I feel there was also personal bias on my part for the love of simpler designs like the Craftsmann/Teufort collections.

I do heavily disagree with the idea these will be confused for australiums.

As the creator of this paint, lemme give some insight.

The intent was not for a budget australium. Infact the original beta texture I designed was changed drastically as it was too close to aussie. I wanted to have a more subtle-limeish undertone to the yellow to reflect the original source.

However this texture was the best compromise I could get between the many itterations. And I feel mostly happy with it as the large yellow surface can be used for stuff like hazmat loadouts, construction loadouts, yellow paint loadouts, etc.

It might be budget aussie but still looks good fuck yeah

personally I just wouldn't have used albedo tint on this one, but its nice

"but what about australiums :(((" feels like such a dogshit argument, a warpaint that kinda looks like one (which this one doesn't), won't ruin your precious australiums, which are ridiculously limited to just a few weapons anyway

I kinda get what you're going for, I just don't like the idea altogether. The idea of a "fool's aussie" is interesting, I'll grant you that, but it kinda retracts from actual australiums imo. Aussies are meant to be stupid rare drops, but why invest the time or money into that when you can have a pyrite version of an aussie, and on a weapon that doesn't have an aussie reskin to boot. Obviously these aren't aussies to anyone who's played the game for more than 5 minutes, but newer players will definitely be confused and they don't need more confusion than they already get. Just feels like a middle finger to anyone just getting into the game.

That looks neat.

Yep. Yellow should get toned down

the yellow is so bright , maybe tone it down a little bit , it reminds me of iron wood mk.II but iron wood is better because it balanced that bright yellow with other textures

I don't know why but the first thing that came to mind when i saw this was the Star Wars Naboo fighter N-1. Nice skin.