War Thunder biweekly Top Skins Of The Month Competition May

[OrsonES 19,743]

 

 

Dear Players!

 

Welcome to our new Top Skins of the month competition.

 

Every 2 weeks a panel of official judges, chosen from the team, will vote on the top 5 skins submitted and the winners will receive 750 Golden eagles for being placed in the top 5. Every 2 weeks, 5 new winners will be drawn and at the end of the month, the judges will vote on the top 3 of the month from the 10 winners throughout the month and those winners will earn 2000 GE each!

 

The Top three skins of the month will be chosen for following categories:

 

1. Historical Skin (any historically correct skin - aircraft / tank)                     

2. Historical Ace Skin (any historically correct skin related to ww2 ace - aircraft /ground vehicle)                      

3. Non-historical Skin (anything creative enough to get our attention)

 

Please post your creative, unique, historical or very special skins only. If you post something ridiculous like a bright rainbow skin, your skin will not even be considered. We will be choosing more historical and special skins. You are free to post skins for both aircraft and ground vehicles.

 

 

 

Rules:

• Include the category of your skin, title of your skin and if desired, a brief description of it.

• All skins must be uploaded to our live.warthunder site with the link to your skin added to your entry.

• Entries containing swastikas, SS division symbols, profanity, vulgar symbols, etc. will not be accepted.

Note:

If a skin submission has previously won, it will no longer be accepted in future selections.

 

 

 

Examples:

 

Historical Skin-

 

Historical Ace-

 

Non Historical-

 

 

The War Thunder Team

[MostaFox 5,190]

Catagory: Historical Ace

 

MiG-15 111035 "135" flown by the first ever Jet vs Jet ace, Capt. Sergei M Kramarenko

176th GvIAP, Antung, 12 April 1951 (4k .DDS)

 

13 kills, all jet aircraft, the first in history

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/168588/

 

 

Apologies for the number '135' appearing a little "warped" in these screenshots but this is only due to the generally low quality of the current mig-15 model

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Sergey Makarovich Kramarenko 

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Edited May 4, 2015 by MostaFox

[ReYhael 264]

Historical Skin

 

P-51D Mustang "LOU IV" - http://live.warthunder.com/post/169594/

 

This Mustang was flown by Lt. Col Thomas J. J. Christian Jr. in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, UK, July 1944. This aircraft was one of the 4 Mustangs that were taken above UK. The photo is then famously called "Bottisham four".

 

 

 

My first submission (Sort of) so if I forgot something please inform  ;)s

Edited May 4, 2015 by Sidescrape

[cambridge79 1,924]

"historical Ace"

 

p51 - Princess Elizabeth

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/169084/

 

 

Princess Elizabeth’ is painted to represent the mount of triple ace William T. Whisner (pictured), who flew with the 352nd Fighter Group, the ‘Blue Nosed B*stards’, at RAF Bodney, Norfolk, during World War Two. Whisner was credited with 15 and a half kills by the end of the war, having downed no less than five FW-190s during one sortie alone. He would go on to serve in the Korean War, where he became one of only seven pilots to become an ace in both World War Two and the Korean War

 

 

Edited May 4, 2015 by cambridge79

[_Invincible 829]

--Historical Skin--

 

Fairey Firefly Mk-I of the Koninklijke Marine in Mid 1940 

 

The Skin was made from Sketch. so Every rivet and panelline was Redrawn by myself. I also made the Camouflage look like in Reallife ( look at the Refference pic ) 

 

During the fall of 1945 two orders of fifteen aircraft each were signed. The first twenty aircraft were F.Mk.1 serialled F-1 till F-20; the remaining ten aircraft were FR.Mk.1 serialled F-21 till F-30. 
The first six examples were handed over to the Dutch Navy January 18, 1946. These aircraft were assigned to 860 squadron. March 20, 1946 the first Dutch aircraft carrier 'Karel Doorman' entered service. 860 squadron was based on this ship. The flight deck was just 150 meters long and caused problems with start and landing. 
August 26, 1946 the 'Doorman' left for the Dutch East Indies because of the situation there. Squadron 860 was embarked with Fireflies F-17 till F-30. The Fireflies were used for air to ground support. Several Fireflies were lost in action, such as F-22, F-24 and F-27. 

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/168328/

 

Edited May 4, 2015 by Hueynam1234

[GRUFFMAN 282]

*** HISTORICAL SKIN ***
Plane: Me 262 A-1a/U4

Unit: JV 44
Serial: W.Nr.111899
Pilot - Maj.Willy Herget. Lechfeld, on April 25th, 1945. The aircraft equipped with MK214 cannon.

DOWNLOAD LINK: 

(Last is just a clean image of the first)

[PROx 576]

Historical ACE Skin
 

P-51D-15 Mustang
"Cheese Cake Chassis"
S/N: 44-15392 / #20

 

Lt B.J. Mayer
2nd FS, 2nd ACG, 10th AF
Burma, January 1945

 

 

DL From Live:  http://live.warthunder.com/post/163643/

Edited May 4, 2015 by PROX_GAMING

[Feral_Lutheran 63]

Creative Skin

 

Polikarpov I-16 Type 28

 

"White 21" is an I-16 Type 28 in a hypothetical Soviet Naval Aviation paint scheme, inspired by the colors of the Yak-38 Forger, the Soviet Navy's first carrier-based fixed-wing aircraft. Though the variant here is the Type 28, the skin will work on all I-16 models.

