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I decided to indulge myself and do some texturing. I went through lots of images before I found ones I liked. The basic layer is scan of a metal cylinder. Specifically "metal cylinder section", metal_cylinder_section_4161595.jpg from www.mayang.com. |
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This was then overlayed with a pattern called "Block2.bmp" from the Space Station in the 2001 Spacecraft Pack for Celestia. |
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As per the Strategic Air Command into Strategic Space Command theme, I painted the top of the nose black, the lower half of the scoutship anti-nuclear white, gave it a blue slash with stars and affixed Robert Merrill's SSC shield, and added the scoutship's name in the plastic model's decal font. |
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The silver top was hard to distinguish from the white bottom. To improve contrast I gave the top a slight blue tint. |
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Looking at the images, I realize that something is wrong. When I overlayed Block2.bmp on the metal cuylinder texture, it turned out that I had not overlayed it, I had replaced it. Once I set it to "multiply" mode, I had no need of the slight blue tint. The images are much better now. |