Your face in Storm of War: Battle of Britain! [Archive]

luthier

11-06-2009, 07:59 AM

Hello gents,

You've all seen WIP our pilot model that Oleg posted last Friday:
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/England_pilot_72_Front.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/England_pilot_72_Front_minusobves.jpg

The most WIP aspect of it is the head. It's just a placeholder that won't make it into the final game.

We were walking desk to desk today looking for faces we could use for our final pilot models, but as it turns out, there just aren't a lot of British- or German- looking faces in Moscow.

So, we turn to you. We need some typical British, German and Italian male faces, for now. We'll select two of each, make 3D models and textures based on your unique features, and place them around our planes.

Obviously, these would need to be faces of young healthy men of around 18 - 24 years of age, i.e. the kind of people that would historically be seen in WWII cockpits.

For now, if you're interested, just post a portrait of yourself. If you're shy, you can email it to me at lutheir1@gmail.com. We'll select the faces we like, and take it from there. We'll probably do the final selection by the end of the day on Monday. Once selected, we'll need two or three high-quality close-up photos of your face: profile, head on, and probably 3/4.

[Edit] Don't forget to specify your nationality, just in case.

Warning: we reserve the right to pereodify your appearance - give you a 1940s haircut and / or facial hair, funny glasses, etc.

metro163

11-06-2009, 08:11 AM

Come on you lucky guys, what elso r u waiting for!

TheGrunch

11-06-2009, 09:30 AM

Sweet! Use my ugly mug if you want, guys.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/TheGrunch/merave.jpg
I'm afraid that is the closest I have to a portrait on this machine. :lol:
English, 21.

Tvrdi

11-06-2009, 09:48 AM

Hello gents,

You've all seen WIP our pilot model that Oleg posted last Friday:
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/England_pilot_72_Front.jpg
http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/England_pilot_72_Front_minusobves.jpg

The most WIP aspect of it is the head. It's just a placeholder that won't make it into the final game.

We were walking desk to desk today looking for faces we could use for our final pilot models, but as it turns out, there just aren't a lot of British- or German- looking faces in Moscow.

So, we turn to you. We need some typical British, German and Italian male faces, for now. We'll select two of each, make 3D models and textures based on your unique features, and place them around our planes.

Obviously, these would need to be faces of young healthy men of around 18 - 24 years of age, i.e. the kind of people that would historically be seen in WWII cockpits.

For now, if you're interested, just post a portrait of yourself. If you're shy, you can email it to me at lutheir1@gmail.com. We'll select the faces we like, and take it from there. We'll probably do the final selection by the end of the day on Monday. Once selected, we'll need two or three high-quality close-up photos of your face: profile, head on, and probably 3/4.

Warning: we reserve the right to pereodify your appearance - give you a 1940s haircut and / or facial hair, funny glasses, etc.

lolz average simmer is 36 yrs old...good luck :-)

HFC_Dolphin

11-06-2009, 09:48 AM

The average age of pilots in Battle of Britain was higher than 22.
I think 26, but resources vary from 22 to 26, therefore I think you should be looking for faces in between 22 and 32 years old.

luthier

11-06-2009, 09:55 AM

I knew you guys would find something to criticize right away :grin:

Feathered_IV

11-06-2009, 10:04 AM

Thinking outside the box a bit, would pictures of us when we were 18-24 do? :-P

HFC_Dolphin

11-06-2009, 10:14 AM

I knew you guys would find something to criticize right away :grin:

OMG, no!!!!

This is not critic. Just helping you add the ugly faces of the older simmers :P

luthier

11-06-2009, 10:18 AM

Thinking outside the box a bit, would pictures of us when we were 18-24 do? :-P

Sure, if you have some good clear ones, and you have a recognizable face - why not?

OMG, no!!!!

This is not critic. Just helping you add the ugly faces of the older simmers :P

I kid, I kid, don't worry.

Anyway, if not for your guys' criticism and incredibly high standards, we'd never have become what we are. Keep it up!

13th Hsqn Protos

11-06-2009, 10:21 AM

Pm sent.

