missing from the only template i found by luck at SAS . I then found this tutorial by birdbrain and got stuck at the stage required to make the rivets layer transparent . i contacted adobe and they told me online discussion that the tool by macks is very old and to use the opacity slider .i did that with very poor messy results . nothing like what you see in the tutorial . the next problem i faced was the MB , when flatening and testing it was below 1mb which means it will not appear in game . its approx 770 kb . usually after flatening a template we get 3 mb and after passing it in "bright" it goes down to 1mb . the void in the default skin folder is 1mb and after flatening im not reaching 3mb , so after passing in "bright " its below 1 mb. can you help here since i dont know what to do .
i would like to comment further since i have started skining HD 2048 templates as well , when i finish my work after flatening these HD 12mb files dont need to be reduced to 1 mb to appear that is because as you know we have the 24 bit HD files that handle this size. i have the carmaster set from SAS . 
maybe you can comment on this problem

these are my template sources:
assisbiz
SAS
eMel
free il2 moding
pavlac 

[cromhunt]

Sorry,now:)
To be more accurate with that i would have to do question of my work.
Did you see a skin of mine 1024 or 2048 that showing the stuff that you are talking about?
If answer is yes please point out to me the one which is referent.And maybe i could search among the templates if something exist.
see you next:)

[dog1]

hello
the problem has been solved,my template was not the right 1024 canvas size to start with , so the calculations were all low and wrong since part was missing . this is the spitfire vc tropical filter  template i am building now , its my first template ever .