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ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Big B

S-weet John!

All you Camo Demons out there - get your paint programs warmed up![;)]

ORIGINAL: csatahajos

Dixie!

Please give us more of this, it looks seriously good!!! Awesome!!!

ORIGINAL: J Boomer

Outstanding! [&o][&o] Dixie, your art on your web page is great as well. Do you think that you might standardised sized versions of your what-if art as well (IE Ark Royal)?

ORIGINAL: J Boomer

Will there be two sets? One with and one without cammo?

ORIGINAL: J Boomer

I actually prefer the non camo ship shides JWE, however some of the ship sides shown thus far have camo so I was wondering is all. For me there is no contention, I think what you guys are is great and am eagerly looking forward to the finnished results. As for the caveman comment, thanks, now I feel like the guy in the Geico (sp?) commercials.[:D] I agree with the idea of a standardized set and appreciate that those of you with some talent are sharing your work with those of us who are not artists. My question was not ment to be an advocation of camo vs non-camo; the camo pics on the thread had me wondering. Thank you for the update on what you fellows are working on though, I'm glad to hear that CHS and others will be added to the set as well. Keep up the great work, do them however you wish (beggers cannot be choosers) , and thank you for all the time you guys have put into this project. And stop trying to obfuscate the situation with strange words like peurile.[;)]
As I said earlier, your project is great, can't wait to see the finnished product.

Thanks

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

are we nearly there yet?????

are there some plans for IJN btw???

Great looking work

ORIGINAL: JWE

ORIGINAL: J Boomer

Will there be two sets? One with and one without cammo?

Actually Boomer, not .. really. Having said that the better answer is .. yes .. kinda.

At the risk of repeating myself, this project is in response to a customer request; a standardized art set where all the art is 'consistent', in that it has similar hue and brightness characteristics, has a uniform 'relative scale', and is generally uniform in color, in that the detail of each ship is clearly visible and she is identifyable on a uniform background set.

Other styles are valid, but irrelevant. This is what the customer requested and the customer has declined to entertain other depictions. I must say I agree with the customer. I like having a basis from which all things evolve.

Phase 1 of the project is to create a 'stock' art replacement set that uses the talents of the WiTP artistic community to develop an art set that can replace the 'official' images. That is being done.

For phase 2 we have been asked to expand our work to accommodate, for example, CHS, add ships, add upgrade options, all dependant on the imperitives of the database. This will necessarily include some repainting.

Phase x involves the individuals who have contributed to this project. We are all willing and able to create a 'beaut' for ourselves, and make her available to all of you. This is on an individual basis. It is nice to have a standardized, scaled, set from which to work. It makes life very easy.

For example, below are 3 Baltimores. It took me 17 seconds to do a measure 41 paint job on her and 31 seconds to do the atrocious dazzle job. If I took about 2 minutes, I would have squared all the edges and made it look better, but the thrust of this is that overlaying a 'cammo' pattern on one of our standard ships is 'so easy a caveman could do it'.

Long answer to your question, but necessary I think. This project isn't a cammo v not-cammo issue, and I wish the contention would cease. It is peurile and unnecessary. Later-war images can be (and absolutely will be) easily accommodated by once the basis designs are completed.

JWE