Romanator21

11-06-2009, 10:47 AM

I'm 19, but not one of the above nationalities. However, if you want a totally over-the-top, handsome ladies man pilot to make all the girls in the RAF command swoon, then I'm your guy :grin:

http://www.depauw.edu/photos/PhotoDB_Repository/2008/11/custom/Alex%20Vraciu%20with%20Plane.jp-327x300.jpg

:grin: Ok here's my real mug, don't laugh at it. :-P

http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae325/rboiko1/2811_86163128853_583373853_25720-1.jpg?t=1257504020

Jg2001_Rasputin

11-06-2009, 11:42 AM

Don´t mind my eyerings I´m ill atm :(

I´m German and 23 :grin:

1393

zakkandrachoff

11-06-2009, 12:14 PM

okey... i'm from Argentina, buth my last name is Ukranian ( Kandrachoff) and of my Opa (grand father) is Wachter (Austria) and my Oma (Grandmather) is Dietrich (Germany i think)

http://sp3.fotolog.com/photo/3/4/9/jagdgeschwader/1225678357898_f.jpg

pd: why dont search in the internet.? puth german faces or something like that in images of google...

Tree_UK

11-06-2009, 12:47 PM

This one might work for you. I'm British. :grin:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3662/handlebarmoustache111a.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/i/handlebarmoustache111a.jpg/)

Bobb4

11-06-2009, 01:08 PM

This one might work for you. I'm British. :grin:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3662/handlebarmoustache111a.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/i/handlebarmoustache111a.jpg/)

Lord Nooooooooooooooooo
If that is British I will be flying German :)

Feuerfalke

11-06-2009, 01:09 PM

I'm British. :grin:

LOL - No need to add that comment to THIS picture :grin:

Tree_UK

11-06-2009, 01:10 PM

LOL - No need to add that comment to THIS picture :grin:

:grin::grin:

Feuerfalke

11-06-2009, 01:14 PM

Lord Nooooooooooooooooo
If that is British I will be flying German :)

I'll probably fly for UK anyway (love the early Hurri), but if Tree's picture is taken, I'll definitely take your seat, Bobb4. ;)

HFC_Dolphin

11-06-2009, 01:28 PM

Tree is da man!!!
I'll enjoy it a lot shooting down British planes, knowing his moustache will get wet :P

ramstein

11-06-2009, 02:01 PM

ok, here it is..

I am half German and Half English with some, Irish, and also Cherokee Indian. But am American. So what the hell would you do with my picture?

just use the picture I attached..
Marty Feldmon

Zorin

11-06-2009, 02:36 PM

Ok, ok, I'm 25 so may have missed the mark, but I believe to easily pass as 18 if necessary ;)

German through and through since centuries.

rakinroll

11-06-2009, 03:49 PM

Im a Turkish guy and so angry because of endless "2 weeks!!!"

:grin:

csThor

11-06-2009, 03:56 PM

I'm not that cruel to dump my ugly face on SoW customers, thank you. :mrgreen: http://www.akte-wuff.de/images/smilies/aetsch.gif

HFC_Dolphin

11-06-2009, 03:57 PM

I'm not that cruel to dump my ugly face on SoW customers, thank you. :mrgreen: http://www.akte-wuff.de/images/smilies/aetsch.gif

My friend rakinroll did it and now I know what to use when my kids don't listen to me.
The new boogie man is him!!!

hiro

11-06-2009, 05:52 PM

I'll add mine when they request for so pacific islander / japanese / maybe spanish if they are doin spanish civil war :)

rakinroll

11-06-2009, 06:09 PM

My friend rakinroll did it and now I know what to use when my kids don't listen to me.
The new boogie man is him!!!

:grin::-P

zakkandrachoff

11-06-2009, 08:45 PM

Tree is da man!!!
I'll enjoy it a lot shooting down British planes, knowing his moustache will get wet :P

:cool:

ECV56_Lancelot

11-06-2009, 09:46 PM

Well, i'm 37, but if i shave my beard people tell me i look like 36 ;).

