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4BO - Soviet Green

Sorry, if I'm not distracting, could you help a little, I can't figure out how to make a custom skin for Koch 2, I seem to do it according to the manual, but it doesn't change for me. And can you, as a person who has done this in practice, tell us more?

Hey, I've been using this skin set for a while and I love it. Keep the good work!

The color is fantastic. I (still) love these skins. Have you thought of doing a version with some real unit and national insignia as part of the skin? I'd love to use these like that, as I have the team color overlay markings turned off for realism.

As long as it's a derivative work and not a direct copy, go right ahead.. The colour gamma is not completely true to the source files, as in-game lighting and weather effects can alter it a lot.

Cool, is it okay if I take these as inspiration when drawing tankskins for a new WW2 RTS?

All the digital work has been done in Photoshop. Some elements, like rust spots, might be taken from photographs of real rust. My competition skins also feature some hand-lettered decals, scanned from ink and paper. It is actually quite a lot of work to colour-match all vehicles to historic tones and also to each other - dirt, snow, scratches, rust and lighting effects are also all contained within the same files..

Just out of curiosity, what program did you use to draw these great skins?

Cheers! The vehicles here have been cleaned up a little deliberately.. It was difficult to strike the right balance between historic accuracy and achieving a dramatic appearance.

If you have a close look at the paint work, the scratches are actually there. However, they are not as high-contrast as they were previously. The reason is that there is much less bare metal exposed. There is an undercoat of broken-down paint that is visible under the old paint layer. There are chips and small amounts of exposed primer. It is tidy, but not perfectly new.

Poddubnyy documents the instructions for re-painting used by the Red Army. Accordingly, re-painting is included in every routine inspection and repair cycle in wartime as well as once a year in spring, when winter camouflage is removed. Therefore, any armour that is new (or fully repaired) was supposed to be re-painted. This is well supported by period photography.

Perhaps some extra dirt might do the trick instead?

Simple as it should be, well done, but the skins need signs of wear, f.i. the IS2 looks great, the KW8, SU85, T34 they look like just as factory-assembled, a bit more of those scratches and traces and its perfect!

Thanks!