Howdy all

[Stormtrooper]

Decided to get serious and learn as much as i can about skinning instead of playing around with Gimp.
I still can't seem to find the color palette in Gimp ??

So here i am, interested in skinning for Thirdwire series, IL-2 and perhaps FS9.

Like most others i don't have a clue what i'm doing. My experiences so far are cut and pasting decals on aircraft templates as well as brushing them to the color i want. This usually ends with a solid aircraft and no panel/rivet lines.

Anyway....Hi all glad to be here and a shout out to Adlabs6. What's up bud.

[adlabs6]

Hey Stormtrooper! Things are great, welcome to SPS!

Starting with GIMP isn't a bad choice. The color palette is easy to find, just double click the foreground or background colors in the main GIMP tool dialog, and you'll get a new window with a color palette. You can pick a variety of palette types on that dialog, just play with the radio buttons and tabs and see what all you can do.

I don't know anything about the Third Wire products, so I can't comment there. I would say that IL2 is a great place to start though, with straight forward techniques, easy .BMP file formatting, and ample starting materials.

Start by getting a feel of the work process, just drop by the tutorials section we've got here, and read some beginners guides like this or this. Then grab a layered template for a plane you'd like to skin in IL2 (we've got a handful in our downloads section), and start to play with things.

Finally, if you get stuck somewhere, it happens. Just post a question and we'll do our best to get you going.

Good luck... it can be an addictive hobby!

[Serval]

Welcome, and give Adlabs some nasty questions about GIMP...