Well, i will see if i have detailed pictures of me when i was younger, still in noh way i will post it here.
Since i have scottish, german, spanish and italian descent, you could use me for any side. :D

LoyalNine

11-06-2009, 11:00 PM

Cause if I was flying for the Italians I would have Brit in the cockpit with me...

http://galegophoto.smugmug.com/photos/650939389_x9bFu-M.jpg

Skoshi Tiger

11-07-2009, 03:29 AM

I'm 44, bald, fairly ugly, and unfit but you can do wonders in Photoshop!

But on a more serious note, couldn't we use this as an chance to honour our fathers or grandfathers. I'm sure theres a lot of photo's from the war years showing fresh faced young men and women that actually were alive when these events took place?

How about scanning in some of our family photo's from those dark days?

Cheers!

ElAurens

11-07-2009, 04:06 AM

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/3709/pdrm7566ahs4.jpg

TheGrunch

11-07-2009, 04:42 AM

What about putting some genuine WWII aces in as well? It's hard, but not impossible to find profile pictures of them.

Douglas Bader:
http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/89755590.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D09833CCDA733AD92C A5327BC4124DDEBBCB3CA9AF6CF2B850
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45847000/jpg/_45847721_-4.jpg

Adolf Galland:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JK8mviw_3e4/SjLyizROEyI/AAAAAAAAG20/ZKXRLWZ8Ebc/s400/galland6.jpg
http://www.hobbymex.com/historia/galland/pt-2314-adolf-galland-75dpi.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-468-1421-36,_S%C3%BCditalien,_Adolf_Galland_auf_Flugplatz.j pg

Werner Molders:
I'm sure there'll be a bigger version of this book cover somewhere.
http://www.bookplus.fi/media-dynamic/images/product/00/04/34/61/56/1/braatz-kurt-werner-molders.jpg
http://www.leisuregalleries.com/lwmolders.jpg

I'm sure there are plenty more photos out there that are good enough for a basic profile.

Necrobaron

11-07-2009, 05:33 AM

Let's not forget the visages of Czechs, Poles, South Africans, Canadians, Australians, Americans, and other nationalities that contributed as well.;)
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TheGrunch

11-07-2009, 05:55 AM

Let's not forget the visages of Czechs, Poles, South Africans, Canadians, Australians, Americans, and other nationalities that contributed as well.;)
Yeah, I was looking for pics of Screwball Beurling and Sailor Malan, but to be honest finding anything other than a low-quality portrait is hard for all except the most famous of aces. I can only find one quarter-profile picture of Bob Stanford Tuck, for example, and it's on a website that doesn't allow image downloads (how 90s is that!?).

Necrobaron

11-07-2009, 06:29 AM

In that case you could hit Ctrl+Print Screen and paste the image into a photo editing program (or just MS Paint) and crop the image to what you want.
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TheGrunch

11-07-2009, 06:38 AM

In that case you could hit Ctrl+Print Screen and paste the image into a photo editing program (or just MS Paint) and crop the image to what you want.
Yeah, true. It wasn't a very good picture from a modeller's perspective, though. Proper side profiles are the objective.

Specht

11-07-2009, 06:45 AM

20 years old brazilian with german blood (hence Günther Specht [Specht is my real surname]), if you think I am slightly suitable, tell me and I'll take several serious pictures and stuff.

dazz1971

11-07-2009, 07:37 AM

my pic will deffo scare away any hun :grin::grin:

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab309/DAZZ1971/wilfrid2.jpg

just for laughs

HFC_Dolphin

11-07-2009, 08:43 AM

Guys, I don't think that developers need any old pictures.
I guess they need modern, digital ones, so they can work on them easily.
It would add a lot of work to them if they had to take some ace's old picture and had to work on it so much to make it fit in the game.

ElAurens

11-07-2009, 12:19 PM

The pic I posted are Americans in RAF service.

Just as a reference more than anything else.