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/160318/

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2015 by Feral_Lutheran

[JoKeR_BvB09 114]

Historical Skin for the M10 Wolverine of the 8éme Regiment Chasseurs D´Afrique. All facts about this tank can found here:

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/169290/

 

 

 

 

Joker

Edited May 4, 2015 by JoKeR_BvB09

[Feral_Lutheran 63]

Historical / Ace Skin

 

P-51D5  "Passion Wagon"

 

"Passion Wagon" was a P-51D of the 362nd FS/357th FG, from 1944 - 46. The aircraft was first flown by Maj. Arval Roberson, and then by Capt. Charles Weaver, wearing a non-standard base green color.  A restoration of "Passion Wagon" with historical markings and a dark blue base  flew for many years, until the aircraft was destroyed in a crash in 1990. Historical swastika kill markings have been blotted out with a simple German cross for forum pictures.

 

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/164102/

 

 

 

 

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Edited May 4, 2015 by Feral_Lutheran

[Spogooter 1,422]

Category: Historical

Aircraft: AD-2

Title: NM300 of VA-52

Download: http://live.warthunder.com/post/168051/

[CmdNomad 1,396]

Category:     Historical Skin

 

Title:             M42 Duster "Have Guns Will Travel"

 

WT Live:      http://live.warthunder.com/post/164074/

 

About the creation: I've researched the whole "Duster in Vietnam" for quite some time and found some interesting looking ones. The first one i've made was this one here:

Its from the US Army Air Defense Artillery detachment and was deployed during the Vietnam War. The skin is directly painted in 4K DDS, the decals are all handdrawn by me. For the first time i've also added some special weathering effects (eg. the jumper decal on the front plate) they show only in the sun/shadow. I've also added a lot of little details, like the 7.62mm Ammo boxes/Jerry Can/...

The color of the green was really hard. The M42 from that time had this green color and i got the original color code. Problem was, the color changes ingame dramatically and it was too light. I spend 2hours of finetuning till i got the right color.

 

A Photo of the original Tank and additional Information are in the LIVE Post.

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2015 by CmdNomad

[Enzofer 144]

Category: Historical

Aircraft: F-80C-10-LO

Title: "Evil Eye Fleagle/Miss Barbara Ann"

Link to live: http://live.warthunder.com/post/165045/

[TheHVos 11]

Semi-Historical Skin
M4A3E2 76(w) with armor texturing from the 4th Armored division. A tedious skin that involves extensive modifications to both the regular templates and _n files.


Skin link here. (http://live.warthunder.com/post/169930/)
Upvote this post if you like the skin! Edited May 6, 2015 by TheHVos

[Spiderkeegan 41]

Historical Skin

P 51D-5 "Nervous Energy V" of the 325th Fighter Group,  known as the "Checkertail Clan"

http://live.warthunder.com/post/166825/

 

[DEAD_in_Mosh 61]

Category:     Historical Skin

 

Title:             FW Ta 152 AIR MIN 11 Great Britain

 

WT Live:      http://live.warthunder.com/post/150174/

 

About the creation: 

Ta.152H-1

Unit: Stab/JG 301

Serial: AIR MIN 11 (ex 9, W.Nr.150168)

Ex Luftwaffe a/c of Ofw. Willy Reschke. It was captured by British troops at Leck. In 1946 it was demonstrated at UK at 'trophies exhibition'. It was tested at Farnbrough by British pilots Brize Norton and Eric Brown.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2015 by MUERTO_en_Pogo

[Ayy_Lmaoo 113]

Seafire FR.47 / Skyly J2

Fictional

 

Unit: The Sky Crawlers
Serial: PS V
Alternate historical period

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/170886/

 

[Trude_Barkhorn_ 46]

Category: Fictional (Anime)

Title: Jet Striker exhaust flames

Download link

 

Description: An exhaust skin for all jets that's based on the anime Strike Witches. (Recommended aircraft: Me 262 and Sabre)

 

Edited May 5, 2015 by Trude_Barkhorn_

[Macks_RAF 13]

Category: Fictional (was a real buchon, but painted as RAF hurricane as a film prop, so deemed fictional)

 

Messerchmitt BF109 F2 (Works also on the F1/F4/F4 Trop) "Hispano HA112 Buchon" Skin

 

War Thunder Live Link- http://live.warthunder.com/post/118363/

 

 

[BlaZebura 3,688]

Category: Non-Historical skin

 

M4A2 76 (W) Sherman "War Journalist", Hokkaido 1945

 

 

Download link: http://live.warthunder.com/post/163666/

[cerbera15 56]

Just a quick question. Can I submit an entry if I use someone else's blank template?

[cambridge79 1,924]

Just a quick question. Can I submit an entry if I use someone else's blank template?

 

if the author provided the blank template to the community to help the community produce skins yes.

 

if you're using a skin that was intended as  an historical a skin that is "blank" just because the original plane reproduced was "blank" that would not be fair. 

[cerbera15 56]

if the author provided the blank template to the community to help the community produce skins yes.

 

if you're using a skin that was intended as  an historical a skin that is "blank" just because the original plane reproduced was "blank" that would not be fair. 

 

Ok cool. Thx for the help. I'll ask the creator of the blank just in case though.

[RuKhiHo0k 325]

"historical skin"

 

B-57B "Vermont Test Version"

 

http://live.warthunder.com/post/171668/

 

Edited May 6, 2015 by RuKhiHo0k

[Kulcsos12 1,081]

RHAF Bf 109 F-4 V0+39

Ace: Lieut.-Col. Aladár Heppes

101th Puma Fighter Wing

 

Category: Historical Ace skin

 

Download Link: http://live.warthunder.com/post/168102/