;)

Foo'bar

11-07-2009, 12:43 PM

What about putting some genuine WWII aces in as well? It's hard, but not impossible to find profile pictures of them.
I'm sure there are plenty more photos out there that are good enough for a basic profile.

What a great idea! That would be awesome!

Letum

11-08-2009, 05:34 AM

I'm not sure that it's a "typical British face", but I'll add in my mug.

Nationality: British
Age: 23

(Yes, it is me)
http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/letumm.jpg

T}{OR

11-08-2009, 07:13 PM

Email sent.

EDIT: Got a failure message that email address doesn't exist.

fuzzychickens

11-09-2009, 12:51 AM

I'm not sure that it's a "typical British face", but I'll add in my mug.

Nationality: British
Age: 23

http://www.b3tards.com/u/57a418c694bc7c6296b3/letumm.jpg

Are you and Tree related?

Letum

11-09-2009, 06:23 AM

Are you and Tree related?

No, this is just how everyone in England looks.

HFC_Dolphin

11-09-2009, 06:36 AM

No, this is just how everyone in England looks.

And this is why their women come to Greece for holidays :P

Tvrdi

11-09-2009, 08:50 AM

ahahaha

HFC_Dolphin

11-09-2009, 09:32 AM

Ravenous

11-09-2009, 10:33 AM

Let's not forget the visages of Czechs, Poles, South Africans, Canadians, Australians, Americans, and other nationalities that contributed as well.;)

Well, if you guys need a Norwegian for one of the 3 Norwegians who saw combat as fighter-pilots during BoB I would be happy to oblige:)

or possibly for the 331Sq. although they were not active before 1941-42??

Tree_UK

11-09-2009, 01:51 PM

By the way, I'll post the obvious, but never mind:
Of course I'm just kidding.
My English friends understand this cause they know me, but just stating it, so there's not any bad spirit in here.

Cheers!

Theres no bad spirit here mate, I thought your joke was very funny. :grin::grin:

I have to confess also that the pic I posted isn't actually me....

HFC_Dolphin

11-09-2009, 02:04 PM

...I have to confess also that the pic I posted isn't actually me....

We knew this.
You ain't that handsome :-P

Letum

11-09-2009, 06:23 PM

I have to confess also that the pic I posted isn't actually me....

Ummm...does that mean that I need to confirm that my pic is me?

choctaw111

11-10-2009, 12:29 AM

Oh, OK. Here you go.

choctaw111

11-10-2009, 12:32 AM

Oops. The first photo was a thumbnail, or close to it. Here is a larger size.

RCAF_FB_Orville

11-10-2009, 04:52 AM

BEHOLD, RCAF_FB_Orville!!

http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx259/CaptainKubla/Me-PassPort.jpg

@HFC_Dolphin, don't worry about the p*ss taking mate.....Since you have British mates you'll know our sense of humour and that we can take it :grin:. We KNOW we are Ugly b*stards, we just DONT CARE! :grin::grin::grin:

This is why the British were forced to develop their world famous humour! WE HAD TO. IT WAS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL AND A GENETIC IMPERATIVE. We just laugh all the Skirt into bed, and leave the "Pretty Boy" stuff to the Pansy Greeks and Italians. :lol:

I don't know how to edit/add comedic period era handle bar moustaches etc, if anyone does please feel free to vandalise my effigy, you have my blessing! lol. Yes, I was a dissolute student hippy at the time (22) and could do with a short back and sides, probably a bit brylcreem too. It was p*ssing down with rain. I was also so poor at the time I couldn't afford a comb. Thats my excuse, and I am sticking to it! :grin::grin:

A little older and wiser now, I am 33. :eek:

HFC_Dolphin

11-10-2009, 06:39 AM

HFC_Dolphin

11-11-2009, 10:08 AM

Just curious, did you choose the faces?

luthier

11-12-2009, 06:42 AM

Thanks guys, I'd close the thread if I had the rights. Whoever is chosen will be contacted. Whoever is not, oh God my eyes!

Thank you so much everyone! This thread made me wish we could accommodate more than 2 faces per side. We'll try, hopefully I'll return to this thread in a while.